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MEL BROOKS : THE DIRECTOR The master of genre spoofs cant even give the "" saga an even break —Page 23 Peter weller—Page 45 14 DAVID CERROLD'S GENERATIONS A view from the bridge at those 37 who serve behind ": The THE MAN INSIDE Next Generation" " 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 centurion in search of heart "Corbomite Maneuver" & a "Colossus" director Joseph 50 TRIBUTE Sargent puts the bite on Remembering , ": The Revenge" & 23 STILL SPUNKY AFTER 52 ALL THESE YEARS CALL HIM CHAMELEON 10 Actress Karen Allen recalls The "ALIENS" android turns nasty —Page raids on the " Ark" & night stalker when the sun goes "Starman" romance down "" DEPARTMENTS 27 JOE DANTE GETS SMALL 59 IN SERVALAN'S The "" 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

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Publishers NORMAN JACOBS KERRY O'OUINN Someone Associate Publisher RITA EISENSTEIN can't write these STARLOG editorials at the office. 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 " 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 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 ) talking to that person as I sit alone LEE GOLDBERG occasionally find myself (maybe with my typewriter and the blank wall before me. Contributing Editors But Greg was not a stranger, nor a nameless face. He was an important friend who ANTHONY TIMPONE had affected me in a tremendously positive way. And he had done it, not so much by EDDIE BERCAN2A DANIEL DICKHOLTZ conscious intention, but simply by his existence. He was more genuinely fun-loving than anyone I have ever met. He had a range of Assi stant Editor talents and interests which were endless. He had a supercharged energy which was in- J. PETER ORR fectious to everyone who knew him. He was totally unique because he had refused to sand himself down by so much as a millimeter from the rough-edged, delightfully- Art Staff LEWIS ROBINSON different shape that was his nature. JIM MCLERNON As the old expression goes—he was high on lifel

CRAIC GARTNER You've noticed by now that I am speaking of him in the past tense. Only a few

Financial Manager: Joan Baetz days ago, I learned that Greg fell, in a freak accident, broke his neck and died Steve Jacobs. Maria Production Assistants: instantly. Damiani, Peter Hernandez, Robert Reser, Diane Squazzo, Mark Toner, Natalie Pinniks. He was 20 years old. correspondents: (LA) Mike Clark, Bill cotter, He never saw "Dreaming" in print. Jean-Marc Lofficier, Randy Lofficier, Brian Lowry. potential—people with unusual William Rabkin, Marc Shapiro; (NY) Robert I wrote that editorial for all young people of great Creenberger, Edward Cross, Patrick Daniel O'Neill; capacities for wanting much from their lives—people who are pleasure-hungry, () Jean Airey, Kim Howard Johnson; curious and exploratory people who have the courage and the integrity to hold on () will Murray; (Ohio) Laurie Haldeman; (Lon- — don) Adam Pirani to whatever good qualities make them unusual. In other words, it was intended to of- Contributors: Lisa Agay. Clive Barker. Nina fer encouragement to those among our readers who are the best and most life-loving. Baron, Leonard Bruce, David Craig, Susan Diggans, all Bill Edwards, Terry Erdmann, Christina Ferguson, Greg was the someone who embodied the essence of that. Mike Finnell, Mike Fisher. John Gallagher. David My imagination is not fertile enough to picture the magnificent things he might Cerrold, Mike Clyer, scot Holton, Jessie Horsting, existence to our world. Losing someone of that quality John Lithgow, Diane Nabatoff, Eric Niderost, have brought into and added Michael Okuda, Mark Phillips, Tom Phillips, Andy and that potential fills me with almost-unbearable pain. Probert, Jane Gael Rafferty, David Restivo, Rye Fortunately, I sent Greg a copy of my manuscript, so he was able to enjoy the Roque, Leah Rosenthal, Jeff Sakson, Paul Sammon, John Savers, irv Slifkin, Sally van Slyke, Jeff Walker. personal dedication. Photos: innerspace: Copyright 1987 Warner Now, I want to dedicate last month's editorial publicly because I want to pay Bros, inc.; Superman IV: copyright 1987 Cannon alive & Warner Bros. inc. /Copyright 1987 & tribute to a person who inspired me to inspire others. His love of life is within Trademark DC Comics inc.; Spaceballs: Peter me! Sorel /Copyright 1987 MGM. When someone radiates a positive spirit of such high energy that he permanently For Advertising information: (212) 689-2830 affects my life— I think that is a very special someone. Rita Eisenstein Advertising Director: Greg Theisen was one of those magical humans, and I weep profound tears that we Classified Ads Manager: Connie Bartiett For west coast Advertising Sales: Jim will not have the pleasure of watching him make all his dreams come true. Reynolds, Reynolds & Associates (213) 649-6287 —Kerry O'Quinn/Publisher

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for this reason or that, analyzing sloppily or in Because of the large volume of mail great detail the story, the special effects, the direc- BRANDON we receive, personal replies are tion, the music, the and what have you. ... I've heard of Henry Brandon impossible. Other fans & advertisers of course, but I One question sprung into mind: Why? never thought an interview with him would ap- sometimes contact readers whose let- A movie is either good or bad. It's the end pro- pear in STARLOG. I read it ters are printed here. To quite avidly. The avoid this, duct—as a whole—that matters. If the film is next time Babes in Toyland is mark your letter "Please Withhold My on, I will pay close good, all those flaws will, by the end, have been attention to Brandon's portrayal of Barnaby. Address." Otherwise, we retain the op- gobbled up by the film's overall qualities. If the As for Brandon's bemoaning the fact that he tion to print your address with your let- film is bad, then it's not worth discussing in the never ter. Write: got to play handsome heroes, at least his STARLOG COMMUNICATIONS first place. villains were always the handsomest! I have the impression that many people these Elizabeth Dewar 475 Park Avenue South, 8th Floor days go into the theater as self-proclaimed New York, NY 10016. critics, Hartland, MI not planning on seeing a movie but on judging it. I Me, go and see a movie to be entertained. I CAPTAINS OUTRAGEOUS didn't notice any different head designs on the . . . What a delightful surprise to read Dan Scap- ... I am a bit confused about the very end of Star Aliens or similarities between ALIENS' musical perotti's article, "Memories of Fu Manchu" on Trek IV. We have Captain Kirk and Captain score and that of other motion pictures. But I did the career of villainous Henry Brandon . According to the Wrath ofKhan noveliza- see one hell of a movie. I'll good probably get a (STARLOG #114). I'm a good friend of Henry's tion, Sulu is also a Captain. Since Captain Terrell lot of flak for this, but, to me, ALIENS was the through our association in The Sons of the died in Star Trek II, and Chekov was the first of- best movie to hit the screen last year. I had fun. Desert, the international organization which ficer, are we to assume that he is also a Captain? Period. celebrates and Oliver Hardy, and his If so, then the new Enterprise is one star ship with I don't understand why should we be dissecting first starring role as evil Silas Barnaby in Babes In four Captains. The next movie should be Star these films like we do. They're no big deal, after Toyland eternally endears him to us. Trek V: The Questfor the Captain 's Chair, with a all. When you start to analyze them, you're I've heard Henry tell many a story scene of exclaiming, "I can't change the bound to find flaws (and more and bigger ones about his acting career, yet I still learned a new laws of physics. The chair can only hold one at a than you might think). I've seen Star Wars five or thing or two from the article. One story Henry time. It canna take the pressure." Uhura will be six times since it premiered 10 years ago, and told me recently which I thought would be of in- exasperated tries to as she get the Captain to the though it is still all-time my favorite film, I find terest to STARLOG readers took place just a few bridge and all four show up. Of course, McCoy flaws there. George is Lucas right in calling it years ago. It seems a pal of Henry's was working will say, "I'm a doctor, not a Captain!" One star- "just a movie." The fact is, I've seen it too with on the casting of Star Trek ship with four captains does not seem logical. often. TV shows or movies aren't meant to be III: The Search For Spock, and the pal came to Jim Porto seen several times over (or at least not several Henry for advice on a problem. Nimoy, he ex- Seneca Falls, NY times in a row). I mean, you can't tape real life plained, was agonizing over the casting of a and play it back again, can you? crucial part, that of T'lar, the Priestess Dare we mention that Scotty was promoted to So, please guys, don't dissect. realize I that who places Spock's "katra" back in his re- Captain of Engineering in Star Trek III? criticism is necessary and that there are some juvenated body. Nimoy wanted someone impos- lousy movies out there. I'm not blind, believe me. ing, of grand stature. . .and had no idea how to I can see flaws too, I guess they just don't bother fill those requirements. Henry's immediate AT THE MOVIES me so much. And why should they? thought was, "Why not use ?" . . Reading . the Communications section through Karel Smolders Judith and Henry's longtime friendship went dozens of STARLOG back issues, I discovered Belgium back through decades of playing in Medea that most letters came from people picking apart together, and Nimoy 's casting confederate movies or TV series, praising or disparaging them thought this an excellent suggestion and im- WELCOME "GUESTS" mediately went back to Leonard with it. Nimoy 's ... I think every Star Trek fan has felt a tingle SUBSCRIBER subsequent meetings with Dame Judith led to her | SERVICES when he or she notices a Star Trek guest star in being cast in the part. One of Henry's cherished j another TV show, and can say, I Missing copies? Moving? Renewals? Re- "Hey, that's memories is the day, a few weeks later, when what's his name!" ceiving duplicates? Subscription questions? ! Judith called him and announced in her deep, Guest stars touch viewers almost as much as the i Write directly to: cultured tones, "I was fitted for ears today!" show's regular stars. Thanks to Frank Garcia, Rick Greene STARLOG I j Mark Phillips and STARLOG for reminding us Encino, CA Subscriber I that Bruce Hyde, Craig Huxley and Lee Bergere Services, I (all interviewed in STARLOG #1 12) are still a part P.O. Box 132 of the Trek universe. SHE GOT THE BEAT Mt. Morris, IL Catherine Tipton J . . .Thank you for including the photo of Jane 61054-0132 Attach | Sioux Falls, SD Wiedlin in the Leonard Nimoy interview Mailing I new (STARLOG #114). As a longtime fan since her Label i subscribers Go-Gos days, I was pleasantly surprised to see her Here NO GRAPES ONLY: too-brief appearance in The Voyage Home. In ... I was truly surprised Do not send at the ire that Stephen fact, now that she has been in Trek as well as Clue Collins* interview I money order (STARLOG #104) aroused in (with genre stars and Christopher the Communications section of STARLOG #111. | to above ad- Lloyd), and will soon be featured in a film The article was an extremely well done interview dress. See starring Amy Irving, perhaps you could see your with a man who is not only a very talented ! subscription ad , way clear to interview Wiedlin, if she would be but very professional as well. Nowhere in that in- I this issue. willing. terview did I get the impression that he was ex- Peter Heimsoth I Inquiries addressed to editorial offices only I pressing "sour grapes" or that he was talking Lombard, IL | delay your request. down any of the people involved with Star Trek.

He simply stated the facts that every Trek is I NAME | fan aware of—Star Trek: The Motion Picture was not LET THIS BE YOUR ADDRESS. the easiest film in the world to make. LAST BATTLECRUISER Marilyn Johansen I ... In her Fan Network article in STARLOG CITY .STATE. -ZIP Eden Prairie, J MN #112, Porter stated that filming for Star Trek

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/K took place aboard the "battlecruiser" t/.S.S. being constructed by Carlos Rivera. Ranger which would appear as the (/.S.S. Enter- Stephen Haskins prise in the movie. However, the U.S.S. Ranger Owner

(CV61) is a multi-purpose aircraft carrier of the 1889 Caminito Brisa Forrestal class and not a battlecruiser. And the La JoUa, CA 92037 U.S.S. Enterprise (CVN65) is a multi-purpose nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. In addition, there are no battlecruisers (CB) currently in ser- PAYING DUES

vice in the Navy. . . . Thank you for the Fan Network section in

Richard Laban Jr. STARLOG and for the opportunities it gives us New York, NY fans and fan clubs to contact each other and share information. However, #112's fan club listing has The GALILEO SHUFFLE Federation Council dues as. $12.50 initial and $6 ... I'm writing with some additional information yearly. They are actually $1.25 initial fee and $6

concerning the Galileo Shuttlecraft from Star yearly. I hope the "inflated" price didn't put too Trek (STARLOG #1 12). many people off from contacting us. The shuttlecraft (only one was built) was con- Bernadette Voller, Secretary structed at a cost of approximately $40,000 in The Federation Council 1966 for Desilu Studios by AMT Corp. in 23871 Neuman Road Phoenix, Arizona, in return for the right to pro- Corvallis, OR 97333 duce and distribute a Galileo Shuttlecraft plastic model. A separate interior set was also built by AMT for filming interior shots. This set has "IMAGINATION" JURY Art Mike Rstwr movable walls and was considerably larger inside ... I was glad to see Kerry O'Quinn's From the than the exterior mock-up. The designer and Bridge, "Imagination on Trial" (STARLOG

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SPACE POLICE, possible colonization by Earth. In this case, their fantastic voyage is dogged by treachery EARTHBLASTERS & and the usual cosmic dangers. Duncan * EARTH STAR TO ("V") Regeher, Peter Donat, Brian (Short THE RESCUE Circuit) McNamara and Julia (Revenge of ) Montgomery head the cast. The prospects of science fiction People: has apparently are looking up—with a promising in- ended the vacation from Hollywood film- creased quantity of projects, though that is, making he announced in STARLOG #115. of course, no guarantee of quality. Carpenter has signed a deal with Alive Films Star Trek: The Next Generation to make four new movies for the small in- premieres the first week of October with a dependent noted for such releases two-hour episode scripted by Gene Rod- as Kiss of the Spider Woman and Trouble in denberry & Fontana. The series, Mind. The association gives Carpenter budgeted at a reported $1.1 million per much greater control of his projects, in episode, is presently set to air on 136 of the decided contrast to his recent unsatisfying 145 U.S. TV stations carrying the original relationships with such major studios as Star Trek in syndicated reruns (with more 20th Century Fox and Columbia. Carpenter will co-star in Mountain station clearances yet to come). Needless will to also score all four movies—with the with and Clancy Brown. say, the new mission's stories will be shorter soundtracks due out on Alive Records. It than in the past; Paramount is keeping seven isn't known if Escape from LA, the sequel revival of the show for syndication. minutes of each hour to sell as national to Escapefrom New York which DeLauren- Character Castings: Kirstie (Star Trek II) advertising, with an additional five minutes tiis Entertainment Group had earlier an- Alley (STARLOG #102) and Clancy being allotted to the stations for local com- nounced, is included in the Alive quartet. (Highlander) Brown (STARLOG #106) co- mercials. That's 12 minutes of ads! Leonard Nimoy's latest turn behind the star in Mountain King, an upcoming Ruby-Spears, the animation house, is cameras comes in , Disney/Touchstone release, with Sidney developing a two-hour live-action for Disney's American remake of Coline Ser- Poitier (who's once again acting after years possible syndication in 1988. It's Earth- reau's French comedy, Three Men and a of only directing). Roger (Under Fire) Spot- blasters. Cradle. James Orr and Jim Cruickshank tiswoode directs. In the meantime, Anderson-Burr Pictures scripted, adapting Serreau's original 's has produced a one-hour live-action pilot, screenplay. The film, which may yet get a ti- stars with Theresa (Black Widow) Russell in Space Police. Producer Gerry (Space: 1999) tle change, stars Tom Selleck (STARLOG Track 29, a psychological thriller scripted by Anderson is using "galactronics," an im- Ted #92), Danson and Steve Guttenberg Dennis (Dream Child) Potter. Nicholas proved "" technique for (STARLOG #98, 1 10). (Man Who Fell to Earth) Roeg directs, this $1 million initial episode. The premise: a Koenig has scripted In Search of again teaming with Russell, his actress wife. NYC cop and his partner battle Steven ex- Spielberg. It's a teen comedy which and Jeff Goldblum traterrestrial crime in a specific space may be lensed in Canada. (STARLOG #85) are the psychics bound for precinct some 100 years in the future. Genre Time TV: and Again, the Jack Fin- comedic adventure in Vibes. Peter Falk co- Productions has Earth*Star ney novel, is being developed as a four-hour stars. Goldblum has the role originally in- Voyager, a $10 million, four-hour mini- TV mini-series by Universal, under producer tended for Dan Aykroyd. series which will be broadcast in two parts John Epstein and writer Al Ruben. Finney, Jean (Return to ) Marsh returns to the on ABC's Disney Sunday Movie this fall. of course, penned The Body Snatchers, genre in 's Willow, the epic fan- Earth*Star may also spawn a regular which series. was filmed twice, in 1956 and 1978, as tasy being directed by . She's —who directed the Star Invasion the of Body Snatchers. the villainess of the film which MGM/UA Trek pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Saban Productions is piloting Bio-Man. will distribute next June. Before"— is helming Earth*Star from a It's a live-action half-hour prospect for yet of ALIENS takes the lead in teleplay by Ed Spielman and Steve Lawson another syndicated series involved with a toy Pass the Ammo. Paxton and Linda & Cynthia Darnell. Set in the year 2087, the company (Galoob Toys). Bio-Man is aimed (Crocodile Dundee) Kozlowski play two mini-series focuses on a specially selected at a September 1988 launch. young lovers who become involved with a crew who are dispatched on long a space Tales of Tomorrow, the SF anthology corrupt evangelist. Tim (Legend) Curry odyssey on board the ship Earth *Star series from the '50s, may be making a come- (STARLOG #106) and Voyager to seek out brave new worlds for back. World Media Productions is eyeing a (Ghostbusters) Potts co-star.

man IV*, FILM FANTASY RoboCop, House II. Sister, Pumpkinhead, Hidden. August: The Squad*, , Fall: Return CALENDAR of the Living Dead Part II, , Too*, Masters of Phantoms, Robojox, Retaliator, Remote Listed below is a release schedule for up- the Universe, Stranded*, Jaws: The Control, The Time Guardian, Vibes*, Date coming SF/fantasy/horror movies and Revenge*. with an Angel, Dark Tower, Desert War- selected animation and adventure films. All Summer: The Fox and the Hound (re- rior, Serpent & the Rainbow, Bill & Ted's dates are extremely subject to change, with release). Beauty the Beast, The & Emperor's Excellent Adventure*, Nightflyers, Made in movies deemed especially tentative denoted Clothes, New Doin ' Time on Planet Earth, Heaven, Women on the Moon*, by an asterisk. Schedule changes are report- The Caller, Deathstalker II, Gor*, Ghoulies The Running Man *. ed in the "Updates" section of Medialog. 2, Near Dark*. Christmas: Batteries Not Included, Em- July: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs September: The Princess Bride. pire of the Sun, Dirty Harry V, Cinderella (re-release), The Living Daylights, Super- October: Flowers in the Attic, Sister, (re-release).

8 STARLOG/August 1987 Paul (ALIENS) Reiser (STARLOG #1 14) co-stars in American Date with Martin (//?- nerspace) Short. Bob (2010) Balaban (STARLOG #89) has joined the cast of Ironweed, which stars and . , soon to be seen in

RoboCop, is also starring in Sweet Revenge. Michael () Moriarty, Jenny (An American Werewolf in ) Agutter, Theodore (Darker Than Amber) Bikel and Carol (Night Stalker) Lynley co-star in the super- natural thriller Dark Tower. ( #15) toplines A Fish Called Wanda. This comedy also stars (who scripted, STARLOG #96), Kevin (Silverado) Kline and Michael (Time Bandits) Palin. PLAYING FUTURE GAMES Sequels: , the man who is on the run for his life in this latest world of the future envi- brought moviegoers the bizarre horrors of sioned by novelist "Richard Bachman" (). Schwarzenegger is The Runn- ing Man, joined by in this variation on , Evil Dead and Evil Dead II, is on directed by Paul Michael Glaser. The action begins next month. Brooksfilms/20th Century Fox's short list of possible directors for the projected Fly 2.

