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DEPARTMENTS FEATURES a INTERVIEW: HARRISON FORD Previewing ""

Letters From Our Readers 6 INTERVIEW: GEORGE LUCAS, PARTI

Latest News From The Worlds Of Science Fiction & Fact _9 SF POETRY 1 : "STARLUST" ANNIVERSARY SECTION "Self Abuse is The" 22 SF POETRY 2: "RETURN" CONVENTION CALENDAR 23 INTERVIEW: __ Wrapping "," CLASSIFIED INFORMATION _ _#8 PlusANewVersionOf'TheThing" SF-XTRA INTERVIEW: BILL MUMY Creating Effects, From James Bond To "Outland" _ 2 "Will Robinson" Crows Up QUEST 96 ALANBRENNERT "Confessions Of AStory Editor" 98 CELEBRITY GREETINGS ^_^_ " FROM THE BRIDGEf

•> •> Every one of us who works here operates in an adult gear most of the time, but once in a while we shift into neutral and let the child in- side of us bubble up to the surface. Those are wonderful and important moments, whether they involve laughter or tears.

In FUTURE LIFE #4, 1 wrote an editorial in

which 1 told some stories about other adults: Walt Disney and Dr. Wernher von Braun, when they were collaborating on the films used on TV in the 50s to explain space flight to the public— "Often working late into the night the two men would brainstorm for hours, visualizing the steps by which man

would eventually reach into space. . . It re- quired men of genius to do what they were doing, but when they hit on a solution that they really loved, these two giants would jump up and down and hug each other with

. complete abandon. . "At 90 years of age [he's now 93] artist short film featuring members of the staff. Scene from STARLOG'S BIRTHDAY FANTASY, a can still race me up the steps to his 'treehouse' studio and behave like SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY EDITORIAL a schoolboy showing guests his latest paint- ing— hoping they will love it as much as he does." Alive our Keeping The Kid "Two of the most brilliant minds on planet reveal their youthful souls with shame- reads STARLOG. So does That theme is dramatized in the actions of less frequency: Asimov, who knows more Arthur C.Clarke. So does George Lucas. the film, which starts at a birthday party for about everything than anybody, publicly So do many professional filmmakers, STARLOG, with our editors and staff toasting recites his sexy, dirty limericks—and is damn

teachers, writers and artists. Look at the sec- the occasion here in our offices. Now, I am good at it! Arthur C. Clarke, inventor, scien- tion in this issue that features notes and auto- pleased to say that our staff, though generally tist, novelist—ended a recent letter to us just, graphs from celebrities in the science fiction young, is totally professional. They know the like an 8-year-old—with a little drawing of field. These folks aren't kids—they're adults. business; they are dedicated; they get the job IMPEACH DARTH VADER." STARLOG is produced for a young audi- done. I'm not recommending that we play Peter ence. Our average reader is 17 years old, and But occasionally Bob Martin (FANGOR- Pan for the rest of our lives —without cares that's who we aim at. We do not try to teach IA's editor) will amble into my office and in- and responsibilities—holding the foolish no-

Asimov or Clarke new facts about science, terrupt my work. I will look up from my desk tion that we can "fly on the winds." No, nor do we try to tell Lucas or Trumbull how and see an adult male with a hideous scar there is a healthy maturing that ought to be to make movies. But they read STARLOG. gashing the side of his face and fake blood the growth process of every youngster. We

For that matter, Dolly Parton reads STAR- dripping down his chin.. I either laugh out need to take on long-range commitments, LOG, and she has nothing whatsoever to do loud or "harumph" with disgust—depend- think beyond today, become more realistic with the SF field. So what's going on in the ing on my mood. about the nature of the world around us and pages of this magazine to attract thousands of Occasionally Howard Zimmerman will the people in it. We need to grow up as we adults who ought to be reading the Wall quietly knock at my door and proceed to tell grow up! Street Journal or Scientific American or me about a letter from a STARLOG reader. But there is something wonderful and spe- kids ex- Variety? Often it is an outlandish request, an outrage- cial about a child's view of life. Most The answer can be found in a new film pro- ous idea or an hysterical bit of witty writing, pect excitement at every turn—they are eager duced by STARLOG. It's a full-color, and the two of us will sit there and giggle like for whatever the next day holds—they believe 15-minute, animation and live-action piece of kids at the constantly surprising nature of our that pleasure is the natural state of cake that celebrates the 5th Anniversary of audience. things—they have hopes and dreams and ex- wild as their this magazine, and we will be screening it at Occasionally Dave Hutchison (CINE- pectations that are as grand and SF conventions where members of our staff MAGlC's editor), who knows me almost too imaginations can create. In short, they believe appear as guests (see "Future Conventions" well for comfort and who understands what that life is like a movie, with them as the hero pg. 23 for details). thrills and excites me, will arrive with news of fighting valiantly for something worthwhile, banners I don't want to give away the story, but the a technological breakthrough, or an amazing with soaring music and triumphant film pays tribute to the creative people behind achievement or some outstanding story that before titles. the SF adventures that have inspired all of absolutely reduces me to open-mouthed That's what most kids believe to begin adults— little by lit- us—starting with the old Gordon seri- wonder. And I, in turn, take delight in telling with, but as they turn into dreams and als. But the theme of the film is what concerns him about especially touching letters I get tle they lose all those hopes and us here. from readers, knowing that his eyes get as expectations. They not only decide that life is The theme of STARLOG's Birthday Fan- misty as mine when he sees open warmth and not like a movie, but also that they were fool- having wished for such tasy is: "Inside every good person there's a human tenderness. For a few moments we ish and naive for ever kid—a spirit of youth, able to turn everything both feel like little boys again. Then we go "nonsense." everyday into fun and believing anything is possible." back to work. They become, generally, plain

4 STARLOG/July 1981 WWOB ~ JULY 1981 #48

Business and Editorial Offices: O'Quinn Studios, Inc. 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016

Publishers NORMAN JACOBS KERRY O'QUINN

Associate Publisher RITA EISENSTEIN

Editor HOWARD ZIMMERMAN Art Director CHEH N. LOW Director O'Quinn instructs editor-turned-actor Howard Zimmerman, while Audra Troy awaits Managing Editor the call for "action!" SUSAN ADAMO adults—just like the dull parents they once fictional dramas, and we show them the la- Science & SFX Editor swore they would never be like. They usually borious skills that go into making the magic. DAVID HUTCHISON don't turn into bad people—just ordinary We show them the imaginary landscapes of Associate Editor people. other planets, and we tell them about actual DAVID HIRSCH

That, to me, is the most pathetic tragedy in space explorations and science. show We Contributing Editors life. them beauty, thrills and adventures that BOB MARTIN It's tragic because it isn't necessary. It is make them giddy with glee, and we hit them BOB WOODS possible to hang onto the same spirit of happy with behind-the-scenes interviews, editorials BARBARA KRASNOFF optimism that one had as a kid, while at the and news reportage that makes them more ROBERT CREENBERCER same time acquiring the practicality of adult- aware and more able to conquer the real Associate Art Director . It's possible to become a professional world. BOB SEFCIK while keeping the kid alive. do not pretend that STARLOG is the We Art staff That, to me, is the greatest achievement in most important thing in your life, and if you LAURA O'BRIEN life. succeed at preserving your spirit of youth and AMY BERCENFELD I believe that few people lose every last pursuing your career realistically, it will be Photographer shred of their childhood view of life. In most you, not us, who deserves the credit. But in a JOHN CLAYTON

it isn't destroyed it is buried, so deeply world which seldom offers much encourage- cases — East Coast Correspondent that most adults forget it's struggling for ment along these lines, we hope that STAR- JAMES H.BURNS breath in the basement of their soul. LOG is a source of inspiration. West Coast Correspondent But once in a while they see a magnificent Sometime during the next few years I hope ALAN BRENDER movie or a magazine or a TV show, or some- all our readers will have the opportunity to see Columnists thing that touches that deep, buried spir- STARLOG's Birthday Fantasy. 1 think you'll DAVID CERROLD it—something that has the power to" reach enjoy it. This is our first baby step into the down inside them and rekindle the flame of film field, but it will definitely not be our Financial Manager wonder. They feel a rush of something so in- last. . . . JOAN BAETZ nocent and fresh that they can hardly believe On this very special occasion, the 5th Anni- Production Assistants: Cindy Levine, Nancy it comes from inside themselves. They feel versary of STARLOG magazine, I want to Reichardt, Eileen Dempsey. it —and they cry. speak for my partner, Norm Jacobs, Howard Instead of being a source of happiness, that and his STARLOG staff, and our entire crew, For Advertising information: Rita Elsensteln (212)689-2830. sweet feeling becomes a sad reminder of what in offering a bubbly toast to all our read- Contributors This issue: Mike 8arr, Alan Bren- they had hoped their life would be and of how- ers—whatever your age. nert, w. Keith Brenton, Mike Clark, Bill Cotter, Vin- far from that vision is their actual life. They If there is a kid alive in you, able to turn ev- cent DiFate, Michael Gross, jack Katz, Margaret bitter erything into fun believing anything is see something wonderful, and they cry and Lasecke, George Lucas, Samuel J. Maronie, Ger- tears. possible, then you are part of the spiritual hard Mros, John Sanders, Steven Segal, Larry Shank, Steven Swires, Susan Trembly, Joseph STARLOG's main purpose is to inform and world of STARLOG. veverka, Len Wein, Bruce Wildish. entertain our readers with news of the science Here's to that spirit! May it live long, pros- ABOUT THE COVER: This is it: STARLOG'S spectacular fiction field, but we have many side-pur- per, and be with us forever and ever. fifth anniversary Issue! Featured on the cover are of which is to help keep the ex- Amen. poses—one elements from ourextended media coverage, in- pectations of youth alive while mixing it with cluding both previews and reviews. Pictorial film and TV reviews the realities of the world. Kerry O'Quinn/Publisher can be found in the special 36-page anniversary section. Feature interviews We show our readers the magical visions of New York Citv 1981 and previews— Including George Lucas, Harrison Ford and John Carpenter—surround this center

STARLCW is published byO'QUINN STUDIOS, INC., 475 Park Avenue South, New York, N.Y. 10016. (ISSN 01 91 -4626) This section, along with a wide variety of other SF is Issue Number 48, July 1981 (volume Five). Content Is © Copyright 1981 by O'QUINN STUDIOS, inc. All rights re- media coverage. served. Reprint or reproduction In part or In whole without written permission from the publishers Is strictly ABOUT THE CONTENTS PAGE: This year's anniver- forbidden. STARLOG accepts no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photos, art, or other materials, but If sary collage was not done specifically for the freelance submittals are accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope, they will be seriously con- issue. The artwork, done by editor Howard Zim- sidered and, if necessary, returned. Products advertised are not necessarily endorsed by STARLOG, and any merman, Is entitled "SF Media Madness" and was views expressed In editorial copy are not necessarily those of STARLOG. Second class postage paid at New York, done for NY and additional mailing offices. Subscription rates: S23.99 one year (12 Issues) delivered In U.S. and Canada, Crescendo Records. It appears as the foreign subscriptions $29.00 in U.S. funds only. New subscriptions send directly to STARLOG, 475 Park Avenue cover graphic on Crescendo's "Greatest Science

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STARLOG/yu/v 1981 5 COMMUN/CA TIONSf

Because of the large volume of mail we much I could take three or four pages telling you The Future of STARLOG:

receive, personal replies are impossible. what it has done. My parents think I'm crazy, but I 1986—STARLOG Magazine makes significant Comments, questions and suggestions of think SF has broadened my horizons. Thank you moves up the ladder of magazine popular- general interest are appreciated and may be and congratulations! ity. selected for publication. Write: Matt Sherwood 1990—STARLOG becomes the favorite magazine STARLOG COMMUNICATIONS 907 Srpingfield Road of all space colonists.

475 Park Avenue South Penn Pines 1994— President of U.S. is caught reading 8th Floor Suite Aldan, PA 19018 STARLOG. New York, N.Y. 10016 1996—As the popularity of science fiction in- creases, STARLOG pulls ahead of other ma- . . . It's such a pleasure to be able to get a fix of SF jor magazines and is proclaimed #1. every month. Not one issue has let me down. The ANNIVERSARY 2000 STARLOG's new movie is considered the articles are entertaining and informative. I'm con- — best in decades, wins an Academy Award. GREETINGS fident, in fact, that you'll never let me down. 2006—The STARLOG Report—a major feature of . . .Congratulations, STARLOG, on your 5th anni- Reagan J. McLaner all radio and TV newscasts. versary. In my opinion you have the best magazine 118 N.Charlotte Street 20 1 As the popularity of science fiction of your kind in the galaxy. You are an inspiration Lancaster, PA 17603 — exceeds the popularity of sex, to all SF fans. STARLOG becomes a Wayne McKenzie slick daily newsmagazine. ... I can 't think of anything nicer to say than thank 2020 Studies of 49 Summer Street — infants show that the word you: to the STARLOG staff, SF writers everywhere Meford, MA 02155 STARLOG is among the first ten they learn. and people who produce, direct, act or are in any 2025 —More issues of STARLOG are read off way connected with SF on TV. Your magazine is planet than on. ... I love SF, particularly . Several great. Keep it up. Jerry De Luca months ago I discovered and became addicted to Bob (Ziggy) Millosh 2308 Regent Ave. STARLOG. Each month 1 beam down to the store Milltown, NJ Montreal, Que. to purchase and/or examine it. Every issue is in- Canada 2R1 teresting and informative. H4A David E. Johnson . . .KerryO'Quinn'seditorialshavebeenatremen- 1362 West 243rd Street dous influence on me. You have infected me with a Harbor City, CA 90710 strong value system based upon a love of SF, opu-

mism, a sense of wonder about the world I live in

... 1 can remember when I could carry my whole and the actualization of dreams. Thank you for STARLOG collection (all three issues: #1, 2, 3) to this. I'd also like to thank Howard Zimmerman for

school, a feat I cannot do today. So I'm an old- expressing his opinion, even if it isn't that of the timer. But in the past five years, STARLOG (and masses, and to Norman Jacobs who may not be the

your other magazines for that matter) have played most vocal of the staff, but I know he has the a large part in expanding my interests in SF- Five business sense.

years ago, I was a hardcore Star Trek fanatic with James R. Kimsey, Jr.

. . . Many thanks for your fine publication. Not on- very little interest in other areas of SF. Today, I Rt. 1 ly do you bring quality to science fiction reporting have so many interests, that now my problem is try- Ableville, SC 29620 but also inform ing to narrow things down a little! If you can you us on the happenings of the change the outlook, expand the horizons of even real world. You have been recently reporting on the ... I've only been reading your magazine for a few plight of the space program. You also have been one person (beside me), I really think you can call months now, but it has become r/iemagazine in my yourselves a success. Keep up the EXCELLENT asking the readership to speak up for the space pro- life. A fellow SF fan introduced me to its delights work! gram and save it from the black hole of the new ad- and now I can't wait to get my hands on each issue. Johnny Carruthers ministration. For that I thank you. Keep up the I've learned so much from your articles on film good work. in Rt. 4, Box 135-A Now, commemoration for your past directors, SFX and actors and I enjoy the privilege Murray, KY 42071 and future good deeds, I have erected a sign of knowing what's going on in the SF field before wishing Starlog a happy 5th anniversary. See you anyone else (who isn't a STARLOG reader). next year. . . . Your magazine has come to grow better with Faith Williams David Fietze age—and it has helped me to grow also. Due to 1375 Garnet Lane 9020 Evansport your efforts, and those of the STARL(X) Com- Dr ^ Paradise, CA 95969 Rosemead, CA 91770 munications Handbook, I now have Five pen pals.

Each one of them is great and we have shared many

good letters. We help each other learn, grow, and . . . Don't ever stop printing. That's a direct order ... I didn't discover STARLOG until #17, but I've

experience life to its fullest. This is what your from me'. enjoyed every page since. I especially enjoy David magazine means to all of us and I'm sure to many Kris A. L. Meyer Gerrold, SFX and "SF in Comics." The interviews

others. Thanks from my fellow pen pals: Danny Madeira Park, Canada are always interesting and I hope the "Great Cansler (Norton, NC), Joe Busch (Greenfield, Spaceship Hunt" in Communications never ends. WI), Mike Piambino (Palm Springs. FL), Lynda Steve "Guami" Swanson . . .STARLOG is the best magazine I've read in Morrison (London, England), Alonzo Burton Thailand. 409 Lincoln Avenue (Richmond, VA) and me. * * *"« Warrren, PS 16365 Rick A. Dostie i — Royal Oak, Ml To inform and entertain us (Happy Birthday, STARLOG!) STARLOG's 5th Anniversary is here. ... I learn more and more about the world of SF Sukit Pookpan Bringing us new SF information from STARLOG than any other magazine on the For another fantastic year. stands. STARLOG has it all! Keep up the good Happy 5th Anniversary STARLOG! work, #1. ... I'm happy that your anniversary is here and all John Medville Len Goldstein 1 can say is that I hope you have twelve dozen more -West Hempstead, NY Los Angeles, CA like them.

Dori Sahagian ... I love your magazine and I look forward to it

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I never (including one from Australia) whom . . . You have been an inspiration to me and a . . . Once I had asked you not to print poetry and would have known if your magazine had not in- guiding light through the darkest and farthest fiction when you first proposed the idea. I was

fluenced me to contact others who have the same reaches of this or any other universe. angry because I had considered STARLOG to be a interests I have. I hope the next five years are as Chris Ullrich magazine of fact and I didn't want the non-fiction great as the first five have been. Encinitas, CA articles to be crowded out. STARLOG should only Dawn Yarashis provide coverage of Hollywood SF products.

