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Odo's origins are called minutes if all of the footage were Ironically, one most Executive Art Director Spielberg hasn't spiritualists was Sir Arthur into question in "The Alternate." put back in, but W.R. MOHALLEY Conan Doyle, creator of the There's also "The Armageddon expressed any interest in this Editor "Whispers" in which idea. world's most famous paragon of Game" and DAVID MCDONNELL half-hour episodes of observation and deductive think- O'Brien's popularity seems to All 39 Editor Sherlock Holmes. In the take a sudden nose dive. All the Flash Gordon TV series star- Managing ing. KEITH OLEXA Holland (see page other camp, the person most ring Steve were filmed in known for his single-minded 64), which Assistant Editor haven't been JEANNE PROVOST crusade against phony medi- Germany and seen since 1954, have been ums and their tricks was that Special Effects Editor video dis- master of magic and illusion acquired for home DAVID HUTCHISON The two were tribution by Englewood Hairy Houdini. Contributing Editors of Indepen- friends and received reams of Entertainment ANTHONY TIMPONE dence, MO. Check their web MICHAEL CINCOLD press coverage for their cru- TOM WEAVER for the latest info: sades. Perhaps one of the site IAN SPELLING most famous of these www.englewd.com. After realizing a mod- Consultant involved two young girls KERRY O'QUINN success with its live- who claimed to have seen icum of and photographed living action remake of the cartoon Senior Art Director Dalmatians, JIM MCLERNON fairies in their backyard. feature 101 turned to another stu- Fairytale—A True Story is Disney west Coast correspondents animated shorts MARC SHAPIRO based on this incident and dio's (UPA) BILL WARREN live-action feature features Peter O'Toole as for the Doyle and Harvey Keitel as Mr. Magoo (for rental only Financial Director: Joan Baetz Marketing Director: Frank M. Ros- investigators in VHS and Beta) starring Houdini—both ner Leslie Nielsen as bumbling of the girls' claims. Circulation Manager: Maria Damiani Designers: Yvonne Jang, John Dins- Though the special FX Quincy Magoo. Teng, Dmitriy ostrovskiy, Laser: Ripley has been dale, Rick scenes with the fairies are Marco Turelli. years, but Debbie Irwin, Dee beautifully handled and dead for 200 now Executive staff: for stylish animated Assalti. Look the Erwine, Jose Soto, Sarah director Charles (Gulliver's researchers think they have adventure in Batman & Mr. correspondents: (West coast) Kyle technology to breed and tame a jean-Marc & Travels) Sturridge succeeds in Freeze: SubZero. counts, Pat Jankiewicz, Randy Lofficier; (NYC) David Hirsch, his story new brood of aliens. ALIEN Res- authentically wrapping Mike McAvennie, Maureen McTigue, is a widescreen transfer in the period, the film strays from episodes feature stereo surround urrection Joe Nazzaro, Steve Swires, Dan Yakir; in Dolby Digital (Boston) Will Murray; (Chicago) Kim the facts of the case and puts sound, $14.95 each in VHS. from CBS/Fox Howard Johnson; (west) Bill Flo- Surround Sound ($39.95) or words in Houdini's mouth that Now in stores is Batman & rence, Jo Beth Taylor; (South) Lynne (Canada) would have him turning over in Mr. Freeze: SubZero, a direct-to- DTS ($49.95). Stephens, Michael Wolff; Peter Bloch-Hansen, Mark Phillips; — animated adventure in Image Entertainment has an his grave. Fairytale A True video (England) Stan Nicholls; (Booklog) interesting trio of new SF releas- Kevin Story is priced for rental in VHS which Batman (voice of Kevin Scott schumack; (Cartoons) director Brockschmidt, Alain Chaperon, Mike Beta, but the laserdisc ver- Conroy), Robin (Loren Lester) es beginning with and Fisher, Tom Holtkamp, Bob Muleady. Tarkovsky's metaphysi- sion is only S34.95 in CLV. Inci- and Batgirl (Mary Kay Bergman) Andrei Thanks: Gillian Anderson, Rob Bow- newly re- man, Chris Brancato, Chris Carter, dentally, the famous photos tackle the chilling Mr. Freeze cal SF journey Solaris, Dalisa Cooper Cohen, Dean Devlin, in a cheaper edition, survive to this day, and you can (Michael Ansara). Filled with a issued Fredrik Du Chau, David Duchovny, Russian with English Heather Graham, see one of them for yourself at stunning mix of computer-gener- $34.95 in Terry Erdmann, Mary Alice Green, Natasha Hen- ated and standard animation, as subtitles. Robocop 2 continues the web site: www.parascope. stridge, Steve Holland, Jennifer com/articles/0397/ghost08.htm directed by Boyd Kirkland, Sub- the story of the cyborg cop with Howd, Christopher Judge, Penny Allen, Kenny, Leah Krantzler, MattLeBlanc, of Star Trek: Zero is a special treat from Warn- Peter Weller and Nancy Ten episodes Mimi Leder, Hudson Lelck, Carol widescreen. The The Next Generation drop out of er Home Video (VHS. $19.96), $29.95 in CLV Marks-Ceorge, Tom Phillips, Steve Stargate Pilcher, John smith, Frank Spotnitz, warp this month. Look for Due out mid-month is yet pilot for Showtime's Jeff walker, Alex Worman. Steven Spiel- series, ($39.95) stars "Time's Arrow, Part II," "Realm another version of SG-1 Cover Art: Xena: Copyright 1998 Uni- Anderson and Movie: Copyright 1998 of Fear," in which Lt. Barclay berg's Close Encounters of the Richard Dean versal; X-Files universal TV; species II: copyright Kind. The story is this: Christopher Judge (see page 50). overcomes his intense fear of the Third 1998 MGM; Godzilla: Copyright 1998 Transporter, "Man of the Peo- Spielberg claims the original LIVE Home Video has a new Sony Entertainment; Deep impact: Copyright 1998 Paramount Pictures. which features a release version (1977, 135 min- widescreen, THX approved, ple," "Relics," For Advertising information: Digital Surround Sound visit by Classic Trek engineer utes) was hurried and unfinished, Dolby (212) 689-2830. FAX (212) 889-79SS Director: Rita Eisen Montgomery Scott (James then came the Special Edition edition of director James Advertising stein delet- Cameron's Terminator 2. Also Doohan). 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