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Russo-American Mercantile (RAM) forces dominate Earth and the rest of the solar system in the year 2456. Their latest toy, the Doomsday Laser, is a device that converts the Sun's power into a bolt of nuclear energy, and it's targeted straight for ol' Terra Firma. It's up to you and a Blast off on your Genesis with Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday. team of New Earth Organization (NEO) agents to remedy the situation in Buck attack on Chicagorg, then stop parasitical destroy a hangar full of RAM gliders and Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday (retailed "Experimental Combat Gennies (ECGs)" obtain the Retinal Lockpick for use at there, at $69.95), a TSR-designed role-playing from infesting Earth's population. Expect Mercury-based Mariposa III. From game for the Sega Genesis from Electronic more runaway ECGs in Mission Three, trick the power-hungry Sun King into giv- Arts and Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI). however, when your squad poses as a RAM ing you security clearance and set his Like most role-playing games, rescue team to investigate an evacuated Doomsday Laser to self-destruct. Be Countdown to Doomsday allows you to asteroid base and rescue trapped children. warned: Dqn't visit Mercury unless your create your characters (but no, you can't be Buck teams up with you in Mission team has reached the seventh level or Buck Rogers or Wilma Deering, so don't Four to disable the ship of Talon, a rogue higher, and for those of you who burn even bother trying). After choosing pirate hired by RAM to place reflector easy, bring two million sunblock. among five character classes and 25 pro- satellites around Earth. A two-fold Needless to say. it's a long Countdown well-suited fessional skills, your team—occasionally Mission Five takes you to Mars to assist to Doomsday, but one that's assisted by allies like Buck and Wilma the last surviving village of Desert for gamers looking for video role-playing will undertake seven missions to destroy Runners and destroy a scale model adventure. Hints and maps are included in a the Doomsday Laser and RAM forces. Doomsday Laser at RAM base Gradivus 56-page instruction booklet, which you'd (Hint: Equip your team members with nee- Mons. Venus is the next destination on better take time out to read if you want to dle guns; they're the best weapon.) You your intergalactic passport, where you fully understand this game. Once you're however, must first prevent RAM's surprise missile must rescue the Lowlander community. past the game's initial humps, Countdown to Doomsday will offer hours of entertainment, one you can return to via an 8-megabit and battery back-up feature. For some old-fashioned board action, there's TSR's Buck Rogers: Battle for the 25th Century ($29.95), a two- to six- player game in which your army sides with or against Buck in an attempt to control the solar system. To achieve victory, you must control 15 territorial zones by the end of any turn, or the largest amount by the time Earth completes one revolution around the Sun and returns to its starting zone; control the last remaining leader character on the board; or convince the other players that resistance is futile (don't expect this to happen often). Noteworthy Battle for the 25th Century game contents include not only 360 plas- tic playing pieces, but an optional rule- book for advanced game play. Still feeling board in space? Then, try Star Trek: The Game, from Classic Games (with a price ranging between S34.99 to $49.95). Designed for up to six players,

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planets located on the board (which somewhat resembles the board sheet included in FASA's now-defunct Star Trek role-playing game) and answer trivia questions from five categories (Warp 1, 2,

3, 4 and Docking cards), each of which test your knowledge of the classic Trek series and films. Once that's accomplished and you've gained four citations,, you must maneuver into one of four Starfleet Command docking ports with all systems fully functioning. Trek fans are sure to find this game interesting, but they better head for the stores at their best warp speed. Star Trek: The Game is limited to a sequen- tially-numbered 200,000 copies, and they may not be around for a next generation. It's top-notch D&D action on the Genesis for these Warriors of the Eternal Sun. If space or the future just isn't for you, then enter TSR's world of Dungeons and Warriors of the Eternal Sun promises hours your map of Felgana, including: The Dragons: Warriors of the Eternal Sun, of fun, but only once you've mastered the Tigray Quarry, where its crystalline ore, SSI's one-player game for the Genesis that game's many on-screen features. "La Pearle," is an imperative source of combines D&D role-playing action with Those still interested in exploring un- Redmont's livelihood; the Ilvern Ruins, well-developed (though sometimes charted territory should also look to the site of a destroyed castle and a re- slightly-crowded) 16-bit graphics. After American Sammy Corporation's cently-erupted volcano nearby; the Eldam creating your characters, rolling for the Wanderers from Ys III (retail price. Mountains, also known as the "Evil traditional D&D abilities (Strength, S64.95) for the Super Nintendo (SNES). Mountains," thanks to their monstrous Castle, Agility, etc.) and arming your fellow This time, veteran Ys protectors Adol and inhabitants; and the Ballacetine warriors, you must then figure out just how Dogi head for Redmont, Dogi's hometown which houses numerous mazes, traps and you and Duke Barrik's castle were in Felgana, a land currently plagued by its evil ruler, Lord McGaya. With easy-to- transported from the middle of a war into a mysterious weather, bad crops and rising read character status and dialogue features, high-walled valley that's illuminated by a prices. great 16-bit graphics and stereo sound, and red sun. Of course, you'll have to do this While in Redmont, visit the supply and a cinematic-style storyline, Wanderers while protecting the castle from about 100 tool stores, which offer armor, swords, from Ys HI surely offers SNES users some different kinds of monsters. Like Buck magic rings and special items. You must enchanted evenings. Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday, then cover the other areas specified on —Michael McAvennie

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Two conflicting facts may have limited the goes very wrong very quickly. Fincher goes- K s l PRODUtrnorus present: number of women profiled in STARLOG past: from a lengthy introduction to the prison and I) There are so few women directors, and cor- one particular character (Charles Dance) to respondingly, not that many more producers and Dance's demise to lots of running around in the writers. And 2) To be an interview prospect, dark with flashlights attempting to destroy the you must be involved in SFIfantasy (eliminating Alien in the prison's furnace. In the middle of all those who are not). all this is a laughable subplot with Ripley be- Nevertheless, we have interviewed numer- coming "pregnant" with the next Queen Alien, §7^ ous major SFIfantasy TV/film creators: leading to one unforgettable, unintentionally Directors Penny Marshall, Susan Seidelman, funny sequence with Sigourney Weaver going Martha Coolidge: producers Kathleen down into the prison's basement to get killed UPCOMIHG EVENTS Kennedy, Lauren Shuler-Donner, Debra Hill; by the Alien, spouting out lines like, "Come writers DC. Fontana, Melinda Snodgrass, on!!... after all. I'm one of the family." This AUGUST 22-23 Bannaxy CT Leigh Bracken, etc. brings up numerous logistical problems incon- Danietry Bltoa. I-S4 Additionally, SFIfantasy novelists of note sistent with the other ALIEN films. How can Hicitelle Fortes -Ensign SO profiled include Andre Norton, C.J. Cherryh, Ripley get infected by the Alien and still be able . S*ic* VilliamJ-VixLs ST 5 Janet Morris, Lynn Abbey, Mercedes Lackey, to live for such a long period of time, especially Arse Starr-DC Coaies Connie Willis. Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, when the dog in the movie gets infected and dies OCTOBER 24-2? Vermont Jennifer Roberson, J.M. Dillard, Jean Lorrah from its Alien in a matter of hours? Sheraton Burlington TT. and Katharine Kerr. There's no need to go on, for the movie has Gcestz To Be Announced And we have talked to countless actresses, other problems that have nothing to do with the though we suspect Kim Hunter, Jane Wyatt, previous pictures. Fincher seems to have gone HDVEHJSEH •-* VISHCOS II Judith Anderson, Teri Garr and from Point A to Point B to Point D—there's no Dame Children* Charity Event Weaver, among others, would object pacing in this picture at all, and no character Sigourney Skeratoa Springfield TLzzx. 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And pursue your goals, get into the industry, get those well-reported six seconds of added FX at profiled in STARLOG (and lots of other places) the end really improved the picture overall Call and. hopefully, become a role model for all the couldn't the producers have used that money for f KiL PRODUCTIONS 500 Monro* Turnpike script, which is a muddled mess of a hundred (203) 453-0413 others who may follow in the future. the Monro* CT OfrKtf FOR MORE INFORMATION ideas from countless writers who worked on this AND UPDATES ALIENATED picture? k ...Watching sequels is an experience that con- One interesting problem is the editing—an for the movie was stantly changes—there are the sequels that work early NY Times running time (ALIENS), the sequels that don't (RoboCop 2) 135 minutes, yet the final cut was under two and the ones that fall somewhere 1n the middle, hours. 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I'm not saying this story is a cliche, but it

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because Morrow handles it so deftly, to drown in cliches and endless, deriva- without false sentimentality. Morrow is a tive trilogies, a book like And the Angels Jonathan Swift for our times, and his Sing comes as the proverbial breath of City of Truth works on many levels, from fresh air. A talent like Kate Wilhelm's wickedly sharp satire to touching should not go unnoticed, and this is a tragedy. Highly recommended. perfectly marvelous introduction to her —T.W. Knowles II works. Highly recommended. —Jean-Marc Lofficier And the Angels Sing by Kate Wilhelm (St. Martin's, hardcover, 260 pp, $19.95) Kate Wilhelm is a wonderful writer, HAIBLUM but for some reason she doesn't seem to ISIDORE be getting the kind of recognition lav- ished upon other, often less-gifted au- thors. This is unfortunate, since her novel Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang remains one of the best, if not the best, stories ever written about cloning. And the Angels Sing is a collection of short stories, most of which have previ- ously appeared in Omni and the late Damon Knight's much-lamented antholo- gy Orbit. There's also a new story, as well as two works originally published in Redbook, a magazine not on the aver-

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lie; they have found a way around the sury before he makes his getaway back conditioning. to Happy City. It sounds like just the Sperry isn't too dissatisfied with his right job for Dunjer, his brilliant and life or his marriage, although he has a beautiful partner Laura, and his legion of brief affair with poet and possible dis- loyal mechanicals. sembler Martina Coventry. Then, his Of course, there are a few little son, Toby, who hasn't yet been brain- hitches. Magalone and Ul exist only in there, burned, is diagnosed as having a terminal another dimension, and to get illness. While Sperry's wife accepts Dunjer and his group have to depend on Toby's death as inevitable, Sperry the addle-brained Dr. Sass and his danger- searches for a way to save him. He hits ously-unstable interdimensional activa- on the discredited idea of positive think- tor. The last time they used it, it sent ing as a way to bring on a remission. He them to the insane Specterworld, at the must learn to lie, so he follows Martina end of all known universes. And what the to Satirev, the sanctuary of the dissem- dictator of not-so-peaceful Magalone blers. In the fabled City of Lies, snow is wants Dunjer to guard is a sentient crys- hot, pigs fly, dogs talk, the Pope is .Stories by tal mountain and the Destabilizer, a Jewish and hope may still spring eternal. weapon that could shatter all the realities His story is that of one man's strug- of all universes. gle to find the balance of hope that lies KateA^Villielm Haiblum tells a good tale. His dry wit Ann." somewhere between truth and fantasy. hdJcs "The Loofc AliU" .W -Forever Yours, and penchant for playing with shifting

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realities are reminiscent of Ron Goulart characters. He provides his readers with and Keith Laumer at their best, and just the right technical details to bring SCIENCEFICTION Dunjer is an amusing character with a his future reality to life, to enhance great line of hard-boiled patter. Traven's world without overshadowing CONTINUUM —T.W. Knowles II the people in it. Lethal Interface is a i Catalogue of SF, Fantasy, & Horror hard-boiled classic that will delight j Lethal Interface by Mel Odom (Roc, mystery and SF readers alike. JAPANIMATION paperback, 384 pp, $5.50) Recommended. The bleak near-future Dallas of Mel —T.W. Knowles II $29.99 Odom's Lethal Interface is a perfect envi- English, ronment for Mick Traven, a vice cop Crisis on Doona by Anne McCaffrey & letterboxed burned out by years spent doing an Jodv Lvnne Nve (Ace, paperback, 328 impossible job. 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Though the story killed by a subway train, and her signa- occasionally bogs down in technical ture on an organ donor card allows a details, the action sequences are well- CIA-funded project to harvest her brain. written. Enter Dr. Walter Hillerman, who has de- —T.W. Knowles II vised a way to keep human brain matter alive indefinitely in a chemical solution Trust Territory by Janet & Chris Morris that will allow him to reconfigure the (ROC, hardcover, 261 pp, $20) neural systems of the brain as a hyper- Trust Territory is based on a solid if efficient medium for computerized data. often-used idea, that superior aliens Of all his experimental subjects, only might use a powerful artifact as a means the one he has christened "Lady El" of contacting and assessing humanity. survives. 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And Joe South, the Buck Rogers- his unique imperfections that set him her becomes an electronic feast of infor- type pilot from the past, would be a apart from others. He knows it's his mation. As Hillerman builds his reputa- good choice for a viewpoint character. impending death that makes him special. tion on her success, his superiors expand The problem is that there is no true Outnumbering the Dead begins as her network to control more and more of viewpoint character. This isn't a particu- Rafiel awakens from his latest rejuvena- the government's computerized func- larly long novel, but the viewpoint tion treatment and prepares to take on tions. Eventually, she is installed in a leapfrogs back and forth between five ma- the role of Oedipus in a new version of secured facility in the Pentagon. jor characters. What's worse, the reader the play. As the physical rigors of re- Lady El is the story of one remarkable must wade through each scene time and hearsal begin to wear him down, he real- woman's journey to the center of her again as it appears horn each viewpoint. izes that the treatment might not have soul, of her transmigration into some- There are large expanses of one- and two- been completely successful. He mentally thing more than human. It manages to be sentence paragraphs, in which each char- reviews his life, looking for a sense of both cheering and chilling as it closely acter observes the action and repeatedly meaning. Then, an old lover, Alegretta, examines the nature and exercise of thinks the same unoriginal thoughts as the doctor who first diagnosed his resis- power. The graphic illustrations fit the the others. This is lazy writing, padding tance to the longevity treatment, returns mood, and the first-person narrative at its worst. If you cut about 60 percent to him. She has signed on as an engineer sweeps the reader up into Lady El's out of the middle and put the opening on the nearly-completed starship unique character, into the center of her and closing together, you may have a de- Hakluyt, which will take 5,000 colonists pain and joy. Recommended. cent novelette. And this is only the on a 35-year trip to the Tau Ceti system. —T.W. Knowles II middle book of a trilogy? Not She brings Rafiel a new challenge, an recommended. opportunity to make his final perfor- Crusade by David Weber & Steven —T.W. Knowles II mance his greatest. White (Baen Books, paperback, 448 pp, This edition includes fine illustrations $4.99) by Steve Crisp. They accentuate Rafiel's The fragile alliance between the hu- story, in which Pohl uses the mans of the Terran Federation and the various meanings of immortality to tigerlike aliens of the Orion Khanate examine the essential questions of life faces a threat from the past in Crusade. and death. Pohl's control of his style and Many years before, during the First characters has never been better, and his Interstellar War, the battered survivors of masterful finish gives the reader the a human colonization fleet fled their sense of having shared in Rafiel's Orion pursuers by diving into a deadly triumph. Outnumbering the Dead packs one-way warp point known as Charon's an incredible emotional punch into a Ferry. They were presumed lost, but now short span of pages. One of Pohl's best. ships identifying themselves as Terran —T.W. Knowles II burst forth from Charon's Ferry, attack and destroy an Orion patrol. Unaware of Lady El by & Daina the alliance, the attackers have Grazinunas (Roc, paperback, 336 pp, technically broken the treaty. To keep $4.99) the peace, the Federation agrees to act Arlene Washington's vicious stepfa- alone to punish the invaders. ther abused her, then forced her into But the "lost colonists" aren't exactly prostitution. 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Lloyd Bridges. You can say that again. He bridges nearly all the me- dia, having established himself time and again, and he spans the generation gap as well. He started out on stage in the 1930s, playing classical roles in college, summer theaters, even on Broadway. In the '40s, Bridges began his screen career, first in minor roles and later in solid supporting parts in some top Hollywood features. Baby boomers remember that in the '50s, he became a household name thanks to Sea Hunt, then America's most-watched syndi- cated TV show. More recently, a whole new generation has come to know him for his befuddled roles in the «zany spoofs Airplane!, Airplane II: The Sequel, Hot Shots and now Honey, I Blew Up the Baby (later retitled Honey, I Blew Up the Kid). "They don't really blow the baby to pieces," Bridges, now 79, is quick to cor- rect. "What happens is, the baby gets a- hold of something that increases his size,

Years ago, Lloyd Bridges piloted "Rocketship X-M" to the shores of distant space.

something that 'blows him up' all out of activity in his bustling Los Angeles home proportion. He leaves the house and is on and talks about the real star of this feature: his way to Las Vegas. And now it's a mad "The star of the whole thing is the won- chase to get to him before he gets to Las derful special FX; it's just amazing what Vegas, where the neon lights are going to these effects men can come up with today," make him God-knows how much taller he affirms. "We worked some pretty late

than he is already." hours on the picture, but the cast was all

As Disney's sequel to the hugely very nice and it was a pleasure working Between Sea Hunts, Bridges and wife successful Honey, I Shrunk the Kids hits with them. It was pleasant working with Dorothy Simpson set sail for Hawaii. theaters, Bridges takes a break from the [star] Rick Moranis, who's a very nice

STARLOG/September 1992 25 —

with Columbia, and my wife helped me

she played the gal in the test that I made.

As a result of the test, I got started in pic- tures." Although Bridges grew to miss stage work during the long motion picture and TV career which ensued, he's quick to ad- mit that "I did get kind of disenchanted with the stage because, on a couple of the

plays that I was in. the atmosphere wasn't

as good as I would have liked it to be. And

if a play "runs," if it's a success, you [the cast] are on top of one another for a year or two! There's a lot of back-biting that

sometimes goes on. but it all depends on what kind of company you're in. Some of 'em were just wonderful, a lot of fun." Of course, once Bridges became estab- lished in pictures, there was a second con- sideration as well. "The other gamble that you have to think about is whether you want to take several months out of your .life to do a play—and give up the possi- bility of doing a picture that might come up and mean a lot more money! But the

stage is still exciting, and certainly a great way to get started. When you've got a base

like the theater, it always puts you in good It was a different kind of Sea Hunt that took Bridges and Keenan Wynn Around the World Under the Sea. stead working in pictures." His stage background notwithstanding. man, as well as a talented man. And I could "A bunch of us New York actors Bridges' screen career got off to a fairly say the same thing about the director, couldn't get a job. and we started what I slow start at Columbia: Although the stu- Randal Kleiser [STARLOG #181]. He's think was one of the first off-Broadway dio had him working constantly (almost someone who really knows his business. theaters. We found this old iron foundry, 50 films in just four years, beginning with

He has done this kind of picture before, so made it into a theater and put on about five 1941 's The»Lone Wolf Takes a Chance). it wasn't anything new for him." plays. We were pretty well-received—the they were mainly minor roles in small, big-time critics came down and reviewed now-forgotten pictures: / Was a Prisoner

College Actor us", and they were very kind to us. It was on Devil's Island. The Medico of Painted Science fiction is also nothing new to there that the owners of a place called Springs. Two Latins from Manhattan. Sing Bridges, who has worked more than just Green Mansions saw us and hired us. And for Your Supper, even a two-reeler with the occasionally in the genre. The star of so I was acting and directing and producing Three Stooges. ("Columbia got their many an on-land. underwater and outer and everything there at Green Mansions, money's worth out of me. you can believe space adventure was born Lloyd Vernet which was up in the Catskills. Sidney thatV) He played his first "fantastic" film

Bridges, Jr.. in San Leandro. California, Buchman, the right hand man to. Harry role in the company's supernatural comedy and grew up in various Northern California Cohn at Columbia at the time, saw me in Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941). as the pi- towns. His father, who was in the hotel quite a few different things, and he felt that lot of a Heaven-bound airplane, and made business, wanted him to become a lawyer, 1 had talent. He arransed for a screen test his horror film debut in Universal's but young Lloyd's interests turned to acting while at the University of California at Los Angeles. (Dorothy Simpson, Bridges' wife of more than 50 years, was one of his UCLA classmates, and appeared opposite him in a romantic play called March Hares.) "Working on the stage was my main ambition when I left college," he remi- nisces. "I did a lot of Shakespeare and

Greek drama—as a matter of fact, I played the lead in Oedipus at UCLA, and played Hamlet, Romeo and all those things.