8 Houghton Street Please scratch the word "only." Yes, 1 buy it for

. . . STARLOG has opened a whole new world to Bristol, CT 06010 media coverage, but I also enjoy David Gerrold's It given insight films and me. has me on how SF TV "Rumblings," I.E.I, and even "Quest" shows are made. . . . STAR LOG is a perfect example of what can be (Surprise!). I'm glad you extended STARLOG ap- Jackie Morris accomplished if all truly desire it. The same can peal with these other features. Inevitably, you can't Grandview hold true of the future. So ... to STARLOG and the 2812 please everybody, but heaven knows you try! future: they both look so good! Alton, IL 62002 Bob Miller James Starkweather 1530 Crescent P.O. Box 3673 Sherman, TX 75090

. . like single in vast, N. Ft. Myers, FL 33903 . Your magazine is a candle a scary cavern; a ray of hope in a chaotic world. Science Fiction. . . The Greatest Hobby. These are Thank you so very much for coming about and giv- . . . Personally 1 think your magazine is the greatest the voyages of the magazine STARLOG. Its month- this bitter in the galaxy! ing valuable aid in coping with oft times ly mission: Dave O'Neill world. To explore the very best in science fiction 720 Maple Lane Deborah Kay Moynahan To seek out the finest articles, photography and Hoffman Estates, IL 60194 11311 SW 12th Manor interviews. Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33323 To boldly go where no magazine has gone

. . . One of my children gave me STARLOG #3, and before.

your mag has changed my life for the best. I Dominick A. Romagna

thought 1 was the only Star Trek fan in the world. P.O. Box 2033 Thanks to you I've met a lot of people, write to Harrisburg, P.A. 17105 about 20 Trek fans and am a member of a number

of Trek Clubs. 1 just wanted to tell you how you've . . . During the last five years, NASA didn't put a an older person very happy. made (54) man in space. Yet during that time, STARLOG's Yvette Harley coverage of SF has kept me in space and 1 dread re- Box 593 entry. Happy 5th Anniversary, STARLOG. Don't Barnwell, SC 29812 let my orbit decay. Rosanne M. Szekely, RT all great galaxy is won, Someday—when of the South Euclid, OH And man has claimed every sun; A small star will stay, down Sol-System way . . . STARLOG is like wine, it improves with age. A planet called . . . Earth ...... To help celebrate STARLOG's 5th Anniversary, You're already the best SF magazine in the universe For—in that small place, there remains a small 1 had this picture taken of myself at the William and the best can only get better. trace; Haber Institute of Oneirology (The Lathe of IanFieldsend Of Hobbits, Frazettas, and old Enterprises, Heaven). In reality, Dallas City Hall. Sarnia, Canada Asimov's, Buck Rogers, and Star Wars sur- Alan David Laska

prises. . Richardson , TX 75080 In each of these many Forces, there remain many ... In the vast Universe with billions of stars and an

sources; . . . STARLOG's excellence is as vast and endless as incomprehensible amount of planets, it is fantastic But one Source rules all, not a Ring or spacedog, time and space. Happy 5th. Hope there are many to find that this one tiny planet has something

. but a entity by the name of STARLOG. more to come. found on no other. . . STARLOG! Matthew Stuemky Tom Tuilio Jan Johnson Star Route Box 181 30 Fawnridge Drive 46 Pine Circle Elizabeth, CO 80107 Long Valley, NJ 07853 Oneonta, AL 35121

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STARLOG/ytt/y 1981 7 COMMUNICATIONSf

Its revelations and reflections ... 1 wish to send thanks to my friends Lucy Synk STARLOG on the completion of five fine years of Make STARLOG number 1! and Beth Cutts, who bought me a one-year pulication. SF is very popular in Australia and so is Thanks O'Quinn and Zimmerman subscription to STARLOG for Christmas two years STARLOG. I remember seeing the first issue and For making learning fun! ago,- and got me hooked. Thank you for putting thinking, "What a great idea... I hope it Letha L. Longley out such a wonderful magazine. succeeds." It has, of course, and as one who has 13 14 Thorn Street Pat Grant held a great love for SF since childhood, such suc- Utica, NY 13502 10804 Sprucehill Drive cess warms my heart. Cincinnati, OH 45240 Shayne McCormack, Manager

... It takes as much imagination to put together a Galaxy Bookshop

magazine such as STARLOG as it does to create SF 106a Bathurst Street

itself. Happy 5th Anniversary and may you contin- Sydney, Australia 2000 ue to the vast reaches of the imagination. John Rozum . . . It's been a great five years. STARLOG touches 5 Cumloden Drive two major portions of my life: science fiction and Falmouth, MA 02540 science fact. That you combine both is what makes

Twinkle, twinkle brilliant STARLOG STARLOG unique. 5 years ago set the world agog. Mike Martin

5 years have past and you're still the best 7308 Shiela At least a galaxy above the rest! Millington, TN 38053 Cathy Clark 33051 Marina Vista . . . Two organizations had their origins in a strong . . .They say, "Reality is just a crutch for people Point, 92629 Dana CA affection for the television series Star Trek; The St. who can't handle Science Fiction. " But what better Louis Science Fiction Society began as a Trek club way to take reality than STARLOG!

. . . Anniversary it Happy 5th and keep coming. and STARLOG began as a special one-issue Ronald Gerard Jerry A. Hahn magazine devoted to Trek. Both have persisted and 296 Stanhope Street 102 Ave. du Gal. de Gaulle grown to include all areas of interest in SF. Con- Brooklyn, NY 11237 92250 La Garenne Columbus, France gratulations for five years of survival, and best wishes for future years! . ..I'm not going to write a cutesy-pie clever or

. . . I've been following you guys since #1 . You've The Members of profoundly thoughtful comment in the hopes that filled and inspired me through every one of your The St. Louis Science Fiction Society it will be published. Instead I'd like to thank you very special publications. P.O. Box 15852 and your staff for consistently publishing the finest Mark Spatz Overland, MO 631 14 overall SF magazine I've ever read. York, New NY Jay Bullbear

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is a distinct delight to find something that can con- versary greetings readers have sent in. Here is a list

tain so much in so little space. of some of the other STARLOGGERS who've Missing copies? Moving? Renewals? Susan Carl wished us well: Receiving duplicate issues? Ques- 1504 B Quail Ridge Road Michele Sorensen, El Cerrito, CA; Beth Mountain, tions about your subscription? Write Raleigh, NC 27609 Brasher, MO; Shannon Bitz, Rapid City, SD; directly to: Rudolph Rosario, Brooklyn, NY; Winfred

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... I always knew you'd be a success right from the Stockton, Regina, Canada; Mike Stuer, Clinton, Subscription inquiries addressed to beginning. May the Great Bird of the Galaxy con- IA; Robert Petrovicz, Oshawa, Canada; Joel the editorial offices will only delay your tinue to look favorably upon you so you'll keep on Tanis, Williams Lake, Canada; Michael Creach, request. trekkin', and may all your tribbles be little ones! Cleburne, TX; Michael C. Prescott, Santa Bar- Sally J. Martin bara, CA; Bart Manzella, Howard Beach, NY; NAME 26 Prospect Street Jeff Greb, Centralia, Canada; Kim Pearson, Lit- Plantsville, CT 06479 tleton, CO; Jim Petrillo, Toledo, OH; Mark Belle, ADDRESS Westfield, NJ; Ken Dawson, Cleveland, MS and ... Galaxy Bookshop, the others whose salutations arrived too late CITY STATE. On behalf of the staff of many Sydney's SF Specialist, I would like to congratulate for this publication. *

8 STARLOG/y«/v 1981 . LOG ENTRIES/Compiled & Edited by Susan Adamo

LATEST NEWS FROM THE WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION & FACT FUTUROPOLIS' MANY FACETS

Strange things are happening on Earth. Specifically, people are mutating in strange ways for no apparent reason. One. minute, a man is flesh and blood. Then— zappp—he dissolves into a silhouette and reappears as an animated cartoon gone beserk. Who's behind this godawful activity? Confesses animator Steve Segal with a chuckle, it's archvillain Egghead experimen- ting with his new mutation ray. Segal and artist Phil Trumbo have been working on Futuropolis on and off since 1975 when they were awarded a $2,500 grant from the Sinking Creek (Tenn.) Film Festival. A year later, they completed a nine-minute ver- sion which won first prize in STARLOG's 1978 short film search contest. Today, this which, mini-epic has grown to Futuropolis' many facets include, l-to-r, Segal, Cody. Trumbo and Hoey when completed at the end of this year, will contain model and eel animation, opticals Frankenstein as directed by Max Fleischer," Hunter. Supplying the musical score and syn- and rotoscoping, in addition to live action se- states Trumbo. thesized sound effects is Carlos Chafin. quences. Though Segal has had much experience Playing the lead roles as Captains are Stan "It's Dr. Caligari meets the Bride of with animation (his award-winning short Garth and Tom Campagnoli, with Cathy subjects, "Redball Express" and "Pandora's Shultz and Cassandra Cossitt also putting on 'STAR This six-color Box," have appeared on cable television) he goodguy space-ranger helmets. Egghead is embroidered never thought he'd find himself directing ac- actually Mike Cody and helping along his WARS patch, captures tors in an abandoned Richmond (Va.) path of no-good is Bud Webster and hench- PAN the detail of the railroad station turned Science Museum. But men played by Segal and Trumbo. original Mc- STUFF that's the spot that Segal and Trumbo nabbed The team is planning to bring the film to Quarrie art. for a year of live-action filming. the Montreal Film Festival next summer and The' team shares writing and directing will be scheduling a premiere at a Richmond credits and Trumbo, whose work has been repertory theater upon Futuropolis' comple- recently featured in Heavy Metal magazine, tion. From there, they hope to drum up in- designed the sets. Photography and lighting terest in prospective investors because, says was handled by East Coast Segal, a lot of good ideas were discarded from Grey Hoey, who was an uncredited produc- the film to make the ends of their shoestring tion assistant on the feature film The Deer budget meet. -k