Mick Garris (STARLOG #99) is scripting. Stapleton come back to Earth, unaged, five follow-up, with all the actors noted In the proposed Cocoon II, to be filmed years after the events of the first Cocoon, to reportedly reprising their roles. next spring, the aliens and the aged return. complete a special mission and reunite with Other sequels to sit around waiting for The characters played by Don Ameche & those left behind (including, apparently, with keen anticipation: Deathsta/ker III (but Gwen Verdon, & Jessica ). Richard & Lili Zanuck and first, there's Deathsta/ker II, due out this Tandy, Wilford Brimley & Maureen are once again producing the (continued on page 62)

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Mel Brooks

SPflCEBRLLS The Director

The funnyman filmmaker takes a (semi-) serious look at , science fiction and silliness as he scampers into this neck of the star-spawned genre. Mel Brooks has updated his image of politicians to fit —expect this Chief of the Galaxy to "Skroob the people." By BRIAN LOWRY

space, no one can hear you laugh . . science fiction entitled Spaceballs. half-man, half-dog ("I'm my own best Inmaybe. While the big budget and effects may be friend") played by John fSplashy Candy. That black, empty vacuum out there in the Star Wars category (legendary matte Other familar-sounding cast members in- may be in for a new dimension in sound artist if , for example, came clude Ghostbusters' as Dark Mel Brooks has his way. Brooks, the writer out of retirement to work on the film). Helmet, ofThe Sure Thing and director of such notable as Brooks and co-writers and as a luggage-conscious Druish Princess, and , High Anxieiy, Silent Ronny Graham have trained their lasers on the combined talents of and Movie and , has turned his the funny bone. mime Lorene Yarnell (voice and eyes skyward, with a $22 million send-up of Combining elements of Star Wars and movements, respectively) as the princess' countless other SFfilms, Spaceballs features golden robot/servant, Dot . BRIAN LOWRY, veteran STARLOG cor- (the dim-witted Earl in And, of course, Brooks turns up in multi- respondent, works for The Hollywood Ruthless Peopled as Lone Starr, traveling the ple roles, as Yogurt, a pointy-eared mystic Reporter. He visited the set of Spaceballs in galaxy in an interstellar Winnebago with his who "dispenses wisdom with fruit at the STARLOG If 119. friend and companion Barf the Mawg—a bottom, "and as President Skroob, the cor- 10 ST\RLOG/August 1987 rupt of Planet Spaceball. Describing series with , BROOKS: Years ago, when we first coalesc- him as "their very forgetful president, " the Brooks broke into films with ed the vapor of this insanity, we thought director acknowledges that the name and hasn 7 looked back. Planet Moron would be a good title. About "Skroob" is an anagram for Brooks. Taking time between editing sessions and a year after we started writing it, a movie Spaceballs marks an important milestone private screenings of Spaceballs, Brooks came out called Morons from Outer Space. both for Brooks and his active production elaborated on a wide variety of topics, in- We fished around and 1 said, "We need a company, Brooksfilms-. The ac- cluding cliches, how he (and smashing one-word title —something that tor/producer/writer/director hasn 7 sat in a others) go about editing hisfilms, the merits has the word space in it and something that director's chair for six years, since History of being 15, the price offame and how even says 'Screwball,' because it's a screwball of the World, Part I. he has to wait for a table in fine restaurants. comedy." I came in the next day with

In between, however, Brooks the mogul Since it was near dinner time, the last subject Spaceballs, and we just switched everything has been exceptionally busy, executive pro- seemed the logical place to start. from Planet Moron to Planet Spaceball. ducing The Elephant Man, Frances, 84 STARLOG: Is your character, President Charing Cross Road and the recent genre ef- MEL BROOKS: What do you want from Skroob, similar to the governor you played forts The Fly and Solarbabies. my life? Do you know how busy I am? in Blazing Saddles! For the record, Brooks confirms that a se- STARLOG: That's the price of fame, isn't BROOKS: He's more cunning and more quel to The Fly will take wing, and —just it? diabolical, more together. The governor in for those of you who were in- BROOKS: No, no. Fame is the price of do- Blazing Saddles was a cross-eyed idiot. It terested—Solarbabies II won't. ing your job well. They make you famous was my view of administrators at the time.

Yes, Brooks says, and then, they bug the shit out of you. I'll Now, I know that they're more cunning (STARLOG #99) is working on the first tell you, the funniest part of being famous is and clever, and they are really more draft of a script and Fly producer Stuart when you go to a restaurant—a very good dangerous. But, he's just as funny as the Cornfeld will again Jill that capacity on the restaurant—and everyone stops eating and governor. sequel. Further details, alas, remain in the they notice you and chatter excitedly about STARLOG: What made you decide to larval stage. you being there. return to directing on this particular film, Brooks himself, 60, hatched on New Everybody knows you, except the head after a six-year hiatus? Year's Day, and there has been plenty of waiter, who doesn't know who the hell you BROOKS: I always, always direct the films noise and hoopla surrounding his arrivals are and says, "Sir, people have been waiting that I write. The director is, in a strange ever since. A writer for the classic television for 20 minutes"—and you're just another way, the film's author, even if he's not the short, middle-aged person that they don't screenplay's author. You don't want to give Mel Brooks directs Rick Moranis. Is there a want to serve. your screenplay to a stranger. It's

large enough screen to encompass the full That's the irony of fame, but I can live dangerous. Much of this stuff is very subjec- the evil that is magnitude of nebbishly with it as long as they pay me well and let me tive, and he might misinterpret it. Dark Helmet? do my work. You know, it took two-and-a-half years STARLOG: How did you settle on the title to write Spaceballs, and in between, I ap- Spaceballs"] peared in and produced To Be or Not to Be.

How much is that Mawg (John Cand the spaceship?

v* That took a year out of my life. Also, I am very active, as you know, with Brooksfilms,

so I just had to sandwich everything in. I was looking for another Blazing Sad-

dles, and I figured, what is the most sensa-

tional genre that I have not yet sunk my

teeth into, and lo and behold, it was space. It was right under my nose—or right above

my head, actually. I've got a big nose, so it could have been there, too. STARLOG: When you were putting Spaceballs together, were you concerned about the timing of its release at all?

BROOKS: No, the space genre is just get- ting where it's going. It's more than just movies: Space is on every peripheral medium. It's on television all the time— in commercials, cartoons. It's the most au cur-

genre there is. And, I've been very lucky about Star Wars. The trilogy keeps playing non-stop on cable, and now it's available on home video. It's just ripe for fun. STARLOG: We assume that the Lucasfilm people aren't going to come sweeping in with their lawyers. BROOKS: The Lucas people were just upset about one aspect of Spaceballs. They didn't

think that it was fair for us to do a take-off and then merchandise the characters, which would kind of resemble them. As far as doing a though, of

Darth Vader and that sort of thing, it's no problem; in fact, they're doing our sound work. All the guys who worked on the Star Wars films are just hysterical. They can't believe Rick Moranis as Dark Helmet. STARLOG: Obviously, some of your best Adventure, excitement, Yogurt (Brooks) craves not these things. Merchandising films have been parodies, like Blazing Sad- is where the real thrills and big bucks are. dles and Young Frankenstein— BROOKS: This is really Blazing Space. Lone Starr (Bill Pullman), Princess Vespa (Daphne Zuniga), Dot (Lorene Yarnell) and STARLOG: Does that go back to Your Barf () are definitely not in Kansas, but at the sanctum of that plain, Show of Shows? ancient know-it-all, Yogurt. BROOKS: Exactly. We were in the vanguard of satire on television. We were doing Japanese movies, and there were maybe 14 intellectuals in New York and who knew what a Japanese movie was. Here we were talking to 60 million

Americans about Japanese movies. It was crazy, but we did it because we loved them. STARLOG: That really seems to be the prerequisite. You have to like what you're satirizing.

BROOKS: I respect all the genres that I've parodied. I respect and I became great with him before he died. He loved and me run- ning under the birds.

I think that realizes that I love his work. I really do. He's profoundly talented. His movies are landmark movies. You can't make fun of things that aren't worth making fun of. They turn to jello and melt. STARLOG: So, what's left after this? BROOKS: There is another genre left to me that is very popular with the kids, which is something I did seriously as a producer with The Fly. STARLOG: Do you mean horror?

BROOKS: Yes. I did Young Frankenstein, but that was a monster, not a horror picture. Something like The Hitcher, or , the Elm Street trilogy. STARLOG: Do you really get into science Shaking hands across the galaxy, Brooks welcomes Star Wars veteran to fiction? Did you run back and watch a Spaceballs: The Set. bunch of SF films before writing

1 Spaceballs". fighter, just to get physically healthy so I can was wearing a tuxedo, and he nodded to two

STARLOG: I always loved the space get through it. beautifully dressed lobsters, who came in movies. Even when I was a kid, I was a When the film's done, we screen it. I have and sat down at a table.

Buck Rogers fan. All these great powers and the secretaries bring their kids, and I have A lobster waiter came over and they

immortality, it's a wonderful world to in- my young son, who's 15, invite some of his ordered and went over to a tank and there habit. friends. were a bunch of humans swimming around STARLOG: With Spaceballs, how much of The 15-year-old is really, for me, today's in it. It ended with them catching a couple

it is a specific spoof of Star Wars and how target audience. They're very bright, they of screaming people.

much is general to the genre? know a lot, they go to a movie wanting to I thought people would love it. They

BROOKS: It's the whole genre, but a great enjoy it. If they're over 40, they're much didn't hate it, but I didn't get a laugh. They

deal of it is attributed to Star Wars. I would more discerning, and that's why just smiled all the way through, so I left the

say 50 percent is Star Wars, and the other 50 Brooksfilms is alive —so I can make movies scene out of Silent Movie. percent you have to divide up between Star especially for the over-40 crowd. STARLOG: Over the years, you've become Trek, ALIEN, and a Sometimes, like The Elephant Man, they more involved as an executive and producer

million others. cross over and attract everybody, but I don't with Brooksfilms. Can you see that cutting

STARLOG: How do you think fans will ap- care about that. I'm very happy when it just into your hands-on involvement? proach the film? pays for itself. Everybody says, "We want BROOKS: I've been driven to do that by BROOKS: Well, when I write a film, I audi- kids from eight to 80," and that's just something in me—probably the need for tion it. I send it to a class at UCLA and I bullshit! more rent. [Laughs.] I have to confess,

say, "Mark it." I sent a copy to my son, STARLOG: When you're writing, though, though, it does take away from "hands-on"

Nicky Brooks, who writes science fiction- do you have to write just to please yourself? fun. Now that I've directed Spaceballs, it

horror things, and I say distribute this script BROOKS: Oh, you can't write for anybody was nice to get into the mud again and roll

among your friends and have them mark it. but yourself, but what you can do is edit for around in it —being embroiled in film again,

By "mark it," I mean if you like a joke, everybody but yourself. That's the dif- palpably and physically as well as emo-

put a check. If you like a scene, write a note ference. Young people will tell you whether tionally. I'll probably do another one real

about it, and give me a one-page criticism of it stinks or whether it's terrific. Those early soon, as a director.

the whole script. audiences do more cutting than I do. But, there are many me's, and I'm trying You get 300 write-ins. Of course, you give STARLOG: And so far on Spaceballsl to get them all together.

away all your jokes, but you do get incredi- BROOKS: My batting average is very good. STARLOG: On Spaceballs, John Candy

ble input. You find out if something is a We had some ideas for some rogue, insane had to go through some pretty severe

private joke or if it travels, like good wine. scenes, and they went for them! makeup for his role as Barf the Mawg. Did In that way, your film gets graded by hun- Sometimes you can write something, like he know the job was dangerous when he

dreds of good young minds who love film. I did for Silent Movie, and just be baffled by took it? Then, we make the movie—that's easy to the audience's rejection of it. BROOKS: No, and he didn't realize he was

say, of course. You're ready to go to the I did a scene called "Lobsters in New going to have to wear 40 pounds of hospital by the end of pre-production, and York." It was a crazy scene. There was a machinery on his back to work his tail and that's the day you start shooting. It's crazy. restaurant, Chez Lobster. You walk inside, ears. Poor guy, but he was a trouper. He

I go into training like I'm a middleweight and there was a lobster holding menus. He (continued on page 64)

SWRLOG/August 1987 13 GENERATIONS/ An Exclusive Report on "Star Trek: The On the Bridge & Those Who Serve Behind it

know how you hear about the ward Stations, "OPS" and "CON" posi- bridge You and the action as the original framed "army of carpenters, painters, elec- tions. These stations are often manned by viewscreen could never do. tricians, etc." necessary to make a and Geordi La Forge. (Yes, the Enter- Just behind the bridge is a large room fill- TV show come to life? prise is being driven by a blind man. Hey, ed with comfortable furniture and lined with I just got trampled by that army. space is empty; what's he going to hit?) huge windows facing rearward and giving a I went over to visit the sets of the first When either Data or La Forge leave their spectacular view of the aft top portion of the episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, stations, they're promptly replaced by saucer section and the rest of the starship. which are spread across three sound- supernumerary officers who will be referred This lounge has complete food facilities and stages—and I haven't seen such a big crowd to by the nicknames of these stations. is often used as an observation deck and since the last time someone hosted a free The rear of the bridge has a raised semi- retreat for bridge officers. lunch for the Writers' Guild. The only dif- circular area, separated from the Command On the left side of the bridge (facing for- ference was that these people were all work- Area by a railing which is also a set of con- ward) is the door leading to the Captain's ing as hard as they could. The smell of sole stations. This is the Tactical Console. Office. Also known as the Ready Room, it sawdust and paint was everywhere. At this position, Tasha Yar plus any has an auxiliary turbo-lift and the Captain's Workmen were hanging from catwalks, necessary assistants are responsible for private head and washroom. standing on ladders, crawling through nar- weaponry, defensive devices (shields, etc.) The Ready Room is intended as a private row spaces, reaching, climbing, painting, plus ship's internal security. place for the Captain, offering both a con- hammering, sawing, measuring The rear wall of the bridge is an addi- fidential place to work and convenient rest; The spirit of the crew building the new tional set of duty stations called Aft Con- but it serves a second and equally important Enterprise is extraordinary. They know that soles. These five stations represent functions dramatic function: It can also be used for this is a special job and they have brought a which will also be ordinarily unsupervised personal and private conversations. great deal of pride and caring to their work. unless called for by a story situation. From They are delighted whenever anyone from left to right (facing aft), these are: the front office stops by; they love to hear us 1) Emergency Manual Override. A set of On Stage 9, you'll find the rest of the go "oooh" and "ahh." basic and simplified controls from which Enterprise sets: the corridors, the sick bay, It's just a preview of what the audience many ship's functions can be managed in the Captain's Cabin, the engine room, the will be saying in another few months. of main computer failure. old bridge .... 2) Environment. Life support and related Well, not exactly. environmental engineering functions. We've dismantled most of the forward The bridge of the new Enterprise is on 3) Propulsion Systems. Bridge control of part of the bridge set that was used in the Stage 6. It's actually two feet smaller than impulse and engines. Star Trek movies. (Don't worry, it has all the old bridge. As originally designed, it 4) Sciences. Used by researchers, science been carefully marked, labeled and stored wouldn't fit in the only soundstage available officer, mission specialists, and the like. on Stage 5. It'll be put back together when for it. This caused some worries for Herman Sciences. 5) Additional console to allow they need it for Star Trek V. Star Trek V Zimmerman, Art Director; but he finally researchers to interact with each other. will not be a musical. will figured out how to put the bridge in the On the stage-left side of the bridge are direct. will produce. But soundstage. (See attached cartoon by Andy two turbo-lifts and a door leading to the nobody has told either one of them yet that Probert.) Captain's Office. On the right side of the we've dismantled their bridge. Shh! It's a According to the writer/director's guide: bridge is a door leading to the bridge head secret.) The Command Area of our bridge is a and washroom. What is being built around the semi-circle of control seats where the Cap- The forward part of the bridge is a large framework of the movie bridge set is a third tain and his next-in-command advisors and wall-sized holographic "viewer." This main bridge set. This one is the "Battle Bridge." are located. Just ahead of this are two For- viewer is usually on and will dominate the You will see it in the first episode of the new

Star Trek: The Next Generation's U.S.S. Enterprise hull markings.

14 STARLOG/August 1987 Next Generation" by david cerrold

"Well, they finally got It to fit-

series—and you will see why the new Enter- epic mini-series Space and Wallenberg: A as a writer on such diverse TV series as prise needs two bridges. Hero 's Story, as well as ABC's top-rated Star Trek, The Waltons, The She Million Star Trek: The Next- Generation will MacGyver. Berman has also been respon- Dollar Man, The Streets of premiere the first week on October. It will sible for overseeing the production of and Dallas. She has served as story editor be on Saturday nights in most local TV such series as Cheers, Family Ties and on Star Trek, Fantastic Journey and markets. Webster. Logan's Run. Oh, yes—one more thing: By the time of Bob Lew in, Producer Bill Theiss, Costume Designer our new series, the Federation will have Robert Lewin has worked as a writer and Three-time Academy Award nominee made peace with the Empire! producer on many TV series, including (Bound For Glory, Butch and Sundance: The Paper Chase, Baretta, Call to Glory, The Early Days, and Heart Like a

Starsky and Hutch, McMillan and Wife, Wheel), Bill Theiss is no stranger to Star Who are some of the people responsible James at 16, Dan August, Cannon and Trek; he designed the costumes for the for Star Trek: The Next Generation! Bracken 's World. He has written episodes original Star Trek TV series. He has I'm glad you asked that question. of Mission: Impossible, , The designed costumes for many plays, in- As of this writing, here are some of the Wild Wild West, Mod Squad, Kung Fu, cluding The World of and people who will be bringing the new series to Medical Center, Dr. Kildare, 12 O'clock The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit. Films he you: High, Daktari, Rawhide, I Spy, Streets of has worked on include The Pink Panther, , Executive Producer San Francisco, It Takes a Thief, The , Who'll Stop the

Creator of Star Trek. "The Great Bird of Fugitive, The Rifleman, , , Goin ' South, Kidco, The Man with the Galaxy." What else needs to be said? Five-O, The Big Valley, , The One Red Shoe, Hickey and Boggs and Robert Justman, Producer Name of the Game, , Mr. Novak, Pretty Maids All in a Row. His TV series Bob Justman has worked on more than Run For Your Life, Serpico and Juddfor (and pilots) include Genesis II, Planet 35 motion pictures and at least 550 TV the Defense. Earth, The Disney Sunday Movie and episodes, pilot films and movie for televi- Herb Wright, Producer to Five. sion, including Magruder and Loud, Mc- Herb Wright has worked as a writer Herman Zimmerman, Art Director clain's Law, Man From Atlantis, Then and/or producer on series and mini-series Herman Zimmerman has been the Art Came Bronson, Superman, Dr. Kildare, such as The Thorn Birds, Stingray, Director for a number of successful The Outer Limits, Mission: Impossible, Hunter and McCloud. movies, TV series and mini-series, in- and the original Star Trek TV series. Maurice Hurley, Producer cluding: The Word, Rumor of War, Tales Richard Berman, Producer Hurley's best known credits include: of the Unexpected, The Burning Bed, Vice President, Longform and Special Supervising Producer on The Equalizer, Silence of the Heart, Cheers, Webster, Projects for Paramount Network Televi- Executive Story Editor on Miami Vice. Brothers, Land of the Lost and Down sion. Formerly Executive Director of Dorothy C. Fontana, Associate Producer and Out in Beverly Hills. Dramatic Programming, overseeing the D.C. Fontana has more than 100 credits (continued on page 64)

ST ARLOG/ August 1987 15 movie from Boy in the Plastic Bubble to Sarah T: Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic.

But because this is an Amblin film, and

because it stars John Lithgow, it doesn't take a nuclear physicist to figure out that the

"extraordinary situation" is a little more in- triguing than this week's TV disease.

In this case, the "situation" is . "We meet the creature on a camping trip in the Cascade Mountains outside ," Lithgow says. "We run into him and think we killed him. We bring him back to show the world, but he's not really dead. That's how Harry enters our lives." He not only ends up in the Hendersons' lives, he transforms them. "Harry comes into our home and makes us feel our feelings much more intensely,"

Lithgow reveals. "That's something that I

think everybody is yearning for— if not a creature, then something to come along and remind us of how human we are. These are grandiose ideas, but that's the strong feeling of the film." At least, that's the strong feeling of part of the film. Lithgow stresses that what

makes Harry and the Hendersons special is the mix of such feelings with very broad comedy. "It's unpredictable, God knows, because we go from scenes that are knockabout silly to scenes with great tenderness and seriousness," he explains. "It seems like over and over again, we reach a peak of

comedy which is followed by the depths of

Acting! Genius! John Lithgow! By WILLIAM RABKIN

seriousness. It isn't just a silly comedy about a creature stuck in a house." The reason that's possible, the actor says,

Planet 10s favorite son explains why he is is because both the comedy and the drama wild about "Harry & the Hendersons," are based on honest human emotions. "At our most farcical, we don't really doesn't believe in "," but still depart from reality," Lithgow observes. "We behave in very farcical ways, but that's supports "The Project." probably how you would behave if this creature were in your house and for various John Lithgow plays normal guys. Just pening again. In his newest film, Univer- reasons, you had to hide it from the world. average, run-of-the-mill, plain old sal/Amblin 's Harry and the Hendersons, Harry and the Hendersons has show- folks. directed by Bill (Timerider) Dear, the actor stopping belly-laughs, but by the same

It's not his fault if those normal guys keep plays yet another normal, ordinary token, it's a tear-jerker. It'll break your getting mixed up with airplane-killing Joe—which means that weirdness is just heart in very unexpected ways." gremlins, teenage nuclear terrorists, and jol- around the corner. Or maybe those ways won't be so unex- ly old men with flying reindeer. "I play the father of two kids, an or- pected. After all, this isn't exactly the newest But whether it's his fault or not, it's hap- dinary man who has to deal with the or- story around—and didn't a certain film dinary problems and issues in our lives," about a lonely extraterrestrial offer the same W1LLIAM RABKIN, veteran STARLOG Lithgow explains. "Then, our family is put kind of belly-laughs and heartbreaks just a correspondent, contributes regularly to in an extraordinary situation. The movie is few years back? Electronic Media. He visited the set of about how we respond to that extraordinary "I'm sure the comparisons with E.T. are Harry and the Hendersons in STARLOG situation." something that everyone at Universal and #120. OK, that description sounds like any TV Amblin want to discourage, because they

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The Manhattan Project "certainly aspired to more than just a comic impact," Lithgow relates, adding that he loved the movie which co-starred Christopher Collet.

"Acting is a real exuberant, entertaining thing to do." Lithgow observes. And he demonstrated that entertaining flam- boyance in Buckaroo Banzai. i As a painfully shy man, Lithgow fell in love with "The Doll" and won an Emmy for his performance.

don't want it to look like a ripoff, "Lithgow

comments. "But it is in that genre and it does evoke that very strong feeling." Hairy Houseguest

Like E. T. , Harry and the Hendersons re- quires its actors to emote opposite something that isn't human. But for Lithgow, that wasn't a problem. "I'm working with a very human actor in the role of Harry, Kevin Peter (Misfits of Science) Hall [STARLOG #101]," Lithgow explains. "I have a very warm relationship with him personally, and he's a very good actor. We're extremely fortunate, because he brings enormous warmth to the character of Harry in his body English." Of course, there's a limitation to how

much Hall can do—after all, his face is covered with a -designed mask, which is manipulated by technicians. To allow the actors to develop a rapport, Lithgow rehearsed with an out-of-costume Hall before bringing in Baker's crew. "We really had to make the scenes work relating to him as a person," Lithgow says. "It's a good thing he's such a fine actor." When the mask went on, Lithgow had to work out the scenes with six new ac- tors—who were all playing Harry's face.