Thai's what I was interested in when I went to New York to seek my fortune, but all I got was an extra part in [the 1937 Broadway production of] Othello with Walter Huston and Brian Aherne. But later on, I did an adaptation of Othello, played

Iago and directed it.

TOM WEAVER, veteran STARLOG corre- spondent, is the author of Science Fiction Stars & Horror Heroes (McFarland. $35). He profiled Ben Chapman in STARLOG Lloyd Bridges (center) took off in Rocketship X-M with a "very congenial" Hugh #180. O'Brian, Osa Massen, John Emery and Noah Beery, Jr.

26 STARLOG/September 1992 Strange Confession (1945), an entry in the paid a lot more for their production. We studio's heavy-handed Inner Sanctum se- took advantage of the publicity that they ries. Of the film's star Lon Chaney. were putting out: People weren't quite sure Bridges recalls, "I enjoyed working with whether they were seeing that picture or him very much. Of course, I had been a our picture!" great admirer of his father. [Chaney. Jr.] Lifting off from the Government was very sweet, very nice. The picture Proving Grounds in White Sands, New might not have been too much to brag Mexico, the multi-stage RXM (Rocketship about, but he was a very pleasant man to Expedition Moon) was the first manned work with!" rocket into space, with a lunar landing and By this mid-40s period, Bridges was exploration planned. But a storm of mete- gone from Columbia and freelancing, land- ors sends the rocket off in a new direction ing two of his best early roles in A Walk in at incredible velocity, toward Mars. the Sun (1945). a thoughtful character Taking advantage of the opportunity, the study of men in war, and Home of the crew of five—pilot Bridges, designer John Brave (1949), with Bridges as the long- Emery, chemist Osa Massen, navigator time chum of a black soldier (James Hugh O'Brian and engineer Noah Beery, Edwards) coping with racism during World Jr. —land and (in red-tinted scenes) scout War II. Then, it was on to science fiction, the planet's barren surface, finding evi- as Bridges starred in the first post-war dence of a long-ago civilization destroyed outer space adventure, Rocketship X-M. by atomic war. Savage Martian cave- dwellers attack, killing Emery and Beery Space Pilot and wounding O'Brian. The survivors es- Years before anyone coined the expres- Despite having played and fought aliens, cape aboard the RXM, but a fuel shortage sion "race to space" to denote the competi- Bridges doesn't necessarily believe they spells disaster. After short-waving a full tion between the U.S. and the Soviet exist, but "I don't d/'sbelieve in 'em." report to base, Bridges and Massen declare Union, two Hollywood moviemakers were their newfound love for one another as the locked in a competition of their own. tive and costly promotion. Lippert's film rocket plunges to a devastating crash land- Producer was taking pains with was Rocketship X-M. ing on Earth. his production of Destination Moon, "I don't know how much artistic value "I begged the director not to shoot that spending well over a half-million dollars Lippert gave to a piece," Bridges recalls, love scene, when we're plummeting to the on the film, working with scientists and "but he was crazy about motion pictures, Earth and we pour out our hearts to one an- space travel experts, creating an avalanche and had seen just about every one that was other." Bridges asserts. "I told him, 'You of exciting advance publicity. B-movie ever made! Most of the things he did were know, at a time like that, it just doesn't maven Robert L. Lippert decided that his the so-called B pictures of the day, but he make sense!' It seemed so wrong to me to company could quickly knock out a half- made his impression on the business. destroy the illusion; I was sure people alike film, beat Pal to the finish line and With Rocketship X-M, we did beat our would laugh at it. But he insisted, and who take advantage of his competitor's initia- competitor. Destination Moon, and they knows whether he was right or not."

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The actor once offered strategic advice to Commander Adama (Lome Greene, right) and the Battlestar Galactica crew.

with a shrug. "It's the same kind of thing people are saying about colorization.

With some of the classics, I think col- orization would be a mistake. But for something like Sea Hunt, colorization would be an improvement. The first two Sea Hunt pilots that we did were in color, but because they were going to cost a few thousand bucks more [per episode] to make 'em in color, the producers decided they didn't want to take the gamble." Bridges adds quickly that the people behind Rocketship X-M had no idea that it would become any sort of classic. "I'm not

sure that it has— has it? Well, because it was one of the first films of its sort, I that guess it might have. I don't remember

it did my career much good. It was consid- ered a B picture, and you never make much should have of an impression on the industry if you're The director, Kurt Neumann, is best- seen any of the Martians; they is in a B picture. Not even if you're in a good recalled today for his SF films such as been just shadows. Imagination Does he consider Rocketship X-M a Rocketship X-M. Kronos and The Fly. but stronger than actually seeing. (Not many one." "good" one? "I like it, except that last Bridges mostly remembers him as '"a man of my suggestions were taken, as you may the red love scene continues to bother me. I just who believed we had to do a fasti We had a have noticed!) But I did think that can't imagine that any two people would very short schedule, maybe 10 days or tinting of the Martian scenes was a good out to be a be that calm about it all!" something like that. When we went out on idea, and Death Valley turned bit like Another strong role came via producer location to shoot the scenes of Mars, we good location for us. It looked a the Moon Stanley Kramer's High Noon (1952), with went out to Death Valley. We had to put on what we later out found out that Bridges as a conniving deputy who threat- our wardrobe and makeup en route, in the was like." interi- ens not to back up town marshal Gary plane, so that as soon as the plane landed, The Rocketship X-M spaceship shot "in the Cooper when outlaws invade their quiet we were ready to go to work! ors, Bridges continues, were of that Western town. But after High Noon came •"Everything went smoothly and fast [in studio. I don't know how much at time was real; it was allegations that Bridges had one the Death Valley scenes]. It had to —or [aeronautical equipment] the Communist Party. I guess they figured been involved with else they would just skip the scene! I al- before its time, so work, free-thinking about it! After an FBI clearance, he resumed ways felt that we should have never have they could be pretty again in the clutches of They were a bit crude, all of the Rocketship but he was once Robert Lippert, pro- X-M FX, when you look at 'em today." the B movie makers. who Bridges also remembers the cast of ducer of Rocketship X-M, was one Rocketship X-M as a "very congenial" kept Bridges gainfully employed. fun, a real pro- group of actors. "Osa Massen we don't see "Lippert was a lot of kind of guy. I did much of lately, but for quite a while we moter, a jolly, rotund for him; I especially re- kept in touch. She was a very sweet per- several pictures Texan [1953] son; she had been an editor for some time member one called The Tall and before she became an actress. She had a with Marie Windsor, Lee J. Cobb Adler. were often rewriting that fascinating kind of personality, I thought, Luther We going to and she was a beautiful girl. In fact, Hugh script the night before we were Luther Adler, I O' Brian was very much in love with her— shoot, and Lee Cobb and background in the guess we all were," he laughs. guess because of their "John Emery was quite the Shake- Group Theater, were pretty adept at coming writing them- spearean actor, always spouting Shake- up with lines. So, they were told 'em speare, and as a matter of fact, many selves into a lot more scenes! We appreciated being people felt he was very much like John that was great, that we take advantage of the talent they Barrymore. I remember that he kind of pat- able to change the terned himself after Barrymore to a certain both had. but that we had better laughs. extent: he always had some sort of title to The Short Texansl" he Barrymore-like comment to make about Other producers who hired Bridges in- England's Hammer Films and low- everything. I think he was trying to figure cluded maverick Roger out how he found himself in the desert, budget Hollywood made-in-Spain Deadly- among the rocks, making Rocketship X-M, Corman. Hammer's according to Bridges, "was when he should have been in the theater Game (1954), it was a pleasure work- doing Shakespeare!" a lot of fun, because ing with the English actors—they're al- Town Deputy ways so good. There were two lovely girls unfortunately, later While many actors squawk about latter- in that; one girl, because she had a day tampering with vintage films, Bridges committed suicide and she couldn't seem to has a casual reaction to news that new spe- weight problem it. (I'm sure it was more involved cial FX scenes for Rocketship X-M were master that.) She was a lovely lady, and so "Well, if it improved the than Looks like Bridges picked the wrong shot in the '70s. says was the other gal." And Corman, who di- week to be an air-traffic controller. film, I guess it doesn't matter." he

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A Admiral "Tug" Benson prepares to give his country an earful as its new President in a sequel to Hot Shots!

rected Bridges in AIP's Apache Woman, He was very smitten with all the latest that "didn't know too much about directing at science had to offer, and he incorporated the time, and I sort of pulled him through most of that stuff into our shows. the whole thing. And I felt that I never got "We started out filming the underwater any thanks from him at all. He was one of stuff for Sea Hunt in the tank at the few guys I've worked with that I felt Marineland out here. (They've torn it all was selfish—someone who wanted good down since.) Then, we shot the 'topside' results, but didn't care how he got 'em." scenes all up and down the coast nearby Santa Monica piers. Malibu piers and so Sea Hunter on. The underwater stuff for the first six Bridges was more than happy to be Bridges' most enduring claim to fame episodes or so was done at the Marineland called back for Airplane II: The Sequel. remains Sea Hunt (1958-61), the Ivan Tors tank, but it got so that we recognized the

TV series which grew in popularity until it same fish going by all the time." he ocean, 'cause we always had a place on the became the country's most successful syn- laughs. "So, we had to change the underwa- beach, but I didn't know anything about dicated show. The series' one regular was ter topography. We went to Nassau and diving. So. Courtney Brown [Bridges' un- Bridges as Mike Nelson, a one-time Navy shot underwater at a place called Leifert derwater double] checked me out in a pool frogman now specializing in freelance un- Cay. which turned out to be a beautiful for one clay, and the next day, they threw derwater investigation. "When I first met place to do underwater photography. We me in the ocean. That was all new and very

Ivan Tors, I found out that he had seen a would do about eight [episodes' worth of exciting to me— it was a whole new world, film of mine called lb Fathoms Deep topside scenes], and then go there and do as it was to everyone who saw the show."

[1948], where I played a sponge diver underwater stuff for the eight." Another side benefit to having his own 'hardhat' diving gear. The whole inter- Teaching Bridges the ins and outs of TV series was being able to provide occa- view, Ivan didn't even ask me if I knew diving was done quickly, and not exactly sional employment to his acting sons. how to swim'. But he was a wonderful man. by the book. "I had swam quite a bit in the Beau and Jeff. "Yeah, they both got their feet wet in the business on Sea Hunt, and so did my daughter Lucinda. who nobody knows too much about. She started out act- ing until she got married and had children.

She's still interested in acting, but now it's

in abeyance. She paints a lot, which is something she can do and still be a good mother and wife." Sea Hunt and other TV tours of duty kept Bridges off the big screen throughout the late '50s and early '60s, and when he

returned, it was in another subaqueous Ivan Tors adventure. Around the World Under the Sea. Introduced with a foreword by as- tronaut M. Scott Carpenter ("The sea is a tough adversary—much more hostile an environment than space"), the MGM pro- duction centered around the crew of the nu- clear-powered submarine Hydronaut and their efforts to anchor earthquake sensors in strategic pressure points on the ocean floor. The premise was earthquakes, but the film itself was less than earth-shaking. "We did that in Miami, at Ivan Tors' studio

there. David McCallum was in it, [Keenan] Death Valley was fitting for Rocketship X-Ms Mars scenes, recalls Bridges. (continued on page 66)

STARLOG/Septemher J 992 29 Robert Asprin creates fantasy worlds enough to satirize.

By STAN NICHOLLS

Looking at fantasy from a schlocky sorcerer's point-of-view, Robert Asprin founded the beloved Myth-Adventures.

who doesn't have that kind of background, who hasn't worked a live audience, is lost at trying to find the necessary pace and timing." Associated with humorous fantasy and SF due to his Myth and Phule's Company series, Asprin's first career was as an ac- countant with the Xerox Corporation. During his 12-year Xerox stint, he wrote his first novel. The Cold Cash War (1976), but he credits author Gordon Dickson for his break into professional often refer to humorous writing as Asprin writing. "When people ask, 'Can you like doing radio," Robert | give me advice? How did you do it?' I I says. "There's no instant fee'dback for> can give them advice, but when I get to. you to work off of, so you must have| 'How did you do it?' I bog down, because faith and say, T know they're laughing | Gordon R. Dickson was my mentor and out there,' then give it two beats and hit| took me under his wing. the punchline." 2 encouraged me to write, and in- Humorous fantasy in particular^ "He troduced me to both my first publisher requires a special kind of talent, he be- ° and my first agent. Thanks to his sup- lieves. "I almost hate to say it, but un-« port, I was not only the one in a million less one has the flair, hang it up, OK? who had an agent for my first book, I Most of the people who have that comic 5 was the one in two million who sold my sense seem to have honed it in front of § first book on sample chapters. Only I an audience. I used to do theater, and at § can't tell 500 wannabes to go camp on one point, I wanted to be a nightclub en- No matter what, Asprin wi II continue the Gordie Dickson's doorstep until he intro- tertainer before deciding there wasn't Myth-Adventures through a dozen it's in his contract. duces them around New York." enough money in it. I think someone volumes. He has to;

30 STARLOG/Septemher 1992 The Cold Cash War, a SF satire, set a tone on display in all of Asprin's subse- quent work. "Often I'm a reactive writer, and go counter to existing trends, or lampoon something I think has gotten out of control. In that book, I was react- ing to all of the speculation I saw about corporations getting to run the planet in the future. I read this stuff from the per- spective of someone working for Xerox, and it was clear to me that people mak- ing these predictions had never been closer to a corporation than mailing in their phone bill. Corporations can't agree on the color of toilet paper, much less rule the world!" Shared Thievery Apart from a few fanzine articles and a humor column for a Society For Creative Anachronism publication, Asprin's output was modest when he became a full-time writer. And his decision to go into SF/fantasy was at least partially happenstance. "I've always felt that I'm a storyteller who happens to write g science fiction and fantasy, as opposed > to a SF or fantasy author," he explains. | "My major connection with the field g came when I started doing conventions fe and got to know the writers." Z

Beginning with M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link, Asprin initiated a turn in the series' viewpoint, although it's still funny business as usual.

"For a long time, the only short sto- 1-6- [Kl99 CANADA) -$4.99 US. ESTSEUING AUTHOR OF THE MYTH BOOKS ries I wrote were the ones I did for Thieves' World [the shared world an- thologies edited with wife Lynn Abbey], 10BERT ASPRIN which is cheating. First, I'm selling —litary misfits of PHULE'S COMPANY are back! them to myself, and second, if you look at those books, you'll see many of the people writing for us were essentially novelists." For Asprin, "The neat thing about shared worlds is that you don't have tc redefine the environment and establish

"I'm not a fast writer," Asprin admits. the characters each time, and because it's "I'm not a slow writer. I'm a half-fast a series, you don't even have to resolve writer." it. You can just set up a situation in one

short story and resolve it in the next He went straight into novels; there volume. was no apprenticeship with short stories. "What we did with Thieves' World is "I don't like writing short stories. no different from many TV series. If you There's far too much work for the return want to write for Star Trek, you get back on them, particularly in our field. If this manual which spells out who the you're writing a short detective story, characters are, what the universe is and you can have your character drive up in who you can't kill off. You must write his car, get out, walk into a building, your story within that framework." take the elevator to the third floor. But Some people have credited Asprin in science fiction, you have to have him with creating the shared world concept. "I driving a hovercraft and using a lift tube, think that's amusing," he notes. "I had because all the gimmickry is so much a someone tell me I had invented the first part of the genre. Trying to fit a short new literary form in 200 years! story into that narrow framework, when you're having to define the' world and the Marching in step with Phule's Company, STAN NICHOLLS, Britain-based writer, technology to boot, is a real struggle. Asprin lampoons the military SF genre. profiled Martin Asbury in STARLOG #179.

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Asprin's (ex-)agent maintained, "Humor doesn't sell," but he was myth-taken.

Another Fine Myth as my second novel," he remembers, "and showed an outline

for it to my agent. He wrinkled his nose and said, 'Humor doesn't sell. Have you got anything serious?' So, I gave him another idea for a book called The Bug Wars [1979]. A week later, he called and said he liked the characters in the Myth books, although he wasn't crazy about the story, but suggested I write it any-

way. I knocked the book out in maybe three or four weeks. "What heavily flavored the Myth se- ries is that right in the middle of my writing the first book, they had a festi- val of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby Road movies on TV. Dedicated writer that I am, I ended up every evening camped in front of the TV watching them. I had a lapboard, and during the commercials a scribbled notes for the book, and Hope The most exciting fantasy adventure series |f== s \ and Crosby worked their way out onto j in world. Edited by any the page. So, I ended up with two charac- I essentially con artists and Robert Lynn Asprin & Lynn Abbey I ters who were world who could talk their way into or out of With his wife Lynn Abbey, Asprin edits the ground-breaking shared anything mostly into it. And when anthology series, Thieves' World. — things got too rough they would go, World 'Special effects!' which was the magic. "The point about Thieves' World, and "What I enjoyed about Thieves' to compare writing "As I say, Another Fine Myth took me the reason we're often called on by oth- is that it enabled one six, 12 top SF three or four weeks to write; The Bug ers as a reference point, was not only styles. You would have same set- Wars took me a year-and-a-half. Guess were we forerunners, but for a change, and fantasy writers working the often dealing which one took off and which one sat the whole thing was creator-owned and ting, the same characters, situation, from different there and gathered dust?" controlled. It wasn't owned by a movie with the same wanted a text- Like Cold Cash War, the impulse be- studio or a publisher. It wasn't like Star viewpoints. If you ever A.E. Van Vogt's hind the Myth books was satiric. The Trek or Spider-Man. If we didn't like our book to compare, say, to find mid-70s fantasy boom was the target. treatment, we could move off to another style to C.J. Cherryh's, it's hard vari- "Conan, Elric and similar heroes were re- publisher, and we were handling all the anything which eliminated more big, and high fantasy was getting merchandising and sub-licensing. Just ables than Thieves' World." ally very weighty and pretentious. So, I because someone publishes the books, thought, 'OK, instead of doing brawny don't tell me they get to negotiate or Fine Myths popular and barbarians slicing up sorcerers, I'll do it keep a piece of the gaming monies. The Thieves' World was spin- from the sorcerer's viewpoint. As a mat- form wasn't that different, really, but the spawned numerous merchandising reputation ter of fact, I'll make him a kind of behind-the-scenes financing and control offs, but Asprin has built his wanted to do schlocky sorcerer.' It went from there. was completely different. on the Myth series. "I

32 STARUOGISeptember 1992 — —

"Stephen King, in his introduction to the mountains move. The magical sys- Night Shift, talks about the close rela- tems Marion Zimmer Bradley uses in her tionship between humor and horror. He Darkover books are totally different than says they're just a hair's breadth apart, Roger Zelazny's in the Amber books. and points out that horror done badly is Both, of course, are totally different from funny and humor done badly is horrible. the magic I'm using in the Myth books. Humorous fantasy's that close, too. It's But within each series, they're all very like going in with a scalpel, and it has consistent." to look effortless to do it right." Asprin thinks many would-be writers Science Satire underestimate how hard it is to convey Asprin's newest series, Pintle's World, that seeming ease. "Everybody at one satirizes SF in the same way that the time or another has picked up a baseball Myth novels satirize fantasy. But he has and thrown it or hit it with a bat. But his criticisms of science fiction. "I don't nobody thinks they can walk in and mean to put down SF writers, though oc- pitch the World Series. On the other casionally it sounds like it, but I'm pri- hand, at one time or another, everybody marily interested in people. wrote a paper for English class, and they therefore think they could be a pro- fessional writer if they just took the time. But there's a big difference between just doing it and doing it professionally. „ Myth It's not that easy." An important ingredient, in his opin- Directions ion, is complete conviction about what ^^ By the editor of THIEVES' WORLD™ you are doing, no matter how fanciful. "I saw a TV special on animation, and they Robert Asprin talked about "cartoon physics.' An ex- ample of this—and one of the things The "bantering swindlers" of the Bob we've all seen in a hundred cartoons—is Hope and Bing Crosby Road movies a character running off a cliff and not "wandered off the screen" and onto falling until he realizes he's standing on Asprin's notepad. thin air. There's a parallel with fantasy here, where you must construct a reality actually helps me build the readership, which is internally consistent and then because the point-of-view I tend to look operate within it, the way cartoons do. at things from is much more in touch It's not so much a question of suspend- with the guy on the street. I'm sure

ing disbelief as transplanting, it. you'll have noticed that much of my stuff

"The magical systems that fantasy has a money slant in it. writers construct are an instance of this. "Another problem with science fiction

You can't just do the Disney 'Bibbity. is that it's almost dated as you write it bobbity. boo," wave vour hand and have because we're making such vast jumps in technology. Isaac Asimov made an inter- esting comment after the first Moon The Bestsellins Fantasy Series Nearly One Million Copies in Print! landing. He said every writer in the world Skewering fantasy's "weighty and from Cyrano de Bergerac and H.G. Wells pretentious" conventions has become on took a crack at the first man on the an Asprin trademark. Moon and what it would be like, and not By the Editor of THIEVES' WORLD'" "If I did a story about a colony star- one of them anticipated we would be

i RobertAsprin ship traveling to another solar system, watching it live on TV. It's so hard to and it's going to be en route for three second-guess the technology. generations, I'm more interested in what "Phule's World goes after the military

it does to your head if you're that middle SF genre, like all the Dorsai novels from generation and realize you're going to my old mentor Gordie. The Phule's live and die without seeing the outside of books are sort of science fiction because the ship, based on a decision somebody they're set out there on other planets.

else made. I find that more fascinating But they're not what you would call hi- than, 'What's in the engine room?' tech or hard science fiction. They fall under the science fantasy category." The first time Asprin heard that "Science fiction is phrase, it was being applied to Thieves' World. "I was scratching my head trying

almost dated as you to think why anyone would call it sci- ence fantasy and not just straight fan- write it." tasy. The nearest I could come up with was that this was a term being used by "Many SF writers came in through people who for years had put down fan-

academia, or the various science indus- tasy and said it was drek and no good. tries, such as NASA. My background be- Now they had found something they fore coming into writing was working as liked, and rather than reversing their

When the going gets tough for Skeeve an accountant, so I couldn't have had stance on fantasy, they created a whole and Aahz, they call in the special FX more of a corporate, bottom-line mental- new label so they could say, 'Fantasy is i.e. mostly magic. ity compared to the academic types. That (continued on page 71)

ctadi r~\/~wc... „„,/.„,. mni By LAWRENCE V. CONLEY

• in the va'stness of you'll' find the . space, action and intrigue of

-5." ' . "Babylon

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"Babylon 5 is the first real attempt at floats alone in space, holding "It" is a space station called Babylon 5. than four years, creating a brand new universe in 25 Itsilently at the very point where the In the works for more years on a huge comprehensive scale," borders of five space-faring empires Babylon 5 is a new science fiction show — 1993 as a says its creator and co-executive producer touch. It is the fifth attempt at establish- intended to premiere; in February of the J. Michael Straczynski, currently also a ing a neutral ground where the ambas- two-hour made-for-TV movie. Part producer for Murder, She Wrote and a past sadors from each empire can meet without Warner Bros. Television Consortium, B-5 writer/story editor for shows such as The shields raised or weapons drawn. Three of (as it's commonly called) is then sched- series, going Twilight Zone revival, The Real Ghost- its predecessors were destroyed by sabo- uled to later become a regular Next busters, Captain Power and Jake and the teurs; the fourth vanished without a trace head-to-head with the Star Trek: The Nine. Fatman. (His wife, Kathryn Drennan, is a just 24 hours after commencing opera- Generation carry-over. Deep Space graph- former STARLOG correspondent). tions. It is three kilometers long, one Featuring cutting-edge computer "If you think about it for a second, kilometer wide and armed to the teeth. ics, a blending of human actors with me- fiction uni- chanicals designed by experts culled from we've only had one science puppet verse to play in. For 25 years this has LAWRENCE V. CONLEY, LA-based TV Jim Cameron's Terminator 2 team, veterans been the Star Trek Universe, which—with writer, provided the story for the "Silicon creations a la Henson Workshop modifications is the same now as it Avatar" episode of Star Trek: The Next and production designers from Honey, I some — 25 years ago," he claims. "You've got Generation. He examined writing for Star Shrunk the Kids and The Addams Family, was your Klingons. your Romulans, your Trek in STARLOG SPECTACULAR #3. B-5 promises a new look in SF-TV.

34 STKRLOGISeptember 1992 pr There are some places on Babylon 5 that will be off-limits to even the station's inhabitants, reports Straczynski.

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present commander of Babylon 5, a "Everything's built toward that end—much veteran of the Minbari war named Jeffrey like The Prisoner was constructed. Babylon Sinclair. During the war's last battle at 5 has a five-year story arc and will essen- "The Line" (a final defensive position tially be a five-year mini-series with each where Earth placed the remains of their year likened to a chapter in a novel. Each battle fleet in a dying effort to save the episode will stand on its own, but overall, homeworld), Sinclair attempted to ram his the totality of the separate shows will tell fighter into the Minbari flagship, but a much larger story." blacked out moments before impact. He Most of the action occurs aboard the woke up 24 hours later to discover the Babylon 5 station, which orbits a dead Minbari had surrendered. planet at a neutral point in space where the Besides the oddity that the victorious borders of five powerful dominions touch Minbari had no reason to surrender. one another. Aside from the Earth Alliance Sinclair had only 16 hours of oxygen in and the Minbari Federation, these strange his ship when he initiated the ramming new realms include: The Vorlon Empire, maneuver. Yet when he awakened a day whose inhabitants wear atmospheric-

later, he still had 16 hours of oxygen left. encounter suits and whose features will This mystery, along with the disappear- remain a mystery for the first season; the ance of the fourth Babylon space station. Nam Regime, a hungry, warlike race bent are only two of many puzzles which have on avenging past wrongs: and the Centauri been carefully interwoven into the show's Republic, the oldest of the five, whose saga-like storyline. leaders have allowed their overstretched "The series has a definite beginning empire to slip into decay after centuries of and a definite end." Straczynski reveals. plying the stars.

(left), pro- Federation, and a few smaller guys kicking Getting Babylon 5 ready for the air are exec producer Douglas Netter creator/co-exec producer J. Michael Straczynski, produc- around now, like the Ferengi, but it's still ducer John Copeland, tion designer John lacovelli and visual FX designer/director Ron Thornton. the same thing. The Babylon 5 Universe will be refreshingly different." No Cute Kids Set in the year 2257, the show takes place 10 years after a devastating war between the Earth Alliance, a fractious organization composed of several hundred human and alien worlds, and the Minbari Federation, a highly-advanced and mystical people who, over a two-year period, defeated one imperialistic Alliance battle fleet after another. But after pushing them all the way back to Earth, for reasons unknown, the Minbari surrendered. Indeed, a key mystery concerns the ration-based science fiction. The problem with exploration-based shows is coming up with the alien of the week," he explains. "After a while, it gets overused—how many new guys can you run into? As a result, the focus shifts from the main characters. Shows like LA. Law, St. Elsewhere or Hill Street Blues set up an environment conducive to people coming in with problems, crises and urgent missions. Then, you watch your characters dealing with them on their own turf. "The inhabitants and crew of Babylon 5 Doctor Benjamin Kyle. Security chief Michael Garibaldi. are people who have put themselves on the frontier, on the fringe, fully aware of the Because each of the confederations borne Casablanca of intrigue, smuggling, dangers. This causes a certain pressure, as have, to some degree, clashed with one murder, espionage, mistrust, collusion and does the isolation. New people and another in the past, they now look to spying." This mix, he contends, will make visitors coming in every day also causes Babylon 5 as their only hope for perma- B-5 the Hill Street Blues of science fiction it becomes a very volatile nent peace, making the station a floating and a show more focused on the develop- pressure, and environment. That's what I like for my United Nations of sorts. It's a place de- ment of its central characters than is the stories volatile environments." scribed by Straczynski as being "a space- usual fare among standard action or explo- —

36 SJARLOG/September 1992 —

one job to another and for whom Babylon Straczynski says. "If someone does a cop 5 represents a final chance to make good. show, it isn't in direct competition with B-5's alien dominions will be repre- every other cop show. But because there sented by: Delenn, the slim, deeply are no other SF shows around right now. spiritual Minbari ambassador; Khosh we can't help but be compared with Star Naranek. the highly-secretive representa- Trek. We aren't competing with them tive from the Vorlon Empire: Londo we're competing with ourselves, to be the Mollari. the rotund, pretentious Centauri best show we can be." Republic delegate; and Jackarr. the jack- Despite the fact that Warner Bros, an- booted militarist from the Nam Regime. nounced its plans for Babylon 5 on The Babylon 5 space station itself can November 22, 1991, two weeks before be likened to a giant, slow-spinning, hol- Paramount unveiled its new Trek project, low tube based on the O'Neill Sphere. some fans have assumed that B-5 is riding

Inside is an oxygen-generating biosphere, Deep Space Nine's coattails. It's an complete with a tremendous garden domi- assumption that rankles Straczynski, who nating the landscape, making it what quickly points out that B-5 has been in the Straczynski calls "a world turned inside- works for a long time.

out." It comes equipped with gambling "The thinking on B-5 goes back to

casinos, sports arenas, night clubs, a 1986, when I began to work out in my brothel, a dozen different churches (human head the series' basic chronology. In and alien) and a bazaar-like marketplace 1987, I took it to Doug Netter and John where one can buy anything from mini- Copeland—I had worked with them on starships to rare alien commodities. Captain Power [where they were executive

Vice-Commander Laurel Takashima.

"It's not just one world; it's really five and associate producers] and knew them as or six," Straczynski points out. "We have guys who respected science fiction. We a variety of life forms on B-5, [including] then agreed on a partnership to get the aliens who require different atmospheres. show on the air." So, there'll be sections that humans can't Straczynski completed the B-5 treat- go into without a special breathing appa- ment by 1988 and, with Netter and Despite the pressure-cooker analogy, ratus and sections that rotate at speeds Copeland, pitched the concept at Chris Straczynski avoids labeling his plans for different than the rest of the station, Craft Television, one of the largest inde- Babylon 5. "I don't want to classify the providing divergent gravities via pendently-owned station groups in the show, other than to say that it's adult sci- centrifugal force. We also have the country. They secured the interest of Chris "Evan ence fiction. I like a show that isn't the problem of B-5's interior environment Craft's then-CEO, Evan Thompson. same every week. We can do a big adven- itself—it's an enclosed world, and you're understood B-5's potential immediately. ture thing and blow everything up or do a going to want some variations in weather. He said, 'Work with me, and I'll get this small personal story. I like that diversity, There are plans for a bio-environmental on the air.' Since then, Evan Thompson because you never know what you're going engineer-type, whose job it is to vary the has been our patron saint." to get. Every week will be different." weather and to look out for issues of In 1990, after attempting to make B-5 a In addition to station commander resource conservation issues." reality via an American/European, and Sinclair, the continuing human characters then an American/Japanese co-production, who inhabit this frontier fortress are: No Cute Misconceptions Straczynski and his partners turned to the Vice-Commander Laurel Takashima, B-5's Although Babylon 5 will have little or major Hollywood studios for backing, dedicated and tough executive officer; no similarity to Star Trek: The Next ironically beginning with Paramount. Doctor Benjamin Kyle, station medical of- Generation, Trek fans may have some "We gave [Paramount] the bible, the ficer and xeno-biology enthusiast; Lyta preconceived notions about the show. screenplay [for the movie pilot], artwork, Kim, a woman who works as a "rent-a- That makes confronting the Roddenberry treatment—everything we had, and they telepath" for visiting businessmen; and creation a daunting prospect. "As far as went nuts for it. The person in charge of Security Chief Michael Garibaldi, an acer- taking on Trek is concerned, we really development at Paramount loved it, and we bic enforcer who has been bounced from aren't in competition with them," thought we were going to get a go from STARLOG/Sentember 1992 37 Nam Regime militarist Jackarr.

Detroit is reduced to rubble. Minsk is "Rebirth" itself focused on a new resis- "V" for vanished wiped off the map and San Diego is tance group in Chicago, five years after vaporized. The armies of the world are the Earth's surrender. Led by Damon decimated, one by one, and organized Mallory, a thirtysomething ex-army ma- Peace is declared when the Visitors jor, the new three-man, one-woman group offer a truce. As Earth celebrates, the resistance everywhere begins to crumble. finally, the was to team up with Ham Tyler on a mis- Visitors secretly organize for an over- Earth sues for surrender, and sion to make contact with an alien race whelming offensive—which they soon un- war is truly lost. thought to be enemies of the Visitors, to leash with 15 motherships and an absence So exists the state of the world at the Straczynski's whom a message was radioed five years of mercy. Elias (Michael Wright) is killed beginning of J. Michael entitled earlier, and answered over a year ago. in action. Willie (Robert Englund) is four-hour, two-part teleplay designed to "We're on our way," the message said. executed as a traitor, and Lydia (June "Rebirth," the pilot episode The The aliens arrive in two small ships, Chadwick) dies when her ship explodes. revive "V" and transform it into "V": Next Chapter. This incarnation would be a one of which crashes and whose human- hard-hitting, battle-oriented science fic- looking male pilot, Danar, is immediately ship, tion series bereft of cat-fights and the captured by the Visitors. The other Starchild's stellar dumbness. found by Mallory and his team, is piloted Initially commissioned by Warner by a woman named Lorien. Bros, in late 1989 to write the pilot for These new human-looking aliens, the Outsiders, are, in fact, members of the "V" : TNC, Straczynski would have served as the show's co-executive producer. Visitor race, disguised as humans. As it -JkS&j/* A out, the Outsiders are a pacifistic and However, after struggling through six suc- turns cessive drafts of the hefty 200-page script, more technologically-advanced group who Warners officially killed the project in were exiled from the Homeworld more than ;J June 1991. 1,000 years earlier. Also revealed is the Despite the continuing overseas suc- real reason behind the Visitors' conquest cess of the original "V" and its strong fan of Earth: They want to use the planet as a operations for a larger war against support at home, the required "V" : TNC base of per-episode budget was ultimately deemed the Outsiders. just too high. Contributing factors in- The resistance team works to penetrate cluded the extensive and necessary use of the Visitors' Earth-base, rescue the cap- stuntmen, exteriors, optical and explosive tured Outsider—Lorien's "life-mate"—and A the Visitor research lab an Irl effects, location shooting, chase scenes recover from and large cast. When no way could be incredibly powerful Outsider weapon called found to reduce expenditures and maintain the "Tachyon Globe." This mind- the production values necessary for the controlled device, capable of destroying 4* show's war-centered premise. The Next motherships, was pulled from Danar's Had "V": The Next Chapter not been Chapter was closed. wrecked spacecraft by the Visitors. Danar closed, new light would have been dies before Mallory 's team can rescue him, shed on the Visitors. Other than the potential novelization of "Rebirth," there are presently no plans and the Visitors manage to get the Globe into a shuttle bound for an Although implicated in Lydia's death. to revive "V" in the future. Tachyon orbiting mothership. Diana (Jane Badler) receives a command of Despite rumors, "V" : The Next Chapter original However, just at takeoff, Ham Tyler her own in a different sector. Julie Parish had no plans to employ any of the forces his way aboard the vessel and over- (Faye Grant) flees the U.S. for Australia, cast beyond occasional cameo appear- powers the pilot. Unfortunately for Tyler, assumes a new name and disappears. Mike ances. An exception to this was Ham Tyler the orbiting mothership locks its tractor Donovan (Marc Singer) is wounded in (Michael Ironside), who was to play a onto the shuttle and drags it into action, then transported to the Visitor major role in "Rebirth." This decision was beams Visitor troops be- homeworld. where he languishes as a largely based on the desire to launch the the docking bay. As the open the shuttle's doors, the prisoner of war. project from a clean slate. gin forcing

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B-5s technical look is "a logical extension of what we have now," says

Straczynski, "but I want a darker look than Star Trek."

like idea them. But then they said that it conflicted roughness around the edges. I the with their Star Trek series." of a future that isn't finished yet, that, like Next up was Warner Bros. "The first the present, is still being created. Much of person we went to was Dick Robertson, the space station is unfinished: pipes and vice-president in charge of Domestic tubes are hanging out, incomplete." Television at Warner Bros. Dick also Although the used future-Hill Street instantly saw the potential for B-5. At that Blues analogy may sound a bit dark, point, Robertson—without mentioning Straczynski re-emphasizes that B-5 can't plans for the new network—said that he be easily classified. "There will be humor, believed in the show and would get it on eccentricity and major twists and turns. the air come hell or high water. At first, we "We're going to have some fun with thought that he meant for syndication, but this show," he stresses. "We've assembled then we found out that Warners was out to a crack team of people who are sick and create a consortium of stations, as Fox did twisted in wonderful ways. ..and viewers with the Fox Network, and they wanted B-5 are going to come away with a sense of to be their flagship program." having fun. Straczynski assures that there's no rea- "One thing you'll see on this show that son for viewers to confuse Babylon 5 with you've never seen on any other SF show, Deep Space Nine. "The two shows will be ever, is the bathroom. Consider the horror Ham Tyler (Michael Ironside) would have very different from one another, and why of this place where aliens and humans been involved in "V": TNCs "Rebirth," have five shows on the air alike must come. We will build a [multi- but not Mike Donovan (Marc Singer). not? If you can at the same time that take place in police species] bathroom set. Think of the weird devices that will be used badly wounded and very peeved Tyler caus- stations, why can't you have two such tubes, globes and stations? here; protrusions and receptacles, vapor- es the Tachyon Globe to self-destruct, tak- shows that take place on space different locks and strange control panels." ing him and the mothership along with it. Our approach will be completely theirs." What may distinguish Babylon 5 from So ends the pilot for "V" : The Next from optical effects. Rather Chapter, with a mothership destroyed, This approach includes a mix of other SF fare is its miniatures and time-tested Earth's bruised morale boosted, the humans, puppets and mechanicals, than using techniques, the show will offer the Visitors' arch-enemies aiding the humans technology thieves, prophecies, political matting assassins, spies, cutting edge in computerized imaging. and a new resistance group backed-up with intrigue, gun runners, "This system lets us create longer and Outsider firepower, ready to take the fight alien mystics, rental telepaths, 20 shape- more involved sequences than any you've to the lizards. different new alien species, faster-than-light seen before," Straczynski explains. "For As for the Starchild's fate, she was changing terrorists, technologies. example, using our system, you could be- taken to Homeworld five years ago for travel and varying futuristic gin a shot five kilometers away from B-5, "dissection and amusement." Unanes- and then come in to within 50 feet of the thetized, she detonated under the surgeon's No Cute Futures station in one continuous take. In the same knife (as her tremendous energy stores According to Straczynski, the look of take, we could also push in on a window, were suddenly released), taking a huge B-5 technology will be "a logical exten- then go through the window right to a portion of the Visitor medical college and sion of what we have now, but I want a live-action scene. So, we see the people ruling council with her. and leaving darker look than Star Trek. ALIENS would inside first, and the cool part is that as we behind a highly radioactive blast crater be a good example. ALIENS overall ain't a go through the window and hit the oxygen two miles wide. bad motif for us—i.e., images that are environment, we suddenly hear the dia- —Lawrence V. Conley massive and powerful. We want things to (continued on page 72) look like they have some utility, a

STA R I DG/Senremher 1992 39 With "Arachne," Lisa Mason weaves a dark journey into a lawyer's soul.