has become something of a collector's item. Also being offered to members of the Fan As part of its commitment to supply items Club is a unique and truly rare collectable JTAR-WAR5 the release of The Em- of special interest to members of the Star produced to promote A HEW HOPE i Wars Fan Club, this symbol has been pire Strikes Back. The "Empire Promotional recreated as a 6-color embroidered patch Art Portfolio" was produced a couple of Vt " 5". The phrase, "ANew years ago as a pre-promotional effort for Em- Early in 1975, George Lucas approached measuring 3 by distributed to various industry conceptual artist Ralph McQuarrie to Hope, "has been added to the bottom of the pire and was theater managers who would create a symbol for the Star Wars saga that patch in recognition of the episode title for VIPs, including with the release of was then going into production. This symbol, the first Star Wars movie (Chapter 4 of the presumably be involved sold and which had to represent the true feeling of the complete saga). Fan Club president Ira Fried- the film. It was not intended to be offered to the public. film, went through a number of revisions man believes that this is the only Star Wars has never been Art Portfolio" before the final design incorporating three collectable that has this phrase. The "Empire Promotional theater managers know basic elements was agreed upon. The now- Capturing the intricate detail and shading was designed to let the famous triangular design interlocks the figure of the original Ralph McQuarrie art in em- that the film was in production and that would be of a young hero, a light saber and the mottled broidery proved to be very difficult, but next episode of the Star Wars saga hues of the planet Yavin to capture Friedman reports that the latest prototype coming their way soon. The art prints 22" enclosed in a something of the essence and soul of the saga. from the manufacturer is faithful to the measure Wi" x and are with the Darth The artwork was used in the early stages of original art. The patch is available only to handsome protective folder promotion for Star Wars and over the years members of the Star Wars Fan Club.

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STAR WARS be shipped, in a special container to protect it, tracking these rare items for members and he (continuedfrom page 9) via UPS so Fan Club members can be assured hopes to be able to find other special items in Vader design embossed on the cover. There is of receiving this rare collector's item in mint the future.

an additional outer package with a silk condition. There is only a limited quantity of Inquiries concerning these items and screened Darth Vader emblem. Sealing the these art portfolios available and, when the membership in the fan club should be ad- art folder is a heavy 4 ounce solid metal Darth supply is gone, no more will be produced. dressed to: Star Wars Fan Club, Customer Vader medallion that has never been Fan Club president Friedman says that one Service Office, P.O. Box 163, Dept. SI, Mt.

available anywhere. The entire package will of the more interesting aspects of his job is Morris, 111. 61054. *

IT'S CURTAINS FOR STARLOG's resident Trek novel reader, will awaited first novel, The of the be accompanied by a major promotional Crown will arrive in December and will take KIRK, SOBS FOR SULU push kicking off Pocket's long-delayed Trek the Enterprise's crew to a small planet in the

IN fiction line. Though Entropy's cover depicts process of changing its leaders through "ENTROPY EFFECT" the crew (yes, that's Sulu with the mustache) monoarchical succession. Long-time S7"fans after the movie, the action takes place before and Myrna Culbreath bring A 8RIIUANT NEW NOVEL 8Y THE HUBO AND AND NE8ULA AWARO-WINNINS AUTHOR OF DfljAMSNAKE the film's story. us February, 1982's The Promethius Design. A STAR TREK "NOVEL In October, SF readers will be treated to And, of course, there will be a 1982 S7"calendar. The Klingon Gambit by John Vardeman, Once there are finalized plans for ST's uonPimmanTMRE author of a sword-and-sorcery series from return to television Timescape will then THIH1TR0PV Playboy Press. Howard Weinstein's long- decide on publishing further books. £• HELP EXPLORE A COMET Ki rEli I As this month's space science special, Dr. people as possible realize that as things stand Joseph Veverka, chairman of NASA's now, the will not be one of the Comet Science Working Group, examines in countries exploring Halley's Comet in 1986. depth the question "Will We Let Halley Fly Next, we can all write to our Represen- By Unexplored?" (beginning on page 56). tatives and Senators and urge them to sup- Dr. Veverka warns that the opportunity to port the effort to put funds for the Halley In- explore this once-in-a-lifetime event may be tercept mission back into the NASA budget. lost due to the slashing of NASA's budget Finally, we can all support various public

during the last decade. And time is running groups that are being organized to make sure

out very quickly. that there is a United States mission to Halley But STARLOGGERS, who often flex their in 1986. One such group is the HALLEY muscles en masse for worthy causes, can help. FUND. More information about the Halley Here's how: Fund can be obtained by writing to: Mr. Van

The first thing that we can all do is to Kane, Director, Halley Fund, 357 Saratoga spread the word. It's important that as many Avenue, Santa Clara, CA 95050. *

The most eagerly-awaited Star Trek novel is being published this month as Pocket ntA[R/{Nl[ STEM) Books' major release in its Timescape line. Hugo and Nebula award-winner Vonda N. Mclntyre's The Entropy Effect, as previously

reported here, brings its readers the end of Captain Kirk. The novel throws Trek's established time line out of kilter from which alternate futures

and realities splinter. One of the reactions is the death of the beloved Captain and Security Officer Flynn, the woman Sulu has come to love and respect. Various sub-plots, including theories on the nature of time, unsolved murders aboard the Enterprise, Sulu's transfer to another ship and the problems McCoy confronts when Spock leaves him in command, are inter- woven. In Entropy Effect, the spotlight's on Spock, the only person who fully

understands the problem: if the time line isn't

corrected, the Universe, as we know it, will end in 100 years. A section of an eleventh-century Bayeux tapestry shows Halley's in 1 066. The Latin inscription "Isti Mirant Stella" translates "they marvel Halley's warning King Mclntyre's novel, one of the best written to at the star." was taken to be a to Harold of England who was killed later that year in the Battle of Hastings. ST novels to come along according to

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Once upon many times," the Handmade riM / \ l Films press flyer begins, "there was a troupe of tiny bandits travelling through AJk holes in time and space, holes in the very fabric of the universe, left there by a Supreme / / Being forced into creating the world in only 1 l > 5! *»3E2 i< "^= } six days. The film Time Bandits tells the _ w«****-' / adventures of these desperate but engaging * travellers, a band of greedy dwarves and their WM jm reluctant little companion, racing through \ ^Sftk/^V V>; history, robbing and being robbed by some 8 very famous and expensive movie stars." i <**m*JtiM \\ MM m And so is told the premise for the latest bit of madness to come out of the minds of Terry M 5xg Gilliam and Michael Palin, the two men ^^~~7\r,' ,'^\ m •It' . responsible for the three Monty Python

movies. Ex-beatle George Harrison composed '.iff s ^1 ; c3 the film's music and was executive producer r ^4 x- along with Denis O'Brien. :: «^.^'=-j- The "very famous and expensive movie ^P Vj^. stars" mentioned on the flyer are no less than vak uL\ \.\^*' 10 international film stars (most of whom it is t - H^H rumored were forced to do this picture by the infamous Pirana Brothers, Doug and Dinsdale). Kenny Baker and Jack Purvis, two

alumni from the Star Wars saga, team up Promotional art for Time Bandits, the latest bit of Python madness. with David Rappaport, Mike Edmonds, Malcolm Dixon and Tiny Ross as the Ban- Strutter and Vermin decide to plunder time and Shelly Duvall).