These are the Lectroids from Planet 10: Vincent Schiavelli, Lithgow and Christopher Lloyd. film and I loved working on it. It was in- "It's a companionship between Kevin, That's a dangerous business." adult, serious-minded. It was tinged Rick Baker and Baker's crew, the people But, Lithgow says, he had fun making the tense, with co-stars with comedy, but it certainly aspired to who created his face. They all work with me movie. He enjoyed working the than just a comic impact. Time called on whatever scenes we have together. It's , and took pleasure in more who, he in- it one of the most gripping, intelligent like six people creating a dialogue between broadness of B.Z. the baddie— in years, and it only lasted in two characters. sists, was not based on Richard Nixon. thrillers of theaters for about three weeks. "We developed the rhythm over a pretty "If anything, it was sort Bob an "It's a great disappointment to me, but long period of time," Lithgow continues. Haldeman and John Erlichman, understand. In the summer "Fortunately, we started with easier scenes amalgamation of the two," Lithgow says. not hard to ALIENS, Top Gun and The Fly are and warmed up to very long dialogue "But at the same time, I thought of playing when tried to be the top films ... I think it would have had a scenes. All the dialogue is ours, of course. a Disney cartoon villain; I almost better audience if it hadn't been released in But it's like they must know exactly the animated." bother midst a batch of summer movies and nuances of every single expression on his The failure of Santa Claus didn't the of dismal box-office of his if it had been pushed a little harder. By the face. It's fascinating. As it turns out, it's in- Lithgow, but the Project people had forgotten it ever credibly easy working with Harry. His face next genre piece, The Manhattan summer's end, did as a blow. existed. That's a shame because it's a lot is more expressive than most actors I've (STARLOG #105) come that did much better." worked with." "I had high hopes for The Manhattan better than the films laments. "I loved the current Lithgow project is Homer's Which is not to put down the actors Project," the actor A Odyssey, a comedic' tale of a smalltown Lithgow is working with in this film—he's American inventor who actually invents and wild about all of Harry's cast. Harry & the Hendersons, says Lithgow, is a Brothers notwithstan- "Melinda (Close Encounters) Dillon plays "tear-jerker" that will "break your heart in flies— Wright ding man's first flying machine. Lithgow my wife and she's just as loony as I am," very unexpected ways." — is scripting and will make his directorial Lithgow says. "In the film, that is— I won't debut on the film, one of the first entries comment on her in real life. Don (Cocoon) (Conan) Pressman's new com- Ameche [STARLOG #107] plays old from Ed Hollywoodway Pictures. Lithgow will Whitewood, a burned-out anthropologist pany, in and co-produce Homer's who long since gave up looking for this also star creature, and he's a wonderful person for Odyssey. actor doesn't accept film offers that part. When you have an actor we've all The because he thinks they'll be blockbusters. watched since he was young, it gives general, basic rule of thumb is wonderful poignance to a part like this "In my just act in things you would want to see where his age and his lost years are a very in," Lithgow says. "I have a taste important part of his impact. It's like yourself all kinds of movies. Usually, it's a ques- ' role in Being There." for tion of whether it will be fun, whether I re- But with all these veterans around, spect the people behind it, whether I would Lithgow saves his highest praise for a like work with them. I'm sure I'm a relative unknown. to but I still value the "David Suchet, a character actor from serious-minded actor, frivolity of acting. It's a real exuberant, en- England, gives reality to what is certainly the tertaining thing to do. I never lose track of most far-fetched character in the film—the * that." A villain, a French -Canadian hunter who has spent his life tracking this creature,"

Lithgow says. "When I first read the script,

I said, 'Come on, who's gonna buy this?' But David makes this character not only real but funny—and dangerous. An amazing achievement." Farfetched Lithgow shouldn't be too amazed—after

all, he has also spent most of his caret mak- ing far-fetched characters seem real. He en- dured a "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" for Twilight Zone the Movie (which he discuss- ed in STARLOG #75). He battled Buckaroo Banzai as the insanely hilarious Dr. Emilio Lizardo and flew into space to solve the m mystery of the Monolith in 2010% (STARLOG #93). And in Amazing Stories, £ he bought a very special toy, "The Doll." a Then, there's B.Z., the crooked toy£ manufacturer out to bankrupt old Saint 8 Nick in the multi-million dollar fantasy^ bomb Santa Claus, a role he took to please ? his young children. § "I was pretty disappointed in Santa $ Claus" Lithgow admits. "I had hoped it| would be a more stylish and magical film. • When I saw it, I realized with great disap- g pointment and regret that the people behind £ Santa Claus had lost track of children. The <3 pretty idea was to make an epic for kids, and I Though he enjoyed working with elfish Dudley Moore, Lithgow notes, "I was think they forgot about the 'for kids' aspect. disappointed with Santa Claus." STARLOGA4wgws/ 7957 19 Of Sharks & "Star Trek" The director of "Jaws: The Revenge" recalls arranging "" & planning 'Colossus: The Forbin Project' By EDWARD CROSS

"Star Trek was filled with imagination and substance," says Joseph Sargent, who directed one early episode, "The Corbomite Maneuver".

is He one of a handful of directors com- of any project, I think, in film history," fortable behind both the television and - Sargent concurs. "I got a call from [Univer- tion picture camera. His TV credits include sal President] Sid Sheinberg in October and ihe recent Space mini-series (STARLOG he suggested I do the new Jaws—to which I #94) and various episodes of , laughed. But then he said the magic words: The Immortal, The Man from UNCLE and 'We want a quality people picture, not a many other series. Sargent also helmed The shark picture,' That was an interesting Marcus Nelson Murders (the Emmy- challenge. Essentially, he wanted a return in winning Kojak TV movie pilot), Sunshine, quality to that of the original Jaws. That Tribes, Hustling and The Taking of Pelham made it another challenge. He gave me carte One Two Three. blanche by saying, 'Joe, you're the producer He calls Pelham "the toughest film I've and the director. Go out and put your team ever done," but admits that Jaws: The together.' So I did, and was fortunate Revenge is his biggest and perhaps riskiest. enough to get Michael de Guzman to write "At first mention of Jaws 3, 4 or the screenplay. whatever," the director notes candidly, "We had very little to go on to begin "you tend to feel like you're dealing with us- with, so we began to pile 'bricks' one on top ed clothing. But this movie is such a depar- of the other, until all of these lovely discon- the depths of the ocean From to the far ture from the two previous Jaws in that nected elements began to take on a form reaches of outer space, director we're dealing with more of an emotional and a shape. Pretty soon, the piece's emo- Joseph Sargent has made a point of base where you can more easily empathize tional content began to solidify, and before favoring character over concept, with the human characters, which is why we've all we knew it, we had a very interesting over action/adventure. This responded ap- so enthusiastically." clothesline on which to hang all these proach to his art has become his trademark, This enthusiasm, which has spread elements. Originally, we started with as can be witnessed in Jaws: The Revenge, throughout the film's cast and crew, is a bit nothing more than the death of Sheriff Mar- an episode of the original Star Trek TV surprising considering the project's genesis. tin Brody, since we knew series and his cult classic, Colossus: The Jaws: The Revenge began —with a phone [STARLOG #90] couldn't do the picture Forbin Project. call — in October 1986. It premieres summer due to another commitment. So, we focused 1987. The speed at which the project has on Ellen Brody [, Sheinberg's EDWARD GROSS, veteran STARLOG come together is unprecedented, particularly actress wife] and her feeling that the shark, correspondent, reports for New York since this is a $23 million film with extensive in effect, had a vendetta against the family, Nightlife and FANGOR1A. He profiled underwater photography. thereby introducing a whole mystical aspect Richard Maibaum in STARLOG #120. "This is probably the quickest gestation to the shark. 20 STARLOG/ August 1987 "We had a completed script five weeks rather spectacular things, and they can ex- from the first phone call," Sargent con- pect a very identifiable and heartwarming tinues. "When you think that the average emotional story since it deals with a woman project takes two years to get from an whose whole family seems to be original conversation somewhere in the Polo deteriorating, and her obsessive belief that

Lounge to the time it gets in front of the there is a vendetta against ttiem on the part cameras, it's really pretty amazing. I was in of the great . The people content production about three months after the is what turns me on. I'm not turned on by

first phone call. It's unheard of, but it all fell cops, chases and too much melodrama. But into place so quickly and I was so fortunate I am by relationship stories." to get the right crew. It's one of the finest The original Star Trek TV series fit the film crews I've ever worked with." director's criteria perfectly and Sargent was involved right at the point when NBC "Jaws" Breaker greenlighted the show. His sole effort was Sargent's general approach has been to "The Corbomite Maneuver," which guest- act as though there had been no previous se- starred as the physically ^SSfc^S^t quels to Steven Spielberg's Jaws, and that childlike but intellectually superior Balok. this movie, essentially, is . "They had done two pilots, but somehow "I would tend to hope that people look at they didn't quite work," Sargent says. this film that way," the director agrees, "Fortunately, they chose mine [as the next "although there were excellent moments in show filmed] to open up the series. The IO0W€GARY IANCEGUBT MAJdOVANPEHtE KARWYOUNG«i Jaws 2 in the fact that it furthered the Brody comforting thing is that I had a hand in

family's growth. The boys were a little shaping the characters. For instance, they JDWAtfHBSONASC'St^XSa'HSASGWr- older, and the family more firmly establish- had an Asian, a Scotsman and an alien. I According to Sargent, Jaws 4 is a "rela- ed. This is almost like a very short mini- suggested that they have a black female tionship" picture about a woman and a series where we take the characters a few communications officer. Gene Roddenberry shark. years down the road." instantly jumped on the idea because it pro-

And what can moviegoers expect from vided an interesting balance." throughout the entire series.' I agreed with Bruce the Shark's return this summer? Sargent, however, had a differing view of him and we worked like hell to give him Details are not quickly forthcoming, but that logical "alien," Mr. Spock. some emotional context, but Gene said, 'No Sargent doesn't mind whetting fan appetites "Leonard Nimoy was unhappy because way, the very nature of this character's con- by speaking in generalities. his character was without emotion," tribution is that he isn't an earthling. As a

"With Jaws: The Revenge," he reveals, Sargent laughs. "He said, 'How can I play a Vulcan, he is intellect over emotion.'

"the audience can expect a much more terri- character without emotion? I don't know Leonard was ready to quit because he didn't fying and more spectacular shark doing how to do that. I'm going to be on one note know how he was going to do it.

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"I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me," says Karen Allen.

tive style has contributed to the success of She remembers Marion, chasing the "Raiders and Starman, her of the Lost Ark" with & falling two most popular genre films. One wonders, then, if the real Karen in love with an alien "Starman." Allen is anything like the strong-willed, sexy women she becomes on film. "I don't know if I've ever played a BylRVSLIFKIN character who's close to me," confesses Allen. "There have been some elements of

Sometimes, I With her auburn , freckled first, but is actually quite rare among to- myself in different roles. face and emerald colored eyes, day's female stars. show one side of myself and then complete-

Karen Allen is anything but the It's called spunkiness. ly conceal the other." typical screen heroine. She may not have Allen has brought an element of displayed the screen presence of Sigourney spunkiness to all her movie roles, from her Reader & Writer

Weaver, the range of or screen debut in National Lampoon 's How the 34-year-old actress chooses her the power of Meryl Streep. Yet, Allen has House to such overlooked Allen diverse parts isn't all that simple. "It's a impressed audiences in a number of diverse outings as The Wanderers, A Small Circle very instinctual relationship, a reaction to roles with an attribute that is totally hers, of Friends, Split Image and Until something in the script," she says. "I read an idiosyncrasy that may be overlooked at September. And certainly Allen's distinc- a script and ask myself, Ts this a story I

STARLOG/'August 1987 23 ;-^^- •

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" was a dream to work with," comments Allen in praise of her Starman.

basis of one of her film characters. Born in a small southern Illinois farming com- munity, she spent her first 10 years travel- ing around the country with her FBI agent father, her mother, and two sisters. The

family settled in Maryland, but she left home at 17 and moved to New York to study art and design. Allen returned to Maryland and enrolled at the University of Maryland to study writing. She soon left there to travel to Mexico, Central and several countries in South America. "I studied many different things in college," Allen recalls. "I took art, then psychology

and several literature courses. But I guess I never really liked the structure of educa- tion. I always relied on my own ways of

learning. I was more comfortable follow- ing those." Her interest in theater actually began With scenes like this one, is it any wonder Karen Allen is glad she's not signed for when she came back to the U.S. after an ex- future Indy Jones expeditions? tended period of travel and saw the ex- perimental Polish Theater Laboratory in want to tell?' An actor is really a story- process. Sometimes, you recognize certain Washington, D.C. After taking acting teller, and sometimes, the story being told elements of yourself that you didn't know classes, she began performing with the is as important as the character in the story. were there. Washington Theater Lab. Following four "Sometimes, 1 look at a character and "1 also write biographies of my charac- years with several Washington and Mary- say, 'I don't know the first thing about this ters ever — since . I even do land-based theater groups, Allen headed to person, who she is and where she's coming some research into the background if it's New York to pursue career acting. She from.' That fascinates me. I know in order important. I create the character's history, studied at the prestigious Lee Strasberg In- to get there, 1 have to do my work, to think who her family was and other things. It stitute and made a short, award-winning through, in psychological terms, who this really does help." film, The Aftermath. person is, and examine her whole thinking Allen's own background could be the "When I arrived in New York," the ac- 24 STARLOG/August 1987 tress recalls, "I made a serious commit- do with the fact that A Small Circle of Did she have any idea Raiders of the ment to work in theater. I went to a number Friends tried to make a statement," Allen Lost Ark would become such a smash hit? of theater auditions." suggests. " and [writer] Ezra "Because Steven Spielberg and George Film called her away from the stage and Sacks felt that the revolutionary passion Lucas were involved, you couldn't help but Allen made her 1978 screen debut in Na- that came from that era had dissipated in a be aware that Raiders would have a tional Lampoon's Animal House. She frightening sort of way when Vietnam was tremendous amount of attention paid to played Katy, the level-headed college girl over. Thus, Jessie and Jameson Parker's it," Allen says. "This meant it could also who keeps trying to get her boy friend characters became conventional. She was have been a tremendous bomb or a big hit. Boone (Peter Riegert) to make a firmer an artist who became radicalized, then Raiders was really an interesting story. commitment to their relationship. Shot on later became a lawyer. He was a guy who Watching Steven work on it, I know the a small budget with a cast of then-un- wanted to become a doctor, but became a movie had a wonderful look to it. I watch-

knowns, Animal House surprised au- psychologist. Both became seemingly dis- ed the dailies every day while it was being diences with its off-the-wall gross-out passionate people. made. The first time I saw the completed humor. It went on to become one of the "I think there was a backlash because most popular comedies of the decade, there wasn't enough distance between the earning more than $200 million worldwide '60s and 1980 when the film came out. at the box office. Some recent films about the era haven't "I knew the film had a wonderful been as shocking because of when they've energy," Allen recalls. "The actors I work- been released. But I don't think the ed with were wonderful. None of us anti- ultimate film about that period has been cipated, however, what sort of hit Animal made yet." House would become." Following A Small Circle of Friends, Allen took on roles in a few films and in Circles of Friends something she does rarely, television. She Animal House brought Allen into the appeared with in William Fried- Hollywood spotlight, and she was soon kin's controversial Cruising. And she star- cast in The Wanderers, another youth- red in a mini-series reworking of John oriented tale. Based on a novel by Richard Steinbeck's . Price and directed by Philip (The Right In 1980, Allen was cast opposite Har- Stuff) Kaufman (STARLOG #16,77), The rison Ford as heroine Wanderers was a colorful, satiric and often in Raiders of the Lost Ark, directed by violent look at New York gang life in the Steven Spielberg and produced by George early . Allen played Nina, a guitar- Lucas. Spielberg cast Allen after being im- toting Bronx high school student who hung pressed with her performance in A Small out with a tough, but likable, Italian gang Circle of Friends. called the Wanderers. The part of Marion required Allen to at- Released on the heels of 's tempt a different style of acting. She was Unprepared for the "tortures" of location controversial gang war opus, The War- asked to partake in physically demanding, lensing in Tunisia, Allen made the best of riors, The Wanderers quickly vanished action-oriented sequences. And the pro- her Raiders role. from theater screens. Over the years, Allen duction would take her to a far away place reports, it has found its audience. "It has the well-traveled actress had never thought film, I was pleasantly surprised at how cult "It's in- visiting: become a film," she observes. of Tunisia, located in Africa's wonderful and inventive it was and how it credible. In London, there's a whole fol- Sahara desert. moved along like a bat out of hell." 9 lowing around The Wanderers. It's an "It was all new to me," she muses. "I With one sequel (Indiana Jones and the amazing phenomenon." never made a film like that one before. Temple of Doom) down, and one more to Although The Wanderers failed at the Harrison, of course, was very experienced go, it's apparent Allen will never be called U.S. box office, it did showcase Allen in and comfortable with the physical acting on to reprise her role of Marion Raven-

her second strong movie role. Her work since he had done Star Wars. I came to it wood. She's happy with her work in caught the eye of director Rob (Scan- fascinated and very eager. But I really Raiders, but is also pleased about not com- dalous) Cohen, who cast her in A Small didn't know how to do that kind of work mitting to any of the follow-ups.

Circle of Friends. on film. "When I was asked to do the first one, With a title taken from a popular song "The acting really becomes technical. they told me they were doing three and by Phil Ochs, the film depicted the rela- You really have to work with the camera, were going to go backwards in time,"

tionship between three Harvard students as opposed to forgetting that the camera is Allen remembers. "I said, 'Great!' I don't

during the turbulent 1960s. Allen played there and trying to get some emotional know if I would have liked to have done all Jessie, an artist romantically involved with depth. Instead, you have to look at the three films. You do one, and two-and-a- both journalism major Brad (Midnight Ex- camera and figure out how to move an ob- half-years later, when it's time to do the press) Davis and med student Jameson ject across it, how to move within the next, you may not want to be in it. Maybe (Simon and Simon) Parker. frame, while creating some kind of feeling you have another project at the same time. The movie drew harsh criticism, and was at the same time." "I hate the idea of agreeing to do never given wide theatrical exposure. Like Though she admired actor Harrison something so much later. You can never The Wanderers, A Small Circle of Friends Ford, who starred as the dashing adven- see far ahead enough to know if you want has since extended its coterie of fans turer Indiana Jones, she never really got to commit yourself to that." through cable and videocassette release. too close to him. "I worked with him for Many critics found the movie somewhat four months, but I really didn't get to Allies & Aliens naive in its attitudes about the tumultuous know him well," explains Allen. "He was Instead of accepting to similar heroine- decade. They claimed the story lacked very professional and very good to work type roles in other large-scale Hollywood depth, especially when it dealt with the with. At times, there's a thing with actors movies, Allen decided to tackle more in- period's important issues, like Vietnam, where you get along wonderfully and changing sexual mores and campus unrest. become lifelong friends. Then, there are IRVSLIFKIN, Philadelphia-based writer, Allen, however, admires the film and still times when you work with people and bare- is associate editor of Home Viewer

supports it today. ly get to know them at all. I guess I didn't Magazine. Heprofiled "Much of the backlash from critics had get to know Harrison too well." in STARLOG Mill.

STARLOG/August 1987 25 she has been extremely busy. She has three films set for future release. There's Ter- minus, a French takeoff on , which stars Allen as the driver of a com-

puter-guided truck called Monster. Allen is only featured in the first half of this

futurist road fight flick. Also completed is Backfire, a suspense yarn, directed by Gilbert Cates and co-starring Keith (Trour ble in Mind) Carradine. In a change-of-

pace role, Allen plays a woman who is ac- cused of murdering her husband. Allen welcomes the opportunity to play someone so unusually complex. "There are more interior, deeper emotions and elements to this character," she says.

"Like this woman, I have different sides to

myself that are very fierce. Of course, I would never be driven to murder, but it's interesting to find a character you can understand, to learn how somebody could be motivated to do such a thing." She has also been involved in two stage productions which have proven to be very special to her. During the spring, Allen returned to an Off-Broadway theater for a presentation of The Miracle Worker. This time, however, Allen played teacher Annie Sullivan to a younger actress' interpreta- tion of Helen Keller. Allen essayed the cha- racter that Jane Alexander and had so impressed her with several years ago when Allen portrayed Helen in Paula (Allen) comes to the aid of a swooning Otter (Peter Riegert), a frat boy who has suffered one too many Animal House antic. Monday After the Miracle. In a recent restaging of Tennessee timate parts which allowed her to expand her performances after her work has been Williams' classic , her acting abilities. After several smaller completed. She often sees changes she Allen played the demanding part of the films and some New York stage work would have liked to have made when she sad, crippled Laura at New England's (which she discussed further in BEST OF takes another look at a movie a few years Long Wharf and Williamstown Theatres. STARLOG #6), Allen returned to sizable after its original release. The role of Jenny also starred as Laura's Hollywood productions in 1984. In the Hayden in Starman posed an especially dif- mother, domineering Southern belle romantic fantasy SF Starman, directed by ficult problem for the actress. Yet, she's Amanda Wingate. The production's suc- John Carpenter, she played Jenny pleased with the way things turned out. cess led to a new , directed Hayden, a recently widowed woman who "I'm very tough on myself," Allen ad- by Woodward's husband, , encounters — and eventually falls in love mits. "I look at the most minute details and featuring Allen, Woodward, John with an alien has — who taken on the form with each role. I was happy with what I did (Making Mr. Right) Malkovich and James of her late husband. Jeff Bridges was in Starman— at least in terms of creating a (TV's Planet of the Apes) Naughton, set nominated for a Best Actor Oscar as the 'What if situation. for September release. extraterrestrial visitor. "The 'What if?' was 'What if my hus- The Glass Menagerie's evolution from Today, Allen says making Starman was band died, and I woke up in the middle of stage to screen has been unusual. "Paul one of the most pleasurable experiences of the night and saw this infant growing into a Newman came to see us from time to her screen acting career. man who turned out to be my dead hus- time," recalls Allen. "Then, we started to "Jeff was a dream to work with," she band's body who actually turned out to be get all these offers to take the play to Lon- notes. "He was the sweetest person in " the an alien from another world?' don, New York and other cities. At the world. We hit it off right away. The first Allen pauses. same time, Joanne really wanted to put it time we met, he came over and gave me this "You don't know how any human being on film. We were contacted by Showtime, big hug, and said, 'It's great we're working would behave under " those circumstan- HBO and , but the together.' ces," she continues. "The problem for an Williams estate wanted too much money Allen also holds director John Carpenter actress is how to create a believable se- for the rights, so it wasn't possible to do it (STARLOG #48,92,100,109,115) in high quence of emotions from this stage begin- for TV." esteem. With a record of past efforts like ning to the point where the characters When Newman decided he wanted to di- Halloween and The Thing, Carpenter's believably fall in love with each other. The rect a film version of the play, according to sensitive directing hand and skill with ac- love has to remain even during chase scenes Allen, the money was quickly raised. tors turned out to be something of a sur- and things like that. Certainly, the character of Laura prise. "I felt, in some ways, Jeff and I were doesn't fit into the typical Allen mold. But, "John worked very well with Jeff and successful in creating that relationship. But strangely enough, Allen says she can iden- I," Allen says fondly. was very "He sup- I still look at Starman and cringe and say: 'I tify with the lame, troubled girl. portive and very much wanted us to create wish 1 had done that scene differently' or 'I "It's not a part of me I choose to show this special relationship between " cha- wish I had taken more time here.' very much, but there are elements of her racters. also has a crew John terrific of peo- that are in my own makeup as well," Karen ple he uses all the time which helped to Movie "Menagerie" Allen says. "Laura is not exactly who I am, make the set very comfortable." Although Allen hasn't been highly visi- but I certainly do feel close to her." Allen says she has difficulty watching ble to moviegoers over the last two years,

26 STARLOG /August 1987 Getting small with

The "innerspace" filmmaker ponders his latest SF comedy, the length of motion pictures and the invasion of special effects. No 'Nam movies for Joe Dante—he's on the By JESSIE HORSTINC laugh track venturing into Innerspace with Mike Finnell (right).

From trailer editor to cult film went off and hired a writer to do his story. I something different is going to happen. favorite, Joe Dante has added his wry did read a script based on that story by a There was a real feeling of improvisation on sense of humor and copious imagina- young man named Chip Proser whom I met this set and everyone worked well together.

tion to the catalog offantasticfilm favorites briefly one day. Mike and I thought, "Well, It wasn't people trying to grab lines for for 10 years. He continues the trend with the this isn't going to happen—we'll have to themselves— it was people trying to make Steven Spielberg presentation, Innerspace. find another picture." the scenes better by giving their lines to

Starring , and Den- In the meantime, Peter's partner Bruce someone else. It was very positive. nis Quaid, this comedic romp features Berman, an executive at Universal at the STARLOG: Is that unusual? science-fiction themes with a nod toward the time, moved over to Warner Bros. Peter and DANTE: It's really not that unusual for me, sillier side of past epics. In the honored Bruce took the project and hired but I've seldom worked with a more tradition of Fantastic Voyage and The In- a different writer, —the guy copacetic bunch of people. credible Shrinking Man, Innerspace answers who scripted The Dead Zone and The Lost STARLOG: Do you two share the same

the question, "What if you could shrink a Boys. He's a terrific writer and he wrote a "language" when it comes to comedy? man to the size of a corpuscle?"—adding, wonderful script —completely the opposite DANTE: Yes, basically. See, Marty had just

"And inject him into a neurotic super- of the first. come off and I don't know

market clerk?" It was everything we talked about; im- how happy Marty was with what he did in In the following interview, Dante shares aginative, funny, clever and the gimmick in that picture. He was unhappy about the

his observations and sharp wit while discuss- it was played down so that it wasn't a rip-off amount of stuff cut out of Three Amigos

ing his current and past films and what it of another picture, it was a separate entity. which related to his character. He found takes to stay afloat in Hollywood. STARLOG: So, how did Spielberg become himself playing a character who was a little involved? inexplicable until the movie's end when you STARLOG: Innerspace is your third time DANTE: Everybody at Warner was so en- find out that his character used to be a child

out for Spielberg after Twilight Zone and thusiastic about it, they thought it would be star. The backstory was eliminated and may Gremlins! a perfect picture for Steven to "present." have caused Marty to be more wary about

JOE DANTE: Actually, it's my fifth— I did They took the script over to him to see if he his performance in Innerspace. He wanted

two Amazing Stories segments. liked it and he did. I imagine if he didn't like his character to "come off" in this picture STARLOG: That's quite a track record. the director—me—he probably could have so he would constantly ask, "Is it too big?" DANTE: 1 guess they needed somebody to had me replaced. "Is it not big enough?" "Haven't we had

do the pictures Steven wasn't going to do. I STARLOG: So, it really was your baby? him fall down an awful lot?" Where, in think Gremlins was the first one—to this DANTE: No, it's really Peter's baby. I ac- reality, I think people will be surprised at

day, I don't know what possessed him to tually had less input than I usually do how restrained yet how funny his perfor-

hire me. because when I was presented with the mance is. It's not a heavily perfor-

STARLOG: Possessed is an interesting script, it was already terrific. Why fix it if it mance— it's realistic within the character's choice of words. isn't ? We made the changes that we confines. DANTE: He likea —which was always do, those things that normally come STARLOG: Strangely enough, he has said good because Universal was threatening to up, but no big changes. There are two that he didn't know how to play "broad."

sue because it seemed like such a rip-off of writers credited, but Jeff Boam really wrote DANTE: Oh, he has been known to play

Jaws. Which it was. Steven saw the picture the picture. broad on occasion. And it's the contrast and said, "No, no, no. It's OK. Don't sue." STARLOG: Did you always have Martin between his character and 's

If it wasn't for him, that picture would Short in mind for the lead? that's one of the interesting things about In-

never have been released and I wouldn't DANTE: Kind of, yeah. Martin was just nerspace. When you think about it, that's have a job. about the first person whom we saw. It got pretty much the picture's concept: One type STARLOG: You must satisfy what he narrowed down to a couple of people and of guy inside his opposite and the only way wants to see or he wouldn't keep bringing when we met Martin, he seemed like the he can is to make the other guy more you back. character. Just a regular guy, sorta wimpy, a like himself. DANTE: Actually, Steven got involved in hypochondriac—not like , but STARLOG: Like making Silly Putty stand

this project after I did. Before Mike Finnell somewhere between Ed Grimley and up on its own.

and I did Explorers, we sat down with pro- Michael J. Fox. That's pretty much the way

ducer and he told us this idea Martin plays it. He's a wonderful guy to JESSIE HORSTING, LA-based writer, is [about a miniaturized explorer becoming work with. the author of Stephen King at the Movies trapped inside another human]. I said, It's rare that you look forward to work (STARLOG PRESS/NAL, $9.95). She "Well, that sounds a lot like Fantastic because you know someone's going to be visited the set of Innerspace in STARLOG

Voyage." He said no, it was different. He there who will surprise you—or that M20.

STARLOG/August 1987 27 Before Dennis Quaid was chosen as the Innerspace micronaut, the mayor of Carmel, was considered.

much like a father/son casting which didn't seem right.

Steve brought Dennis over to the set of

"Greeble," the Amazing Stories episode I shot. I had met Dennis before, but I had forgotten he played an in The

Right Stuff. When I met him, I thought, "This might be a little too much on the nose"—too much like this other character he played. But there was something about him. He's more grown-up.

He's on the edge of being a very big star. Dennis has a real leading man quality, and Innerspace really is an old-fashioned con- cept of a movie. It goes back to the Dean Martin and era as far as the con- trasts of characters are concerned. If you don't have real contrasts with these two

characters, it doesn't work at all. Dennis fills the role of the straight man, but he plays the DANTE: Exactly. Dennis is a real hero Mine [STARLOG #102] was going to be a part with a lot of humor. Most of the movie, type. He has the chameleon-like ability to better picture and it — wasn't — and he's in one place and there isn't much dif- resemble different actors in different Dreamscape [STARLOG #81], which I ference visually in the shots. All the action respects. Sometimes he looks like Jack think is a better picture than he thinks it is. and excitement takes place outside the body Nicholson, sometimes he looks like Har- His Dreamscape character was kind of a in which Dennis is trapped. We were afraid rison Ford. Sometimes, he looks like his callow guy, though. it might be dull, but he doesn't let that hap- brother . It's really weird. But The problem we with had Dennis' pen. Without having someone like Dennis in in this picture, he's as good or better than character in Innerspace was that it was writ- the part, the whole picture wouldn't work. anything I've ever seen him in. ten for an older guy, kind of a burn-out Another problem was finding a leading STARLOG: He has had some bad luck with case. There was even talk of getting Clint man in Dennis' age group. When you get in- movie roles. Eastwood to take a few weeks off from be- to that 25-35 range, it becomes extremely DANTE: Yes. Everyone thought Enemy ing mayor. But then it started seeming too difficult to find someone who can command

A Trip to little presence. But I think the Kentucky movie. And we really could do what we Fried name is owned by the Zuckers and I wanted. It was fun. I don't know if the guess it couldn't called be that. So, they fun is communicated or not, cause I the called it "Untitled" while they were Moon haven't really seen the movie. shooting it. Then, they were going to have STARLOG: You seem to feel strongly that Sometimes, an interviewer doesn 't even a contest to have somebody name the pic- they're making a fatal error with the title. have to figure out her own questions. ture. DANTE: I do, but there's nothing / can There are times when the interviewee leans I came up with one I liked—Best Pic- do about it. It would be different if I was in close and suggests his own line inter- ture the Year. of of When anybody reviewed the director, but I'm not. I'm one of five rogation. Sometimes, like now— it and named the title, you could use that directors—John is the producer along with for the blurbs, y'know? Rex Reed: "Best Bob and they like it. I've told them I JOE DANTE: Why don't you ask Picture . me of the Year. . " : think it's a big mistake, but they don't, about ! ." "Best Picture of the Year. . so STARLOG: OK. What about Amazon Well, they anyway, didn't go for that. What do I know? One of us will be Women on the Moon! So, they're it calling Amazon Women on proved right. I just can't imagine most DANTE: I can't tell you about Amazon the Moon, which I think is a suicidal people going to see a movie with that title. Women on the Moon. I don't know mistake. I don't think most people will get the joke anything about it. I don't know when it's STARLOG: It would definitely keep my because it sounds like a straight picture. It going to be released. I don't know what mother at home. sounds like there's an actual, serious they're going to call it. DANTE: It might keep me at home. It movie called Amazon Women on the STARLOG: What do you know about it? sounds like a picture you've already seen. Moon, and when you do a funny ad for DANTE: I directed several segments. The But they insist calling it on that. it, it's going to look like Morons from name comes from Bob Weiss' segment, But it was fun for me because it was Outer Space—which no one was interested which is very funny by the way—the best one of those non-union, el cheapo produc- in seeing. parody of '50s science-fiction films that tions somewhat like the stuff I used to do STARLOG: You could argue that it's too I've ever seen. Bob's the guy who produc- for . The script made me much of an in-joke. ed Police Squad [as well as The Blues laugh out loud, which is rare. They of- DANTE: Well, yeah! There's in and Brothers and Dr. Detroit]. fered it to me, , there's in. There are many in-jokes in the Amazon is one of those multi-movies and Peter Horton. They asked us to pick movie, but they don't get in the way of that never make any money. It's an an- what we liked best and do it and then they the real jokes. The title is an in-joke that thology film, like Kentucky Fried Movie, would stick 'em together. It was great. gets in the way of the whole movie. That's which John Landis directed a long time There were many neat people involved and the way I feel. By the time this interview ago. And everybody more or less was con- I got to hire a whole of bunch my friends comes out, I'll either have been wrong—or sidering calling it Kentucky Fried Sequel or and work with several other people I the movie will be on television already. something like that, which would give it a hadn't met in a real fast and dirty kind of —Jessie Horsting

28 STARLOG/August 1987 a picture—and most of them are working, DANTE: A lot less appliance heavy. When Innerspace's FX with the regular gang up which is another problem. And you don't we ran Innerspace without the effects, it there in Marin County. I don't want to want to have to go to your Tom worked just fine. If anything, we'll have to mislead you—there are many effects in this Sellecks—your television people—because be careful where we put the special effects, film. In fact, after Steven saw the pkture, he there's something about TV stars that because when the character stuff is working, added more—as is his wont: "Oh, this is doesn't work on film. Poor Tom Selleck is a you don't want to stop it for some spec- good, but let's do more." perfect example. None of the pictures he has tacular moment that would impede the pic- And the funny thing is, most of the addi- made have been that bad — I liked ture's flow. At this point, it's kind of long. tions are the very things we cut out when we Runaway—but there's something about the I'm a believer in shorter movies, but In- were budgeting. The budget was going to be persona of a guy you can see on TV for free: nerspace is so complicated and seems to too high and we didn't want to spend all No matter what he's playing, he looks like move so fast, we've been unsuccessful in try- that money, so we cut a bunch of effects the same character you can see every week ing to find much to cut out of it. and then Steven saw the picture. He thought for free. He was the original choice for In- STARLOG: And you still have FX to add. it would be great if we put a bunch of effects diana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark and DANTE: Yes. Before Steven left for back in. And so we did. He can do things he lost it because of the TV series and he to film Empire of the Sun, he said, "You'll like that, and it's one of the great things never really recovered from that. No one's have to face it. The picture's going to be be- about working with him. He tends to be able really sure why. tween 115 minutes and two hours. That's to get what he wants. STARLOG: If you knew why people liked the way it's going to have to be." It makes STARLOG: He's a great buffer. what they liked, it would take most of the me nervous, though. guess work out of filming. STARLOG: Why? Do you think people are With a little help from their friend, Jack DANTE: Yes and no. If we knew what going to get twitchy before it's over? (Short) and Lydia (Meg Ryan) team up against the baddies. everyone would like, then that's what DANTE: No, they won't get twitchy. The everyone would make, but it doesn't mean people we've shown it to have all had a good

everyone can make that sort of film. I can time—nobody's looking at their watches. It see certain kinds of films becoming seems to play fine. But personally, it makes popular—say Vietnam films after Platoon's me nervous. If a picture is two hours long, it

success—but I wouldn't be able to make better be damn good.

those. I didn't go to Vietnam. There are so STARLOG: Ten years ago, nobody thought many people who'll be able to make better two hours was too long.

pictures out of that material than I will. You DANTE: No. It's not that. It's just that can't just go out and make whatever is many of my favorite films are only 70 popular— not only do you not know what's minutes long. going to be popular, but chances are what's STARLOG: Like what? Bambi Meets God- popular isn't what you do well. zilla!

STARLOG: I don't think anyone would DANTE: Like The Black Cat. That's only

argue that what you do well is the kind of 65 minutes. House of EviPs only 87 movie you're doing—though, judging by minutes. On the other hand, Citizen Kane is

the script, Innerspace is a lot less appliance two hours long, and I sat through that. heavy than your other films. STARLOG: Not to mention Citizen Kane has virtually no spaceships. DANTE: That was made before ILM went Quaid proved to Dante that he had the into business. is supervising "right stuff" to boldly go into Innerspace. Innerspace is not another Fantastic Voyage, it's humor in a jugular vein.

DANTE: Yes. He has a great relationship with most of the studios because he does want them to be happy. He doesn't want to force things on these guys that they don't want. He wants to make successful movies that everybody likes and makes the studio happy and makes him happy and makes the audience happy.

Who could argue with that? It sounds fine to me. The only differences you have with Steven are honest differences about .

The scientists prepare to inject neurotic Jack Putter (Martin Short, on the gurney) with an enemy Innerspaceman.

and paying his check. If he comes back and they don't like the ending, he'll have to

seriously consider if he wants to go with that

ending. Power always has its limitations and there's always a pecking order.

If I had made this picture without Steven,

then I probably would have had to deal with a studio as an entity throughout the picture, rather than with Steven. STARLOG: Which would have been less pleasant

DANTE: Not that it would have been less pleasant —it's just more difficult because a studio is not any one person. It's several people or committees or groups of people who all have different ideas. That's why I've often compared working with Steven to working with Roger Corman. I've been lucky—working for Roger, there was one guy and whatever his idiosyncracies may have been, you could start figuring them out. You could find out what he liked and what you liked that he liked and what divergences there were, and you could start diplomatically to try and make the picture you both wanted to do. It's the same with Steven. And they're both filmmakers. Roger has forgotten more than most filmmakers know. And believe me, he's forgotten plenty. what audiences will really like —or whether argument for Harry Cohn or . STARLOG: So, it turned out that In- what you intend to do is really best for the The fact is that very few of us work for nerspace is the picture both you and Steven picture or not. And it always boils down to ourselves. You always work for somebody Spielberg wanted to make? what's best for the picture. It becomes a else. Very rarely do people get as successful DANTE: Yeah. There's a great deal I could subjective point-of-view as to who is right. as Steven. He's able to work for himself tell you about this picture, but I don't think Sometimes, he's right. Sometimes, I'm while working for other people—but don't I'm supposed to. right. It has worked pretty well. think that when he goes off to China to It is in color. It hasn't been colorized, STARLOG: He has moved into a position work on Empire of the Sun and all the although we're having the work print col- where he can exert a great deal of in- money that's behind it, don't think he orized. Vernon Wells is in the picture and fluence—and does. doesn't feel a tremendous sense of respon- he's very good. Fiona Lewis [STARLOG DANTE: Of course. But you could give that sibility to the people spending the money (continued on page 64)

STARLOGA4wgws/ 1987 31 5

The Guests of

ed lawyer continues, "and I was struck by «« the professionalism of William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and all the rest. They were very professional—yet were imbued with a Trek great sense of fun. "The most fun for me personally was my 'melting' death scene. Even though they had taken casts of my face much earlier, the Triacus. When the starship arrives, MELVIN & CAESAR Kirk and makeup required for the scene still took the BELLI: "AND THE a landing party discover all the adults have better part of the morning. They would CHILDREN SHALL committed . Five children survive, shoot for a time, pause, then take me back but show little concern or emotion over the to makeup to make look more LEAD" me hideous. I tragic loss of their parents. It turns out the remember they built up my nose with putty Attorney Melvin M. Belli is one of the children are under the Svengali-like spell of and made my jowls sag with each successive most celebrated lawyers in America to- an alien named Gorgan (Melvin Belli). The stage. Then, it was back to the soundstage day. He has participated in scores of land- rotund alien produced such anxiety in the to shoot some more." mark cases, and has numbered among his parents that he induced them all to take their The mere mention of Star Trek taps a rich clients the famous and infamous. He may be own lives. vein of memories for Caesar Belli. Now 29 the best-known as defender of Jack Ruby, In the finale, Kirk and Spock break and a lawyer in his own right, he was only 10 the man who shot John F. Kennedy's Gorgan 's power by showing the children at the time of the episode's lensing. The ex- assassin Lee Oswald. Belli has faced tapes of their parents. When the orphans at perience was a lasting one and transformed many formidable opponents in his day, but last to display begin grief, the alien has no him into a confirmed Trekker. "Dad and I none so dangerous as Captain Kirk and Mr. outlet for the hate he so freely exported to were on the Paramount lot for about a Spock. Like , Belli has others. As the evil rebounds on him, Gorgan always had a "flair for the dramatic," and melts into hideous a mass of deformed flesh Although he's celebrated attorney, it is Star Trek provided him with a stage outside and dematerializes forever. Star Trek which made Melvin M. Belli a the courtroom arena. Ensconced behind a desk in his San Fran- familiar face. Belli made his TV debut October 11, cisco offices, Belli, now 80, says he can't! 1968, in the episode entitled "And the recall who originally contacted him about c Children Shall Lead." The attorney essayed the show. "I honestly forget who called* the role of Gorgan, the villain in this third me," he admits, "but I do remember they >• season offering. His son, Caesar Belli, were initially interested only in Caesar to* played Steve, one of five space orphans in play one of the children. Once my son was the segment. cast, somebody thought it would be a great 3

As the story opens, it's 5029.5. idea to have me as the villain. I accepted im-f The Enterprise receives a distress signal from mediately. a Federation expedition on the planet "I enjoyed myself immensely" the fam- ''1,

.week," the younger Belli remembers. "It CLOUD WILLIAM OP appears blond as Cloud William, thanks to was filmed the last week in June, then we a dye job he received for a Man from came back for two extra days after the "THE OMEGA GLORY" U.N.C.L.E. segment, is actually dark- fourth of July holiday." haired.

Since Caesar was already a fan, it was a oy Jensen left behind a powerful Some of the most rewarding praise special treat to be able to "beam" on to the image in "The Omega Glory" as the Jensen receives for his work in Star Trek bridge of the Enterprise. "Oh, it was a lot of physically imposing Cloud William, leader and other projects comes from his fellow

fun," he says, "but I was disappointed that of the Yangs, who were engaged in a savage actors, "who will sometimes see you in nothing really worked. I had vision of these civil war with the aggressive Kohms. something and compliment you on a nice banks of working computers, but all the "As a young actor, 'The Omega Glory' job." switches and buttons on the bridge were was one of my first guest starring roles and Jensen, now working on a series of

dummies, and the bridge itself was all made it was a pleasure to do. There were no prob- videos spotlighting travel tips to various

of wood!" lems at all. And, of course, at that time, nations, has made it a point to watch the Belli junior also vividly recalls the Star Trek was one of the best shows on the Star Trek films and he has liked what he mistakes made during filming, some of air," observes Jensen, who, as Cloud has seen. "I have seen them all," he says. which have found their way onto the William, learned the meaning of what he "When George Lucas made Star Wars, famous " reel." "When Kirk tried was fighting for after Captain Kirk expli- that was a tough act to follow. However, to get some ice cream from the food cates their "worship words" (a mangled the Star Trek films are entertaining and dispenser," Belli laughs, "the compartment preamble to the U.S. Constitution). that's what it's all about." wouldn't work! Time and again, Shatner "I've seen many episodes of Star Trek Although Jensen has appeared in such would reach inside the compartment, only and they were always good," says Jensen. films as , The Way We Were,

to have the little door come crashing down "They can't be dated. However, 1 haven't Paint Your Wagon and Chinatown, the on his hand before he could grab the ice seen 'The Omega Glory' in awhile." versatile actor may be more familiar to fans cream!" Nevertheless, the actor recalls Irene from reruns of such genre fare as The Another occasion proved the old adage Kelley, who played Cloud William's Outer Limits, Voyage to the Bottom of the "let sleeping dogs lie." As Caesar Belli re- "Woman" Sirah with affection. "It was Sea and The Invaders, where he played an

counts, "One of the other child actors, a girl the first time in my acting career that I had alien who literally vaporized guest star named Pamela Ferdin, just about had her ever had a leading lady," he says. "She was Suzanne Pleshette in "The Mutation."

hand taken off by Shatner 's doberman! The beautiful, just lovely — not that it did me "I really like playing the nasty heavies," dog was sleeping at the time, and she any good!" Roy Jensen confesses. "And I've always shouldn't have disturbed him, but no, she Jensen fondly remembers the working enjoyed working and paying the bills. But

knew better than the rest of us. As she relationship he had with William Shatner as I get older, I wouldn't mind some roles

reached down, the dog woke and let out a and guest star Morgan Woodward, who where I can play a nice Daddy or Grandpa!

fierce growl that scared the living daylights played the devious Captain Ronald After all, Hollywood is still a dream out of her! She was unhurt, but she turned Tracey. "Bill Shatner was a real gentleman world."

stark white, and it was the talk of the set for and a profound pro," says Jensen. "And —Mark Phillips the rest of the day." as far as Morgan is concerned, we're good

Caesar Belli is proud of his contributions friends today. I've worked several times "I really like playing the nasty heavies," to Trek, and notes the show sparked an in- with him — you've just got to watch your says Roy Jensen, a guest in Star Trek past. terest in space. "Since I'm now a lawyer, P's and Q's with Morgan."

you could say Dad and I were the first real- He admits that recognition from his Star life attorneys on Star Trek. And who Trek role has been an infrequent thing. "I

knows? I might be the first attorney to was out of the country when 'Omega journey into real outer space!" Glory' originally aired, making a film Belli senior sums up the family's Star down in Mexico, so there was no im- Trek with an anecdote. "Once I was sitting mediate feedback." And the actor, who in the lobby of the Plaza Hotel with fellow

lawyer F. Lee Bailey," Melvin Belli explains. I "To pass the time, we wondered which of us was the more famous. To settle the issue, we made a bet: Whoever was recognized first would win the wager. Sure enough, a

stranger came up and asked me if I was

Melvin Belli. Pleased that I beat my col-

league, I asked the man how he had come to . recognize me. Newspaper photos of one of

my famous cases perhaps? TV coverage of i

the Ruby trial? Wo,' came the reply, 'I saw " you on Star TrekV ' —Eric Niderost

One of the children who followed had no choice. Caesar Belli, portraying a Triacus orphan, ended up with his father cast as the villain.

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Has the Man of Steel (Christopher Reeve) "Unmasking dumped () for The another woman? No, he's just taking her on a confidence-sharing tour of the global of superman village we call Earth.

young, beautiful women in leotards stand By KIM HOWARD JOHNSON by, waiting to begin another round of aerobics in the background of the shot. The conference ends, and Furie calls for the camera to roll. Reeve— in baggy sweat- suit and familiar glasses—becomes Clark Kent, well-intentioned klutz. In front of his editor /girl friend Lacy (Mariel Hemingway), The actor reveals that the Man of Steel is still one of the exercisers hands Clark a heavy set just a man as he faces his most personal of weights—which Clark proceeds to drop. "No pain, no gain," scoffs the jock. conflicts in "Superman IV." After bidding Lacy farewell, Clark decides to pump a little iron on his own Inside the Metro Sport Club, ing scene. Next to them stands a large when the yuppie bully asks, "Clark, can you Christopher Reeve confers with director Nautilus machine, with weights and equip- hand me those weights?" With a devilish Sidney (Iron Eagle) Furie. Director of ment cluttering one end of the long room; Photography Ernest (Passage to India) Day nearly a dozen weightlifting extras lounge KIM HOWARD JOHNSON, veteran joins in the conversation, as the three try to about, waiting for a cue. STARLOG correspondent, profiled Margot determine the best way to shoot the upcom- At the far end of the room, a crowd of Kidder in issue #120.

STARLOG/August 1987 37 The 's new City Editor, Lacy Warfield (Mariel Hemingway) gives mild- mannered reporter Kent (Reeve) some tips on how to loosen up.

twinkle in his eye, Kent offhandedly tosses the weights to the bully—who crashes to the floor, astonished. Clark Kent shrugs his shoulders innocent- ly, and quietly comments, "No pain, no ." gain. . Furie shouts "Cut!" and Kent/Reeve teasingly thumbs his nose at the other actor, and says, "Nyah, nyah!" Behind steel Cameras While the unit takes a break to allow the camera crew to change positions, Reeve walks to the other side of the room, past the rows of mirrors on the wall, which have been carefully tilted so as not to betray the film equipment and workers. He takes a seat on the floor, leans his back against the wall, and reflects on his motivation to return to the title role in Superman IV.

"I felt we should make a movie in which my personal feelings about Superman—and what he should do—could be used," says Reeve. "Having played the character now because 1 really feel that I know how to for 10 years, I know him pretty well, and I make this particular material work. He's be- thought that would be a good place to start. ing very generous as, in effect, the new

What would I like to see Superman do if I kid on the block. Although he has more were going to one of these movies? Well, than 30 years experience as a director, he has that started it out. I wrote the story upon a very nice attitude toward taking sugges- which the screenplay was based; Mark tions from people who've been around here Rosenthal and Larry Konner did the hard awhile." work of actually facing the blank sheet of And, on Superman IV, there are a large paper in the typewriter they really wrote number of veterans returning, among both — Scenes such as Clark (Reeve) visiting his the script. I since written a crew. regulars have couple of cast and All of the Superman parents' gravesites, Reeve hopes, will put extra scenes, but basically, the script is are back, including (Lex the "man" back in Superman for this theirs." Luthor), (Perry White), fourth film adventure. His interest in behind-the-camera pro- Marc McClure () and Margot cedures apparently increasing, Reeve admits Kidder (Lois Lane— this time on hand for Superman film enjoy— they'll know that the he has growing inclinations in that area, and the entire story). Reeve says the shooting has team is in place. takes every opportunity to learn. all the feel of a homecoming. "Gene Hackman is brilliant in this movie!

"I've been preparing for quite a while to "In Superman III, Margot ended up go- He actually steals it right out from be a director," he explains. "I've been ing off to the Bahamas for some assign- underneath me!" Reeve laughs. "He's very directing some second unit on this one. ment, so it's nice to have her around!" he charming and funny. I believe in the theory

Also, Sidney and I collaborate on things. I notes. "It's nice that the Daily Planet is in of 'Get the best people around here that you usually come in and help him stage the place. Those are the kind of signposts along possibly can and you'll look better.' Some scenes and suggest camera shots and stuff the way that people who come to see a stars want to make sure there's nothing but

STARLOG/A i/i>ust 1987 39 The catalyst who involves Jimmy Olsen (Marc McClure) and pal Superman (Reeve) in the disarmament issue is little Jeremy (Damian McLawhorn).

incompetents around they'll them, so look Down Memory Lane script is this poignancy, a man who is trap- better. But it's really good to have the best Reeve says he is also excited about a new ped underneath other peoples' needs and ex- co-stars and supporting actors everywhere, scene they have recently written, which he pectations," Reeve confesses. "Although he we'll all and end up looking better." hopes there will be time to shoot. wears it with a great deal of grace, never- Filming on the current adventure comes "It's a sequence where I take Lois Lane theless, it has got to weigh on him— that's 10 years after the cameras turned for the on a flight across America. Lois is Super- what we're looking for in this film. It's not original Superman, but Reeve is puzzled to man's point of contact with the human race, sad, it's not ponderous—there are many consider the Man of Steel's evolution over and when he has a very difficult decision to laughs. There are probably more laughs in the years. make, he confides in her. As Clark, he tells this film than in all of the others put "I don't know how he has Lois he doesn't want to go to this dinner together," says Reeve, though he anxiously changed —probably in intangible ways that I that they're going to—he says he has a lot of points out that these laughs are not the same couldn't appreciate. Somebody who has thinking to do. He says, 'Can we go get kind as those in Superman III. watched all the movies could probably tell some ?' and Lois thinks they're go- "The humor in Superman III was me. The standing joke is that it now takes ing to go out the front door. Instead, Clark parody," he says. "Those were jokey me three steps to get off the ground, where takes her by the hand and walks out to the laughs. Superman IV contains what is, I it used to take only one," Reeve laughs. balcony. She says, 'Clark! It's not that bad! think, genuine humor." "1 look at Superman IV as the unmasking Don't do it, Clark!' One significant change in the latest Super- of Superman,, with much more emphasis on "Still holding hands, Clark and Lois go man movie is the Man of Steel's relationship Kal-El, the being from Krypton. It becomes right over the side of the building. Lois with Lois Lane. Here, he explains, they have clear in the film that both of his identities drops like a rock and Clark passes through become friends, rather than lovers. are a job both — Superman and Clark Kent the shot. Then, suddenly," Reeve whistles "They change from lovers to almost sister are personae that he has to become for other and motions with his hand, "he courses up and brother. There's no way that relation- people. At the film's heart—what we really as Superman and catches her—but he still ship— having given up his powers for her, pay attention to— is who he is underneath, has his glasses on. He's doing this to let Lois fallen in love, and turned the world which is Kal-El. The basic emotional change know who he is. She gets it, and of course, back —they can't get married and move to is that Superman feels he is one of us now, all the memories of their love together [from Westchester. It must be an impossible not a visitor anymore. As soon as someone Superman I & //] come back. romance that he keeps very fond memories feels they belong someplace, rather than just "Superman takes Lois flying around over of—and there probably won't be anybody visiting, it completely changes the whole Maine, the villages of Vermont, the wheat else for him. He also finds out, in this film, range of actions they take, in terms of being fields of Kansas, the Grand Canyon—and that even as Clark, he can't have Lacy," responsible for their new home. they return to the apartment. He tells her Reeve explains, swinging his Clark Kent "The most exciting scene, storywise, is she's the only one he can talk to, and he glasses by one hand. Superman to the speaking United Nations. needed to be with her. He thanks her, then As for the future, Christopher Reeve is He tells delegates from all over the world kisses her to make her forget, and comes entirely non-committal, and pleads in- and a packed gallery of observers that he is back as Clark. She says, 'Why am I standing nocence regarding plans for a Superman V. going to rid the world nuclear of weapons. out here freezing my butt off?' And they go "I haven't given it a moment's thought," We shot that a few weeks ago, and it went back out the door. he says. "I would rather take Superman pretty well." "To me, the most important part of the films one at a time!" •& 40 SIARLOG/August 1987 . . . .

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44 STARLOGA4i/gW5/ 1987 m FUTURE HASA SIIVIR UMIHC.

Peter weller One part , one part Terminator, he's a mean, clean law enforcement machine fighting crime and searching for the key to his shattered human past.

a hot afternoon It's in Dallas, , and his shoulders, and the lower half of his body a summons has just arrived to interview is clad in loose-fitting sweat pants. His feet a robot. Mechanical men aren't much are encased in loafers, the heels of which are for socializing, so an offer like this one is propped against the metal footrest of the hard to refuse. The rendezvous is taking makeup chair. place a on downtown street, near a cluster of But it's Weller's head, not his body, that highrises corporate that proclaim this city gives the visitor pause. His facial transfor- the financial nerve center of the Southwest. mation from human being to RoboCop is The robot in question is really Peter almost complete, and the overall effect is (Buckaroo Banzai) Weller, playing the title impressive. Once in full makeup, only his role in RoboCop: The Future of Law En- eyes, nose and mouth are his own; the rest forcement, 's new $10 million ac- of his head is covered in foam latex ap- tion/adventure. Although he's known in the pliances. A maze of robotic parts protrude business as actor an of "" inten- behind his ear, with metal conduits that in- sity, Weller certainly looks relaxed at the explicably end in a wall socket plug! A moment. He lounges in a barber chair inside "shaven skull" rises above his eyebrows, a trailer while two makeup artists hover flesh-colored to simulate the pitiful rem- around him. nants of a man. "I'm putty in the hands of the masters The bald pate is perfectly smooth, save As an actor, it was Weller's challenge here," to says Weller, pointing to makeup for a bullet hole in the right temple. A grim transform a human being into a robot wizards (STARLOG #104) souvenir of his character's assassination, it without resorting to mime techniques. "1 and Bart Mixon. have my coffee, read looks like a miniature moon crater with my script, they go to work, and that's it!" fissures radiating star-like from its center. It Beauty and the Beast, or the Tin Man of may not seem possible, but Weller looks The Wizard Birth ofOz. It's a great little jewel of Cyborg even more bizarre in this half-finished state. a human story." Outside, it's a blistering hot day with A curious white line encircles his temperatures in the 90s, but inside the air- countenance, the boundary zone between Robot Life conditioned trailer, Weller is insulated from his actual skin and the latex appliances. As Weller didn't have to audition for the the rigors of the Texas climate. The actor is time goes on, this telltale line vanishes as part, a fortunate turn of events for the lanky bare-chested, save for a towel draped across DuPuis and Mixon cover it with makeup. actor. "Actually," Weller laughs, "I The set for today's action is located on haven't had an audition for eight years! I've the 56th floor of the Renaissance Tower, a never been a good auditioner; I don't 'read' prominent downtown skyscraper. The well. I've more or less BSed my way into all makeup trailer is parked on a nearby street, the good parts I've done. Besides, anything I dwarfed by the immensity of the steel-and- had to sit down and read for, I never got concrete canyons all around it. To get to the anyway!" set, Weller must walk about 50 yards on a It was a meeting of minds, not formal public street, enter the Tower's lobby, then auditions, that landed him the role of Robo: wait until an elevator is available to whisk "I knew director 's work, him to the 56th floor. No attempt is made to and he knew mine. Actually, he was one of hide his Robo features during the journey the directors I wanted to work with in the from trailer to set. Just what the briefcase- next 10 years. We sat down and talked, and loting businessmen think about a robot his vision of the picture paralleled my own. walking the streets of their city—not to men- However arrogant it sounds, I'm at the stage tion having to rub shoulders with one while of the game where I don't necessarily want waiting for an elevator— is unrecorded. to do a film if the director isn't on the same RoboCop provides Weller with a golden wavelength." opportunity to showcase his acting skills. He Working on RoboCop during the early has a dual role in the picture; at first, he is stages of the production was personally Murphy, a good cop and family man in frustrating, physically taxing, and emo- Detroit. Then, in a gruesome experiment tionally exhausting. The ink had scarcely concocted by an all-powerful corporation, dried on Weller's contract before he plunged he is killed and turned into RoboCop, a headlong into a grueling four-month cybernetic law officer. Technically, Robo is preparation for his role. As he recalls, "I a cyborg, part human and part machine, worked with a mime for four months. We enabling Weller to inject some subtle wanted to take a human being and shadings into his overall screen portrait. transform him into a robot, walking in a suit "I feel good about playing a robot," in such a way that was stylized, attractive, Weller explains, "in that I'm playing a yet computerized and mechanical without human being who has been transformed in- being 'mimelike.' In essence, we wanted to to a cyborg. Aside from the action- have some humanity breathe through this adventure, the corruption, corporate robotic thing." The silver avenger (Weller) dispenses machinery his gone berserk, and so on, the The filmmakers mutually agreed they futuristic brand of justice. heart of all this is a morality tale. It's like needed a unique robot costume for Weller, 46 STARLOG/August 1987 Officer Murphy (Weller) is assassinated to create the invincible RoboCop— like a phoenix from the ashes.

eter Weller sees RoboC as a morality tale in which has been cast as The 's Tin Man. preparation, and the wonderful wealth of [STARLOG #82] and John Lithgow talent we have available, we're going to [STARLOG #93] are old buddies of mine, make it work!' Well, they got Rob Bottin though in that picture, they play my

down here along with a couple of engineers enemies. When I was in the Shock Tower, I

who made the suit. We spent 10 hours one never laughed so hard in my life! They had Sunday on the problem, and within this to stop the takes on that segment over and single day, we succeeded!" over because of the banter between Lloyd

When Weller is in costume, it seems all and Lithgow. Lloyd was filling himself full the effort was worthwhile. As fully revealed, of Fritos, and Lithgow was spitting in my RoboCop looks like a cross between a ear about shocks to my auditory synapses." medieval knight and C-3PO of Star Wars Weller believes poor handling, at least in

fame. Dark blue armor covers his chest part, was responsible for the film's initial down to his ribcage and also encases his failure. "It just didn't get the press or

arms and legs. His midriff is "bare," reveal- publicity it needed," the actor observes, ing some of the cyborg's inner workings "and the picture got lost in the shuffle." (really a foam latex inner costume). The suit Weller would love to do a sequel to

is literally topped off by an egg-shaped Buckaroo Banzai, but says the concept is helmet that covers most of the actor's face. "tied up in litigation." He doesn't explain The most medieval-looking item in the en- further, nor does he have much comment in

tire get-up, the helmet, is pierced by a nar- regard to Heroes in Trouble, the projected row visor slit. TV series reminiscent of Buckaroo Banzai. Over the weeks, Weller has developed a "Ohhhh," he cries in mock anguish as he

positive affection for his metallic alter-ego, grips the makeup chair, "TV is stealing and can scarcely remember a time when he from us! It happens all the timeV wasn't wearing a robot suit. "I really hated It's nice to recall past pictures, but at the

getting into the suit," he observes. "The moment, RoboCop is the focus of all his at-

first five days, it was constricting, tention. Sometimes when he speaks, Weller

claustrophobic, and hard to work with. It assumes the guise of Murphy/RoboCop so

took them hours to bolt me in, and it was as completely that you can't tell where he

much of a pain in the ass for these guys leaves off and the fictional hero begins. It's

[DuPuis and Mixon] as for me. also hard to say if the actor is under the spell

"But now," he quickly adds, "it has of a good makeup job or is merely flexing

become fun. I don't know what life is like if his Method-trained memory.