In Arachne, published in novel form By DEBORA HILL & SANDRA BRANDENBURG by Morrow (hardcover) in 1990 (and later as an Avon paperback), Mason uses the image of a spider as the alter-ego of her heroine, lawyer Carly Nolan. She relates to her heroine's experiences and credits both their awakenings to what Carl Jung terms a "dark journey of the soul." Dark Journeys "I wrote the first version of Arachne in 1985, in which a young woman was haunted by a part of her unconscious mind, and I played with different ways of

how I could express that," Mason says. "What I eventually hit upon—and this was before I read any of Bill Gibson's work—was that you could import your consciousness into a computer- constructed reality, and that reality would manifest pure thought. If you can imagine such a concept, where all your secret unconscious thoughts could be re- vealed, you might see right away that this would be a very strange reality, and while you accepted some controls im- posed on the reality, what you would

bring into it would indeed be your entire mind. My premise is that the human mind won't accept those sorts of con- trols; that the unconscious will find a Developing characters "is what writing's all about," says Mason. way to manifest itself there. That can be terrible thing, a city where gridlock lasts days and gloomy place, full of nasty, stupid, a wonderful thing and a Ininstead of hours, teenaged gangs greedy people who revel in violence and because it can rip your life apart. I work- called "aborigines" roam the streets. a surrealistic life-view. "In my previous lifetime, was Berkeley has been taken over by a When she sent her first story, ing for a large law firm. I started making military dictatorship, mass-transit has "Arachne," (a 10,000 word novelette, to choices that I realized, after the fact, completely broken down and those who Omni fiction editor Ellen Datlow), were contrary to the sorts of ethics and of person I can afford to do so escape into the Mason didn't receive the usual form re- morals I wanted; to the sort to law alternate universe of their computer jection letter in return. Datlow didn't ac- wanted to be. When you go track. The terminals, aided by a drug called' "cram." cept the story, either—at least not right school, you get onto that fast it state molds you into that kind The city is San Francisco, and the away. Instead, Mason rewrote four corporate it you'll do anything in the universe is that created by Lisa Mason in times, Datlow read it four times, and of person, and I used the excuse that I was her first novel, Arachne. was finally accepted and published in the line of duty. fulfilling Arachne, the story of a young lawyer December 1987 Omni. In an era of form only doing my job, only my with large corporations in San Francisco after the quake, has rejection letters and overworked maga- orders. I worked definitely a been termed ""—officially, she zine editors, this was quite unusual, for a long time, and there's militaristic element to the whole thing. is the first female "cyberpunker" to pub- though Datlow has apparently done the orders, obe- lish a novel within the genre. Cyberpunk same for other writers. Attention to rank, following when you holds many of the same theories that Mason's second story, "Guardian," dience to one's superiors; and issue of do that, you lose touch with your per- punk music once did—the world is a dark appeared in the October 1988 Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, sonal values. What Carly Nolan has to is confront herself as a destructive DEBORA HILL & SANDRA BRANDEN- and Datlow added it to her 1988 recom- do BURG, California-based freelancers, pro- mended reading list for the World's Best person. And she realizes, ultimately, that want to be this person. filed Katharine Kerr in STARLOC #179. Fantasy. she doesn't

40 STARLOG/September 1992 fiy the spider was the archetype that, to me, expressed the duality so well. The image of the ruthless predator who's stalking his prey expresses what the legal profession is all about. "Everyone rationalizes what they're doing. There's a speech that D. Wolfe gives [in the book]. He comes from radi- cal, political parents, and, of course, ends up being the devil to them, the ex- act opposite of them. He represents man- agement and big money, and 'it's a dirty job—somebody's gotta do it, and he's paid six figures for it.' It's a verbatim speech that somebody gave to me when I was in the law firm. This was a young fellow, politically liberal in his college days, who became a lawyer. Suddenly, there he is, sticking the knife into peo- ple's backs. Rationalization goes on a great deal more than anybody would care to think about. It's pretty frightening." And that's the major theme of Arachne: The ease of becoming some- thing you didn't originally intend to be. It's a very personal idea to Lisa Mason. "When you work in a law firm, it's ev- erything, your whole life. You work 70 or 80 hours a week, you never see the sunshine, it's extremely high-pressure and very competitive. All the backstab- bing and nasty business that happens in Arachne is true and then some. I couldn't

handle that; I did it for two years. Then.

I went through my own dark journey of the soul, very similar to Carly's, in

which I realized that I didn't want to do this for the rest of my life or even for

one minute longer. I walked out." Light Journeys Around 1985, Mason decided she'd had enough of rejection slips and went on a reading binge to try to determine what successful literature entailed. "Barry was the one who suggested punk because it follows that genre's reviewer Eventually, she wrote a story (as yet un- that I write a novel from the story. Short world view. But every who published) that came to the attention of stories are compressed by their very na- placed the book within that category that: 'The SF writer Barry Malzberg, part of the ture, but this story was so compressed, ended with a qualification to In most cyber- reading department at the Scott Meredith in addition to being wild and crazy, that characters have depth.' very cardboard: Agency. Malzberg put Mason in contact he felt I must have a novel in it." punk, the characters are with Robert Silverberg. Although her first sale came easily as it's action-oriented, very techy-oriented. develop "Silverberg called me up at my office compared to other writers', Mason isn't My purpose when I write is to character; to me, that's what writing is one day. I got one of those little, pink enamored of the whole scene. "American about. There is no story if you don't message slips. I called him back, and publishing is designed to take advantage all character. This is a debate that said, 'Are you who I think you are?' He of all the thousands of people who are have a quite was very flattered by that, and he told me driven to write—they pay them next to goes on in conventional SF circles bit: Is to be concept or Barry Malzberg thought I had talent. nothing," Mason comments. "The sad a SF supposed Traditionally, it has al- "I sent him the same story Barry had fact of it is that it's very hard for an character-driven? concept plot-driven: if a originally read, and he loved it. But he individual book to make it unless you're ways been and character-driven story, told me to come back to him in a year, Stephen King, and it took him 12 years writer presents a then how does that compare with tradi- when I had written something in the SF of struggling to get started. We don't tional in terms of status? To me, any or fantasy field. I didn't want to wait a have a strong enough lobby to make a SF to character- year and wrote the first draft of the change, and the authors who get paid kind of writing has be 'Arachne' short in three months. millions don't care, because their driven." Silverberg called up Ellen Datlow and contracts are written any way they want Where does the writer of a bestselling first novel go from here? "I'm always in- told her I was going to be sending her them to be." between be- the story, and he recommended that she She feels that SF, in order to expand terested in the relationships true to ings of various sorts; human beings or read it. So I did, and she did, and she as a legitimate art form, must be story- alien beings or however it works out. didn't buy it. But she gave me detailed the idea of "classic writing and a very character-driven story," comments and critique, and I went back telling." "More is being done now be- It'll be novel, I'm and rewrote the story four times until she cause there is a desire for it," she says. says Lisa Mason. "In my next as cyber- heading in another direction." -^ bought it. It was my first fiction sale. "Arachne has been classified

START ClG/Spntpmher 1992 41 jolted. "The flashback enhanced, reanimated body, he's kept Jean-Claude Van Damme is on the are suddenly before, with a special serum that keeps his run in Universal Soldier, but at the comes to my mind. I know I died alive prevent decomposition, but moment, he's considerably relaxed. and I'm not the guy I'm supposed to be. body cold to battalion. female when he escapes with the reporter, his The sun is beating down on the film I'm just escaping the A to the serum is cut off. unit next to Hoover Dam, but Van reporter has seen the action, becomes access with me. She is "It's the first time in 25 years that Damme is comfortable in his air-condi- part of it and escapes half-human I've got the feeling of food in my tioned trailer, along with a few friends normal; I'm abnormal—I'm and because I'm missing the and co-workers. The lean, muscular ac- and half-controlled by serum. Sometimes mouth, I have serum, I go crazy about the food. I start tion star has just returned from one of she must protect me, sometimes to to eat and eat and eat. All these old peo- his regular workouts, and he munches on to protect her. I just want to go home the plug; I ple and rednecks are looking at me eat- a plate of fruit as he discusses his role in see my parents. I want to pull program. ing like a machine. The girl has left me the SF action-adventure, which also stars don't want to be part of the phone calls, and when she Dolph (The Punisher) Lundgren. "It's full of comedy and action, and to make some mess! I kick ass, all Van Damme plays Luc Devreux, a there's a long chase," says the Belgian- comes back, it's a accent. those guys are on the floor, on the juke- soldier in a secret government program born star in his sometimes-thick wants to go box. It's crazy. I kick one guy. I eat my brought back to life after more than 20 "It's like Frankenstein Jr. more hot dog, then bam!" He demonstrates years. Van Damme and Lundgren killed back home. You feel more and the movie. with a casual backhanded punch. "And I each other in Vietnam, and when their sorry for the guy all through great, unusual scene!" memories begin returning, Van Damme He's not the Terminator—he's a very eat again. It's a and escapes, accompanied by a female re- sensitive man. He becomes more open- Martial Action porter (Ally Walker). Lundgren leads the more like he was at the movie's on Even though he has more of a chance remaining four Universal Soldiers on a ing. Audiences are gonna get hooked get to the end, to perform* in Universal Soldier, the ac- chase across the southwest United States it, because the closer we awards for it becomes." tion star doesn't expect any to recapture the deserter. the more intense The film opens with Luc having Van Damme says the diner scene is the role. genetically "It's not a movie that will have peo- flashbacks of Vietnam, and his memories probably his favorite. As a

"There's a long chase," as well as comedy, action and emotion, says Van Damme of Universal Soldier.

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pie saying, "Van Damme is a fantastic actor,' because it's not enough of a part to show my emotional range. When you have an action stamp on a movie, they don't like to give awards. For example. James Cameron did The Abyss and ALIENS—to me, he's a fantastic director, but the guy has never won an Academy Award. They don't give Academy Awards to action films. They don't give statues to actors playing in movies like Rambo. "This is an action film. I believe it's difficult sometimes, because when you fight, you don't hit for real—you're fak- ing the pain, you're faking the sweat, you're faking the tension and every- thing. It's acting for me, but to them, it's different—it's just an action film." Van Damme's film career, to this point, has primarily involved martial arts and action. He hopes Universal Soldier will expand his audience, but he doesn't worry about his action image. "I'm not afraid to be typecast. That doesn't frighten me. I'm very young. I'm 30, and I go with the script. I know right now people want me to do action films, so why should I disappoint my

fans? What I would like to do is action films plus bring in more emotions and comedy, and slowly bring in more audi- ences while keeping the action audience." He points to Arnold Schwarzenegger's career as an example. "Maybe my next movie will be a comedy," Van Damme muses. "I've got so many projects right

now. I came from video movies. I was not the guy who was signed by a major

studio, like Warner Bros, or Fox. I came Van Damme and Lundgren share scenes together only in the 'film's be- from low-budget films from Cannon and > New World, and companies you never ginning and end, as most of the story soldiers chas- heard of before. I signed some contracts involves Lundgren and his course, just as and I was starving to do movies. Because ing Van Damme. Of a major of those videos, I formed an audience, moviegoers expect, there's and now they come to see me in a showdown between the pair. "The audi- theater. I'm very lucky." ences want to see the fight. They want to see the challenge between Dolph and Van Acting Action Damme—who is going to do this, who is Although he and Lundgren are very going to do that? It's a good attraction different in some ways, Van Damme says to the movie." they get along both on-screen and off. As Van Damme speaks, Ralph Moeller

% is too of a talker gets up to leave. Moeller, a two-time Mr. "Dolph not much — think he's shy, because he's a very nice Universe who stands several inches taller guy," says Van Damme. "When people than the already-tall Lundgren, plays one don't talk to you, you start to think, 'He of the pursuing Universal Soldiers. has a problem' or 'He's upset,' but he's veteran not. He's Swedish, and I think that's in KIM HOWARD JOHNSON, his nature. Some people like to express STARLOG correspondent, is the author of themselves, and some don't. Dolph is a And Now For Something Completely very correct guy, very nice. I'm very Trivial (St. Martin's. $8.95). He profiled happy to do a movie with him!" Dolph Lundgren in STARLOG #181

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Before he walks out, Van Damme asks 'Ralph is in the movie.' I said, 'Dolph, Everything is here, if you eat good and him to wait before working out, so the I've got two problems. You're bigger you train your muscles smartly, you can two of them can work out together. than me, and he's bigger than me! You be huge. I don't want to be too big," he "This guy was cast in the movie," only have one problem, so it's OK!' says, twisting his arms behind his back. Van Damme explains. "Dolph is a big Van Damme has two gym trailers on "It's very difficult for guys like Ralph in a guy, but Ralph is taller than all of us. I the set to allow his three or four or Dolph. When you're very big already knew Ralph, and Dolph knew workouts each day that time—and film- movie, you have to find an enormous bad to enormous to be a him from magazines. Ralph is one of the ing—permit. There isn't much equipment guy—he has be biggest bodybuilders on Earth. Dolph inside, but he can still get in sufficient challenge. Sylvester Stallone has the called me at home months ago, just to training. perfect size when he's fighting Mr. T, chat, and he said, 'Jean-Claude, we have "They're very good machines. You Hulk Hogan or Dolph." Soldier, even while going a problem.' I said, 'What?' and he said, don't need so many machines to train. In Universal into action, Van Damme gets a little

cold. "In the movie, I pull the plug. I don't have my truck following me. Every time a soldier gets hurt, they get an in- jection of special cooling serum to repair their cells, so they don't decompose. I'm dying, and I'm very weak, and the report- er is helping me by putting ice on me all the time—she's always going for buckets of ice all through the movie. People think we're a crazy, kinky couple 'What are they doing with all that ice?' Hollywood Action A native of Brussels, Van Damme moved to Hollywood in the mid-80s, and after a slow start, began finding work in martial arts and action films. He was the original Predator, but was replaced for later lensing. His first big American movie, Bloodsport, was followed by Lionheart, Kickboxer and Cyborg (which he discussed in STARLOG #138). Later, he co-wrote, produced and starred in Double Impact.

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The actor says he was relatively satis- fied with his only previous SF film, Cyborg, given the monetary restrictions. "It cost $1.8 million. It's an OK Martial arts fans crave the kind of action Van Damme gave them in Cyborg. movie for the price, but it's difficult to make a science fiction movie for below Van Damme says he doesn't care the light, the delay in schedule, the $2 million! You have to go at least S15 about having his name all over the cred- script—every change has to go through or S20 million to have something de- its. "It's stupid to put your name all Roland. And he never gets pissed! He cent," he says. over, it's stupid! It's no good for me, never yells; he's always smiling! He

Van Damme says he considers himself and I don't want to do it. What's the leaves everything inside. The guy is a genre fan. "I like to escape. I like to best? To be a star. 'Jean-Claude Van crazy! The movie is first, his family is go to different places with abnormal Damme,' and that's it—my name is there second, and him third—I can see that. species, where everything is different. and my face is on the screen." He's very dedicated." You can travel from planet ,to planet His acting skills will be more on dis- Obviously, the actor believes in it's the dream of a child to go from a play in Universal Soldier, but Van Universal Soldier. "I believe this is go- small house in Belgium to another uni- Damme says he won't be playing any ing to be a big movie, and I was not too verse, and come back to tell your parents typical love scenes in this film. much for the project before," says Jean- and friends, 'I've been there and there, "The people are going to want to see Claude Van Damme. "You never know you have to see what's going on!' Star Luc and the reporter get together to have about movies, but I think this one is go- movies ever!" Wars was one of the best a love affair, but I know I'm gonna die, ing to be big!" ^ At the moment, however, Van Damme and she is gonna have her own life. She is a long way from Brussels, Hollywood starts to feel for me all through the and the stars. Universal Soldier has been movie. Slowly, we become close, and by filming almost entirely on location in the end, we feel for each other so much. the American Southwest. Shooting in the The audience wants to see something be- sunlight, where the daytime temperatures tween us. haven't gone below 90 degrees at any time, has been difficult. "I don't like heat," Van Damme says.

"It's very difficult, especially with the "I'm vulnerable. I can outfit. The armor is very hot, and I'm funny, I can cry. I from Brussels, so I like snow, wind and be rain. I like the heat with a swimming love emotions. I love suit on a boat with the wind, but not on a bus with the dust in the desert!" passion." Although he has been criticized in the past for trying to do everything in his films, Van Damme says that he has no desire to do anything but act, now that Van Damme has high praise for he has directors and producers he trusts. Emmerich's directing abilities. "Roland "I prefer to concentrate on the acting" is doing such a good job, he's working he says. "I was obligated to be in charge like an animal—he's going to lose about [in the past], but I don't like to be in three years of his life on this picture," charge. I want professional people to be says Van Damme. "When you're doing a in charge. Craig [Baumgarten, producer] movie right, a director is losing a lot of and Roland [Emmerich, director] are his life—there's so much pressure! They doing a good job, I'm in the best shape come to talk to him day and night about Viewers want a romance between Van of my life because I've got time to go new locations, changing this, changing Damme and Ally Walker, but they're just and train." that, the acting, the timing, the money, friends.

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Fascinated by frontier possibilities, Peter Hyams considers televised hell. "Stay Tuned."

By MARC SHAPIRO Peter Hyams jumps off the camera a back table in a hotel coffee shop. "I dolly, yells some extremely quick •think what you're seeing is my passion instructions to his assistant direc- for what I do. Nobody is more consumed tor and leaps into a waiting helicopter; in making films than I am. I'm sure there the better to grab some much needed are directors who do this better than I do. aerial shots while the rest of the Stay I compensate for any lack of talent I may- Tuned cast and crew break for lunch. The have with a passion for what I'm doing." director moves from helping to position Hyams is turning the mirror on him- a wind machine, grabs a cup of coffee, self at the end of the final day of filming confers with his cameraman and finally on Stay Tuned, an FX-laden comedy/fan- bounds across railroad tracks to deliver tasy starring Jeffrey Jones, John Ritter quick direction to actress Pam Dawber, and Pam Dawber. It's the story of a who's merely tied to a wagon full of suburban couple coping with Hellvision dynamite. (which sucks them into the TV, sending He's intense, occasionally abrupt, them off on various video adventures). sometimes slipping over the line into At the other end of the hotel, the cast frustration. But through it all, Peter and crew have taken over the bar and are Hyams doing his job is a kick to watch. celebrating the last shot. Hyams puts in "You really think so?" asks Hyams at a quick appearance, but after a final day

46 STARLOG/September 1992 of shooting in which he literally raced the Sun to get that last shot, he seems more interested in personal film philosophy, asides to his genre films 2070, Outland and Capricorn One, and his attitude, in regards to fantasy and SF, on making the unbelievable believable. "You basically have to believe strongly in the project yourself. The main thing is to make the backdrop look as beautiful, dramatic and ravishing as you possibly can. Then, you put your ac- tors into the picture and let them do their thing. If it's serious fantasy you're after, their reacting to the things and situa- tions around them will come across that way. If it's comedy you want, then that element of fantasy will work when placed against a bigger-than-life setting."

It was just such an opportunity to play with the genre that drew him to Stay Tuned, a satiric fantasy of TV viewing habits in which a couch potato and his wife are drawn into a cable TV station from Hell. Director Peter Hyams didn't want to replicate Stanley Kubrick's 2001 while "First and foremost, I saw this film as making contact in 2010. being something I had never seen be- fore," he explains between sips of cof- much a TV spoof as it is of the people "I went to Clarke and explained to fee. "Secondly, it was a project I saw as who watch it. him that I knew what I had in mind was a a departure for me—both a funny movie "People sit in front of their TV sets radical departure from his book. I had to and an ambitious movie. Being both of to escape whatever it is they're escaping know that my ideas were OK with him. those things is rare in this business. from. To avoid your own lives seems a He liked my ideas and his blessing gave "From a pure filmmaking standpoint, kind of silly, obsessive behavior. I me the something I needed to make this it offers just about every challenge a di- think there's a bit of couch potato in all film. To make 2010 a hardware movie rector can have. But the big challenge I of us. I certainly suffer from it, and it's wouldn't have interested me. They had found was to make a big comedy, but not that kind of behavior that this film already done that film. Besides, you can't a dumb comedy. That has clearly been a makes fun of." do better than Ridley Scott did in ALIEN line that I've walked the entije time I've Hyams is too tired to deal with tech- as far as creating the ultimate hardware worked on this film and, if the truth be nical and anecdotal inquiries. "I know science fiction." known, I've probably slipped off more you want the technical answers, but the Many people, however, feel Hyams than I've stayed on. But the attempt is best I can say about making this film is made an attempt at SF hardware in Out- certainly being made and the ambition to that nothing has been easy. But then, land, which the director feels deserved do this film right is certainly there." nothing ever is." the "High Noon in outer space" tag. Hyams doesn't consider Stay Tuned as "I don't think anybody has ever ac- Movie Odysseys cused me of any great depth as a film- What proved a particularly taxing maker," he laughs in response to the challenge was Hyams' directing and high-concept tag that followed his at- scripting chores on 1984's much-antici- tempt at transferring the Western to outer pated follow-up to 2001: A Space space (which he discussed in STARLOG Odyssey, 2010. And nobody was more #45). "But for people who got past the

aware of the obstacles than Hyams. obvious, I think they saw a much deeper "The original film was such a stun- film. Outland was a film about people ner," he acknowledges. "My intention on with ideals, good or bad. To a large ex- 2010 was to make a warmer, much more tent, it was a technical, action-oriented accessible technical film. The worst part science fiction movie. But the bottom of doing that film was knowing that line was that if the characters didn't people were going to draw comparisons work, then the movie wouldn't work." between Stanley Kubrick and me. I could Hyams claims that having "an excel- see that going in. lent cast" led by Sean Connery made the

"I knew I didn't want to do anything task of having flesh and blood triumph that would replicate the original. I cer- over nuts and bolts that much easier. tainly wasn't stupid enough to try and "There was a great sense of timing set myself up to be compared to Kubrick. and communication during that film's

The only way I agreed to do the film was making," he recalls. "Everybody knew

if I could make a film totally unlike the how to make their characters walk the original; one that made no attempt to be line between mechanics and humanity. like the original and that would deal with They knew how to handle the futuristic

a subject I felt desperately about, which technology, but they also knew how to was contemporary politics." project the required humanity." Hyams (who discussed the sequel in Still, Hyams believes Outland is far STARLOG #85) admits he knew his 2010 from perfect. "I've never done anything wouldn't exactly be Arthur C. Clarke's that's totally worked for me," he con- novel. cedes. "It has always been very painful

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But Hyams admits that the bravado he felt while making Capricorn One turned to cold feet at the premiere. "I remember going to a movie theater the night the movie opened and seeing a long line of enthusiastic people outside the theater. Nobody could ever feel more

intelligent than I felt at that point. I went into the theater, found a seat in the very back row and waited for the film to begin. The lights dimmed, the curtains parted and the film started. I saw the first few frames of the movie and panicked. I ran out of the theater, raced home and locked the door. My wife asked me what

was wrong. I told her that the audience was about to see everything that was wrong with the movie and that they were going to riot and tear down the theater."

"Filmmaking, by definition, is a process of failure."

Whatever his fears, Hyams seems pe- riodically drawn to SF and fantasy films. Still, he doesn't consider himself a genre director. "I've never been a giant fan of SF and

fantasy," he counters, "and I don't con- sider the films I've done to be science fiction films. I look at them as being more science-feasible. I'm drawn to movies that take you some place; films that by nature transport you somewhere and that allow me to create something you don't normally see in your daily life. To me, these films are about the fron- tiers, the possibility of it all. That's what fascinates me about this type of filmmaking."

"It has always been very painful to watch what I've done," admits Hyams. Imagine how this poor guy feels. to watch what I've done. Filmmaking, by definition, is a process of failure, and because of that, I always seem to be looking for the blemishes in my work." Film Fantasies Capricorn One played to Hyams' strengths: An action-packed, almost se- rial-like adventure that incorporated witty dialogue and a steady directorial style. "The plot was totally out of left field, but I found that, in a sense, it freed me up. I had the structure in my head. I knew what was going to happen, but I also had all these spaces to fill up. My imag- ination as a director went very wild."

MARC SHAPIRO. STARLOG's West Coast Correspondent, authored When Dinosaurs Ruled the Screen (Image, $12.95). He previewed Stay Tuned in issue #181

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?»PiBai* --*'«**»*flfftiiiii The director thinks some audiences saw Outland as "much deeper" than "High Noon in outer space.

He's also fascinated by how his fan- pected. The most satisfying have been my IQ will skyrocket in the film indus- tasy forays have afforded him the oppor- those where I've shot things I never ex- try's eyes. If this film fails, then my IQ tunity to indulge in what he describes as pected to happen." will plummet. The only real reputation I his "controlled accidents." have in this industry is that I'm consid- "I'm big on planning and understand- Cinematic Challenges ered fairly responsible. I'm known as a ing the context of a picture before I More facets of the director's some- director who can make a fairly elaborate begin filming." he discloses. "And I be- what eclectic nature are revealed in ran- film on a moderate budget and not let it lieve that if you' let the actors know what dom bits. He feels that "no Star Trek get away from me. I'm considered to you're doing, they can come up with movie could ever be as difficult as Dead have safe financial hands," things that will help you do it better. Poets Society had to have been to make." He's reminded of the introductory Stay Tuned has been a good "example of He offers that, in hindsight, he "would comment about the passion with which that approach. We've had the equivalent have been thrilled to have been asked to he goes about his work. He chuckles at assessment, but saying of 20 car pileups in just about every direct ALIEN , Beetlejuice and Who the concludes by scene. If you're not immersed in a Framed Roger Rabbit." that it doesn't stop with filming's end. movie's context and people do the unex- Hyams, after a lengthy list of film "I've never shot for half-a-day, said pected things, you may be seduced by the credits covering numerous genres that's everything there is to do, let's go wrong ones. If you're prepared, you get (Running Scared, Presidio, Narrow Mar- home. I basically shoot until somebody seduced by the right ones. gin, The Star Chamber) also feels that he says we're taking your camera away," "The most depressing days I've had as knows how the film community looks at Peter Hyams explains. "Then, I go into a director have been the ones where I've him and his work. the editing room and edit—until they tell come home after having shot what I ex- "If Stay Tuned is a box-office success, me they're going to turn off the lights."

Looks like this space odyssey also went straight to Hal in Hyams' 2010.

ctadi nr,/c»nf<.m),« 1QQ7 dQ Bimbos, Zombies & Fans

finds no mystery to satirizing SF conventions & fantasy cliches.

By PAUL DELLINCER

Bimbos takes place at a fantasy con- vention, where guest of honor Appin Dungannon's last words before getting shot are, "Young man, that is an out-of- period weapon." Within seconds after hearing of Dungannon's death, fans stampede the dealer room, where his books have suddenly tripled in value. "The people were composites of dif- ferent fans," McCrumb says. "I had gone to enough [conventions] to know how people look and behave. I love the little guy who sits in a corner and reads. I mean, he pays $25 to come to a con, then sits in a corner and reads books." And .all the goers know who each character is—or think they do. "It's amaz- ing what a Rorschach this book has been," the writer offers. "I've had people from Toronto running up to me and say- I've ing, 'OK, we know who this is.' never been within 500 miles of Toronto. "It also happens with writers. People in the business will come up to me about Appin Dungannon. One SF writer said to me, 'I love that portrait of Appin Dungannon; it's the best satire I've ever seen on Michael Moorcock.' And I'm go- " ing, 'Michael Moorcock??' True, Dungannon's series hero is based on Moorcock's Elric, who happens to be McCrumb's favorite fantasy charac- ter. "But no, Appin Dungannon is defi- nitely not Moorcock. He's a composite, Sharyn McCrumb too, and he owes a lot to Harlan Ellison. But, every now and then, I'll go some- confronts First, Sharyn McCrumb faced the Bimbos of the Death Sun. Now, she place, and people will say, 'Oh, that's the Zombies of the Gene Pool. such a funny portrait of...,' and they'll mention writers I've never heard of. So, track of who has for whom SF is a way of life. She I've been able to keep Science fiction fans, beware: Sharyn people a sequel, Zombies been misbehaving in science fiction by McCrumb is kicking sacred SF has now published of who Appin Dungannon is." cows again. When McCrumb's the Gene Pool (in hardcover from Simon reaction. Bimbos of the Death Sun came out in & Schuster), and awaits fan a mystery, Writer of Bimbos 1987 as the second paperback published Bimbos isn't even SF. It's not to While she may be considered "the by games creator TSR, Inc., computer McCrumb's fourth, and her first sleuth Elizabeth MacPher- Salman Rushdie of science fiction" in bulletin boards lit up across the country, feature amateur sociology some quarters, McCrumb personally has and fanzines expressed outrage at the son, a young woman whose had only positive feedback from fans. Virginia-based author's depictions of degree proves useless in landing her a really good letters job, but perfect for getting involved in "I've gotten some from bright, intelligent people who say, PAUL DELLINGER. a reporter for the murder. Bimbos not only won McCrumb Writers 'Yeah, it's sort of like this, but I really Roanoke Times & World News, is co- an Edgar Award from the Mystery people have liked it was nominated liked the book.' More author of Don't Look Up, an examination of America, however; the Science Fiction it than not, as far as I can tell. They've of a UFO flap. This is his first article for for a Nebula by about it, and they've STARLOG. Writers of America. been very mature

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have six weeks to write mous as SF writers that those stories understood that it was satire." "When you you hang could now be worth big bucks? With Bimbos of the Death Sun, the ti- the book, starting from when

you can't go out and do . "I had done the young people," she tle came first. McCrumb was on the up the phone, "So, I says. "What I wanted to do now were the Appalachian studies faculty at Virginia research," the author explains. pros and the people who had grown old Polytechnic Institute and State Universi- drew on observations I had made. committed suicide in fandom, the people for whom it's too ty when the faculty advisor to the "I had a friend who related to fandom. late to say, 'Get a life.' They would have school's SF club was judging its short because of something frittering away come in during the '40s and '50s and story contest. McCrumb slipped a ringer And I would see people I had just as would be- the old men of fandom now. into his entries, a spoof featuring his talent, people who thought did. would So, I got people to lend me fanzines office mate and dog as evil aliens. much writing ability as I They publish anything because they from the '40s and the '50s. I got a copy "He got it, screamed, then laughed and never writing 25 letters of Ah, Sweet Idiocy, and I read Harry said, 'Well, you didn't win, but this title would spend their time " argue on a computer bulletin Warner's All Our Yesterdays and Frederik is too good to waste,' she recalls. "It a week, or Michael Keaton was Pohl's The Way the Future Was. I read rattled around in my head for six months. board over whether only right to play Batman." biographies of all these people, not Then I thought: Wouldn't it be funny if the guy what they thought about it, someone, an engineer here on campus, to find out but also to keep from accidentally wrote a serious SF novel and sold it to a Writer of zombies inventing them. paperback house, and they gave him that Although Bimbos was written at Zombies the Gene "One thing I learned was that many of title? That book I could write." white-hot speed, of and the first SF writers were New Yorkers, so McCrumb dashed off two chapters fea- Pool, the second book featuring Jay of research. I deliberately made none of mine New turing Dr. James Owens Mega, an engi- Marion, took four years book. Yorkers." Therefore, McCrumb placed her neering professor trying to live down his Meant to be a kinder, gentler anger group, termed the Lanthanides, in rural Jay Omega pseudonym, which appeared Zombies doesn't have the scathing Tennessee, which was also undergoing on a book cover showing a female in a apparent in Bimbos. balanced picture change in the 1950s. It is the drawdown fur bikini sprawled in front of a computer "If you want to do a nice of a dam that allows the recovery of the and clutching the leg of a white-coated of fandom, you must have really says, insisting that group's time capsule and sets the plot in man holding a clipboard; and Jay's people," McCrumb fandom for motion for the return of the Laney-like significant other, Dr. Marion Farley, an her novel doesn't single out English professor and SF enthusiast. satire. "They talk about the shots I take iconoclastic fan. science fiction people. Did anybody "The region itself, specifically the "And it just sat there," says McCrumb. "I at I took at English de- valley that's a metaphor for the region, didn't do anything with it; I just wrote it notice the shots At editors and has lost its innocence. It has been cov- for my own entertainment." partments? At publishing? ered up by this nice technological dam, Later, the university's SF club asked reporters?" an Atlanta conven- and when the water is drained away, it's her to do a- reading at a con in She was attending moonscape. And, by the Blacksburg, Virginia, with Margaret tion when her Bimbos editor, Michael dead land, a token, I'm saying that people have (DragonLance) Weis as featured guest. Dodson, mentioned to her that there same facades in their lives that, if you Rather than read one of her mysteries, really had been a "Salman Rushdie of sci- these drain them away, you see the soul under- McCrumb figured the conventioneers ence fiction" in the 1950s. Francis left the neath. You get that same wasteland." might prefer something about SF, so she Towner Laney, a SF fan who fan- Between Bimbos and Zombies dug out and read the two chapters. field after writing a tome castigating Idiocy. He dropped out of McCrumb penned three more Elizabeth Weis thought it was funny and asked dom, Ah, Sweet that Laney had MacPherson mysteries, as well as a non- for a copy. McCrumb complied, assum- sight. Dodson understood in Mississippi. series mystery, // Ever I Return, Pretty ing she just wanted to pass it around the died somewhere What if Peggy-O. But is Sharyn McCrumb likely TSR offices for laughs. "So, five months McCrumb began thinking: a group of fans in the to do another Jay and Marion novel in- later, I get a call from a man in Wis- there had been unpublished volving science fiction? consin saying, 'We would like to publish '50s who had buried some ' capsule? And what if Quite likely, since she already has the your book.' I said, 'What book?' stories in a time contract. •& TSR not only wanted McCrumb to some of these fans had become so fa- complete Bimbos, but they wanted it within six weeks. Luckily, her research was already done, having grown up read- ing the works of Jack Finney, Damon Knight, Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke. "I love those guys," she says.

"When I taught English, I would teach [Clarke's] Childhood's End every year. I thought the kids got more out of that than they did the so-called classics. I grew up with a good background in sci- ence fiction, but as a reader, not as a fan." In 1982, McCrumb was in North Carolina, still working on her first novel, Sick of Shadows, when she saw a news item about a Virginia con to topline Gordon Dickson. "I thought, 'Oh. well, I've never met a real writer; let's " go look at him.' At the same con. McCrurrib met her future husband, envi- ronmental engineer David McCrumb, which led to her move to Virginia, her encounter with Weis and to Bimbos. the writer, I concept—which was a little different Director Roland Emmerich has gone agreed on that basis. With ours, but basically the same and from Germany to the Moon, but developed the story in two or three days. from — Jean-Claude and Dolph. That was he faces his biggest challenge yet "We went back to the original basic team very beginning when you can with Universal Soldier. concept without using their story. The from the — or two actors committed, it can The SF action-adventure stars Dolph very first script was called Crystal Night get one automatically put a movie into produc- (The Punisher) Lundgren and Jean-Claude or something like that, with guys who notes Emmerich. "That's more and (Cyborg) Van Damme as two Marines who were sweating crystals. Then, their bod- tion," I more the way it works. killed each other in Vietnam, only to be ies would become crystal, which had two guys who die and wake resurrected more than 20 years later as thought was pretty hokey." "We 25 years later, not knowing who they part of a secret government program. A classic horror tale provided up They're brainwashed, and their bod- When Van Damme regains his memory Emmerich's inspiration for the final are. genetically enhanced. One guy, and leaves, Lundgren leads a team of story. "The basic idea was to do ies are Damme], regains his Universal Soldiers across the desert to Frankenstein" he explains. "The big dif- Devreux [Van due to a malfunction and runs recapture him. ference was to do it with two monsters, a memory is become hu- A Carolco production, Universal good one and a bad one. That basically away. His only desire to and go home. The other guy, Scott Soldier went through numerous rewrites triggered me to do this film. That's how man [Lundgren], is chasing him because in before the German-born Emmerich devel- this thing started; we developed the former lives, they killed each other. oped the final story with screenwriter script from there and got it into produc- their "Universal Soldier is basically about Dean Devlin. "There was actually only a tion pretty fast." were how the human spirit overcomes tech- concept when I joined," says Emmerich. Since Lundgren and Van Damme the begin- nology," he adds. "Jean-Claude ends up "They had many script drafts, but I didn't involved with the film from with this reporter, and at first, Dolph is like them at all. When they asked me to ning, Emmerich and Devlin had to devise action stars. together with all the other units in the do the film, I said, 'OK, if I like the a story that would use both take this one Unisol program, because the people who story, I'll do it, and if I don't, I won't.' I "The basic idea was to

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run this program want to get Devreux back, and use the other units to chase him. Dolph wakes up, too, and takes over the Universal Soldier program at the very end. It becomes more one-on-one, one against the other." Universal Difficulties Filming on location in the Arizona and Nevada deserts produced its share of problems. "Shoots are never pleasant, especially for a director. Overall, it's not pleasant, because you get nervous every day. You've got your schedule made, and you have to make compromises—the Sun goes away and you can't do this one shot anymore, stuff like that. It's never very pleasant! "The surprising thing was that every- body was a little bit scared to do this movie, spending this kind of time in Arizona under these kinds of conditions and a pretty tight shooting schedule. We were lucky—sometimes some little mira- cles happened. It went pretty well." Probably the most uncomfortable part of the desert for the unit was the heat.

"The heat is especially bad for the ac- tors," Emmerich says. "They're sweating and running around with these heavy suits on in the Sun in the middle of the desert. There have also been some fire ef- fects around them, and this gas station sequence was really hot, so it all adds up. It's this feeling that you're constantly on location. On a stage, you can relax between takes, but not on location."

At Roland Emmerich's command, Dolph tooti Lundgren & Jean-Claude Van Damme fight. By KIM HOWARD JOHNSON

BAR Emmerich doesn't hesitate to nomi- FOOD-POOL nate the most difficult sequences to film. The stunt and FX sequences may have \ been problematic, but according to him, the extended night shooting at the pro- duction's beginning was easily the most m in Cottonwood, grueling. A golf course Arizona served as Vietnam, where an old dance hall was converted into a Vietnamese warehouse. "We shot the opening and ending scenes right at the beginning, which was a pretty good decision," says Emmerich. "We had a lot of stuff there. We had the Vietnam sequence, where they both kill Roland Emmerich's crew enabled the each other. We had artificial rain, so for director to "concentrate more on [the the first two weeks, we shot every night film's] story and character aspect." in the rain. We shot nights for the first

it was in the middle of nowhere. The The bartender of this establishment five weeks, and that was really tough on better think twice before serving these the crew. only advantage was that it was warm at Universal Soldiers any alcohol. "That was the longest night shoot I night, except at Kingman, Arizona—at

ever heard of, and it wasn't in the city Kingman, it got pretty cold. That's

STARLOG/Sentember 1992 53 :- : Oolph Lundgren takes his role "very seriously," notes Emmerich.

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tough on everybody—on both the actors way I know how to do it." Rapelling down the side of the dam and the crew. Nights are very short, and Emmerich explains that while the wasn't as difficult as it sounds, Emmerich there's this enormous time pressure. The budgets may be larger, the filmmaking admits, although the sequence is compli- stuntwork takes a lot of time—we had process itself is similar. "A film which cated by the fact that the soldiers who do two really great people there, as well as costs $3, $4 or $5 million isn't so the rapelling are genetically enhanced. very good special FX people and stunt different from a S100 million movie. "We have people who can solve these coordinators." Everybody thinks it's different, but it problems; it's actually pretty simple. only takes longer because there are more They have a cable system, and stunt guys Universal Director people running around. The basic crew who cable down. We want to have it fast, Emmerich attended film school in that stands next to the camera is the because if it looks normal, it looks like lunich, where he completed his first fea- same crew—there are only a lot more mountain climbers are doing it. We have ture, a student production called The people around them. to do it very fast, so that people say, Noah's Ark Principle. After winning sev- "There's a core group in the middle of 'Wow! Who are these guys?' It's more eral awards, he formed his own film the film crew, and they're always the characteristic of the Universal Soldiers. company, Centropolis Films, and made same number. It doesn't really change so They have enhanced their bodies, so you Moon 44. Set in 2018, the story sees much. You face the same problems, and have to see that they're doing things large mining companies battling over the same things go wrong. You only add faster, more efficiently." the last mineral resources in outer space. a bit more equipment, more varied expe- Universal Soldier may deal with widely Starring Michael Pare and Lisa Eichhom, rience in a traditional sense and more varied elements, including science fic- the German production involved 100 specialists that a low-budget movie can't tion, comedy and action, but Emmerich days of FX shooting and 30 full-size in- afford. That's the biggest advantage here, says at its core, "It's the classic chase teriors. The U.S. rights were b'ought by that you can have these people who are movie, where there's a big group of peo-

Carolco, and the film was distributed on really good in their jobs. That's what I ple who chase the guy who broke out and videocassette and cable in America. always liked in Germany. We were a isn't really guilty. People very easily Moon 44 also brought Emmerich to young bunch, men and women, and it find a way to understand this guy and go Carolco. After a Sylvester Stallone film was fun to learn all that while we were with him, and they're on his side." called Isobar fell through. Universal doing it. We got pretty good at it—so Emmerich points out that the actors Soldier became the director's first good that this whole core group in are also on his side, especially his two American production, though he doesn't Germany is working worldwide." stars, the Swedish Lundgren and Belgian- feel much more pressure. At the moment, the lean, energetic bred Van Damme.

"Everyone takes it all so seriously. German sits in his trailer a few hundred "The funny part is, we're all three When you take this business seriously, yards from Hoover Dam, where his team Europeans," he smiles. "All three of us

you're lost already! I just try the best of Universal Soldiers is about to recap- come from the same region, so Dolph

that I can," he says. "I'm the same guy I ture the dam from terrorists. Tourist and Jean-Claude are pretty easy to work was in all my other movies, because groups have been watching as soldiers with. I don't know what it is; they pretty without these strug- I can only do it mx way—that's the onlv rappel down the dam's 700-foot front. much work together

54 STARLOG/September 1992 gles and fights. Everybody does his job and tries to do it as well as possible, and

Dolph takes it very seriously, which is good. I tell him what I have to say about his work, and we find the best way to get it on screen. It's the same thing with Jean-Claude and all the other actors. There isn't a 'star' thing here so much. "I don't play with them," he explains. "I respect them as the movie's leads. When I came on this picture, they were already there, so they do their job as well as they can, and I do my job as well as I can. If one guy has a good day and he's better than the other, the other one might have a good day the next day. If you try to use tricks, you've already lost as a director. You have to be honest and say, 'This was good' or 'This was bad.' You can't always say, 'Great, great, great.' Sometimes you have to say, 'This was pretty shitty!' Then, they trust you." One of the best things for Emmerich about Universal Soldier is that he has been able to concentrate on the perfor- mances and leave the technical side to the specialists, which helps the actors. "They see me with passion behind the of exposing the camera, trying to do my job as well as I Reporter Veronica Roberts (Ally Walker) shudders at the thought can. If they see me with no passion, Universal Soldiers' secrets. "I have very good people, like [stunt they think I'm not really taking it very Vic Armstrong, [FX coordi- seriously and they get angry pretty fast. coordinator] nator] Kit West and many others—a re- I think all directors—with these kind of ally good crew. For the first time in my movies especially—have to be concerned concentrate more on the story with what's going on with the actors on "When you take this life. I can and character aspect. Normally, I concen- the one hand, but there's also this whole business seriously, trate on everything and I have to be ev- technical side. When all of those techni- erywhere. I don't have to do that in this cal people are asking you questions, you you're lost already." and that's good, because directors quickly lose perspective of the story and film, are there to keep overall control, not to the actors, and it can suddenly develop be involved in details. Details won't into something difficult. make a movie; it's the storyline that's important." Filming on location—especially a lo- cation like Hoover Dam—can require a great deal of compromising, but the filmmaker isn't afraid to change plans or improvise whenever necessary. "Because of the Sun and the lights and other problems, you constantly have to improvise and change the scene," he says. "But there are some shots that you simply want to do, and you wait for hours to get them. If it's really an impor-

tant shot, then you try to go for it ex-

actly like you wanted it, and you get very, very angry when it doesn't work. It's like actors and their scenes: they're in about three scenes, and they get ner- vous because they want to do the scene right—it isn't good, because they get to- tally uptight. A director also has things he wants to do. "So far. we've got them all, but we

still have to constantly change things. That often comes with good stuff from the actors or other people on the crew. If they have a good idea, let's do it!" says Roland Emmerich, as his Universal Soldiers prepare an assault, while the massive Hoover Dam looms ironically overhead. "They're often little things, Despite appearances, Emmerich insists Lundgren and Jean-Claude Van Damme very important!" were "pretty easy to work with." but little things can be STARLOG/September 1992 55 —

illiam Shatner's TekWar was the LA, where TJ. Hooker in Ron coulart's future first novel to carry the actor's meets "Star Trek," William Shatner sleuths. W name. Its success has led to three sequels TekLords, TekLab and the upcoming Tek Vengeance (Berkley Books). Audiocassette adaptations of the first two novels, read by Shatner, have also been produced. And now, the world of Tek unspools in the pages of a new monthly series which is titled, appropriately, Tek World. SF/mystery novelist and comics writer Ron Goulart has been involved with the TekWar saga every step of the way, func- tioning as a consultant to Shatner on the novels and scripting the audio adapta- tions. Tek World is his latest project. "Bill Shatner is one of the two or three best-known science fiction personalities in the world," says Goulart, relaxing in his Connecticut home, where he has just fin- ished writing issue #1 of Tek World (due out this month). "When you think science fiction, particularly in terms of TV or movies, Shatner's one of the few people

onia TekLords is just one novel that helped shape William Shatner's Tek World for Marvel's Epic imprint. of the who has had as much as 25 years in it. TekLab presents a good example will incorporate TekWar is a very popular book, and he's a things Goulart can—and — popular person. [Adapting TekWar into a into the comic. The novel features a serial comic] seems logical. This could be." killer, a la Jack the Ripper, who turns out Goulart adds with a slight pause, "the next to be an android. "Basically, Tek World is g Spider-Man or Punisher." future crimes and intrigues and thrillers. | material." empha- TekWar itself will be adapted in the first but it isn't superhero he „ dif- five issues, chronicling the adventures of sizes. "That's where this comic book £ » the book's hero, Jake Cardigan, a tough fers from others." established ex-cop living in a future Los Angeles trou- By adhering to the universe I > bled by the illegal, computerized brain in the TekWar novels. Goulart intends to ^ the stimulant called Tek. "It works out well," preserve Shatner's basic concept for | about says Goulart. "I've broken TekWar down series. "When Shatner first talked | something into synopses, so we have cliffhangers at his ideas for TekWar, he wanted | and Star = each issue's end." that would combine T.J. Hooker fiction Jake and his partner, Sid Gomez, form Trek, so you would have science N ba- the core of Tek World and will remain the and tough cops in Los Angeles. That's 2 comic's focal point, even when later is- sically what you have here." \ sues—probably beginning with #6—de- original novels and follow TekDifficulties I part from the * new storylines. Goulart acknowledges a team effort in World. Artist Lee "What Marvel has in mind," explains the production of Tek | with the •§ Goulart, "is that between novel adapta- Sullivan exercises a creative hand to Shatner for tions, we'll do new, multi-part stories us- comic, and everything goes t and ing the characters and future world that review. "Bill goes over the synopses g have been introduced. These stories might scripts and makes his suggestions," he s involve different crimes and more explains. "He takes an active hand in it. » flamboyant villains now and then, not Also, when Sullivan first started working rj back- < necessarily the Tek drug or the Tek lords or on the comic, he did character and to = cartels." ground sketches. All of this went * Other significant TekWar characters Shatner, who had some suggestions and won't disappear when the novel's adapta- changes he wanted. So, it's a team effort. £ definitely is in control." < tion is complete, he adds. "The novels and Shatner Jake Cardigan awakens in a comics the developments of Does the writer feel restricted or con- have been following adaptation of TekWar, which serve as ex-wife, and fined by such close supervision? Not at Jake, Gomez, Jake's son and Tek Worlds first five issues. Beth Kittridge. whom he meets in the first all, he comments. "Shatner's a good story- sense of how novel. All the novels have dealt with Tek. teller, and he has a very good large audience. That's always "None of us is saying, 'Let's make a In the first book, we meet drug leader to reach a buck off this,' " Goulart insists. Sonny Hokori and entrepreneur Bennet helpful. All the suggestions he has made quick work. "Shatner is very enthusiastic. Tek World is Sands. In the second, Hokori's sister are toward making this thing way is as important to him as a TV show or a comes into the picture, and we find out They're not criticisms like. 'My to movie or anything else he might do. Of more about Jake's ex-wife, Kate, and his better:' they're just suggestions on how course, if you're talking about a S20-mil- son, Dan. improve the product. going to put a little more other things happen in lion movie, he's "Various Art: By & Copyright 1991 into it. But he's putting a good deal TekLab, and gradually over the three nov- time of time into supervising Tek World. He's els, we find Jake and his son getting closer directly involved with me and Marvel." together after they had been alienated from The three-way collaborative effort does each other. In the fourth novel, due out pose its share of challenges, admits early next year, the Tek lords are pissed off Goulart. "Lee Sullivan is in England work- at Jake and try to get even with him for all ing on the art," he explains. "Lee is doing he has done to them. Jake, in turn, decides his version of what LA looks like in the to get back at them for what they do to what Jake and Gomez look like, and him. future, so on. Then, you have Shatner's version "In the comic book," Goulart contin- of what they look like, and then, 1 see ues, "I'll write stories using that future Los them in still a different way. Everyone's Angeles in different plots. If I create some- passing things around, faxing and mailing thing interesting, maybe it will go for five things, in an effort to agree on what LA or 10 issues; maybe we'll never get back to will look like in the future. That's one of the second book. There are also some in- the challenges." teresting subsidiary characters from the Sullivan's work earns high marks from first book who may turn up again in future the writer. When they started the project, issues of Tek World." 20-page breakdown of Tek One character likely to resurface is Goulart wrote a the comics version. "The Warbride, a cyborg revolutionary in World outlining characters, who Mexico who sports a metal right arm. "I'm breakdown explained the what their world was like, as not restricted," Goulart states. "If I want a they were and I it, and I turned it in to Marvel," he whole sequence with Warbride, or if I want saw then what Marvel calls Jake's son Dan to get involved in some explains. He wrote breaking adventure where he and his father work to- a plot, a nine or 10-page memo

gether on something, I can do it. There are BILL FLORENCE, veteran STARLOG all kinds of possibilities. I can write about Expect Tek World writer Ron Goulart Mankiewicz in kidnapping, teleportation, smuggling, to incorporate elements from all of the correspondent, profiled Don anything with a future slant." novels, including TekLab. issue #177. STARLOG/September 1992 57 Goulart describes Jake Cardigan as a character with the qualities of Captain Kirk, T.J. Hooker and Shatner himself.

the comic down page-by-page. Sulliyan stage. He can't indicate Shatner's specific confirm worked from this brief memo as well as the role in the venture, but he does actor would be involved in some „ novel itself. that the writer. | According to Goulart. Sullivan's depic- capacity—possibly as a director or a real- tion of hero Jake Cardigan bears a suspi- If the proposed TV series becomes Icious resemblance to Shatner. which of ity. Goulart would be a script writer. series pilot be 2 course is no accident. "Jake looks some- Furthermore, the may 1 what as though Shatner were playing the released theatrically overseas. awaits the TV proposal's fate, | part. The character was envisioned by While he £ Shatner as something that he himself Goulart is busy penning issues of Tek writing, 2 would like to play [in a movie or TV se- World. He's no stranger to comics for Marvel 2 ries]. On the audio adaptations of TekWar having written horror comics comics a and TekLords. Shatner does all the parts, in the early 1970s. A noted that's historian and former STARLOG g, but he really is Jake on them, and ° probably one of the best characterizations contributor, Goulart teamed with artist Gil '? he does. Jake's a part that he could play: A Kane in 1977 to create Star Hawks, a for two * veteran, a tough guy with some of the qual- newspaper strip which he wrote probably, some years. J I ities of T.J. Hooker and. on that of Kirk—and some of Shatner as well. "Basically, the way we worked working on Tek .Jake's a new character, but it's not an was the same way I'm enormous departure from the kinds of parts World, except that on Star Hawks, Gil was notes Goulart. you would expect Bill Shatner to play." in the same room with me," "We were neighbors: he lived five minutes TekTV away from me. We would get together once storyboard the strip. I would It should come as no surprise, there- a week and Gil would fore, that Tek World may soon make the have the story in advance, and thumbnails. transition to TV as an hour-long weekly actually sit there and do cliche is series. "There's a very strong possibility "With a newspaper strip, the acknowledges, but that you have to keep coming back every With Tek World, Goulart can write about of a TV series." Goulart (continued on page 72) "anything with a future slant." he's reluctant to say more at this early

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FAB is an updated ver- hen Thunderbirds returned to Thunderbirds production that first premiered in British TV in fall 1991. it was sion of a mid-80s. In 1984. Andrew Dawson one of the BBC's top shows, the the Mime W six million. and Gavin Robertson formed attracting a weekly audience of Theatre project (MTP) and planned to use In October, Fleetway Publications re- elements from Thunderbirds in their first vived their Thunderbirds comic, a mix of performance. But, after researching it and reprints (including classic Frank Bellamy- other Anderson series, they found enough strips) and new material, boasting a circu- material for an entire show. lation of almost 90,000. Sylvia Anderson The new version, which opened at the then published her autobiography, Yes, Mermaid Theatre before transferring to the M'Lady. in which she tells the story of Theatre in central London, Thunderbirds and the other shows she Ambassadors includes is half as long again. It also created with ex-husband Gerry. Christmas characters previously not featured, like saw the shops flooded with Thunderbirds Ladv Penelope's butler Parker, and John merchandise in the form of dolls, books, mugs and other paraphernalia. Characters Tracy. Dawson and Robertson, who direct, from the series appeared in TV advertise- chose Paul Kent and Wayne Forester as ments touting insurance and magazines. acting replacements. Kent and Twenty-five years after its original their Forester have appeared together in several screening, the Andersons' cult series, previous stage shows, including Batman seems to have caught the imagination of Robin—The Last ReRun, another af- young viewers and adult nostalgics alike. and spoof in which Paul played the One the most eccentric manifestations fectionate of now. stage version, Joker and Wayne, the Riddler. And Forester are of this revival is the Stop! Paul Kent and Wayne Thunderbirds FAB: The Next Thunderbirds FAB: The Next Generation, they're on the job. They're Thunderbirds FAB: extended run. Generation. The Next Generation. currently enjoying an

64 STARLOG/September 1992 STARLOG: How did re- act when he was approached for permission to do the original show? PAUL KENT: We've asked Gerry about that, and he said he thought they were both mad. Gerry is a very self-effacing chap, and he has never fully understood the series' lasting appeal. He was happy

with the show he made and thought it was a competent show; but he has never completely understood why he has this group [the official Anderson fan club] who dresses up in costumes. He can't quite come to terms with that. Thunderbirds was never made as a cult show, unlike, for instance, The Rocky Horror Show, which was intended as a lampoon from the start. So, when Andrew and Gavin came along and said, "We want to stick rockets on our heads and do a show about Thunderbirds," I think he was a bit dumbfounded. But he has given his full support. STARLOG: Did he have creative input? WAYNE FORESTER: He recommended someone to make these huge models we wear on our heads, Thunderbirds One and Two: Richard Gregory, who worked as a modelmaker on Dr. Who and ALIEN. Everyone calls them hats, but they're not; they are very meticulous models. walk. It was in Stingray that you saw STARLOG: On the series, everything These ones are new for this production, them wobble around. had a tendency to blow up... and they really are beautifully detailed, FORESTER: I was very impressed with FORESTER: At least three times. almost too good for the stage. They're the music [composed by Barry Gray and STARLOG: How do you handle that the nearest thing to the ones used in the also used in the stage play]. In fact, the aspect on stage?

Thunderbirds TV series, almost exact first record I ever bought was the KENT: We do it with mime. But accessi- replicas. None of the originals exist. Thunderbirds' theme tune, when I was ble mime. If you asked two children to KENT: Apparently, they we/e trashed as about five. But we left the show behind: make a bridge, they would probably put soon as the TV show finished. Ours are it was just one part of our childhood. The their arms together, and that's how we do made of wood and fiberglass, which strange thing is that people have kind of (continued on page 71)

means they're quite heavy, but the trick archetypal memories of it. They think is to make them look very light. they remember the walk, for instance.

Thunderbird Two, which is Wayne's, is But you never really saw it. And they much heavier than mine. But mine, say, "I remember seeing the strings," but Thunderbird One, is all back-weighted, very rarely did you see them, either. The which you can really feel when doing the show taps that group nostalgic feeling. launch sequences. There has to be that So, we didn't spend days and days study- feeling of moving forward all the time. ing; we're certainly not Thunderbirds ex- It's almost like a great heroic swoop. perts. What we try to re-create is the

You build up your neck muscles during spirit of the show, which I think is prob- this show! ably more important, because that's what STARLOG: Why was a cast change for sticks in audience's memories. the new version necessary? KENT: We've heard people say that it's

FORESTER: Gavin and Andrew did it for a send-up, but it isn't. I think Gerry about six years. They wanted to go off Anderson would be offended if we were

and devise something else. It was their sending it up, and we're not.

baby, and it was difficult to even con- FORESTER: There's a lot of comedy to

ceive of re-casting, because it was such a be mined from the cliches. There's a line

part of them. That's why it was an enor- in our show, "We had better be quick, mous challenge to find people they Brains; time is invaluable—the penalty thought could carry it on. We play six for delay could be disaster!" Then, Brains different characters each. It's very de- takes half-an-hour to walk across the manding. room. There's also the timing element in STARLOG: You both seem too young to the rescues. There's a scene where one of remember the TV show. Did you watch Paul's characters is trapped in rising wa-

the videos when preparing your parts? ter. Just as it reaches his mouth, we cut KENT: We need to remind ourselves to Lady Penelope crossing the stage.

what the jokes are. We need to trigger When it cuts back, the water level has our own memories every now and again. miraculously fallen by two feet. That's Initially, we were looking for voices, the thing Gerry found amusing about the and the way characters walked. The show: That it has taken television strange thing is that there are very few editing techniques, transferred them to times when you actually saw the puppets the stage and poked gentle fun at them.

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either," he laughs. "I've never Civil War, and I was an ex-Union officer in 'em, disap- been a part of anything, but it's possible, Bridges trying to 'find myself"— I was very was shap- I guess." (continued from page 29) pointed about the way the world all. Bridges just keeps on work- ing up. I was restless, kept moving all the Above beautiful ing, in movies, on TV, and in seemingly Wynn, the pretty English girl from time, just me and my horse (a American sad- every mini-series (Roots, Moviola, East of Goldfinger [Shirley Eaton], Gary Merrill black stallion, a five-gaited very good scripts Eden, The Blue and the Gray, George they had a good cast for that one. dle breed). We had some II, of it all." Washington and North and South, Book "The director was Andrew Marton, who because was on top just to name some). And the end, appar- did some of the Sea Hunts, and who also ently, is nowhere in sight, with Bridges directed my son Beau in (practically) his Alien Lover fans series include The Lloyd just recently winning even more new first movie, a Jon Hall thing called Zamba Other Bridges Francisco Inter- with his portrayal of the addled Admiral [a.k.a. Zamba the Gorilla, 1949], The Bridges Show, San and Capitol Benson in Hot Shots!, the smash-hit send- acting bug had bitten Beau, even that national Airport, Joe Forrester "That not to mention a host of TV up from the co-director of Airplane! young. I remember on Zamba they gave us News, Bridges, who explored Mars in was a spoof on the Air Force, completely the script and I told him the story. And movies. wonderful comedy. I thought. And when Andrew Marton interviewed Beau, he Rocketship X-M, was cast as an extrater- mad. a movie The as a matter of fact, deck scenes for the air- asked, 'Are there any questions about the restrial himself in ABC's TV with Angie Dickinson. craft carrier in Hot Shots! were shot on the script? Is there anything that bothers you Love War (1970) the idea was that, to save a very spot where Marineland used to at all? Being with the gorillas and all "In that one, there was going to be a war stand—where we used to film the underwa- that—does that worry you?' Beau said, lot of lives, Earth, and it ter scenes for Sea Hunt. For Hot Shots!, 'No, but the thing that does bother me is between my planet and the and so it settled with just about three of us. the ocean was in the distance, when I have to parachute out of the burn- was a character with saved a lot of expense and a lot of time; we ing plane!' He thought he would have to do Angie Dickinson played have had to go back and forth on a whom I fell in love. But she played a dirty would it himself—-but he was ready regardless!" that boat to do it on a real carrier. And the Navy Another Bridges teleseries, The Loner, trick on me—she led me to believe gal, but in- wasn't too anxious to cooperate with us on premiered on CBS in September 1965, and she was just a regular, normal the end. she that one. anyway—the film didn't paint a disappeared from airwaves the following stead she was an alien. And in puddle!" very flattering picture of the Navy!" April. Bridges has fond memories of the shot me and I wound up in a Love So. no thoughts of giving up on act- short-lived program, and of its creator, His appearance as an alien in The a guest-starring role ing? "No; as a matter of fact, they're going writer Rod Serling. "I loved that man; it War (not to mention makes the to do a sequel to Hot Shots! and I'm going was a shame that he didn't last longer. He in Battlestar Galactica) as only family of ac- to be in it. The people felt I was so good was a beautiful human being as well as a Bridgeses perhaps the (Beau in a an admiral, now they're going to make me very talented writer—one of the most tal- tors who have all played aliens Jeff in Starman). This President of the United States." Asks ented writers that we had in TV. I thought TV movie and that Lloyd Bridges Lloyd B*ridges. "Where do I go from The Loner was a good show, and that it had doesn't mean, however, "Well. I don't d/sbelieve there??" & an interesting format. It was just after the believes in them.

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through it with him, the whole way. So, you learn the whole construction and the making of the film." His next production was High Spirits (STARLOG #137), again for Neil Jordan. Then came Batman, for which Furst (along with set decorator Peter Young) won an ANTON FURST Academy Award. Working with director 1944-92 Tim Burton was satisfying for the pro- Anton Furst, production designer of duction designer. "When I came up with Batman, Awakenings and Full Metal the original design concepts for the film,

Jacket, died January 24, 1992. Furst com- he immediately locked straight into it and mitted suicide by throwing himself from agreed." Furst said when interviewed for the eighth floor of a Los Angeles parking COMICS SCENE #7. "In terms of his in-

garage building. put, it has always been, when I've come up

Born May 6. 1944, Furst studied theater with five or six ideas. I know which one / design at the Royal College of Art in like—he has always gone immediately for

London. England. A turning point in his the one I like most. So. there's a fairly

appreciation for cinema was seeing the vi- symbiotic relationship there. It has been sual scope of 2001: A Space Odyssey. excellent." Coincidentally, his first movie job (as a Following Batman. Furst relocated student) was visualizing designs for 2001 from London to Hollywood at the request production designer Tony Masters for a of Jon Peters and Peter Guber. Batman's movie that was never made. Anton Furst designed a dark Gotham producers who had taken over as Columbia Prior to his major film work, Furst City for Batman. Pictures execs. There was a plan for Furst spent many years developing potential to redesign the company's studio uses for holography and lasers. This cul- designed Lady Chatterley's Lover, Neil complex, but this ultimately fell through. minated in the highly successful "Light Jordan's Company of Wolves, and then Furst went on to design Awakenings for Fantastic" exhibition at London's Royal Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket— director Penny Marshall and the celebrated Academy in 1977, sponsored by the rock Vietnam war movie filmed in a disused gas NYC restaurant Planet Hollywood. At the group The Who. Subsequently, Furst spent works in east London. Actually working time of his death, he had been working on four years exploiting commercial uses of with the director of 2001 (for two years Midknight. a superhero fantasy for Michael lasers and holography with his company continuously) was another turning point Jackson which Furst was to design and Holoco at London's Shepperton Studios. for Furst. "The great thing about working help produce. This included work as a special FX with Stanley—although it's absolutely ex- Although he noted a potential interest supervisor on Star Wars, ALIEN, Outland, hausting— is that he totally involves you in directing. Furst was content with his Flash Gordon and Moonraker.r with every single aspect of the picture." work as a production designer. "This is

Furst then became a production de- Furst said later. "You spend hours talking ideal for me because I draw well, and I can

signer ("my job. basically, is to work out about the script. You spend hours dis- visualize," he said. "There's no other area I what we require the camera to look at, apart cussing how you're going to shoot it. He would prefer to be working in." from the actors," he once defined it). He takes you, plus maybe two or three others. —Adam Pirani

IAN WOLFE part opened up my opportunities as an ac- 1896-1992 tor," Wolfe told STARLOG in issue #135. Ian Wolfe, whose acting career spanned "I was known as a British fop before that nearly 72 years, died in Los Angeles role. Playing Maggs not only saved me

January 23 of natural causes. He was 95. professionally, it also allowed me and my Star Trek fans will long remember family to exist financially." Wolfe's menacing guise in the classic se- One of those faces you knew although ries" episodes "Bread and Circuses" (as you might never learn his name. Wolfe Septimus) and "All Our Yesterdays" (as Mr. played supporting characters for the next Atoz, the librarian). Many of his more half-century, including parts in several than 150 films were genre efforts, Sherlock Holmes movies (Sherlock including The Raven (1935), Mad Love Holmes in Washington, Sherlock Holmes (1935), The Return of Dr. X (1939). The Faces Death, Pearl of Death, Dressed to Invisible Man's Revenge (1944), Houdini g Kill). Besides Star Trek, his genre TV (1953), THX-1I38 (1971) and The °> appearances included The Twilight Zone, Terminal Man (1974). 2 One Step Beyond and Amazing Stories. Born on November 4, 1896 in Canton. | The actor remembered George Lucas' Illinois, Wolfe volunteered as a medical u THX-1I38 in a positive light. "I suppose sergeant in World War I. He had thoughts S the film was destroyed early on, but I bet of pursuing a singing career, but turned to 5. they could get it out now with all this un- acting. In 1919, he made his stage debut it reality they're shooting. All through that with Lionel Barrymore in The Claw. » shoot, it was so weird you almost got Hollywood beckoned Wolfe in 1934. I drunk on the unreality of it." when he landed a small part in The Barretts <^ Of his two Star Trek roles, Wolfe had of Wimpole Street. The following year, he •2 trouble choosing his favorite. "I guess played what he felt was the most important a. Atoz," he remarked. "It was fun. you know. part of his career, Maggs. in the original Ian Wolfe etched a familiar face in more At least there were three of me!" version of Mulinv on the Bounty. "That than 150 films. —Bill Florence

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to the next, using lots of costume and science fiction and fantasy.' They were all lighting changes. going, 'Science fiction yeah, fantasy STARLOG: What about your audiences? blah,' then passing the mike so KENT: Every audience is different. somebody else could kick the corpse. That's a cliche, but every audience is dif- Lynn happened to be the only fantasy ferent, so you can't have any set rules writer on that panel. They hadn't zeroed for it. But you can hear them warming up in on that fact. So, she's sitting to the idea once they've had a chance to placidly, doing her knitting, as they think about what they're seeing. pitchforked fantasy. Finally, they handed Hopefully, this is set up right at the be- her the mike, and said, 'Got anything 'TAR ginning. The first character on is Brains, you would like to add?' 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no air in space to day. So. we would try to get a cliffhanger ogue. because there's sound. or a teaser or something intriguing at the carry the attacking B-5 end of every day. Gil would give me the "Let's say we had a fleet reason not that we would ever thumbnails, and I would come home and for some — make my thumbnails based on those, do this, of course." he says with a look of that promises it's already on the drawing which is what I did with the first issue little board. "You could start a scene in one Tek World. I made my own toward the thumbnails of Lee Sullivan's pages, then ship's point-of-view corning away from that, pass be- tried to figure out what they were saying. station, move toward B-5. "Working with Gil 15 years ago on Star tween two other ships coming over Hawks." Goulart maintains, "taught me a swing around behind them and pass onto B-5. and pass through lot about pacing and timing in terms of them, zoom windows in a single shot! comics. It's a different discipline than one of the — possibilities for dog- writing novels, of course. One of the Imagine the fighting!" things I learned is that, with strips and sequence alone, done with comic books, you have to slow down. You This same system of models and super- have to take your time in order to make the Star Trek procedures, would cost sure there are enough scenes and panels for imposed matting half-million dollars." The Currency of Tomorrow! the reader to grasp what's going on." upwards of "a The Federation Credit Coinage Act of Straczynski says. "You would have to 8991 was established to stimulate trade build all your models and run all your life forms who were with frontier motion control equipment individually suspicious of the credit system and hundreds of hours of work. demanded cash. Coins were rare and you're talking novel items on home planets—and We can do this same sequence with one guy FEDERATION CREDITS soon brought at one teVminal over a week-and-a-half. their face value on the many times And no. you won't be able to tell underground market. computer-generated from non-computer- These Coins Of The Future generated images. Fans and FX pros who Can Now Be Yours! have seen the test footage already created for the series can't tell them apart." The first denomination available is the One FEDERATION CREDIT Coin, Although B-5 has been one long con- minted in a deluxe silver-and-antique- tinuous struggle. Straczynski and his team satin version. Each coin is finished by are still enthusiastic. "The energy on this hand—no two coins are exactly alike! We all believed Pegasus, the flying horse of my- project has never flagged. project is a go. thology, is richly imprinted ontthe coin.i in it fiercely. Now that the Our Your Collection Of everyone's energy has tripled. production meetings are a kick, and the Space Memorabilia Is deas are flying thick and fast. I'm finding Incomplete Without fresh things about the characters that FEDERATION CREDITS! weren't there originally. It's as if I've Your coin comes packaged in a rediscovered B-5 all over again, and it's protective sleeve, with a certificate of very rewarding. It tells me that if after four authenticity and literature created to I'm not sick of it. I know the satisfy highly-demanding science years. fiction enthusiasts. audience will be thrilled with it." "Tek World is future crimes and And as for the thrill of seeing the dream ORDER TODAY! intrigues and thrillers," says Goulart, come to life, a dream that's now becoming "but it isn't superhero material." $24.95 a reality for J. Michael Straczynski. "It know what you Tek World isn't the only project cur- feels like a first date. You Send cash, check or money order payable lo: and you're wondering. 'My STARLOG PRESS rently underway for Goulart. whose long have in mind, I get there?" It's excitement, 475 Park Avenue South list of more than 60 novels includes the God. how can New York, NY 10016 euphoria. It's Avenger and Vampirella series. Skyrocket apprehension, fear, thrill, strange feeling because for FEDERATION CREDITS Steele. After Things Fell Apart and Even the also a very other people knew $24.95 each Butler was Poor. His newest mystery years only I and a few it at a sequel of the B-5 name. Now. I hear and see Please send me FEDERATION CREDITS novel. Now He Thinks He's Dead, for ea<5h coin conventions. I gave a presentation at a coins. I have enclosed $24.95 to Butler, is due out this fall. Next year will ordered, plus $4 (Foreign: $7) to cover astonish- the release of The Comic Book convention in LA. and to my postage and handling. Canadian residents bring wearing a B-5 button, add 10% sales tax. Reader's Companion, another comics ment, up came a guy the B-5 symbol, reference work. Goulart has also penned which he had made using Total enclosed: $ slogan: 'No novelizations. including that of Capricorn sporting the unofficial B-5 robots. ..ever!' We One. Peter Hyams' film (see page 46). cute kids, no cute on the air yet! So. here's this NAME At the moment, he's most concerned haven't been head for with Tek World. "There are many writers in concept that existed only in my years and now other STREET science fiction, and certainly in the mys-. the last several — have this idea in their tery field, who have never looked at a people suddenly sensation. CITY comic book and never will." asserts Ron heads, too. It's a most curious know what Goulart. "I'm enthusiastic about Tek "It's also especially neat to STATE ZIP turns the fans are in for. World, because it's a very interesting and sorts of twists and IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO CUT OUT COUPON. ORDERS. tell all the surprises we WE WILL ACCEPT WRITTEN potentially success-oriented project. It's I wish I could you Please allow A to 6 weeks tor delivery. fun to be involved." "w have in store." w fepflaw flfce WteiJwy e§ 8<5Bem^e ifiiflfien fin

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For the writers on a "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea," the trick was to treat the absurd seriously.

n a Voyage to the Bottom of the In Voyage's last two seasons, the Sea, almost anything could Seaview's encounters with extraterrestri- happen. And frequently did. als were kill-or-be-killed affairs. Most ° There were giant jellyfish, foreign aliens were bent on destroying Earth, and o dictators and of course, aliens, always were usually vanquished with a nuclear

>. aliens. Created by producer Irwin Allen, blast. It was a kinder, gentler exchange r Voyage set sail in 1964 as a straight SF in "The Sky is Falling," a first season g action-adventure, but by the time it was script by Don Brinkley. When Seaview is o dry-docked four years later, Admiral pulled into an undersea whirlpool, the | Nelson (the late Richard Basehart) and Writer Don Brinkley enjoyed what was Captain Crane (David Hedison) were lead- MARK PHILLIPS, veteran STARLOG cor- done with his script for "The Sky is ing the Seaview through a mine field of respondent, began his Voyage writers Falling," Voyage's first pure SF story. malevolent elves, and aliens. examination in issue #181

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"Actually. I think Irwin was a decent guy. He wasn't a bad fellow, but he didn't know how to deal with people. He came on very strong with everything and he had no consideration for anybody- else's feelings. But he had a certain

talent and he used it well. "I admire him for that. They say the squeaky wheel gets the most attention in this business, and Irwin squeaked." Holiday Betrayal It's a good bet that someone's miss- ing the mark by not making a film on the life of Alan Caillou. His life experi- ences (which include being an Intelligence Corps agent during WWII, Chief of Police in Ethiopia and once making his home, for three months, in a dried-up Roman well) could fill a book, and have: Caillou has written two auto- biographies. However, his recollections of writing a single Voyage teleplay, "The Magnus Beam." have faded. Caillou, whose TV credits include Thriller and The Fugitive, devised a giant magnet in Asia that locks in on the Seaview and pulls her toward destruction.

that it was written in the golden Admiral Nelson (Richard Basehart) and Captain Crane (David Hedison) relax. "I recall and while there was nothing Who knew what giant jellyfish or killer alien they might face next? years of TV particularly golden about Voyage, those

little I did were a great time for writers," says sub comes face-to-face with a submerged was a cut above average. "The days rather special. Caillou. "They left us alone to write. In flying saucer (the miniature from The see of that first year was straight action- later years, we had to write for commit- Day the Earth Stood Still). Boarding the Instead of just being a Every step of the play was argued crippled spaceship, Nelson finds a adventure show, they tried to expand tee. over sponsors, story editors—who are benevolent creature who needs his help TV's horizons a little. The SF/fantasy by the perimeters and the sponsors' personal slaves—and juve- in securing fuel. As the men of Seaview approach opened up 'Sky' was nile producers who often said things help the alien repair his craft, a war- gave it an added dimension. like. 'Ah, yes! My mom saw one of your mongering general (Charles McGraw) fun to do and it got some good reviews." shows once. She thought it was OK.' orders Navy destroyers in for the kill. Brinkley's second (and last) Voyage a drama Scratch one producer kid to work for. I Brinkley has to laugh when reminded script was "Hail to the Chief," save the U.S. told my agent, at the height of my dis- of his Voyage contribution. "It's funny! centering around efforts to an emergency operation gust with the way TV was going, T will It's like digging something out of my President with His Hampering the effort is a not write anymore for television!' past that I had forgotten. It's flattering, aboard Seaview. female enemy agents answer: 'OK, but you're going to starve.' because TV is such a big maw that you trio of devious wonder how anybody remembers any- (Viveca Lindfors, Nancy Kovack and He was right, of course." a little thing." "Sky" was Voyage's first pure Susan Flannery). "I tried to be admits science fiction story—with plot elements outrageous and spooky," through many story that would later resurface in The Abyss— Brinkley. "We went Allen and finally and the ending is one of hope. As possibilities with Irwin I "Look, why not go the whole Nelson and Crane watch the saucer lift said. victim the off safely from the sea, Crane remarks, "I route? Lets make the States!' Irwin hope they'll remember they were treated President of the United that.' I said. as friends." "They will," replies Nelson said, 'No! You can't do it over and thoughtfully. "I wonder if we will?" 'Let's try it.' He thought it worked. I "I remember enjoying what they did said, "OK, go ahead,' and well." with my script," says Brinkley. "The di- thought it turned out Allen as "a rector, Leonard Horn, did a fine job. The veteran writer recalls easiest guy They wanted to do a show with an alien, strange man. He wasn't the the world to deal with. He was very and I said, "Well, rather than have a bad in certainly alien, what about a good one?' and that temperamental, impulsive and being I've was a fresh idea for television. It wasn't not the most rational human he al- a problem episode." ever met. He had a huge ego and an idea, The years, however, have dimmed the ways had to be right. If you had that sort of thing. writer's memories of the script's evolu- it had to be his idea, tantrums, and ei- tion. "The story fell into place easily. I He would throw temper behavior and remember trying to avoid cliches because ther you accepted that or you got upset. there were enough built into Voyage as it walked away from him, got upset. I didn't: I just was. Let's face it, the series' concept was Some people That's why I only did two "There was nothing particularly golden a little hokey. It was designed like the walked away. under con- about Voyage," remarks Alan Caillou, old Saturday afternoon movie serials." episodes. He wanted to put me his who wrote "The Magnus Beam." Nevertheless, Brinkley felt Voyage tract, but the thought of being tied to

76 STARLOG/September 1992 Photo: Courtesy Doug Diamond Raphael Hayes was specifically asked cells, except these are more complacent.' to write a Christmas story for Voyage's and he was fascinated." first season, and he dreamed up "Long The episode was such a success that Live the King." As the Seaview trans- Mad spoofed the story in its 1965 take- ports a spoiled 12-year-old prince to off, Voyage to See What's on the Bottom. assume the throne in his war-torn home- which Woodfield enjoyed. land, the sub rescues an enigmatic However, it's "The Enemies" that stranger. Old John (Carroll O'Connor). Is stands out most in Woodfield's mind. John really a lost sailor, as he claims, or The episode begins with two submarine is he an enemy agent, placed aboard commanders (Robert Sampson. Tom Seaview to kill the prince? It turns out Skerritt) getting into an argument that that the prince's escort, Countess Des blows up into a killing rage. As crewmen Roche (Sara Shane) is the enemy and the try to pull the two apart, the sub, racing boy, helped to understand the meaning of blindly through the water, smashes into honor and integrity from Old John, is a mountain, killing ali hands. What made safely placed on his throne. A change-of- two close friends kill each other? Nelson pace story, the segment makes use of and Crane's investigation leads them to a O'Connor's singing talents. strange island ruled by General Tau "I was never a shoot-'em-up or hard- (Henry Silva), who uses several devices ware writer," states Hayes. "I prefer tales to induce hate and fear in his subjects. with human relationships. The Countess "That story was built around a very

was my favorite character. I find a common thing called The Aames Room, woman's villainy much more interesting named after Adelbert Aames of the

than a man's. She's a much more com- Dartmouth Eye Institute. He invented it. plex character and she carries in herself In psychology books, it's a room where villain, lover, seductress and mother. you see a dog sitting on one side and a Conspirators are always more dramatic man standing on the other. They'll and colorful heroes. wit, switch than To Satan." places and the dog becomes very That's Robert Duvall in makeup as Zar, -The episode, however, never reveals big and the man, very little. I had been a one of "The Invaders."

the true identity of Old John, who van- magician most of my life and I knew

ishes mysteriously as Christmas Eve ap- how to build that room. I thought it and Bill said, "I'll show you,' and he proaches. "Old John was me and my view would make an interesting story for built a little model of the room with a

of life," says Hayes. "Christ, love, affec- Voyage and I said, 'OK. you're driving periscope that looked into it, moved tion, the joy of laughter, kindness. It all people to the point where they're fright- these little toys around inside, and they has to be somewhere. Why not me?" ening each other and creating hostilities. got bigger and bigger. Well, Irwin could Hayes pulled up anchor after his one So, you put them in this room, and from not believe his eyes! Winnie Hoch. script, explaining, "I'm not a SF writer. the outside, we would see Nelson as 10 Voyage's Academy Award-winning cam- I have a feeling for black and white hu- feet tall and Crane three feet tall. If they eraman, looked through this thing and mor. When I wrote it, I never expected it changed positions, you would see them said, 'Well, if that's the way it looks in to become history! At the time, it was change in size,' and that's how the story the model, that's the way it's gonna fun, but I had more fish to fry." evolved." look in real life,' and that convinced

Woodfield's biggest challenge was to Irwin. But it was a real room," Woodfield Giant Jellyfish convince Irwin Allen that he wasn't ask- stresses about the extraordinary se- William Read Woodfield was a full- ing for a fortune to construct the room. quences where a towering General Tau time writer for Voyage by the middle of Irwin said, T don't believe it. I'm the turns from giant to little person as he its first season, but he made a point of king of special FX. How would you build confronts Nelson and Crane. "There were watching only his own episodes. it?' So I told him, and he called up his no FX used in those scenes. As for the

"Occasionally, I caught bits and pieces art director, Bill Creber. I told Bill about basic story, I had always wanted to do of other episodes, and I would say, my idea and he said, 'Yeah, that would The Most Dangerous Game, and this " 'Geez, what shit!" work.' and Irwin said, 'You mean we General makes them play the most dan- After exploring the potentials of nu- wouldn't have to use any special FX?' gerous game." clear warfare in "Doomsday," Woodfield decided it was time to dredge up a mon- ster to scare the kids. In "Mutiny," Admiral Nelson is scuba diving along the ocean floor when he sees the submarine Neptune devoured by a giant jellyfish. Shattered, the Admiral leads the Seaview on a dangerous quest for the creature. "I introduced the giant jellyfish," declares Woodfield. "I read some books and found out about a Coelentera, which is essen- tially what a jellyfish is. It's not a sin- gle animal, but a colony of animals that becomes enormous in size and functions like a beehive. It stings and eats other things. I also read a book called The Abyss, about all these things at the bot- tom of the sea, where the sea pressures are tremendous and nobody knows what's down there. Irwin said, 'You mean this thing is ani- hundreds of thousands of "I introduced the giant jellyfish," boasts William Read Woodfield (left). Originally mals?' and I said, 'Yeah, sort of like a solo writer, Woodfield later teamed with Allan Baiter for numerous Voyages.