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adventures is a young English lad played by they encounter Napoleon Bonaparte (Ian pany Handmade Films hasn't sold the picture Craig Warnock, in whose closet the dwarves Holm), Hood (John Cleese), to an American distributor yet, it looks appear. Agamemnon (Sean Connery), Mr. and Mrs. hopeful. After all, the film has everything: Having been charged by the Supreme Be- Ogre (Peter Vaughan and Katherine Hel- "The past, present and future rolled into one. ing (Sir Ralph Richardson) to patch up the mond), Evil Genius (David Warner) and eter- It's all the dreams you've had—and not just " holes in time, Randall, Fidgit, Wally, Og, nal lovers Vincent and Pansy (Michael Palin the good ones. . . -fr

THE SHADOW Cowardly criminals beware. From out of melodrama. the darkness a mirthless laugh will re- Martin (Back Roads) Bregman will pro-

RETURNS sound once more: The Shadow is returning! duce and Weston will serve as Executive Pro- Leisure Concepts has lisenced the ducer. No start date, cast or director has yet

character to Universal Pictures for the first of been named but it is expected that things will a series of big budget movies featuring the be rolling by the end of the year. If successful, Shadow, his comely aide Margo Lane and his after a series of films, the character may turn collection of operatives including Harry Vin- up in a weekly television series. cent and Shreevy the Cabbie. The Shadow was originally a voice used to Leslie Newman has been working on a introduce mystery stories on the Sunday screenplay which was submitted to Leisure in afternoon Street and Smith radio show. The early April. According to Stan Weston, they character became so popular he was spun off could have chosen no one better to write the into his own series which also spawned the screenplay than Newman, who with her hus- magazine. He later had his own comic book, band David were major contributors to the short-lived comic strip and a movie serial. two films. Weston suspects the Walter Gibson, using the pen name Maxwell

script will delve into who the Shadow is, why Grant, is credited with giving the Shadow his he has a cold obsession with fighting character and mythos. Gibson wrote some criminals and exactly how he operates. 300 novels, barely missing an issue. Weston also said Newman would be "quite Books such as the Duende History of the faithful" to the original magazine stories and Shadow Magazine and The Shadow Scrap- radio programs. book have kept the character in front of peo- Newman plans on setting the character a ple's memories for the past two years. And a

little earlier in time, more around the 1920s in new Shadow graphic novel, featuring new art

post-WW I America when gangsters were a by Michael Kaluta and a story by Harlan true threat. Weston says that audiences and Ellison is due out sometime this year from

fans can expect a good old fashioned Fantagraphics. -if

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SAY HI TO SPOCK'S EDUCATION RALPH HINKLEY . . . NO, THAT'S HANLEY As a result of the In Search of. . . series which he hosts, Leonard Nimoy's atti- tudes on certain controversial theories and ABC is positively ecstatic over the performance of The Greatest Ameri- practices have been altered. On a lecture tour of can Hero. While equaling Real People in stop-over at the State University New in March, a ratings numbers, GAHh&s cut Enos down to York, Binghamton campus, commented that he is size. The show, which aired its last new mustachioed Nimoy believer of, among other things, episode of the season on May 20, is also a hit now a multiple rifle or con- with music fans. acupuncture and the theory President Kennedy's Due to overwhelming popular demand a spiracy of assassination. single and sheet music of the theme, "The That's him; the guy in the middle. the tour's primary purpose is to Main Title From The Greatest American Although students to get involved in the U.S. Hero: Believe It or Not" was being prepared instead of Mr. Hinkley. They quickly dubbed encourage pressed for com- for release just two weeks after the show and edited the episode which aired two days space program, Nimoy was the proposed Trek began airing. The music, composed by Mike after the shooting. By the April 15 episode, ments on ST.TMP and (see Entries," STARLOG #46). Post with lyrics from Steve Geyer, is sung by they had redubbed some scenes giving him telefilm "Log said, hope was Joey Scarbury. The trio also provides the the new last name of Hanley. Of the former, Nimoy "My have evolved to musical interludes during the scenes, usually Also, if you were wondering about Connie that the character would having using space-related songs from the past 15 Selleca's appearance on that same episode some other level of consciousness, is and starting to been back to Vulcan and having gone years. . . . yes, she indeed pregnant program, which When President Reagan was shot, ABC show. The wife of Gil Gerard is expecting through a rigorous training was an evolutionary process. I think we man- quickly decided that it would not do for their their first child sometime in the late summer of that into the have the same last name as the and there has been no word on how that will aged to get some suggestion newest hero to * suspect. So, they decided to call him Mr. H affect her character of Pam on the GAH. • film."

watching videotapes of performers to choose WANT TO MEET A REEL DRAGON? the leads and finally settled on Peter Mac- Nichol to play Galen, the Apprentice forced Vermithrax threatens, Following on the heels of the hugely suc- in the children's library, we had our movie." to champion the town pretend- cessful Excalibur, Paramount Pictures With a $14 million budget, the film began and Caitlin Clarke as Valerian, a girl in the and Walt Disney are ready to bring us shooting last June at ing to be a boy to avoid being placed every two years, a Dragonslayer, another sword-and-sorcery where it took up three sound stages. The cast town's lottery where, virgin is chosen to be sacrificed to keep film full of atmosphere and subtle effects. is mostly made up of British actors unknown young appeased. "The origins of Dragonslayer are in the in the United States but it also features Sir Vermithrax at the end of this month, 'Sorcerer's Apprentice' sequence from Fan- Ralph Richardson as Ulrich, the Sorcerer. The film, opening magic, political shenanigans, tasia," Producer says. "We It took several make-up effects men to also features confrontations. [Barwood and Director Matthew Robbins] properly design and build the dragon, Ver- love and some truly epic feature a special effects story were both raised on Disney films and never mithrax Pejoritive, and its babies, little STARLOG will issue, but if you got over them. Eventually we got curious dragonlets. Full-sized heads were created for on the film in an upcoming with it to information and exciting color about St. George and the Dragon. Everybody the dragon so people could perform want more the latest issue of FANGORIA has heard of the legendary pair—pubs all give audiences a true sense of scale: Ver- photos, see with Dragonslayer on the cover. over England are named after them—but few- mithrax is huge. ^ know of the actual story. Neither did we, but Barwood, Robbins and Executive Pro- when we completed our deep-think research ducer Howard Koch spent countless hours TIME MACHINE II

Coming from Dell Books this month is Time Machine II the novel written by Joe Morhaim and the late . According to the publishers, Pal died before he could finish the final proofing and editing Galen directs so the writers' associates put finishing his Dragon- touches to the story which features Christo- slayer at the original time traveler. camera-shy pher Jones, son of the builds a new while Jones finds his father's notes, Valerian time machine to take him into the future doesn't have where Jones hopes to find his father and un- much choice do a fate awaiting the both of them at the end but to look on. of time. Pal's longtime friend Forrest J Ackerman told STARLOG that he enjoyed reading the book a year and a half ago and adds that before Pal's death a script based on the novel was completed but there are no studio plans to film the tale. *

14 STARLOG/yu/y 1981 .

TV'S CLASSIC SCI-FI SERIES STAR-STUDDED NOTES NOW IN "DIAL H FOR HERO" ILLUSTRATED Chris King first hears about his new arve Bennett's office at Paramount tells PAPERBACKS! home being haunted from Vicki Grant, us that Writer's Guild Award-winner the prettiest girl in his high school. As they Jack B. Sowards is working on the script for TALES OF TOMORROW was look through the house, they find two dials the proposed Star Trek telefilm. The project TV's first anthology sci-fi se- and an inscription saying they have been has not been sold to a network or Operation ries, and it will soon be back Prime Time nor has anything in written form with new episodes. Its scripts been given to Consultant stories Bennett's office says that the Executive Pro- were based on by ducer and Roddenberry are always in touch such masters as H.G. Wells, while Susan Sackett says that during their Jules Verne, Arthur C. Clark,

first month back at Paramount, Rod- A.E. van Vogt, Issac Asimov, denberry has been uninvolved. There has and . Your design been no official announcement but it appears can be in that Leonard Nimoy has been signed on since this space. Now, TALES OF TOMOR- the conflicts in his schedule seem to have been ROW is a series of thought-

settled . . . CBS has renewed Nimoy's In provoking and action-packed

. .series. . .Sam J. Jones (Flash Search Of. novels from DAVID HOUS- Cordon) and Lome Greene (Battlestar TON, award-winning author Galactica) have left space behind them and are signed to star in an ABC series for the Fall. of ALIEN PERSPECTIVE,

Called Pumper One, it tells the story of fire GODS IN A VORTEX* and

fighters in Los Angeles. The show is produced WINGMASTER. The series created Irwin Allen who hopes to chosen to use the dials because mankind and by begins with #1- INVADERS

behind . . . Superman II needs them. leave disasters him AT GROUND ZERO (Avail- received a special fund raising premiere in As they dial H-E-R-O, each transforms, able now); #2-SUBSTANCE Washington D.C. at the end of last month. for one hour, into super-heroes with a X (August); #3-RED DUST Proceeds from the special engagements go mission. (October). toward the Special Olympics, run by the Dial H for Hero is perhaps the most in- F. Kennedy Foundation. The same teresting comics project of the past few years Robert was done with Superman and reflects the because the series, running in Adventure concern and involvement of former DC Comics, is entirely dependent upon its reader-

