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Drew’s fame didn’t come slowly – with a TV show here, a magazine article there, and then a bigger part later. It came like a fast train. Drew was an overnight sensation. On the night of the E.T. premiere, Drew was spending a quiet evening in a hotel room with her two child co-stars. It was her last night as a private person. E.T. opened and Drew suddenly became very popular. Autograph seekers and photographers were all screaming her name, they were trying to ask questions, and always wanted something. “From the time I became famous in E.T., my life got really weird,” Drew explained. “In the evening I was a little girl, and the next day I was being mobbed by people who wanted my autograph or who wanted to photograph me, or just to be near me. It was frightening. I was this seven-year-old who was expected to be twenty-nine.” Before she started her next movie project, she had to spend six months at a new school, her third in the three years since E.T. “I went to a regular school, but one that let me go away to shoot films,” she explained in an interview. “I loved learning, but I was never very good with authority because I grew up alone.” Drew was simply a lot more ‘adult’ than the other third-graders. By working with adults for so long, she was forgetting how to relate to people her age. Most of the time, she didn’t even see a reason to try. The adults whom she knew well were some of the most attractive and exciting people in the world, the people who seemed to have perfect Hollywood lives. Drew was a regular guest at cool parties and on talk shows. She knew all the entertainment industry’s old stars and the hot, new stars. “By the time I was eight and a half, I felt like I was some weird, crazy girl,” she admitted. “I could walk up to the door of any nightclub and they’d say, ‘Hi, you’re that little girl! Come in!’ Around this time I quit hanging out with people my own age. I didn’t think that they could understand the kind of life I had.” ninety-one 91 30 35 40 45 5 10 15 20 25 The Drew Barrymore story Drew Barrymore, who comes from one of America’s old show-business families, suddenly became famous at the age of seven. She played the little girl in one of the biggest Hollywood movies of all time, E.T. – The Extra-Terrestrial . But being a child star isn’t always easy. This text is taken from a biography. A biography tells the story of a person’s life. The writer is not allowed to invent anything in this kind of text. As you read, remember that the things that are described really happened. What would you do and how would you feel in a similar situation? READING SKI LLS 1 Before you read Before you read, think: what problems do you think a child star in Hollywood could have? C Text 5 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv