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'ne Interview Mel 1 THE SCIENCE FICTION UNIVERSE Brooks UGUST INNERSPACE #121 Joe Dante's fantastic voyage with Steven Spielberg 08 John Lithgow Peter Weller '71896H9112 1 ALIENS -v> The Motion Picture GROUP, ! CANNON INC.*sra ,GOLAN-GLOBUS..K?mEDWARO R. PRESSMAN FILM CORPORATION .GARY G0D0ARO™ DOLPH LUNOGREN • PRANK fANGELLA MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE the MOTION ORE ™»COURTENEY COX • JAMES TOIKAN • CHRISTINA PICKLES,* MEG FOSTERS V "SBILL CONTIgS JULIE WEISS Z ANNE V. COATES, ACE. SK RICHARD EDLUND7K WILLIAM STOUT SMNIA BAER B EDWARD R PRESSMAN»™,„ ELLIOT SCHICK -S DAVID ODEll^MENAHEM GOUNJfOMM GLOBUS^TGARY GOODARD *B«xw*H<*-*mm i;-* poiBYsriniol CANNON HJ I COMING TO EARTH THIS AUGUST AUGUST 1987 NUMBER 121 THE SCIENCE FICTION UNIVERSE Christopher Reeve—Page 37 beJohn Uthgow—Page 16 Galaxy Rangers—Page 65 MEL BROOKS SPACEBALLS: THE DIRECTOR The master of genre spoofs cant even give the "Star wars" saga an even break Karen Allen—Page 23 Peter weller—Page 45 14 DAVID CERROLD'S GENERATIONS A view from the bridge at those 37 CHRISTOPHER REEVE who serve behind "Star Trek: The THE MAN INSIDE Next Generation" "SUPERMAN IV" 16 ACTING! GENIUS! in this fourth film flight, the Man JOHN LITHGOW! of Steel regains his humanity Planet 10's favorite loony is 45 PETER WELLER just wild about "Harry & the CODENAME: ROBOCOP Hendersons" The "Buckaroo Banzai" star strikes 20 OF SHARKS & "STAR TREK" back as a cyborg centurion in search of heart "Corbomite Maneuver" & a "Colossus" director Joseph 50 TRIBUTE Sargent puts the bite on Remembering Ray Bolger, "Jaws: The Revenge" Gardner Fox & Danny Kaye 23 STILL SPUNKY AFTER 52 LANCE HENRIKSEN ALL THESE YEARS CALL HIM CHAMELEON 10 Actress Karen Allen recalls The "ALIENS" android turns nasty Mel Brooks—Page raids on the "Lost Ark" & night stalker when the sun goes "Starman" romance down "Near Dark" DEPARTMENTS 27 JOE DANTE GETS SMALL 59 IN SERVALAN'S The "Gremlins" filmmaker SECRET SERVICE 5 FROM THE BRIDGE reteams with Steven Spielberg Jacqueline Pearce reveals the 6 COMMUNICATIONS for the miniature madness of private side of the "Blake's 7" "innerspace" villainess 8 MEDIALOC 32 CUESTS OF "TREK" 65 THE MAGNIFICENT 36 VIDEOLOG Where are thev now? update "GALAXY RANGERS" 43 FAN NETWORK super-powered SF visits with the Gorgan, the child They're 70 CLASSIFIED INFORMATION who leads him & Omega man cowboys who prove that space Cloud William really is the final frontier 74 LINER NOTES STARLOC is published monthly t>v O'QUiNN STUDIOS, INC.. 475 Park Avenue south. 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They are too personal and require too much uninterrupted concentration. I have to be alone. Totally. Assistant Publisher MILBURN SMITH I So here I am, alone with my typewriter and the blank wall before me—putting my thoughts onto paper—hopefully forming sentences in such a way that they speak V.P., Circulation Director clearly to other humans. ART SCHUUCIN But no one is here to speak to. I'm alone. feeling of Creative Director So, I have found that as I write, a feeling forms in my subconscious. A a W.R. MOH ALLEY presence. I am aiming my words at that presence. That someone. I can test my ideas. I can sense reactions. I can feel what that someone needs to Production Director understand, all this helps direct my fingers and focus my thoughts. In other CART SCHNEIDER and words, I imagine my "ideal audience" in the form of one person who lives with me Editor during the writing of each piece. And that person becomes the soul to whom that DAVID MCDONNELL piece is dedicated, because he/she was the guiding spirit of it. Managing Editor Last issue, my editorial titled "Dreaming" was dedicated to a fellow Texan by the CARR D'ANCELO name of Greg Theisen. As I wrote about seeking happiness, about yearning for what you want in life, about building big dreams and then making them come true—Greg Special Effects Editor DAVID HUTCHISON was the soul to whom I spoke. I never know why a particular someone forms in my mind as the presence to Art Director whom I am speaking. It isn't a conscious choice on my part. It just happens, but it EMILY SLOVES always happens correctly. Often, I don't identify the someone until after I've finished the piece, edited it and thought about it. Associate Art Director MAGGIE HOLLANDS Sometimes, that someone is a person I know, usually a friend—but sometimes, it is someone whose name I don't even know. Sometimes, it is a fan I've met at a conven- Assistant Art Director tion, and all I recall is a special face, a question, something that person did which JEF SADINSKV didn't register at the time but stuck solid in the basement of my mind. Senior correspondent I always try to be open to strangers, because I have discovered on so many occa- STEVE SWIRES sions that they are giving me things which I am unaware of at the moment. Often, I think they give me nothing more than a brief encounter with a new individual—yet, West coast correspondent I months later) talking to that person as I sit alone LEE GOLDBERG occasionally find myself (maybe with my typewriter and the blank wall before me.