I'm not in the suit. When I'm acting in it, I "I was raped, man!" he cries, a note of feel everything's groovy, and my life is in indignation rising with the volume of his Weller blames Buckaroo BanzaPs box- order. I'm starting to feel like one of those voice. "They killed me on purpose and put office hari-kiri on the lack of "press or prisoners who are so used to life in jail, they me in this machine. It's an emotional

publicity it needed." can't wait to get back!" catharsis when I discover I once had a wife Despite his newfound compatibility with and a child and they're gone. When Nancy

one that could stand up to the rigors of an the Robosuit, there still have been some Allen tells me who I once was—and it's not action-packed script. These intentions, touch-and-go moments along the way. available to me anymore ..." Weller's voice

however admirable, almost killed the pro- "Believe me, acting in this," he says, point- trails off into inaudibility, as if he is drained ject. An expert team headed by Rob ing to his prosthetics-covered face, "is a by the revelation. (Legend) Bottin (STARLOG #103) began dream compared to acting with the helmet. Besides action/adventure, RoboCop of- work on the costume at once, but since they You should have seen me the other day. I fers a subplot which serves as an allegory were creating something new, delays were had to walk down stairs into a disco through about today's corporate world. The main inevitable. Originally, Weller was to have smoke and 80 extras, descending at a 45° corporation in the movie, not only controls had a full month's rehearsal in the suit angle with two inches of vision through the the police but also finances the crime that

before a single frame of film was . It helmet! It was the hardest thing I ever did!" makes the robotic cops necessary. was not to be. "That's the key," Weller says forcefully. "It was almost a travesty," says Weller Banzai Death "The guys that shot me are. part of the with a grimace. "When the suit first arrived, Though he has appeared in only a hand- military-industrial complex. These 'powers not only were there complications in film- ful of films to date, one of them, The that be' manage the police force and are also ing, there were complications in design. In Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the behind the cybernetic cop idea. They are fact, I had to get in the suit and shoot a Eighth Dimension, has become a cult classic also the people who are feeding the drug scene the very first day it arrived, and I (which he discussed in STARLOG #86). wars, so they can build more robots and couldn't move in it. They were tearing Weller had the title role in the offbeat opus, fight the drug wars they themselves created! things out, making adjustments, and I got portraying a half-Japanese surgeon/rock All these people are guilty—not only the very despondent." singer with a taste for derring-do. Though people who shot me, but the people who The RoboCop was now at hand. The audiences and critics drove Banzai to box made me, too. When they realize that Robo

film seemed poised on the brink of disaster, office hari-kiri, it has since gained new life has found out the truth about them, they try pushed there by overambitious plans and a on video. The film's growing popularity has to kill me." crippling lack of time. As Weller caught everyone—Weller included —by sur- He is pleased to be in a movie that offers remembers, "Truthfully, it came down to a prise. "I wasn't aware of the cult appeal," more than formula action-adventure. As matter of will. I thought, 'Look —out of all he says with a shrug. "While we were mak- Peter Weller observes, "It's a tight action

this madness over whether the suit will fly or ing it, we were certainly in the middle of script, and very commercial, but its very

not, it's going to be me in the costume. It'll something bizarre. We didn't know what it center, the core is discovery—the sadness come down to me. With four months of was—but it was fun!" that this guy's life was taken away and he Weller pauses, and as the memories flood was instilled into a killing machine. But the

ERIC NIDEROST is a contributing editor back, his features stretch into a broad is that he starts to discover

to Military History and World War II. He "Robosmile." "I love the rock & roll scene what he once was, and he pursues it like a

visited the RoboCop set in STARLOG in Banzai," he exclaims, "and I love all the dream. In the end, to a degree, he wins it HI 17. stuff at the picture's end. Christopher Lloyd back." i& 48 STARLOG/August 1987 . 00" AGENTS WANTED for the AVJ^T JAMES BOND 007 mwr ROLE PLAYING GAME With 8 Different Adventures Based

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e could while away the hours convers- ing with the flowers, consulting with the rain. Ray Bolger died of cancer in a Los Angeles nursing home on January 15, 1987. As the in The Wizard ofOz, the rubbery dancer became a permanent fixture in the American imagination. Bolger was the last surviving Wizard of

Oz star. He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Gwendolyn. Raymond Wallace Bolger was born on January 10, 1904 in Boston. The sad-eyed | performer first learned to dance from a 2 bank night watchman who had been a pro- % fessional tap dancer. After his first Broad- i way appearance in 1926, the gangly hoofer 8 entertained stage, film and television au- Z diences in a career spanning 55 years. Of The Wizard of Oz, Bolger said, "1 I

knew that 1 was taking part in a strange kino a of adventure." That adventure included I bombing with the critics when the film was g first released in 1939. Nevertheless, the pic- o Ray Bolger, the straw man who captured a lure finally redeemed itself when it began I world's heart, was the Scarecrow in search annual TV broadcasts in the , even- ^ of a brain from The Wizard of Oz. mally becoming an American institution. | Although acclaimed for his erratic, m physical footwork by dancers such as

George Balanchine, Bolger always thought (1961) and, more recently, as the android bale of straw that won over a little girl from of himself as a comedian who only danced Vector in the "Greetings from Earth" Kansas and young souls around the for laughs. episode of Battlestar Galactica. world—without any , but with a lot of His genre credits included the villainous Yet he will be best remembered for his heart. Barnaby in Disney's Babes in Toy/and portrayal of a singing, jumping, dancing —John Sayers

DANNY KAYE worm still measures the marigolds, but the Los Angeles, after a bout with hepatitis. He 1913-1987 actor who made those sounds and phrases was 74. famous is no more. The -born performer broke into The sound of "T-pocketa, t-pocketa" Actor/singer/dancer Danny Kaye, who films in 1944 after a career on the Borscht still echoes, the chalice from the palace starred in a number of fantasy-related films, Belt comedy circuit and on Broadway.

still holds the brew that is true, and the inch- died of heart failure on March 3, 1987 in Among his genre performances are the title roles in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947), based on James Thurber's tale of a

daydreamer who leads an adventurous life in his imagination; The Court Jester (1956), a tale of a clown who becomes a hero and frees a kingdom from tyranny; and Hans Christian Anderson (1952), a fictionalized of the great Danish tale author. On television, Kaye played Captain Hook in a 1976 production of Peter Pan, opposite Mia Farrow; and Geppetto in a later version of Pinocchio. Among his last roles was an appearance in 1986 on The Twilight Zone as "The Paladin of the Lost Hour." —Patrick Daniel O'Neill

In his visit to The Twilight Zone, Danny Kaye was the "Paladin of the Lost Hour." r^wWSSs

Hawkman—and then, the ." Aside from superheroes, Fox was one of F. FOX GARDNER the major contributors to Schwartz's now- 1911-1986 classic comics, and The passing of Gardner F. Fox on De- Mysteries in Space. For the latter title, Fox cember 24, 1986 ironically came after created , a modern version of his greatest creation, the parallel Earths con- ' John Carter of cept of the DC Comics Universe, had been . Strange, Earth archeologist, is abolished. Fox, pulp writer, SF and histori- periodically teleported to the distant planet cal novelist and comic-book scripter, was Rann, where on each visit, he faces a new one of the stellar lights of both the Golden superscientific menace to that planet's in- and Silver Ages of comics. habitants. A law school graduate, Fox was side- tracked from a legal career when a school- mate, DC editor Vincent Sullivan, offered An experienced SF novelist, Fox also him work in the new industry. scripted many Strange Adventures devoid Applying his legal expertise, Fox created of caped crimef ighters. crusading District Attorney Steve Saunders for Detective Comics. As costumed heroes with a string of novels, beginning in 1953 with a historical fiction called The Borgia Blade. But science fiction was the writer's first love and through the '50s and beyond, he penned many SF novels. Fox also created the Kothar the Barbarian and Kyrik, War- rior Wizard paperback series. The introduction of a new Flash in 1956 heralded the beginning of the Silver Age of comics and Fox became one of the leading architects of that new era. "Late in 1959," Fox once recalled, "I was thrilled when editor gave me the assignment of reviving the Justice Socie- ty as the ; a year later came the revival of another old favorite,

Fox (and editor Julie Schwartz) introduced the convention of parallel Earths to com- ics, which led to annual meetings between his Golden Age heroes and their latter-day counterparts. Writer Gardner Fox has left behind a legacy of legends. In a story called "Flash of Two Worlds" (Flash #123, September 1961), Fox applied overran the field, he conceived , the pulp SF concept of parallel Earths to Starman, and the original and DCs universe and revolutionized the com- Flash. As an early Batman scripter, Fox pany's continuity. In that story, the modern wrote the 1939 story in which Batman first Flash accidentally warps over to "Earth-2," fired a gun—leading to the editorial edict home of the original '40s Flash. Their suc- that forbade Batman from ever again resor- cessive teamings gave rise in 1963 to yearly ting to firearms. Fox's greatest Golden Age Justice Society/Justice League of America creation was the combining of DCs many crossovers. Fox effectively integrated DCs superheroes into the Justice Society of 1940s past with its '60s reality and bridged America, which ran in All-Star Comics from the gap between the Golden and Silver Ages. 1940 to 1947. DC only recently overhauled their official

Fox also wrote for the pulp magazines milieu, combining Earth- 1 and Earth -2, Weird Tales and Planet Stories. He scripted eliminating duplicate heroes, and launching the very first barbarian comics character, the a third version of the Fox superteam idea, Conan-inspired Crom the Barbarian, whose now called simply The Justice League. four-color adventures appeared in a 1950 The brilliant, logical and inexhaustibly pulp, Out of This World Adventures. For imaginative work of Gardner Fox left an in- other comics lines, Fox created the Face, Before film fantasies overtook the popular delible mark in the world of comics. His and others. culture, Fox updated the John Carter death reinforces the sad fact that for DC When superheroes fell on hard times in mythos by appointing Earthman Adam comics, an era has truly ended. the '50s, Fox supplemented his comics work Strange guardian of the planet Rann. — Will Murray

STARLOG/August 1987 51 a little bit stagey, why don't I put my hand over somebody else's hand and that involves " more people. It makes it an event.' Henriksen, reflecting upon Bishop's posi- tion with the Colonial Marines, observes, "I

see him as somebody who is basically a ser- vant without being servile; a companion to

labor. At this time in history, it would be demoralizing for a human to be around

someone who is being subservient. That's why they call Bishop an Executive Officer,

which is just a fancy title for planetary maneuverer. He's not a Marine, he's a part of the ship, the Sulaco. "He doesn't carry a weapon, there's no way. Because if you give an android a weapon, you're getting into another area en- tirely. You can make a weapon that can shoot itself, like the smartgun, but you don't give an android a weapon. There's a vast difference." However, Henriksen (previously inter-

viewed re: ALIENS in FANGORIA #55) is quick to point out that Bishop can take

charge if necessary. "But only in a life- threatening situation," he cautions. "It would only be for a moment, like the scene

where Ripley was going to move Hicks and I stopped her and said, 'No, we have to get a stretcher.' Bishop finds a way to get around things. It's like saying, 'Look, there's a fly

on the ceiling,' and while the guy is looking, Bishop just goes ahead and does it." As an artist who never stops learning Lance Henriksen Gall Him Chameleon

He's an actor of many changes—whether ALIENS presented Lance Henriksen anecdotal cop facing a formidable with the acting task of topping the class acts of other movie "artificial 'Terminator/' nocturnal nomad prowling persons" like Ash () and Roy Batty (). "Near Dark" or innocent android battling "ALIENS."

ed Ian Holm's work as Ash in ALIEN. We about his character, Henriksen was By JANE GAEL RAFFERTY didn't have the same problems. Holm had fascinated with the way Bishop, a non- to give the audience tips so that it all added organic being, saw the world. He discussed up at the end. That's a terrible spot for an these insights with James Cameron, the actor to be in." writer/director of ALIENS (STARLOG Lance Henriksen, who portrays With ALIENS, there was some question #89, 110). ForBishop, the "artificial person" in regarding how to present Bishop to the au- "I told Jim, 'Anything that's really ALIENS, his role as an android was dience. "Jim [Cameron, writer/director] organically alive is fascinating to Bishop. an interesting and challenging one. and I talked for a month on the phone—he There's no good or evil—just this ultimate "I had two months before I started film- was already in London—to try to figure out respect for anything living.' ing, so there was plenty of time," Henriksen the best way to introduce Bishop," "I read a couple of books," Henriksen says of his preparation for the film. "I used Henriksen explains. "We had an idea about remembers. "One was Mockingbird [by

it all, believe me. If there was more to him being alone, while everyone else was in Walter Tevis]. There's a bit in it where the Bishop, more of a story about him, you hypersleep, tending to meters and buttons android knew how to play a piano, but would find out incredible things. and doing a thousand, thousand push-ups. didn't know why. He didn't know what "My biggest problem was having to You see this lonely figure in this ship by music was, but he kept hearing it. It was follow two exceptional performances of an- himself. We realized that doesn't do much part of his builder's input that hadn't been droids. Rutger Hauer [as Replicant Roy Bat- storywise, and then we came up with the completely erased. That image stuck in my

ty] in Blade Runner was excellent, and I lov- knife. mind, and what it translated to me was that "I practiced that quite a bit. Then, when there were feelings that Bishop didn't

JANE GAEL RAFFERTY is a Michigan- we got onto the set and finally were ready to understand, like a joke." basedfreelance writer. This is herfirst article shoot the scene, I dragged one of the other The actor also realized that his android for STARLOG. guys into it [Bill Paxton]. I said, 'Jim, this is character was not without problems. "For

52 STARLOGA4 ugust 1987 him, the world is xenophobic. He's an alien over the numerous times his part in a film that it could start in the hospital with me to anything alive. He must be as careful as, has ended up on the cutting room floor. covered with scars saying, 'Look, if this guy " say, a black man in , where you "The lag is .' the problem," he says. "If came once, he's gonna come again. . . make a mistake and you're out. You're you're doing a play, you get some instant With the success of ALIENS, 20th Cen- either replaced or you're destroyed." gratification, or if you're winning the World tury Fox is also eager for another sequel. Bishop had an innocence that intrigued Series, it's happening right at that moment. The way was left open by Cameron's deft Henriksen. "I felt that he was only eight to But with a movie, you do it and then you touch at the film's very end. "You can hear 10 years old, mechanically, so I gave him the wait six months or longer to see it. When the facehugger scampering across the screen. emotional life of a 14-year-old," Henriksen you realize you've been cut out, it's a stun. Cameron did that on purpose," Henriksen notes. "I was basically playing myself at that "I worked for three months on Close En- says, noting that there is a possibility that age. There's the knowledge that you have counters, then got cut out." The same thing Bishop could return in a sequel. "If there's a your whole life ahead of you to learn, yet happened when Henriksen portrayed Wally good script, I would love to do that part there's always that vulnerability to the Schirra in The Right Stuff. "Which was," again. There's so much more to do. powers that be." he explains, "a great movie to work on. I "I would like to get into the whole con- Vulnerability is also one of the realities of loved it, but the result just wasn't there." cept of how and why androids are made. an actor's life. Henriksen muses ruefully Bishop is not biological, he wasn't built in Android Dreams an organic way. If you can imagine your Henriksen After surviving alongside Sigourney —who discussed The Right own nerve synapses as being silicone—more Weaver in ALIENS, Henriksen wouldn't Stuff in STARLOG #78—received more of a plasmatic gate to conduct the electrical mind joining director James Cameron for time on screen in Nightmares, Jim impulses. The synthetics are very advanced,

another bout with . The ac- Cameron's Piranha II: The Spawning and but they aren't organic yet. Jim and I were tor did mind this messy, milky FX scene. Choke Canyon, none of which were box of- talking and we realized that although Bishop fice or critical hits. And he enjoyed his role is very advanced, we don't see him as the in Terminator, Cameron's earlier hit, as end-all in terms of an android. Jim loves the Vukovich, the cop who never gets to finish whole concept of androids. If you could telling a story. "Oh, God, that was so much ever put psychology into a solid form,

fun! [Lt. Traxler] and I joked building a human would be it." that the relationship between those guys ALIENS reunited Henriksen with Stan would make a great TV series." Winston, who won a special "They're going to do a second Ter- Oscar for his work on the film. Winston minator," Henriksen reveals. "You never (FANGORIA #56-57) created both the Ter- see me die, so I was telling Jim Cameron minator cyborg and the effects for Mansion

STARLOG/August 1987 53 of the Doomed, a film Henriksen laughingly when 1 have a beard, people recognize me as natural carefully blended in. "It's one of the characterizes as "a movie I don't talk Bishop. So, I'm in big trouble now. I don't most original scripts I've ever worked on," about." Henriksen will be starring in Pum- know how I'm going to get out of this one." Henriksen states. "For two hours with a pkinhead, a co-scripted and Henriksen grew the beard for his lead role film, you can create any kind of world as directed by Winston. in Survival Quest, an independent produc- long as you have set the parameters for it. Winston's effects for the Alien Queen's tion that he finished filming last fall. "It was This movie asks the audience, not so much attack employed "every technical device you an exciting piece for me because of the to keep an open mind, as to be ready for an could possibly use in a movie, from the mountain climbing, which I was terrified to experience." oldest to things never before used. 1 never do. Fortunately, I had a really good climber Near Dark reunited Henriksen with his saw so much talent being exercised on the training me. I had to overcome my fear. The ALIENS co-stars, , who same soundstage," Henriksen says, slightly whole film had that aspect, where everyone portrayed Vasquez (STARLOG #115) and awed by the memory. had to overcome something. Bill Paxton (Hudson) as a band of roving "The last scene took almost two weeks to "Survival Quest is about people from all immortals. "It's very rare that you go from shoot. It was like being in the center ring at walks of life who go out into the wilderness one movie to another as a group. As a

Ringling Brothers Circus. There I was, cut in for a month with a guide. They confront result, we were much more than an ensem-

half, laying on the floor, covered with milk themselves about what the meaning of life is ble. We came in with such strength after

and yogurt, looking up at the 15-foot queen. for them. I take a group out and the adven- working together in ALIENS," Henriksen ." Above and behind me, this big dropship is ture begins.. . observes. "It was very powerful to be part

. The only thing missing was a guy Having interacted with strong female of it. on a trapeze swinging down!" characters in many of his films, Henriksen "I play Jesse Hooker, the leader of the Feeling at home with his craft, Henriksen affirms that he likes competent women. "I family. He's a romantic who has outlived literally metamorphosizes into his like the idea of a matriarchal system, which, his era. He has seen all the changes take

characters. "A director friend calls me 'the by its nature, is pretty good for men. It pro- place and his version of romance die terrible chameleon' because, somehow, depending vides a natural nurturing process, which deaths." Reluctant to linger on the tragedy

on what's happening with the person I'm works, especially in acting, and I think of immortality, Henriksen continues, "Bill

playing, I really change something. I do it there's a lot of room for women directors in plays my right hand man and Jenette is my organically. Sometimes," he muses, "I see this business. My last film, Near Dark, was girl friend, who was a flapper in the '20s and

my own films and say, 'God, I don't know with a woman director, , came with me gladly.

who that guy is.' who co-wrote it with Eric [The Hitcher] "The family members are nocturnal

"I'm trying to keep instant recognition at Red. It's produced by Steven Jaffe, who is a nomads—wanderers, very much like the

a distance as long as I possibly can. I don't real gift to the industry. But Kathryn Romany. In fact, the word 1 used to want the audience to be taken out of a Bigelow—that's a name to remember." describe anyone who wasn't one of us was

movie because they know who /am. I would gajo [not-Gypsy]. Their main purpose is to hate to become as familiar as cornflakes Maul in the Family keep the family together.

because it hurts your storytelling a little bit. Near Dark is a delicate mix of romance "They have to eat, but they're like wolves

"The weirdest thing is happening. Even and adventure, with a touch of the super- (continued on page 71)

The android dissects an Alien facehugger. Ironically, "For him, the world is xenophobic. He's an alien to anything alive,' Henriksen states. " STARLOG TRADING POST

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Servalan, Supreme Commander and would- at the time (1978) would easily have been 7. I was extremely quiet and shy and didn't

be President of the evil, corrupt Federation. perceived as a man's cut, Pearce discovered real I v know who I was. Servalan was, in a originally ruthless As conceived, the the costume the producer wanted her to sense, my alter-ego. I found out a good deal Supreme Commander, dedicated to becom- wear was "a military, safari-type outfit," about myself through her. She was a very ing Galactic Dictator and destroying ter- she describes. "Jackets, trousers, jack- misunderstood woman." rorist forces such as Blake and his seven, boots—and a riding whip!" While filming the show, Pearce was a male in uniform, a kind of establish- Being, as she observes, not the most tact- discovered that, to some extent, women ment Rambo. But from this concept emerg- ful of people, Pearce's immediate response directors were "probably more ed the delicate-featured, exquisitely gowned was to tell him, "If you dress her like that, sympathetic," she says. "They didn't see but utterly heartless Servalan. with this haircut, you might as well cast a Servalan as quite so black and white. They "The interesting thing about playing Ser- man." Fortunately, the producer agreed weren't threatened by her as the men were, valan," says Jacqueline Pearce, the actress with her suggestion that going in the op- and they probably had a greater empathy

who essayed the role, delightedly, "was that posite direction—making her appear ultra- for what I was trying to do." Although no Terry Nation [the show's creator and main feminine—would make the character writer] said he couldn't write for women. doubly dangerous. "Because if you look JEAN AIREY & LA URIE HALDEMAN, When Servalan started out, she was a he\ one way and act another," the actress notes, British fantasy experts, are the authors of Terry woke up one morning and said, 'No, "people don't really know what to ex- Travel Without the TARDIS (Target, he should be a she.' So, he changed in mid- pect —and that is drama." $3.25). They interviewed Michael Keating in stream and I think that's why she's so in- Although she acknowledges that Servalan STARLOG #118.

