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      Well, then there’s the Indiana Jones brainstorming session with Steven Spielberg and Lawrence Kasdan.

      G — He’s thirty-five, and he knew her ten years ago when he was twenty-five and she was only twelve.

      G — It would be amusing to make her slightly young at the time. S — And promiscuous. She came onto him.

      G — Fifteen is right on the edge. I know it’s an outrageous idea, but it is interesting. Once she’s sixteen or seventeen it’s not interesting anymore. But if she was fifteen and he was twenty-five and they actually had an affair the last time they met. And she was madly in love with him and he…

      I guess by the time the movie gets made, between script changes and casting decisions, nothing is certain and 17-22 is probably most likely, but George is a product of his time and place, and not exclusively in good ways.