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and I sat down. Irwin strode in and sat down. He pointed his finger at the set designer and said, "Go!' and the guy said something like, 'Well, Irwin, we're coming along pretty fine with the sets and we'll submit some drawings to you later.' and Irwin pointed to the next guy: 'Go!' and the next guy gave his report and so on. Finally, Irwin got to me. He pointed his finger and said, 'Go!' and I said, 'Gee, Irwin, I don't have to go. I

went before I came in,' and there was a deathly silence in the room. No one said a word. Then, Irwin chuckled a little, and then everybody laughed. Later, Sidney said, 'Bob. you came awfully close to getting your ass kicked out of there!'

They left us alone to write, in later years, we had to write for committee."

"We did some very ingenious plots during Voyage's first couple of years," claims writer Robert Hamner, who jumped aboard the series in 1964. "That first year was very good SF. I also wrote

for Star Trek, and I thought Voyage's first season was comparable to Star Trek. "After the first year, it did degenerate admits on the into the monster of the week," When the Seaview heroes got swallowed by a whale, they ended up awash Hamner. "but I liked Voyage. It was an human anatomy sets created for Fantastic Voyage. enjoyable experience." • Hamner pitched one of his stories, The episode ends with Nelson contam- Another misty memory, "The Invad- of "Cradle of the Deep," in the midst of a inating the island's water supply with ers," concerns Seaview's exploration at Irwin Allen Productions. "Irwin Tau's hate drug, and as Seaview speeds an ancient underwater city. Salvaging a crisis always came to me with his problem away, Tau's men turn into slobbering, glass coffin, they awake a man-like been in shows. He called me up: 'Bob. we've got hate-filled madmen. "Yeah, sounds creature (Robert Duvall) who has than 20 a problem.' So. I went over to his office. right," Woodfield acknowledges dryly. "I suspended animation for more have no problem with that ending. We million years. "Duvall played a guy who Woodfield. did that on Mission: Impossible, too had been in storage." says Earth, hoisted the villain on his own petard. "That was The Man Who Fell to Van You've gotta get rid of -the bad guy." Stranger in a Strange Land, Rip I liked it or not. As Voyage neared the end of its first Winkle. I don't recall if Duvall kept pro- season, the ratings remained steady, and I only remember that wrong. He would Woodfield takes a little credit for that. nouncing 'aluminum* and we kept "Curiously, the episodes I wrote always call it 'amminiummmmm' this insane person did better in the Nielsen ratings than the breaking up. 'What is " average episode. I kept pointing this out doing?!' geared up for a second to Irwin and he would say, 'But how can As production writer Robert Vincent Wright that be, Billy?' I said, 'The way they're season, contribute some scripts for written up in TV Guide, they sound more was asked to Wright had reserva- interesting.' The best part of writing for Voyage. Initially, I saw of it, I didn't really Voyage was that you would write a script tions. "Of what for the first year," he admits. and a week later, it was being shot. You care contributor to could see what worked and what didn't. It Wright, a frequent accepted an invi- was a great way to learn your craft." Bonanza and Maverick, tation from new story editor Sidney Lifeboat Perils Marshall to meet Irwin Allen. sense of The remainder of Woodfield's first "Irwin didn't have a great recalls. "He was a very year product isn't as memorable for the humor," Wright very hyper and tensed writer. "The Exile" stuck Nelson on a life introverted man, the time, but he wasn't unlik- raft with an arrogant dictator (Edward up all of absorbed in what he Asner). "Irwin would say, 'Billy, I need a able. He was totally So, Sidney invited me in to a Given a free hand in scripting "Jonah new script,' so I said, 'OK, what about was doing. in, and there was and the Whale," Shimon Wincelberg was LifeboatV and he would say, 'Good,' and staff meeting. I went "totally satisfied" with the segment. this bia table with 12 guys sitting there, I wrote it."

78 STARLOG/September 1992 —

tific fact. It's Charles Darwin! I'm not

making a brief for it,' and they said,

'Oh, yes you are! You're saying this is where life began, and we don't want to get into that.' It became a very big

problem, but I finally wore them down and the show went on." Concentration Camp Hamner, who came to Hollywood as a "kid writer" from New York, became in- terested in Voyage after screening the pi-

lot. "It was kinda fun. The first script I wrote, was ripped off from Moby Dick ["The Ghost of Moby Dick"] and that turned out well. The first thing you had to understand about Irwin was that even though he was doing, by today's stan- dards, very cheesy special FX, to him, Voyage was Gone With the Wind. That was his saving grace. He felt he was do- ing the most wonderful, fabulous thing ever. Irwin's TV shows and everyone in Woodfield's "Time Bomb," secretary Katie (Susan Flannery, center) intended to be a regular—helps Crane (Hedison) question Litchka (Ina Balin).

and there were 20 guys sitting around this huge conference table. Irwin said, 'Bob, we have no money to shoot the

next show.' I said, 'Well then, what are you guys sitting around here for? Go home.' 'No!' said Irwin. 'We've got to have a show. Can you write a story that takes place 100 percent on the submarine and that doesn't need any new actors or sets?' I said, 'Well, you'll ne,ed a heavy.' 'No! We haven't got money for a heavy!' " 'OK. The Seaview's cruising in this deep trench off the African coast where life on Earth first began and they pick up something,' and Irwin's eyes began to pop. 'What do they pick up?' 'Well, they

don't know what it is. It's something,'

and I'm ad-libbing all of this. I didn't know where this was going. And Irwin

said, 'Well, what does it do?' "I said, 'It grows,' and Irwin looked

disappointed. 'It just grows?' I said^

'Yeah, and as it grows, it gets heavier.'

'It just gets heavier?' And I said, 'Well, uh...the weight increases geometrically,

Irwin. The mass is so heavy that it's going to sink the submarine,' 'Yeah, but

what does it do as it grows?' I said, 'It

pulsates.' 'It just pulsates?' Irwin asked. 'It throbs.' Now, Irwin was getting into

it, and he turned to his art director [Bill Creber]. 'We'll put some nylon tubes un-

der the skin and light it up!' and that's how the blob show came about." The blob mass in "Cradle of the Deep" is part of an experiment by a sci- entist (John Anderson) to unlock the se- crets of life. "I liked that show in a strange way," explains Hamner. "It opened up so many things that drove people crazy. It wasn't approved by the network. I told them, 'This is crazy! What's wrong with it?' They said, 'It's anti-Christian. It goes against the Bible.' I replied, 'This is based on scien- who worked on them were Irwin's family. "So, Irwin says, 'Bob, what are we was in part- He had no other family except for actress going to do?' Since Voyage movie was a Sheila Matthews, whom he later married, nership with Fox and the stop! Look, and Al Gail, his cousin. Fox movie, I said, 'Irwin, middle of "Irwin had no other life. Monday you didn't sneak in here in the your coat. mornings were the happiest times of his the night with a camera under in conjunction with 20th life because he could have his family You did it over and see Dick around him all week. When the weekends Century Fox. Go came,' he invented crises so that he could Zanuck [the studio head]." 'You're right!' He went call you up. If I had a problem with "Irwin said, Zanuck read the Irwin, he would say, 'You're out of the over to Zanuck's office. laughed and made one call to will,' and if you did something good, he telegram, out." would say, 'Hey, you're back in the Sinatra. It was straightened writer's other scripts for the first will.' He was very special, and anything The were less controversial, including I say is with great affection." season Hamner was back on damage control "No Way Out" (Jan Merlin as a martial aboard the Seaview) duty when his episode "The Last Battle" arts assassin trapped budget- incensed singer Frank Sinatra. "Irwin and "The Human Computer" (a Crane being stalked called me up: 'Bob, I gotta show you saver with Captain Seaview by an something!', so we drove up to this little aboard the near-deserted "Every show has a certain hill on the 20th Century Fox lot and enemy agent). Hamner Irwin pointed to this concentration camp chemistry, and on Voyage," Basehart wasn't the sitting there. Sinatra had just finished notes, "Richard David Hedi- Von Ryan's Express, and a good deal of Admiral; he was the father. son and the Seaview that film took place in this prisoner of son was the favored I'm not saying war camp. Irwin said, 'They paid half a was the family business. was their million dollars for this set, Bob. Why we ever said that, but that For some staged publicity pix, model an undersea critter. don't you write a story around it?' I said, drive." Astrid Schultz met drives ripped Neither, howeyer, actually shipped out 'Irwin, there's no room for a submarine Hamner" s own creative Voyage after a year. "The on a Voyage. on this set. It's a war camp!' He said, him away from thing I ever did to Irwin was to go 'Think it over.' worst from the For Your Life," the of a flying sub that launched "I came up with a story where Nelson off and produce Run Voyage with some of says. "Irwin liked you to be under Seaview provided is kidnapped by Nazis and taken to this writer wrote its most intriguing FX. script, we filmed the his thumb and he hated it when I camp. I wrote the When shows. had some enormous There w%re also cast changes: show and it's about to go on the air for other We needed me, so he actor Henry Kulky died in February 1965, when Irwin calls. 'Come quick! Come fights, but he always funny guy, a the Seaview was left without a Chief for Big problem! Big problem!' I rush would make up. He was a quick! season. an original." the remainder of the. first over to his office and Irwin's waving a very bright man— Stepping in as Chief Sharkey for year telegram. 'Bob, we're in trouble!' It's two was New York dramatic actor Terry from Frank Sinatra's lawyer putting Irwin Whale Lunch Voyage was Becker. Also new to the series was Allan on legal notice. The prisoner of war For its second season, as the hip-talking Stu Riley, a role from its Monday night berth on Hunt camp is an integral part of Von Ryan's moved heat from originally written for Canadian actor Bob Express and Irwin's infringing on the ABC (where it was feeling the U.N.C.L.E.) Random. value of their set by airing his episode the rapidly-rising Man From prolific color, the se- William Read Woodfield, a before the film's release. They're going to Sunday nights. Now in writer for Voyage's first season, was as- the show off ries was given a refurbished Seaview and to sue Irwin unless he pulls crewman the crew. The addition signed to introduce the young that night. new costumes for to viewers. "To get the young kids, Irwin

thought it would be great to get a boy aboard Seaview. Irwin didn't think he had kids watching Voyage," deadpans Wood- field. His script, "The Surfers" (about brainwashed surfing champions being used by enemy agents to sabotage American defense installations) was in- tended to open up the second season, but was judged as too expensive to film. Voyage kicked off its new year instead with Shimon Wincelberg's "Jonah and the Whale." When a diving bell contain- ing Admiral Nelson and Russian scientist Katya Markhova (the late Gia Scala) is swallowed by a prehistoric whale, a res- cue party, led by Captain Crane, must crawl into its stomach to recover the pair. A tour de force of FX and set de- sign, the episode earned rave reviews. "I reread the Biblical narrative, and during some research, I came across the supposedly true story of a sailor who had

The Seaview always attracted giant denizens of the deep. been swallowed by a whale and came out alive bleached white!" recalls Wincelberg (who discussed his career in STARLOG #159). "I was given a free hand in writ- ing the script, with which I've been to- tally satisfied. The casting and direction were superb, and Irwin ingeniously made use of a set that had been built as a hu- man interior for Fantastic Voyage." The series was back on its spy kick with "Time Bomb," in which Nelson is the unwitting pawn of enemy agents who turn him into a potential catalyst for WWIII. The character of Katie, Nelson's strong-willed secretary who helps defuse the "time bomb," was almost signed on as a Voyage regular. Writer Woodfield ex- plains: "She was originally named Tiffany Loveland and she was supposed to be a James Bond-type girl friend for David Hedison. Irwin hired some girl [Susan Flannery] he thought was attrac- tive, but she was not, in any way, a Bond-type girl friend. She made one ap- pearance and was out."

Veteran writer Robert Hamner liked Voyage. "It was an enjoyable experience." "That first year was A Japanese officer and four Japan has been beaten down?' I liked the very good SF." Americans, all survivors of a 1945 sub ending with the poem better, and so did

sinking, have forged strong friendships [Voyage story editor] Sidney Marshall. It while trapped beneath a volcanic island was a fun script to write." This episode's main distinction is its for 28 years, but the prospect of rescue Upon seeing the episode recently, providing Nelson with his only love af- threatens to open up old war wounds. Wright says, "They did a beautiful job of fair (falling prey to the seductive charms That was the premise of "...And Five of casting the old Japanese man [Teru of an enemy agent played by the late Ina Us Are Left." "I had read an account of a Shimada]. Generally, all of the actors did Balin). The pair share a passionate kiss Japanese soldier who had come out of the a fine job. Harry Harris directed that and before sinking down on a* sofa for a Philippine jungles years after the war," he was a young guy at the time. He was night of lovemaking. explains Robert Vincent Wright. "I the best director Voyage ever had." "So? What about it?" snorts thought, 'There's an interesting story,' "Irwin either got very young direc- Woodfield, not fully appreciating the and my first draft had Seaview rescue this tors, who were up-and-coming and good, significance. "Irwin appreciated some- poor devil, a Japanese officer who tries or he got very old ones who shot Voyage thing different, and I gave it to him!" to sabotage the sub because he thinks fast," states Woodfield. "Sobey Martin the war's still on. I decided there wasn't would line everybody up in a row of five enough of a story in that, but that's how and when they had a speech, they would it started." lean forward and Sobey would get the A thoughtful, intelligent tale, "Five" shot in one take. Felix Feist, a nice old dispenses with the cliche of a stock vil- man, was like that, too. Lenny Horn, lain and instead deals with the rebuilding Tommy Gries and Jimmy Goldstone of lives and relationships. "Generally, [STARLOG #124] were much more adven- people-oriented stories weren't Irwin's turous, and they all went on to more im- cup of tea," says Wright. "He shied away portant careers." from them, but he did like the script. It With this season, Woodfield began was one of the few Voyages that dealt writing scripts with a partner, Allan

with people and a semblance of reality, Baiter. "I found it very lonely to sit as opposed to giant clams and aliens." there and write scripts for the first year," The episode ends with Nelson reassur- Woodfield recalls. "I knew Allan wanted

ing the Japanese officer that although to write, so I said, 'Hey, why don't we his country lost the war, Japan will still write 'em together?' Allan said he would accept him. The Admiral quotes from a love to and Irwin said, 'Over my dead poem about "the broken apple blossom" body! Allan's an associate producer,

that, "while faded and forgotten," will Billy. You're a writer.' I said, 'We're

"rise into a new and stronger tree." gonna do 'em together or I walk and " "Poetry is very easy for me," remarks we'll write for someone else.' Wright, "and I had one of the nicest With Baiter now approved, the pair

compliments ever given to me in this began dreaming up stories. "Allan and I business. The network called and wanted sometimes frisbeed or played pool or ran

my absolute assurance that I hadn't old movies and story ideas would come

Giant fish surrounded the Seaview— stolen that poem. I hadn't; it was origi- to us. When I was writing alone, I would actually a four-foot model shot inside nal. My first ending had the Admiral jump in the swimming pool and imagine

Marineland tanks—in "Leviathan," point to a big Japanese cruise ship as it a new adventure." guest-starring Karen Steele. goes by and say, 'Does that look like To Be Continued

ctaoi r\r:iQ„ — )

very year, since time immemorial, regular as counter- clockwise, the networks would premiere their new E_ Saturday morning animated fare. And I would tune in. Had (slim) to. Nothing else to do. Besides, there was always the chance that they would air something wonderful. In recent years, there have been real gems like the Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (something for the child—and stuffed animal—in all of us), Mighty Mouse (from Cool World's Ralph Bakshi), Beetlejuice, Taz-Mania, Mother Goose & Grimm and my special favorite, Darkwing Duck. But with animation flourishing all over the dial and, in various time slots (thank you, Simpsons & Turtles), there's a great deal more of stuff that seemed f it—and an equally high percentage promising but turned out rather disappointing. But ever the hopelessly pessimistic optimist (and vice versa), I'm excited again. After all, 20 new episodes of the disgustingly brilliant (and vice versa) Ren & Stimpy (see COMICS SCENE #28) show up beginning this very month on Nickelodeon. Happy, happy! Joy, joy! And then, in September, there's Disney's new Goof Troop. (Probably not, but it Will it be as much fun as Darkwing Duckl will be Goofy!) There are other shows that seem promising your approval: Evidence B. Will these "Lunar namely Fox's X-Men, the syndicated Conan, Disney's cartoon Submitted for Tunes" remain in The Twilight Zone'? prequel to The Little Mermaid, the animated Silence of the Lambs (just kidding about that. It would never sell cereal). And here's the relevant pan. The five projects left in limbo Then there's the animated Batman, airing weekdays on Fox the studio's downsizing are mostly of genre interest: beginning in September. And it looks great! by "Invasion of the Bunny SnStchers." It's Bugs Bunny vs. The pilot episode, "On Leather Wings" (featuring that mis- cartoon style: Limited animation versions of understood antagonist, Man-Bat), has been shown at various the pod people, Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam. (Finished short, part of a CBS SF/comics conventions—and boy, is it exciting! And we're special originally to be aired Halloween '91.) talking quality animation, splicing the look of Max & Dave TV "Rock-a^Bye Rabbit." Yosemite Sam babysits his infant Fleischer's classic '40s Superman cartoons into the world of frozen. daughter (!?). (Animated but incomplete. Production Akira. It's a Batman, by the way, that combines aspects of the "Lunar Tunes." Earth's on interstellar trial for cartoon films with characters, stories and settings from past and current against Marvin the Martian and other aliens. Duck comics continuity—creating a series that will delight all kinds crimes Dodgers cameos. (Part of a CBS TV special featuring new of fans for all kinds of reasons. yet aired.) A number of the 65 episodes being produced have been writ- material, not "Blooper Bunny." A behind-the-scenes, sort of "Daffy ten by those in the know, comics scribes like Gerry Conway, view of what these Toons are really like off-camera. Martin Pasko and Batman writer/editor Denny O'Neil. But Dearest" Lotsa in-jokes. (Unfinished.) here's why this Batman will be of interest to even the most Parking. Martian." A Blade Runner spoof starring non-comics-oriented SF fan: the voices. "No (Storyboarded, still under consideration.) Villains (and a variety of other characters) are voiced by a Daffy Duck. know more? See our brand-new publication Who's Who from the Science Fiction Universe (almost all of Want to YEARBOOK #1 (now on sale). It features a few whom have been interviewed in past issues of STARLOG): Ron COMICS SCENE talk with Chuck Jones) and a great many Perlman, Roddy McDowall, David Warner, Michael Ansara. reprints (including a (like a Bakshi interview re: Cool World). Well, Marc Singer, Paul Winfield', Adrienne Barbeau, John Rhys- all-new stories Miller's exhaustive review of "The New Davies, Brock Peters, Lloyd Bochner and others. Mark Hamill the longest is Bob Tunes" from 1987's "The Duxorcist" onward (with provides the Joker's laugh (and voice). Looney from animators Greg Ford, Terry Lennon, Nancy To learn even more about Batman, check out COMICS comments Van Citters and others). SCENE #29 (on sale August 25). Therein, Pat Jankiewicz chats Beiman, Darrell And //you want to see Bugs. Daffy and friends rejoin the an- with producer Alan Burnett for a colorful preview. imated race, make your voices heard. Tell them you want more Sadly, we may never see some of Warner Bros.' other, per- cartoons. Write: Sandy Reisanbach, Warner Bros. haps loonier, Toons. After a sporadic output of new theatrical theatrical c/o Imperial Building, 15303 Ventura and TV special cartoons starring Bugs Bunny. Daffy Duck and Animation Inc.. Sherman Oaks, CA 91403. friends, the Warner characters have been put in cold storage (as Boulevard. Daffy Duck as Rick Deckard (Duckard?). Blade Runner. far as new stuff is concerned). Sure, there's licensing, syndi- there would be something to see. cated reruns, videos, Tiny Toon Adventures and Taz-Mania— Now, —David McDonnell/Editor (June 1992) but we're talking about all-new "Looney Tunes."

Trek... Anne Francis re-visits Forbidden Planet.. The future in STARLOG: William Schallert remembers his Star on sale Tuesday, September 1, 1992. and there's another Invasion of the Body Snatchers in STARLOG #183,

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