STARLOG/'August 1987 59 Servalan may have wanted Blake's head on a platter, but Jacqueline Pearce didn't mind sharing a few laughs with Gareth Thomas.

for "Sand" as well. One day during filming, Steven (Tarrant) Pacey asked Pearce why she was looking so happy and she explained that she had just bought a houseboat in Chelsea. But, he protested, he also lived on a houseboat in Chelsea. Smiling up at the handsome young actor, Pearce said, with a Servalan-like smile, "Gosh, Stevie, I'm the girl next door!" Without a moment's hesita- tion, he replied, "If you're the girl next door, I'm moving!" Pearce told this story to —who proceeded to write the ex- change into the script as part of a scene bet- ween the boyish exuberant Tarrant and the sophisticated Servalan that Paul (Avon) Darrow (STARLOG #116) describes as "a bit like introducing the Bride of Franken- stein to Andy Hardy." The only character who probably could have coped with Servalan actually being the girl-next-door was Darrow's character, Avon, the series' occasional hero and im- mutable gadfly. Terry Nation (STARLOG #106, 117), at the start of Blake's Ts third season, implied that there could be some kind of relationship between Servalan and Avon. Both Darrow and Pearce regret that possibility was never really developed. "I always saw Servalan and Avon as opposite sides of the coin. He was the only man who could interest her, and she was the only woman who could interest him," she notes. Despite Pearce's insistence that "she was a very misunderstood woman," Servalan Darrow has remarked that Avon admired set out to conquer the galaxy with sheer ruthlessness and an unerring fashion sense. Servalan because he knew he could never trust her—and he could deal with that! Blake's 7 script ever emphasized what and built the image as a defense," Pearce During the series, sporadic problems Pearce perceived as the character's true explains. "Only those who are sensitive to arose with new writers, unfamiliar with the vulnerability, "We got quite close with thai, who can see through that, can get Blake's 7 characters, scripting "their own

'Sand,' the Tanith Lee script, which showed through. And that's true— 1 think we all do ideas of the characters which often bore no why she was vulnerable. Servalan had been that in life." resemblance to what they were really rejected at 18 after a traumatic love affair Life played a part in creating the dialogue about," according to Pearce. "We had dif-

60 STARLOG/August 1987 ferent writers all the time, and they didn't always understand what you had to do," she says. "If you have a Terry Nation or Tanith Lee script, you have no pro- blem —they're such wonderful writers—but unfortunately, not everybody writes like them." As a result, the cast often altered the script, adding or subtracting material. In the third season episode "Aftermath," a scene between Avon and Servalan appeared totally bland (and most uncharacteristic) un- til director Gerald Blake, Darrow and

Pearce took it in hand. Lines that were tame when delivered from across the room took on new significance as Avon and Servalan exchanged them and wound up in a pas- sionate— if not exactly loving—embrace. Pearce is also familiar to Doctor Who fans for her role as Chessene, the An- drogum—an animalistic creature artificially evolved to a higher order— in "The Two Doctors." Although also a villainous part,

Pearce approached it differently because the character was so clearly alien. "I was fascinated by being an Androgum," she says, "by the fact that she had these opera- tions but could revert back as she did—as soon as she saw a bit of blood, she went

crazy. But I had never seen a Doctor Who

episode in my life when I did it. And now,

I'm a great fan. They're a wonderful crew, I love them. They welcomed me with open

arms. I felt had always been there— it was very special." Producer John Nathan-Turner (STARLOG #82, 101), having worked with Pearce in "The Two Doctors," typically decided to cast against type, asking Pearce to play the Fairy Godmother in the 1985 Christmas pantomime production of Cinderella. The Christmas pantomimes are a uniquely British entertainment. Based on traditional tales, they combine new characters, old vaudeville jokes and routines, familiar songs, boys played by girls and women (such as the ugly stepsisters) played by men. They customarily star well- known television actors. Cinderella had been produced in 1984 Yes, some TV shows do change people's lives. "I was a completely different person with Peter (The Fifth Doctor) Davison before Blake's 7," Pearce reveals. "I was extremely quiet and shy and didn't really (STARLOG #102) playing the role of "But- know who I was." tons" and his wife, Sandra (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) Dickinson as the Fairy faith, thinking the part would be written in the stage. Of course, no one had that Godmother. 1985 The season's production such a way that I wouldn't have to sing or number because there weren't any motor- would see Doctor Who veterans Colin (The dance. I saw the video a few months later, cycles at all. But somebody that night had Sixth Doctor) Baker (STARLOG #105) as and I saw myself ripping my skirt off [as the put the number under four different seats! "Buttons," Nicola (Peri) Bryant as Fairy Godmother breaks into a flashy tap- Suddenly, all these people came up on stage, Cinderella, Mary (Romana) Tamm as dancing number] and 'Tapping my Troubles demanding this motorcycle!" She laughs. Charming, and Anthony (The Away,' and I don't know how it ever hap- "Poor Tony! Not fair! He managed very Master) Ainley returning as Baron Hardup. pened to me. I will never forgive John well, though." Pearce had, she chuckles and says em- Nathan-Turner." But would she do it So, with her hair somewhat longer, her phatically, never done pantomime before again? "Absolutely. It stretched me," she career in television and theater continuing, and, she observes, "I don't think you can says exuberantly. "Doing things you can't Jacqueline Pearce goes on, approaching have actresses two more dissimilar than San- do, that terrify you, is the only way to every job with a dedication that Servalan dra Dickinson and Jacqueline Pearce. There grow." would recognize and appreciate. "My feel- was no way I the Fairy could do Godmother Part of her enjoyment in doing the pan- ing is that you give 100 percent to everything like Sandra. I don't have a voice like hers, tomime came from the freedom the cast felt that you do. If your attitude is 'Take the for one thing! to play jokes on each other, such as one money and run,' then you run and you "John asked if I me would like to do it, aimed at (STARLOG #82). don't take the money. There are too many and showed me the video from the year "He had to announce to the audience that talented people out there who are not work- before. I said, 'Well, I can't sing or dance.' somebody had won a Honda motor- ing and who would be very grateful for the 'That's all right, darling,' he promised me, cycle—whoever had this particular number opportunity to work and give it everything 'you won't have to.' So, I went in on good under their seat—was to please come up on they've got." -»*»

STARLOG/August 1987 61 MEDIALOGf

(continued from page 9) new leads. And what gets ? The Buechler directs a cast including Dynasty's fall), Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II and 70th floor of a skyscraper. Gary (Wanted Pamela Bellwood, Ben Casey's Vince Ed- Barbarian Queen II. Dead or Alive) Sherman directs from a wards and ' Yvonne de Carlo). Interestingly, Laurel Entertainment has script he co-wrote with Wanted collaborator Northeast Kingdom is a $15-$20 million registered a title long-rumored to belong to Brian Taggert. fantasy thriller that Bob () the last Dead film, Twilight of the Dead. is planning a sequel to Clark will helm. It chronicles a young boy's Return of the Living Dead—Part II, the its 1974 Sensurround sensation Earthquake, exploits with a band of monsters. producers proudly announce, isn't a sequel, which leveled Los Angeles through the William Dear, currently represented in but sort of continuation a of the theme of magic of special effects. This time, the theaters with Harry and the Hendersons, is the first Return (itself a kind of follow-up to disaster's up the coast in Earthquake: San slated to spoof UFOs with Saucer. Phil ). Francisco. Austin and David Ossman penned the script (FANGORIA #54) and Thorn Mathews The Deep II or Return to the Deep is still, which Dear may direct. (FANGOR1A #59)—who starred in the first at least at this time, on Columbia's list of Another Turnabout-styled fantasy com- Return—and died (in the flick) are back as prospective film projects. edy is in production. In Vice Versa, a $10 new but similar characters (gravediggers Fantasy Films: Empire Pictures is work- million Columbia film, it's divorced yuppie who confront the re-activated dead). ing on a full slate of genre low-budget flicks. Judge (Beverly Hills Cop) Reinhold who Plans continue for yet another follow-up. These projects include: Transformations; ends up magically switching identities with It's Phantasm II, sequel to the 1979 hit. Dream Invader, Vault (a $3.5 million yarn his son, Fred Savage of 777e Boy Who Speaking of other ghostly encores, there's about a billionaire's quest for the secrets of Could Fly. Dick Clement and Ian La Poltergeist III. Reprising their original roles immortality); Skeleton; Catacombs (set in Fresnais scripted the December 11 release. in this sequel are Heather O'Rourke (as the burial chambers of Rome); Ghost Town; The similar Like Father, Like Son, a fantasy Carol Anne) and (as the Deadly Weapon (not to be confused with comedy from Tri-Star (a studio partially celebrated Tangina). This sequel takes the Richard Donner's —a kid owned by Columbia), features a switcheroo entire story to Chicago—where the film will armed with an anti-matter gun terrorizes a between pop Dudley Moore and kid Kirk be shot on location —but the series' original small town, scripted and directed by (Growing Pains) Cameron. stars, Craig Nelson T. and JoBeth Williams, RoboCop co-writer Michael Miner); Adventure is the name of the game in De won't be on hand for the continued haunt- Quadrant (SF); and Cellar Dweller (horror Laurentiis Entertainment's forthcoming ings. and Nancy Allen are the comics come to life as FX wizard John China Marines (a Raiders-like yarn to be

AT WAR WITH THE ROBOJOX After a trio of horror films for Empire Pictures—Re-Animator, From Beyond and Dolls—director Stuart Gordon is bring- ing his considerable talents to the science- fiction genre with Empire's most ambitious film to date, the futuristic fantasy Robojox, currently in production in Los Angeles. "It's set in a post-nuclear era," says Gordon, "although it's not Mad Max. It's 100 years after a nuclear war. The world has rebuilt

itself to some degree, but things are still pretty This is the world of Robojox. where trained champion athletes control giant robots shaky. People have decided they're never go- (whose metallic are in the boots seen background) and battle each other to the death ing to allow another war to take place, so now to determine the fate of nations. all international disputes are settled by gigan-

tic robots fighting it out, piloted by what we call the robot jockey or robojock representing

c their entire country. They sit in the robot's

| head and are a combination of warrior and r astronaut, the best of the best, c "Their entire country's fate rests on their s shoulders. These battles take the place of

e football games as well as warfare. It's like the

!2 Super Bowl every time these guys come out. * I think it's an interesting metaphor.

f> "Robojox is inspired by those Japanese | robot toys," Gordon reveals. "The idea oc- " curred to me from looking at the illustrations | on the boxes, with the maintenance crews £ scrambling over these giant robots. It's a I ready-made fantasy that no one had really o tapped into yet, just waiting for a chance to

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helmed by Cobra's George Cosmatos) and fall. The new ALF cartoon will feature the Dinosauriors, yet another race of dinosaur Cobra Verde (an "exotic" adventure with a gourmet cat lover's adventures before he heroes, for possible syndication in fall 1988. Brazilian setting directed by Werner came to Earth—as well as his relatives. The Updates: Made in Heaven, the angelic Herzog). Klaus Kinski stars. spin-off will be produced by DIC Enter- romance betwen Tim Hutton and Kelly Giant is The Rat of Sumatra the latest prises (whose animation expertise includes McGillis, has been rescheduled for a fall Sherlock Holmes movie in development. The Real Ghostbusters) and Saban Produc- release. This case, of course, pits the Great Detective tions, partnered with Alien Productions The Scanners series pilot, to be written against that legendary creature mentioned (which does the live-action ). Also in and directed by , will be a briefly in the Holmes canon. Michael Lind- development is a live-action ALF movie, two-hour TV movie. say is scripting. whose storyline would apparently take the Twilight Zone is back on the air this mon- Aliens seem to be on a real crime spree in popular alien from Melmac to Earth. th —with repeats as well as the previously two different New Line Cinema produc- There's also The Little Archies— from unaired segments being broadcast on CBS, tions. In Stranded, the aliens kidnap a DIC Enterprises & Saban — in which Thursday at 10 p.m. grandmom (Maureen O'Sullivan) and her younger versions of the redheaded teenager The Adventures of the Brave Little granddaughter. Joe (Brother from Another and his pals frolic to the rock soundtrack on Toaster apparently won't be released by Planet) Morton (STARLOG #90) co-stars in NBC Saturday mornings. The partnered Columbia after all. The animated feature this upcoming release. Meanwhile, Hidden companies are also working on a live-action based on the Thomas Disch short story is chronicles evil aliens' misdeeds as they take two-hour TV movie, The Archies, for possi- looking for another distributor. over various humans' bodies. Michael ble NBC primetime airing. And just who will direct The Shadow! (Flashdance) Nouri and Kyle (Dune) The Greatest American Hero failed to The latest in the line of filmmakers an- MacLachlan (STARLOG #89) co-star. return last fall — in a distaff version— when nounced to bring the classic crimefighter to Scores: John Barry will once again score NBC passed on a live-action revival of the the screen is Todd Holland, a veteran of James Bond's latest mission. Barry and the old ABC series. Now, Stephen Cannell Amazing Stories. Will he be the director Norwegian rock trio a-ha will co-write the Entertainment is preparing yet another who finally makes The Shadow! That's a theme song for The Living Daylights (which Great American Hero for TV. This one, of question that can be answered in two a-ha will perform). course, is an animated version targeted at words—who knows? Animation: ALF gets down and gets Saturday morning. —David McDonnell animated for Saturday NBC mornings this Cannell Entertainment is working up be up there on the screen, not in animated "AN AUTHOR form but live action where the sense of size could really be created. YOU CAN'T "Kids are already enjoying the robot toys and playing on their own, but now we'll be REFUSE" able to use the magic of moviemaking to create the illusion of these metal giants," An unexpurgated booklet of Gordon observes. "It's a great fantasy for a funny and thoughtprovoking kid to have that kind of power and size. The question was, could we do it for the type of quotes about writing taken budgets that are available at Empire? Initial- from David Gerro/d's highly ly, Empire was skeptical about that, but even- successful writing workshop. tually they became intrigued by the idea. It's is Empire's largest budget yet, about $7 million. It about the relationship of "The main work is stop-motion animation the writer to his craft. which is being done by David Allen, who was „, (Because ofthe candid nature of the nominated for an Academy Award for f language used, we recommend Young Sherlock Holmes. He has already § that you be over 18 to purchase this done one sequence that I think is terrific, as < booklet). as good anything in The Empire Strikes Back . % There will be some great battle scenes, as well I as what I feel is missing from many SF films, c ORDER YOUR the human story. That's really crucial in all | COPY NOW! movies, to care about the people. I don't want § the people in the story to be like the robots. 5- SPECIAL STARLOG There has to be some real flesh-and-blood f RATE emotions to which the audience can relate, o The idea is to let the audience drive the robots | and let them play with these giant toys," £ Send S3. 95 (plus $1.00 postage Stuart comments. Gordon "Robojox is a -g and handling) to: will movie that appeal to children, but I hope J "AUTHOR" their parents can enjoy it as well, a real family Stuart Gordon, director of Re- Animator BRASS CANNON, Dept SL587 experience." and From is — Beyond, at P.O. Box 1190 John A . Gallagher the helm of Robojox. Hoolvwood, CA 90078

STARLOGA4 ugust 1987 63 Brooks Geirold Dante (continued from page 13) (continued from page 15) (continued from page 31) never complained. Andrew Probert, Senior Illustrator #78] is in the picture and she's very good. He's terrific, and he has some very cute Working as an illustrator, Andy Probert [STARLOG #85] is in it, scenes. Some of them a little dirty with his designed the Cylons for Battlestar Galac- along with many other people I've already tail up a waitress' dress, etc. tica. He designed the helicopter and flight worked with — Kevin McCarthy Tell STARLOG: us about the film's hero, suits for Airwolf, and designed most of [STARLOG #78], Bob Picardo [Wak in Ex- Lone Starr. the space hardware for Star Trek: The plorers], BROOKS: Well, he's played by Bill Motion Picture. He also designed the out- STARLOG: You use many of these actors Pullman, who played the idiot in Ruthless side of the DeLorean time machine for again and again—Joe Dante's Ensemble. People. I think it was very brave of us to Back to the Future. DANTE: Well, I don't keep them eating. pick a guy who played an idiot and Illustrator make Rich Stern bach. These guys eat whether I use them or not, him our leading man, but he turned to out Rich Sternbach won an Emmy for his but they're people I like and they know what be sensational. work as Assistant Art Director and I'm after. I can communicate with them STARLOG: have to Did you do much Special Effects Supervisor on Carl easily when the parts are right for them. If desert shooting? Sagan's Cosmos series. created He planet the parts aren't right, there's no way I can BROOKS: It seems that in every space images and storyboarded spacecraft ac- do it. But when the part's right, they're the movie, they're always in the desert. Don't tion for The Last Starfighter. Rich is no people I want to work with—that goes for ask me why, but they a great spend amount stranger to Star Trek, having worked as behind the camera, too. It's a nice at- of time there. an illustrator on Star Trek: The Motion mosphere to have a bunch of people who Anyway, 'cause they go there, we go Picture. Rich has been doing cover art for already like each other and already know there. Lucas went to Yuma, Arizona for magazines and books since 1973, in- what you're trying to do because they've Return oftheJedi, and North Africa [where cluding Analog, Science Fiction, F & SF, already gone through the process. Star Wars was partially lensed] was too far Galaxy, Astronomy Magazine and Sky If you can manage to populate a film with away, so we went to Yuma. and Telescope, as well as special pieces for people you know well, so you can give them We went in October or November, figur- the National Air and Space Museum. direction #52 and know it will elicit a certain ing it little would be a cooler there. It was Michael Okuda, Graphic Artist response, it's much easier. the hottest three days America has ever Michael Okuda made his graphics debut Sometimes, we don't even talk much, withstood, and we were right there in the in Star Trek IV, designing many of the Dick Miller [FANGORIA #61] and I. It just middle of it! readouts and panels for the Klingon Bird happens. He was very good in Explorers and It was something like 140 degrees. of Prey and various vessels. He I hardly told him anything about what he Cameras were melting. You take an ice is the world's foremost expert on Klingon should do. We just discussed the character cube, you put it on your head, and the by technical readouts. He has designed all of and he gave a performance which I liked. In time you get it there, it's just hot water. the signs, lettering, readouts and control this picture, he has what I guess you would STARLOG: Can you compare Spaceballs to for the panels new Enterprise. call a cameo. Try as I did, I couldn't find a anything else? There have been other SF Corey Allen, Director "Encounter real part for him. spoofs, but mostly low-budget fare. at Farpoint" STARLOG: You've used many of these ac- this is big BROOKS: No, stuff. We've got a As an actor, Corey Allen has appeared in tors since the beginning of your feature film weird picture. It's The Wizard of Oz in such pictures as Sweet Bird of Youth, The career. As if you had that in mind. space. It's a bunch of people trying to get Chapman Report, Darby's Rangers and DANTE: I like these guys. I had seen them back home, and they keep running into bad . (He played Buzz, in the movies. I liked them and wanted to guys—including a gangster named Pizza the the gang leader.) He has also appeared in meet them. Hut, whom they owe money. series TV such as Bonanza, Gunsmoke, The people I liked when I was young are STARLOG: Spaceballs co-writer Thomas and Have Gun, Will Travel. He has now on in years. It's tough to find parts for Meehan said you've written more than 1,000 directed two feature films: Avalanche them— I mean, if I had done the "Kick the pages and had material enough to do three (with Rock Hudson and Mia Farrow), Can" segment in Twilight Zone: The or four films. this Is a genre you would and Thunder and Lightning (with David Movie, you can bet the cast would have come back to parody again? Carradine and Kate Jackson). He also been considerably different, but unless I do BROOKS: You never know what the future directed the premiere episodes of Murder, a film like Cocoon, it's going to be hard to holds, but I think in this first one.'we've She Wrote, Simon and Simon and Whiz find enough roles for these guys. I have really exhausted the great cliches. I space Kids. He earned two Emmy nominations enormous respect for them. They were in don't know if we've overlooked any cliches, for directing episodes of the business at a time when I think the but it would be very difficult to come back and won the award once. He has also had movies were better. and do a Spaceballs II. two Best Director nominations from the STARLOG: Movies that influenced you. STARLOG: Well, when you talk about Director's Guild and has been nominated DANTE: Yes, but there are people like Bob making movies for 15-year-olds or for the Award for Cable Excellence. Picardo, whom I used in The Howling [Ed- thereabouts, that speaks to many Industrial Light & Magic die Quist] as well as Explorers—he plays a STARLOG readers. Industrial Light & Magic was created Libyan cowboy in Innerspace. He's a very BROOKS: It's important! Who else will specifically to visualize the extraordinary funny guy. He'll go places if people just get wait in the rain to see a movie? These days, special effects in Star Wars (and its two a chance to see what he does. He's terrific in the doctors and dentists who love Mel sequels, The Empire Strikes Back and this picture—and he's a friend of mine. Brooks wait for the cassette. That's why I've Return of the Jedi). ILM has also per- STARLOG: And why not use your friends? got to corral these youngsters and show formed special FX chores for both In- DANTE: Indeed, why not? All these people them what a big, gleaming, crazy, witty diana Jones films, Raiders of the Lost are talented—there's not a bupke among comedy is all about. Ark and Indiana Jones and the Temple of them. It's not like there's some poor guy STARLOG: Do you have a parting shot? A Doom, as well as special effects for Star who's out of work and needs a job so you life's philosophy you would like to share Trek II, Star Trek III, Star Trek IV, Ex- give him the lead in your picture—these peo- with us? plorers, , Gremlins, Back to ple are all talented. BROOKS: Yes. My life philosophy is this: If the Future and Innerspace. £? It's hard making movies and it's nice to you really want to see Spaceballs on the first make it as easy as possible by having as day, get there the day before. ijr Column copyright 1987 David Gerrold many nice people around you as possible/**? 64 STARLOG /August 1987 2086, two peaceful aliens journey to InEarth seeking our help. In return, they gave us the plans for our first hyper- drive, allowing mankind to open to the stars. We have assembled a team of unique in- dividuals to protect Earth and our allies. Courageous pioneers committed to the highest ideals of justice and dedicated to preserving law and order across the new frontier. These are the Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers. "It started out as an SF action-adventure in space about a police force," explains Robert Mandell, the syndicated series' creator/producer and ITC Entertainment vet. "It really evolved because the show needed a handle. The basic story of Rangers—the idea of having two aliens coming to Earth looking for help—was

always there. And in the back of my mind, I

guess, I always knew it was based on The Magnificent Seven and Seven Samurai, but the obvious never hit me. "I was very lucky to meet a guy named Bob Chrestani, who was an agent for ," Mandell continues. "I showed him the presentation, which was

then called Beta Force. He loved it and im- mediately signed the project representation. It was Bob who brought the obvious to my A bionic man, a Supertrooper, a telepath and attention. He said, 'Well, what's your a computer genius team-up as story?' I told him two aliens come to Ear- the extra- th—Seven Samurai, Magnificent Seven. powered pioneers of the final frontier, And he said, 'Well, you're crazy. It's sitting

right in front of you. It's a space . It speeding through hyperspace in animated has all the classic Western themes, the main adventures of cowboys & aliens. one being justified violence, which is what all Westerns have been built on— lawlessness, new frontier and pioneers By EDDIE BERCANZA

The Rangers take out a Crown Agent as they assault the Queen's psychocrypt. exploring unknown territories.' Once we was always our straight-ahead West-Point- has helped establish their backgrounds. had the space Western hook, things sudden- mentality soldier. He is always doing things "Zack was never our most colorful ly started to click. We developed the Galaxy by regulations. We designed him to be in character and we played off that quality.

Rangers name together. The response I direct with Shane Gooseman [the Because he comes from a world of perfect began to get from various financing groups group's shape-changer]," adds Mandell, order, he likes to see things in certain ways,

was totally different. It was as if I came up "who doesn't do anything by the book. but in reality, nothing works that with the greatest thing since Star Trek." He's our Dirty Harry. way—especially in the whole new open Like the characters of that Wagon Train "It was very important for me to set their universe he now can explore." to the stars, Mandell wanted to make his characters from the beginning so that the in- Rangers as real as possible. "Throughout teraction between the four Rangers would When Rangers Clash the series' run, we tried to base an episode be very strong and the dialogue could reflect Continuing his conservative characteriza- on each Ranger to show their background," a little bit of the characters' histories and tion, Foxx is the only Ranger who is married notes Mandell. personalities without being obvious. For ex- with children. Mandell, though, did throw a

"The leader of the group, Zachary Foxx, ample, the conflict between Zack and Goose wrench into the man's seemingly simple life.

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STARLOG/Augusi 1987 67 The four unique individuals who comprise the Galaxy Rangers are (left to right) the bionic-powered Zachery Foxx, computer "Doc" Walter Hartford, genetic chameleon Shane Gooseman and the psionic Niko.

ghost forms as spies. She can see and hear through them. This way, she can stay right in her castle and maintain control.