President Sol Harrison. . .A group of well- ship. From reader submissions, editor Len , Brian Wein and writer pick heroes, known directors: Martin Scorcese and Francis Ford villains, furniture, clothing and other aspects DePalma, are joining with English director that are turned into stories. Coppola Michael Powell in an attempt to buy Since the idea was announced and pro- Pinewood Studios in England. Currently moted last summer the response has been -owned by the Rank Organization, its Board overwhelming with thousands of ideas being of Governors will soon vote on the pur- submitted. Wolfman reports that the average

chase. . .Coppola will be distributing age of the reader submitting ideas is 18, quite Michelangelo Antonioni's Identification ofa a bit above the age of the typical comics Woman in the United States and has offered reader. Wein adds that the fan mail has been his Omni Zoetrope studios for the film's SF "mixed, but mostly positive."

conclusion. . .The Madrid Festival of Im- The characters were visually designed by aginative and Science Fiction Cinema award- future in Editorial Director and artist Witness the ed Best Film to the Polish Golem, but Scan- Carmine 'Infantino. Infantino has drawn David Houston's illustrated ners picked up quite a few awards including most of the stories but is now aided by Don TALES OF TOMORROW series. Best Director for plus Best Heck , while a variety of artists are trying their From Leisure Books. $2.25

Special Effects and Best Makeup. . .Word hand at doing covers. wherever paperbacks are sold. comes from Avco Embassy that Wes Readers, who are required to sign forms Craven's Swamp Thing movie finally has giving DC the rights to the submissions, * "Masterfully written! some casting. The character of Cable has receive an "I Dialed H for Hero" T-shirt been changed to that of a woman and will be work of beauty, when their ideas are accepted. A portrayed by Adrienne Barbeau. Arcane, the Plans are underway for DialH magazine to power and depth!" film's antagonist will be portrayed by Louis contain features, reader pictures, original van Vogt Jourdan (PBS' ) . . . Ads for this -A.E. sketches and new stories. And ABC-TV is month's Avco release of The Night the Lights discussing the possibility of a Dial //Saturday (of GODS IN A VORTEX) Went Out in Georgia proclaim, "Mark morning show with viewer submissions. Hamill—He's wearing a different kind of star If the concept takes off and the book's ' and exploring Kristy McNichol's space. ' The popularity continues to grow, it may receive more submissions from distinguished movie, based on the seven-year-old pop hit, local sheriff along with 69 readers, like Harlan Ellison, age 46, Sherman features Hamill as a Park Avenue, Oaks, CA. , who created the villain used in. the Dennis (Caveman) Quaid and the cute Leisure Books, 2

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Ford as Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark. The Name of the Game is "Hero"

By JAMES H.BURNS

culmination aiders of the Lost Ark is anything Raiders of the Lost Ark is the but a fantasy film," insists Harrison of the teaming of two of Hollywood's finest Lf'Han Solo") Ford, who stars in the filmmakers; George (Star Wars) Lucas Lucasfilm epic which opens this month. "It's served as producer and creator and Steven Kind) a more realistic adventure—movie realism, (Close Encounters of the Third after yesteryear's that is—that has some fantasy elements, but I Spielberg directed. Styled bet a hell of a lot less than people imagine at cliffhanger serials, Raiderstakes place in 1936 for the this moment." and concerns a race between nations

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legendary Ark of the Covenant, an elusive artifact which, according to biblical lore, con- tains the original tablets of the Ten Commandments as given to Moses by God. According to legend, the Ark brings its owner invincible powers. Raiders' intrigue develops when American Intelligence discovers that Nazis are ex- cavating in Egypt to find the Ark of the Coven- ant for their leader, Adolph Hitler. As established in the Old Testament, the Ark will be recovered at the time of the coming of the true messiah, a designation Hitler lusts for. To thwart the Nazis, American In- telligence recruits Indiana Jones (Ford), an archeologist/soldier of fortune. Armed with a bullwhip, the swashbuckling adventurer treks from Nepal and Cairo to the Mediterra- nean, encountering the brand of exotic lost cities, mad villains and dangerous liaisons that used to make "Saturday mornings at the Bijou" youngsters' favorite time of the week. 1 '"• Location set of German desert camp. That's the flying wing that rolled over Ford's leg. working with Spielberg Oddly, Harrison Ford wasn't Lucas' and don't mind working very technically, so we character with a sense of humor. It's Indy's Spielberg's first choice for Indiana Jones. got along great. Steven helped me a great deal way of looking at life that make our fights The duo originally sought Tom (Magnum in that he was not ego bound. He'd recognize unique." P.I.) Selleck for their daredevil hero. a good idea from anybody. Steven realized "My playing. Indy was mentioned to me the importance of good characterizations in a some Tense Moments about only six weeks before shooting film that has the scope of Raiders and con- At one. point, Lawrence Kasdan's script started," Ford confirms, "but being second stantly strove to maintain that." called for Ford to be dragged behind a car. choice wasn't at all offensive. I would always When one of the crewmembers mentioned Ford assume that it would be normal for a direc- that the stunt looked dangerous, tor—once having worked with an actor in a Getting into Character replied: "It couldn't possibly be dangerous, to particular part—not to think of him for Ford's characterization of Indiana Jones is because I have only a few more weeks go something else. I'd presume that he'd want to reminiscent of the early pulp heroes, such as on the picture. It'll probably be just another accentuate the difference between the two Doc Savage. However, Ford reveals that he's useless experience." Several months later, characters by having another actor. I was not really familiar with those Ford comments: "As far as I'm concerned, more than happpy when they did ask me to characters—they were not part of his that's one of the best things about being an play Indiana Jones, because it promised to be childhood. actor; one day I can be called upon to make a terrific role in a great film. "All I remembered was Sky King, people cry and the next day I can be dragged "My only immediate reservation about Hopalong Cassidy, and guys like that from behind a car. It's the best of all possible as I imagined it playing Indiana Jones was that in the script the serials. I don't want to sound fatuous, worlds. It actually felt just

it rather than the character was a little bit like Han Solo. but the character was simply built based on would, only to do for money that accident makes a big dif- Steven [Spielberg] and 1 both wanted to make what the story was and what was specific have happen by another sure that the characters were spread apart. about Indiana Jones that helped tell the story ference. In fact, it really wasn't 'just experience.' next I'm dragged We did that by making good use of the op- and make it work. It's a slightly more sophis- useless When portunities that existed in Lawrence Kasdan's ticated process, however, than just letting the behind a car, I'll know a bit more about it." screenplay. We took Indy off the nose and script dictate exactly how you'll play the role, One of Ford's more perilous moments on therefore complicated him in a way that Han but you begin developing your portrayal Raiders involved the sequence in which In- locates the Well of Souls, the Solo is not." along the lines suggested by the screenplay. diana Jones the Ford's initial unabashed enthusiasm for The goal is to ultimately show both the out- hallowed Egyptian tomb that holds Ark. stone slab for access to the Raiders is surprising, since accepting the role side and the inside of the character at ap- After removing a of the intrepid archeologist meant playing the propriate moments." vault through its roof, Indy discovers that carpet the lead in another large-scale production, To help make Indiana Jones' celluloid in- what appears to be a thick on something he has avoided in the wake of his carnation more believable, Ford decided to Well's floor is actually a slithering mass of Star Wars appearances. Additionally, Spiel- perform many of his own stunts. poisonous snakes. Despite the apparent live reptiles, in- berg's recent films (Jaws, CE3K&xi& 194 1) in- "There were very capable stuntmen doing jeopardy, Spielberg used 5000 dicate that the director might have a penchant some of the action bits," Ford hastens to cluding cobras, pythons and boa constric- for paying more attention to technical pro- point out, "but I probably did a good deal tors, for the scene. blems than to his cast. more stunts than an actor normally would. But: "The snakes didn't bother me at all," "That's a misapprehension about That was important, because we wanted to Ford says with a shrug. "The scenes that are Steven," says Ford. "In Jaws, you can see have our fights always be character calculated to scare the audience were the most that he's quite good at working with actors. fights —instead of just having whatever spec- boring part of the filming. The parts that with don't look dangerous were the ones that real- Besides, I didn't wait around very much on tacular event a stuntman could come up ly were. Nothing was frightening for me until Raiders. I had five days off during the entire Indiana Jones fights in a certain way, which shooting schedule. The length of time bet- Steven let the stuntmen and me choreograph. it went wrong. There were a couple of close

I like to talk about." ween shot set-ups is tedious, even on less am- Some of Indy's battles are just incredible. calls that don't musters bitious films. What made that livable was that 'How can Indy possibly do all this?' We had After some prodding, Ford with bite of enough courage to disclose one of his brushes Steven and I had a lot of fun exchanging ideas to take the edge off of that a and making the movie. We both believe humor and at the same time not make fun of with mortality. "Indy has a fight," he relates, "that takes in—and have fun at—working quickly. I the material, so Indiana Jones had to be a

18 STARLOG/July 1981 place in and around the propellers of the Fly- ing Wing. During the fight, he's knocked backwards into the path of the Flying Wing, which has one set of wheels chocked while its engine is running full tilt, so the plane is going around in circles. Indy gets thrown in front of the Flying Wing's wheels and does a back- ward sommersault to avoid being crushed. We had done that four or five times suc- cessfully, but the last time that we shot it, my foot slipped in the sand and shot sideways. I caught my toe under the wheel of the advanc- ing Flying Wing which then ran onto my leg up to my knee before it was stopped by the crew. It was real exciting. The crew's reaction was the normal one associated with having a film's star run over by an airplane when the

movie is only half completed. 1 just walked

away from it laughing, because making films

is always painful." Indiana Jones' courageous feats illustrate

that he is, indeed, the latest in Ford's recent line of heroic portrayals—a "man of action" in Ten From Navarrone, a cowboy in The Frisco Kid, and a soldier in Hanover of Souls. Street. Ford's more evident departures have Ford descends by rope into the snake-filled Well been in his supporting roles in Heroes, as Henry Winkler's racing enthusiast friend, frightening," Ford discloses. because I made an effort finally kind of and in Apocalypse Now, as a military in- "That could be the film offers that being "It changes you from an observer, which is telligence officer. to take advantage of state, to an observed. The in Star Wars gave me," says Ford. "I think an actor's natural time an actor is usually observed is when Enjoying the Notoriety people in the industry realize that I've played only playing these different he's working, because an actor probably isn't "It's fun to do those supporting roles, and am capable of them that worth watching at other times. Fame because they're good character pieces," Ford types of characters. I helped show able to walk down supporting roles that I did. I prevents you from being explains. "The problem is that they don't in some of those those small parts once in a the street or browse through a store being usually write character parts as the leads of was able to do of the Star Wars known only to yourself. Yet, I do it anyway. movies. Unfortunately, you can't always play while due to the popularity in series has been a firm If people recognize me when I'm out the supporting roles because of the com- pictures. The Star Wore very nice to from. Its success public, I'm very nice to them. I'm plicated vision that people in this industry grounding for me to work some of my people even when they don't recognize me. I have. Hollywood only really takes notice has allowed me to gamble on even mind if people come up to me . I ' ve been real don't when you're being paid the money and given more off beat choices for films Wars as part of my life." while I'm eating dinner, but if they recognize the billing that a 'lead actor' gets. That's why lucky to have Star to make me while I'm having sex, 1 refuse to sign Force Ten From Navarrone was important In addition to enabling Ford choices, the Star Wars films pro- autographs." for me to do. Its cast was a package of 'big prime career obscurity to being Star Wars and Ford's subsequent movies names that included me." moted him from relative faces in show have also brought him a certain amount of Ford's strategy has apparently worked, one of the most famous occurrance with which business. sudden wealth, an since he is the only Star Wars "regular" to turned out to be some actors have difficulty dealing. This has have achieved star status outside of the series. "That loss of anonymity not been a problem for Ford. "First," he explains, "I put my money in

shoe boxes. Then I had to use pillow cases and after that, sleeping bags. Now, I have a whole garage full of money. My car is in the street.

Personally, I can't understand ever having a problem dealing with money. Those actors who run into problems with wealth are people who just bought too many shoes."

•Star wars'— The Plot Thickens The Star Wars fans who helped Ford stuff his shoe boxes were dismayed when the actor considred not returning for Revenge of the Jedi. But as Starlog readers were relieved to learn in our first interview with Ford (in issue #37), Han Solo will be rescued from his car- bon frozen state in the sixth chapter.

"If I hadn't been able to do some of my other movies," he says, "I might feel differ- ently about doing Revenge of the Jedi. As it stands, I'm delighted to be coming back. Han, Princess Leia were created to tell Ford to stardom. Luke, and From the ending of Star Wars, the film (and role) that propelled STARLOG/July 1981 19 " ,

last known impression of me, so with , I'm working against Raiders of the Lost Ark. They originally wanted Deckard to

wear a big felt hat. I told them I just finished wearing one in Raiders, so we changed that. Besides, as that gossip columnist could prob-

ably tell you, wearing those big felt hats doesn't fool anybody; they all know that you're bald underneath." Considering Ford's practice of acting in

dissimilar movies, his starring in a science fic- tion picture other than a Star Wars project seems incongruous.

"I wouldn't call Blade Runner science fic-

tion," declares.Ford, "because it's much dif- ferent from what the public's conception of

SF is, based on the movies that they've been offered in the past. It's an earthbound mystery/adventure with a lot of futuristic

elements. There are special effects in it (being supplied by Doug Trumbull), but they're kind of throw-aways. From a technical point

of view, Blade Runner is not an effects film, but I'm sure that Doug's work will add a great deal to the story." Whatever success Blade Runner may have, it's the fate of Raiders of the Lost Ark that will first help determine Harrison Ford's future. Working in favor of Raiders being a

hit is the fact that the dazzling adventure is injected with intense passion. That old fash-

ioned sensibility is most palpably witnessed in George Lucas and Ford take a break from Raiders out of the hot desert Sun. Indy's romance with Marion Ravenwood

( Karen Animal House, A Small Circle of

Eriends Allen ) , a beautiful and resilient in the this story, so I'm glad to be in on the third act. in. George is a very skillful plotter and you tavern keeper Nepal who becomes Han Solo's fate being left unresolved at the can be sure that Revenge will come through hero's companion. end of , along with with answers, but what they are is anyone's "Karen Allen was great to work with," the film's other loose ends, disturbed numer- guess. As much as George has particularized compliments Ford. "Her screen presence ous theater patrons. Moviegoers felt that his Star Wars concept, he has not under- bounces out at you. In fact, it's a lot of fun after paying four or five dollars to see a film, valued the process of making a movie, so his doing romantic scenes, but, then again, they should have gotten a complete movie storyline has changed with the experience that sometimes it's not. At least it's more en- and not be made to wait three years for the he has gathered during the past few years. joyable than being dragged behind a car.

concluding episode. The only thing I know for sure is that Revenge Movie love has nothing to do with romance.

"I have no defense for that argument," is my last one, although there's been some It's a technical problem that has to be solved.

states Ford, "but what obligation is there to talk...." Maybe in the next Indiana Jones film, we can

tie up every question with an equal answer? do a romantic scene while we're both being The cliffhanger is because the trilogy is really What Next? dragged behind a car. Now there's a real constructed in the classic form of a three act Well before finding out what that "talk" technical problem that I'd like to work on un-

play. Naturally, there are going to be ques- is, Ford's following will be able to view him in til I got it right." tions in the second act which have to be another science-fiction opus, Ridley {ALI- Ford's mention of the next Indiana Jones

resolved in the third. I guess it really depends EN) Scott's Blade Runner. Based on a small film is based on Lucas' intention of making

on what you want to go to a movie for. I portion of Phillip K. Dick's Do Androids Raiders a trilogy. The future pictures are figure that there was at least eleven dollars Dream ofElectric Sheep?, Blade Runner tells Ford's only definite plans beyond Revenge of

worth of entertainment in Empire. So, if you the story of Deckard (Ford), a bounty hunter theJedi, which begins shooting on January 1 paid four bucks and didn't get an ending, trying to track down a fugitive android. 1982. Of course, if Raiders of the Lost Ark

you're still seven dollars ahead of the game." "Deckard's a kind of detective in a large isn't a hit, the archeologist's adventures will Many Star Wars enthusiasts have American city forty years in the future," says be prematurely finished. Ford would like to speculated that Solo will survive his frozen Ford. "He's a real bureaucrat who hardly see the character continue in a movie series

ordeal because he is Yoda's "other one" ever goes without wearing a suit and tie. ("I hardly think we've exhausted Indy's capable of harnessing the Force. Upon Deckard's a really hard case." possibilities," he says), and when pressed, analysis, such a development seems to have According to newspaper reports printed gave the following reasons why his fans been foreshadowed in Han's dialogue ex- nationally, Ford shaved his head to play should flock to see Raiders: changes with Luke and Obi Wan in the first Deckard. "Besides the full frontal nudity, the sex film, and in the space pirate's continuing per- "I have a crewcut for Blade Runner" with a camel, the free place setting we're giv-

sonal growth in both SW movies. Ford corrects. "What happened was that I ing away in theaters, and the opportunity to "Such contemplation illustrates the value was doing a telephone interview with some win the presidential yacht and a year's sup- of the Star Wars concept," says Ford. "As gossip columnist and he misunderstood me. ply of Farrah slacks?" Other than that, Ford

it to far as my feelings on it, I just work here. I'm The very short haircut, however, does give me says that "folks will see because it's going ' so confident in George Lucas' control of the quite a different appearance. I look like a be a hell of a lot of fun . If not, ' he says with for story that I really don't spend a second think- middle-aged Elvis Costello. My object every an endearing smile, "I'd ask my money ing about what direction Han Solo should go time out of the gate is to contrast the public's back." •