"Her only problem is that she can't find a

life force strong enough to power the Slaver Lords. Most of the aliens she has tried just don't work. Suddenly, some humans show

up and their spiritual force is so strong that she finds that she can use one of them to create a very powerful Slaver Lord that will last a long time. She becomes obsessed with

humans." The first two episodes of the Galaxy Rangers series, "Phoenix" and "New Frontier," recount how Zachary Foxx lost part of his wife's essence to the Queen's psychocrypt. "I tried to create a very strong universe

because I figured up front I was doing 65 Other characters that populate the series episodes," Mandell explains."! didn't want are Buzzwang, a courageous, break-dancing to do a typical format show where every day

robot Ranger; Maya, the rebellious Princess the same thing is happening. I knew it was a of Tarkon, a planet that disdains all dangerous approach in dealing with young

technology; Lazarus Slade, a Southern kids because they like the repetition. I tried gentleman scientist bent on world domina- to make the stories as diversified as possible. tion; Daisy O'Mega, a sweet lass with a For example, many episodes don't have all thick brogue and a penchant for crime—she four Rangers in them. And that's unheard leads the villainous Black Hole Gang with a of in animation strips." Some episodes swarthy knave named McCross; and Mogul don't feature any Rangers, spotlighting in- the space sorcerer, whose evil deeds are stead, Foxx's children and the Kiwis.

thwarted by his incompetent assistant Larry. Among Mandell's writing staff is Brian Some characters worked better than Daley, who helped embellish the Star Wars others and some just didn't work. "1 hate to saga through radio adaptations and Han

say it, but we had many problems with Cap- Solo novels, as well as other noted authors. The bouncy Squeegie proved easier to tain Kidd," says Mandell of his alien space "The project's story editors, are Owen characterize for Mandell than the furball's pirate creation. "We never could find the Locke, head of Del Rey Books, and Chris owner, Captain Kidd. right place for Kidd. Originally, he was Rowley. The three of us mapped out the in-

designed as a strong villain and then he turn- itial elements of the universe. Through got so much time on his own that we never ed into our Harry Mudd. We mostly ended Owen, I've met several of the Del Rey got a chance to do his origin episode." up using Kidd in comic relief situations." writers. We started bringing in other writers, Though not an origin, Walter "Doc" The Queen of the Crown, meanwhile, is including Brian Daley." Novelist Tom De Hal lord (don't call him "Wally") has been more like the queen in Disney's Snow White Haven scripted Goose's bounty-hunting ex- showcased in episodes like "Murder on the gone cosmic. "She is certainly one of the ploits in "Galaxy Stranger" and "One Andorian Express." A Galaxy Rangersaver- most evil characters in the series," Mandell Million Emotions" in which the Rangers sion of an mystery, the agrees. "The Queen has this mammoth chase after an alien sculpture which assaults story has Doc and fellow Ranger Niko try- galactic empire and things aren't going quite its bearer with a range of feelings; Lucia ing lo solve the mysterious demise of an am- well for her. She had her forces spread so Robeson, bestselling author of Ride of I he bassador aboard the luxury spaceliner, S.S. thin that if she doesn't act soon, her empire Wind contributed "Mistwalker," based on

Christie. Such whimsical tales and their silly is going to start crumbling. So, she begins to an adventure of the real-life Texas Rangers. predicaments suit the team's computer experiment with psycho-crystal technology, Jimmy Lasino, another Del Rey writer, pen- wizard (who bears a bizarre resemblance to which is a great way to take the souls from ned the no-holds-barred "Birds of a ) much more than the species and use their life forces to create Feather" that utilized many of the Rangers' other three Rangers. Slaver Lords. The Queen is able to use these rogues' gallery in pursuit of Bubble Head, a Memory Bird in possession of the Super- Galaxy Gangs trooper juice formula. Drawing their wagons around the Galaxy "In addition to writers who had ex-

Rangers are an equally well-developed sup- perience writing books, I also wanted to get porting cast. Most important are the series' new writers involved to infuse the stories

two amiable alien instigators. Waldo, an with some new ideas and characterizations. I

Andorian, is a member of the oldest and avoided accomplished cartoon writing peo-

most advanced culture in the galaxy, while ple as I did the typical actors for cartoons," Zozo is an emotional Kiwi from the Mandell explains. "I wanted the natural underdeveloped farm planet Kirwin. "A quality of an actor's voice portraying the very strong underlying theme of Rangers is character as opposed to the commercial- low-tech vs. hi-tech," says Mandell. "We

like to expose the Rangers and their hi-tech The vilest villain from the Rangers rogues' devices to the low-tech cultures with which gallery is the life force stealing Queen of they deal." the Crown.

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oriented announcerish style that most pro- get involved are really looking for the big science-fiction setting," Mandell remarks. ducers feel comfortable with just because toy hit, because it's the only way a financier "It's similar to what Blade Runner did, but the audience can understand every word can expect a return." it's not as dark or heavy. The lead character they say." It was this thinking that garnered Mandell admits there are some advan- is Felix McTurk, a private eye who is look- Jerry (F/X) Orbach his first animated role, tages when a producer has a toy company ing to be a super detective, and he falls in a voicing Zachary Foxx. backing his project. "Toy companies com- situation that is out of his control. There will mit a certain amount to advertising and that be an extensive use of computer animation

Toys Aren't Us whole media support of a product. That because in the world of 2180 there is a whole The producer's method of drafting more media awareness can make or break a show. other universe called Cyberspace. Chris writers for the series proved a bit unor- It has hurt Galaxy Rangers to a certain Rowley and I developed the concept. thodox. "I took ads in the New York degree because we went on the air without "I also own a property called Eridahn Times, The Village Voice, circulated some any of the media hype that shows like based on a book by Robert F. Young—not flyers and put up some posters in colleges," Thundercats or Brave Starr have gotten." the Marcus Welby actor," he adds.

Mandell says. "At the time, it seemed a bad Eventually, Tom Battista of ITF Enter- "Unfortunately, Young passed away and idea because I was suddenly swamped with prises, who had Americanized Voltron, put won't be able to see the book's fruition. It's thousands and thousands of submissions. Mandell in touch with the Gaylord Produc- a terrific story, kind of a combination of In- Of course, how do you choose writers based tion Company. "The Gaylord people got in- diana Jones and Time Machine. And the on a little sample? It was almost volved not because there was a toy company third project, Musikins, is for younger kids. impossible." behind it —they hoped to get a toy com- It's about a young group of musicians But Mandell and staff were in a race pany—but because they liked the show's traveling across a fantasy land looking to " against time to produce 65 episodes within a feel. They thought it was going to be an ex- discover the 'lost sounds.' one-year time limit and pushed on. "Owen, citing adventure show for kids." At this point, Mandell is only waiting for

Chris and I started weeding through the But the producer had more than the time to be right to produce his dream stuff," he recalls. "And we did manage to youngsters in mind for his demographics. "I project, 's Ringworld. "In order find a pretty good group. We had to accept wanted to put enough into the show, so that to be done right, Ringworld would have to many scripts that were not necessarily as it would not only spill over into a teen use a major motion picture with a combina- polished as we would have liked them to be, market, but that parents could watch and tion of , eel animation, computer but we had the flexibility to modify the enjoy it with their kids." animation, live action —a full range of ef- script throughout the whole production With 65 episodes behind him, and his fects." schedule. So, as long as the plot was there, 1 own NY-based company, Transcom Media, The producer sees the upcoming Who could put the script into the storyboarding Inc., formed, Mandell is aiming for another Framed Roger Rabbit?, the Steven phase, and then modify it again during the shootout with the financiers on his current Spielberg- project which actual recording session." What became ad- projects. "Kaduna Memories is an SF detec- combines live action and animated vantageous to the producer was his method tive story which takes the classic Phillip characters as a positive sign. "This is where of recording dialogue—the actors perform Marlowe elements and puts them in a filmmaking is going to be headed," Robert the script initially as a guide for the Mandell says. "There is no reason why a animators in Tokyo, but the final sound- At the controls of The Adventures of the really solid action-adventure film cannot be track is comprised of the actors "looping" Galaxy Rangers is creator/producer Robert done in animation. Anything can be done in their lines along with the finished episode. Mandell. animation if done well. If the elements that "It's more expensive and more time con- go into making the product are competently suming," admits Mandell, "but you can't done, and the illusion is created and held compare the results. It's like apples and through 90 minutes, there is no reason an oranges. The actors get to see the characters animated adventure film can't work." and the situations they're in. The illusion is so far heightened, that it is worth the time and money." Though Mandell earned the luxuries of time and money, he still lacked the one thing that would have made producing Galaxy Rangers simpler—a toy deal. "The most unusual thing about Rangers is that it is the only daily strip [airing once a day for a five- day period] to get produced without the ma- jor support of a toy company," he says. "There are now toys, but the licensing came after the show went into production. When

1 put the concept together in January 1984, the idea of strip production was just becom- ing very big. "The syndication marketplace was just starting to explode in '84 because of the suc- cess of He-Man & The Masters of the Universe. He-Man really set the trend for producing animation with heavy toy com- pany involvement. Toy companies have always been involved in Saturday morning animation, but never to the extent that they were producing 65 half hours of animation. It's an extremely expensive endeavor. The average cost per strip has been somewhere near $15 million, which is a phenomenal amount of money it's like the budget for a major motion picture. Most companies that McCross is the leader of the Black Hole Gang, terrorists of small frontier worlds.

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STAKhOG/August 1987 71 Nor can I agree with Kerry O'Quinn when he such as Forbidden Planet and Metropolis. So, lumps all Christians together and compares them why not make the new Star Trek TV series take comm is to Nazis. That idea abhorrent to me, and I'm place immediately after the events of "The (continued from page 7) sure I'm not alone! Most "movements" don't last Cage"?

20 years, let alone 2,000, and the millions who call This new show, first of all, would not run the themselves Christians don't feel they are crazy to risk of having the major characters hated by cling to a belief that brings them comfort and (most of) the audience. Captain Pike and Mr. hope. That's really what Christianity is all about, Spock are such well-established characters in Star

after all. And when you think about it, hope is Trek that the audience wouldn't think that this

what science fiction is about, too. There's not show would be anything else but Star Trek. The such a vast difference as O'Quinn seems to think. prospect of casting new people for the two

Just a little something to think about, I hope. characters (as well as Number One, Yeoman Colt

Paula J. Mulvey and Joe Tyler) is very intriguing. In fact, it would Richland, WA be such a waste to let such wonderful characters (aside, of course, from Spock) exist for only one " For the record, the phrase "... under God. . . episode. Wouldn't it be interesting to find out was only added to the Pledge relatively how Pike's and Yeoman Colt's relationship recently—after World War II. would have developed? Or the friendship between

Pike and Spock? It would also be fascinating to learn how a 1980s female audience would react to

. . . Frost's intent is not to ban any books Number One—and of course, should Paramount or to prevent other children from reading them, ever decide to go along with this suggestion, Star but only to exercise her parental right in guiding Trek fans would decide for themselves once and the educational and spiritual development of her for all, who would be the better captain of the

child. She is in court only to secure her right to Enterprise—Christopher Pike or James T. Kirk. have alternate reading material available for the Jose Zulueta child. Jersey City, NJ Therese M. Podolske

Los Angeles, CA ... I enjoyed "The Cage" with a different Enter- prise and crew. The early style made you feel like

life It's making up their own minds, and that is what . . . Doubtless, Vicki Frost lives her surround- you were right there, whipping through space. scares those who would censor. They are afraid ed by the products of human imagination. People the best trek of all. I really enjoyed Jeffrey that those persons they try to "shield" from views who dared to conceive of previously unimagined Hunter's Captain Pike more than James Kirk. opposed to their own personal ones will, if expos- wonders have shaped her life. Such wonders in- Much of Kirk's style is hard to swallow. Hunter ed to other viewpoints, choose to believe clude cars, telephones, immunizations against would have been a better captain for the Enter- something other than the "approved" interpreta- disease, all our modern "conveniences," but most prise than Kirk. It's too bad Hunter didn't make tion. Such people do not wish their children to notably the greatest idea conceived by it into the series. learn to use their imaginations because the humanity—that each person is an individual who And the quality of "The Cage" was mind- .?" will. Frost blowing. From black and white to color, to see children might ask (or think), "What if. . has the right to believe as he or she "The Cage" was, to coin a phrase, fascinating! For the record, I am a devout Christian who blindly overlooks the most obvious. She only can Brian sees no conflict whatsoever between the Biblical appear in court to espouse her ideas because peo- Hunter account of creation (the religious narrative) and ple with imagination cleared the path for her. Orlando, FL the scientific evidence of the actual creative pro- Julianne Tanski cess. Whenever ai. one tries to argue this issue Chula Vista, CA tells A? with me, I simply tell them, "The Bible us WHERE ARE LINDA & LAN why God created the world, the scientists tell us . . . Does Frost believe that God Himself has no . . .Cannon's decision to leave Supergirl out of how He did it." imagination? If so, where did the world and all its future Superman movies is poor indeed.

Linda Anne Watson infinite diversity of creatures come from? In Why? First, Helen Slater is a delight to watch Sparta, TN whose image (//pagination) were we made? and a powerful young leading lady.

I feel pity that Frost and those who think as she Second, it would seem the series is abandoning

... 1 actually do agree with most of Kerry does have limited themselves so harshly. Even continuity. OK, Supergirl's back on Argo City,

O'Quinn's From the Bridge (STARLOG #113) more do I feel for their children, who apparently Jimmy Olsen and Lucy Lane have promised never but his next to last paragraph really does make me have no choice in the matter and will not be allow- to mention her existence. But in her disguise as wonder what O'Quinn knows about Christianity ed friends such as Jim Kirk, Bilbo Baggins or Eli- Linda Lee, Supergirl said she was Clark Kent's and America. America, if one looks at its history, jah Baley. 1 shudder to think of what I would be cousin. So, Clark/Superman is bound to hear was founded as a Christian nation. Consider our had my own good parents limited my freedom of about Linda Lee. Pledge of Allegiance: "...one nation, under imagination so. Superman IV should have either included

. God, indivisible. . ". Consider also the fact that Marsha D. Bell Supergirl or shown us a very confused Clark. But the Pilgrims and Puritans came to this land to Odessa, TX of course, it won't do either. worship their God as they chose. Perhaps a better This mess can only be cleared up by a confir- way for O'Quinn to have written that paragraph mation that somehow. Superman IV occurs " would have been: . . .There is a fundamentalist, TO REVIVE COLOSSUS before Supergirl. I don't know how they'll explain right-wing Christian movement alive in this coun- ... I was delighted that you ran an article on Col- Lana Lang's disappearance though. She only just try ... ." There is quite a large difference between ossus: The Forbin Project (STARLOG #113), a started working for the Daily Planet in Superman most Christians I know and the right-wing fun- movie I've long held to be a little-known master- IIP. The flu? Death? Or worse, "Lana Who?" damentalists represented by Vicki Frost. I am a piece of science fiction. If this gem still isn't Alan Steel

Christian; I consider myself a conservative, but 1 available on tape, are any companies planning its Camberwell, London know many who would consider me a left-wing release? What can / do' to help get it released? I England liberal compared to fundamentalist Christians. hope others who have seen the film and feel

However, 1 deplore censorship. I dislike anyone likewise would respond, too— this film deserves BETTER COLORIZED telling how I can think and feel and what to read recognition!! or watch on television. Thomas Crain THAN RED?

1 am not someone who wants to control what Wayne, NJ ... 1 have a suggestion that could make Para- other people and their children can read and mount Pictures some money. By using the new

learn, whether in or out of school, i am not a per- computer recoloring system, they should change son who tries to control how and what other peo- "CAGE" COMMENTS the gaudy red uniforms in Star Trek II and /// to a

ple worship. I may agree in principle with what . . .To my mind, "The Cage" —the first pilot of more neutral color and then sell them on cassette Frost is trying to do, with the goal she has—to the Star Trek TV show, which I've seen recently to fans like myself who believe the gaudy red col- teach her children the values she has lived by and on videocassette—has such a high level of artistic or is a distraction and an embarrassment. which have been a source of comfort to her —but excellence that this single episode should be rated R. Wilson Willagee, W. Australia I cannot condone her actions. along the ranks of celluloid science-fiction classics

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We're breaking out the rice, dishing up the canapes and uncorking the champagne here at the STARLOG offices. We're celebrating yet again.

OK, I admit it. We seem to do that frequently around here, what with anniversaries, special salutes and the like. The cater- ing bill is getting enormous and I'm growing tired of those itty- bitty crackers with Cheez Wiz spritzed all over 'em, but we really do have fine reasons to celebrate. First off, our special congrats to longtime correspondent Mike Clark and his wife Jody. They're the proud parents of a brand-new daughter, Carrie Leigh Clark, their first child, born -1 » not so long ago, on April 15. You haven't seen Mike's byline in the magazine lately, not Meet two for terror retrospective specialist Tom Weaver (left, since his much-praised interview with Guy Williams in issue with 's Famous Monster of Filmland) and #114. Like many freelancers, Mike has another job— he serves Italian Western scholar Tim Ferrante. They're both on hand as Director of Video Operations at Televi- regularly in the pages of FANGORIA. sion—which limits the number of articles he has time to write. That hasn't stopped him. Look for Mike's long-overdue update deadline writers I've encountered) and Jean Airey & Laurie chat—just completed and skedded for STARLOG #124—with Haldeman (the co-authors of Travel Without the TARDIS, the man behind Space: 1999, . who know more about Blake's 7 and Doctor Who than any Coincidentally, that same April 15, ABC aired an episode of human should). We've also had stellar contributions from its low-rated but well-produced Spenser: For Hire in the usual FANGORIA retrospective specialist Tom Weaver (who, to Dynasty time slot. The segment, "If You Knew Sammy," was paraphrase Joe Dante, has forgotten more about SF films than [he first TV script sold by two other longtime STARLOG most of us will ever know) and noted genre historian Bill contributors, West Coast Correspondent Lee Goldberg and his Warren (who knows everything Tom ever theoretically forgot). collaborator Bill Rabkin. Previously, the pair scripted .357 You'll be seeing more articles from all five.

Vigilante, a so-far-unproduced for New World Sound like enough to celebrate? Well, it isn't. I've saved a Pictures (based on the paperback series written by Lee as "Ian quartet of events for the finale as we gather the rice and pour Ludlow" for the since-defunct Pinnacle Books). Anyhow, in the champagne. Why? Weddings, of course.

this segment, Spenser (Robert Urich) and his sidekick Hawk August 1 is the matrimonial date for Eileen McCabe and (Avery Brooks) find themselves trying to save the life of Edward Gross. He's the Director of Field Promotions for NY's Sammy Backlin {Soap's Sal Viscuso), urban vigilante-turned- Theaters and a STARLOG correspondent. She's obnoxious bestselling author. They get some help from his a special education teacher on Long Island. publicist, Randy Lofficier (an "in-joke" name, portrayed by One week later, in West Virginia, it's the big day (August 8) Big Trouble in Little China's ). for John Sayers and Betsy Orndoff. She's a high school home Bill and Lee have sold a second Spenser script, complete economics teacher in Virginia. He's the Managing Editor of with a few other "in-jokes," which will turn up this fall // The Videodisc Monitor, a trade industry bible, as well as co- ABC renews Spenser (no decision at presstime). Meanwhile, author of the STARLOG SF TRIVIA BOOK and a they're writing Blade for New World, a prospective movie STARLOG contributor. adventure featuring the heroic vampire hunter created by Marv Then, in a theater near you, on August 22, amid the pop- Wolfman and for ' Tomb of corn and jujubees, it's wedding bells for Susan Avallone and . Carr D'Angelo (Yes, they are getting married in a New York That's why you've been seeing fewer stories by both Lee and City movie theater! Really! Honest!) She's the Managing Editor Bill in STARLOG. The same thing applies to a number of of the trade publication Library Journal (and the daughter of other contributors: Like Randy & Jean-Marc Lofficier—they've mystery/SF/novelization author Michael Avallone). He's the been working in comics (Renegade's French Ice and the Managing Editor of STARLOG (but you knew that). How will Moebius collections from Epic) as well as scripting episodes of they ever get along? They'll manage.

various animated TV series (Duck Tales, Real Ghostbusters, And then, on Halloween, it's time for a trip down the aisle Bionic Six). There are also fewer pieces from Brian Lowry, by Eddie Berganza and Cheryl Warren. He's a longtime

now with . . . from Senior Correspon- STARLOG Contributing Editor and aspiring filmmaker. She's dent Steve Swires, who's reviewing films for the very same a counselor with Planned Parenthood and a frequent

Hollywood Reporter. . . from Bob Greenberger, whose con- STARLOG interview/research assistant. troversial assessment of Star Trek novels (#112) drew lotsa mail So, join me now in offering a bit of the bubbly—our and prompted Bob to try his own hand at a Trek novel, now congratulations, our greetings, our thanks—to all these writers, underway for Pocket Books. They're all real busy. editors and teachers, to all these friends. Let me also note the addition to our regular correspondents Bring out the Cheez Whiz. of the ever-reliable Marc Shapiro (one of the quickest-on-a- —David McDonnell/Editor (May 1987)

Next Issue: Martin Short heads into the debriefing room to reveal a few of the outer secrets regarding that fantastic voyage his pal Dennis Quaid took to the anatomical reaches of Innerspace. And director Paul Verhoeven unwinds with a few tales of his adventures in futuristic law enforcement, backing up that half-man, half-machine, RoboCop, in the never-ending war against crime. Plus, 1 more on Bond, James . . Bond . David Gerrold's latest view of Star Trek: The Next Generation. . .classified ads. . .reader letters. . .and even indicia! It's all part of the surprise we're calling STARLOG #122 on sale Tuesday, August 4, 1987.

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