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SELF-ABUSE IS THE SINCEREST KIND

shouldn't have, highway. They made hash brownies and went a year ago, I received the some people into his life he About bought Thai sticks and following letter. It disturbed me overestimated himself once too often. It's to rock concerts. They pipes bongs and very much, and has been in my mind easy to have 20-20 hindsight. hash oil and a variety of and living paraphernalia to smoke them with. ever since. It happened this way. He started other Dear Mr. Gerrold, with a woman who had a psychological They even purchased an electric hookah that marijuana. It was a crutch to would shotgun them with heavy-duty smoke. I don't know if you have ever written an ar- dependency on day without tokes and you were gone for several ticle on the subject of drug abuse. I can't her. She couldn't get through the Two roll few in the morning, light days. remember one but I might have missed it. I a joint. She'd a And neither one of them thought they had normally wouldn't bother you with this sub- one up, and naturally, she'd pass it on to in the room. a problem. ject, except that recently I encountered whoever else was of a head at first. But as the pot input increased, the author's something that 1 never have before. Our author wasn't much of his he'd toke up now and then, sometimes story output decreased. And the quality 1 am 18 and have a brother 15. Occasional- Oh, it was too polite, but mostly he could live work suffered too. Some of ly I indulge in the pleasures of marijuana. My just to be obscure for his readership to understand. He brother, however, indulges daily as well as us- without the stuff. He didn't drink much was didn't notice. If he did, he rationalized that ing coke, crank, beans, Valium, acid, PCP, cither. His worst vice, if it must be told, bit So. they were too illiterate to understand. And as and liquor. My sorrowful encounter came that he liked the ladies just a too much. far as the grass went, well that refrain went two nights ago. My brother and 1 had both like this: "I'm doing research. I'm exploring gotten in late and were each having a bowl of it's the people who've my subconscious, I'm getting into the under- cereal. As I was eating, something about my made dope fashion- side of my soul. I'm developing new percep- cereal struck me as being funny. 1 began to tions on reality." quietly but quite uncontrollably laugh. My able who are most to After all, he told himself, when I'm high, brother then looked over at me and asked me my mind goes into overdrive. I see things, I what I had taken. I replied that I'd taken blame. And l include get ideas— I can extrapolate like crazy. I get a nothing. Then he said, "THEN WHY ARE myself in that too. Be- little stoned, sit down with my tape recorder YOU LAUGHING?" I stopped dead in my and a stack of cassettes and I can dictate to bowl. My own brother was telling me that cause I've written myself all night. Sometimes I'm positively he'd forgotten what non-drug-induced condone brilliant. laughter was like. stories that sometimes not. Once he ended up in him, but since there's no And I still care about casual use of the the emergency ward of UCLA's medical way he'll listen to me, there's nothing I can do center screaming out his nightmares from a like ask to please, have — for him. I would just to you drugs. And so terrifying bad trip. He scared someone who if you ever do write on this, to include you. We're part of the cared about him very badly that time—and something about the loss of natural pleasure. cost himself a friend. Thank you verv much. problem—because realize. Not even when — J.L.J. Our man still didn't * * * we've blinded our- he blew a couple of very lucrative contracts. No, not even then. Not even when one day, Let me tell you about a writer I know. The real selves ... to the after almost two years without turning in a writer may be either male or female, but for ..." completed novel, he found that he had run the purposes of this discussion, we'll say he's crime of dope. out of money and was teetering on the edge male. He may or may not be well-known. He — the stuff, he of bankruptcy. He was about to lose his may or may not have done short stories, to get his ladyfriend to taper off their mutual supply o( grass run house, his car, his credit and his self-respect. novels, or TV scripts. You may or may not be would let several times. But our man was lucky—when he ran out familiar with his name or with some of his out. He tried this first, the lady would gel of money, his lady-friend left him. She'd run work. That's unimportant, and you don't It didn't work. At cranky; then she would get twitchy—then she up thirty-thousand dollars of bills on his need to know it to appreciate what I'm about become just plain impossible to live credit cards, gotten herself a new wardrobe to tell you. would she was a very pleasant and a vacation or three, had a lot of fun, and Let's say this author was fairly popular with. Ordinarily, did. and a perfect now it was time to move on. And she once—was regularly nominated for awards, woman; a good cook an almost perfect In that, she had finally done the right thing asked to appear at conventions, was con- housekeeper; she seemed all it took was for him—she had left him alone, so he could sidered one of the rising stars of the field. And companion for him—and if her pleasant enough get back to doing what he loved doing the then—just when everyone was expecting him just a little dope to keep that seeme'd harmless most, telling stories. But what she left him to become a major voice, a heavyweight, he to be around, then with was a bottomless depression that he began to fade away. enough. writer's block it wasn't just a little dope. It couldn't climb out of, and a Oh, he was still writing— but his books Except that couldn't be broken. No, he wasn't sad weren't must-read books any more. They was a lot of dope; sometimes as much as S200 that losing her. He got over her in a month, weren't important. For the past few years, he worth a month. about it with and once free of her, he also began to seems to have been just plodding along, each And pretty soon, he was smoking insidious a trap it recognize how she had been holding him new effort just a little less impressive than the her—not realizing just how the stereo without down. If he was angry at anyone, it was last. was. They never listened to away with it for so Why? What happened? toking up a number. They always took a cou- himself for letting her get long. Several things. He made some errors in ple doobies with them to the movies and But what was holding him down was the judgment, took a job he shouldn't have, let smoked them on the way, getting high on the

22 STARLOG/yu/y 1981 —

By David Gerrold FUTURE CONVENTIONS

conventions. If Here is the latest listing of the upcoming listed please send a you have any questions about the cons . seif-addressed. stamped envelope to the address below features are the name of the con. As always, guests and please have told. And there's to last-minute changes. Conventioneers, ery real physical depression left over from stories I might subject listed on our calendar, ' " note: To insure that your con is ' I can't blame use. what had seemed at something else, he admitted. months ong-term drug Even please send all pertinent information no later than 6 if there's Calendar, 475 casual habit had it on the dope for sure, but I wonder prior to the event to starlog Convention i casual glance to be only a South, New York, NY 10016. Sometimes I get cranky, Park Ave. xeated some very profound physical and a cumulative effect. begin- It was sometimes I feel tired. Maybe it's the nental distortions of the man's life. MIDWESTCON XXXli maybe it's the longer felt young. He no ning of old age, at last, and his simple. He no Drawbridge Motor Inn after-burn. I sometimes wonder if 1 haven't June 26-28, 1981 nger enjoyed what he was doing. The grass Ft. Mitchell, KY stupider, dulled my Rusty Hevelin leached the satisfaction out of his life. made myself a little ad " 3023 Old Troy Pike made myself a little bit less alive. . . This story could have had an unhappy end- senses— Dayton, OH 45404 then he happened was that some He looked sad for a moment, ng, but what finally EMPIRICON 3 (SF) again. "On the other hand, of the people who cared about this man from brightened up New York Statler I'm writing. And I feel better long long time ago, came forward then, I'm alive and NewYork.NY July3-5,1981 felt in a long time." Empiricon, c/oTESSFA hey helped him scrape together a little bit of than I've 0. Box 682, Church St. Station Something he said reminded me of the let- P ash so he could keep on working. He finish- New York, NY 10008 above. I asked him, "Can I another—not major ter I received one book, then INC0NJUNCTI0N (SF/Fantasy) going for write this as a column?" books, but the cash would keep him 3-5, 1981 "Don't use Indianapolis, IN July could concentrate on the im- He shook his head, then said, l while, so he ?" Circle Janus S.F.C. . . . Ave. ortant book he'd been wanting to get back my name 1415 N. Somerset 46222 "I wasn't planning to." Indianapolis, IN > for some time. "Then tell the story." He looked at me SPACE EXPO (ST-SF) It was a friend who cared about our author STAR TREK think it'll do any good?" July 4.5, 1981 ery much who realized how much marijuana then. "Do you Hazlet.NJ Capital Expositions I don't even know how to pointed it out. Several "I don't know. was doing. And P.O. Box 550 write it without sounding like a preacher." 10314 .nes. And still the message didn't sink in. Staten Island, NY turn- "I wonder—" he said, "—if this isn't 1 wish I could tell you that there was a that each person has to experience 5 (Science fantasy) ,ng point—say, perhaps he almost killed a lit- something ARCH0N for himself. I'd heard all the warnings too, I Chase-Park Plaza Hotel tle girl while driving under the influence, and 10-12, 1981 St. Louis, M0 July didn't think they applied to me. I had to hen went home and flushed his stash down just Archon 5 before I understood the fire." Box 15852 he toilet and swore he'd never do it be burned Overland. M0 63114 he added, "Do you know what makes n—but that's not the way it happened. It Then '81 as a long slow process, a step-by-step me angriest?" 0KC0N (SF/Trek) dealers?" July18-19,1981 alization, one piece at a time as he began to "The Tulsa, 0K Convention has been cancelled. He shook his head. "No—not the dealers. This ut it back together; each piece helping him to who've made dope IV) cognize what the next must be It's the people MARK OF PARAC0N (ParaCon 24-26, 1981 * * * fashionable who are most to blame. And I in- State College, PA July Casto clude myself in that too. Because I've written Robert No, the marijuana was not the real prob- 425WapelaniDr.#24 drugs. stories that condone the casual use of College, PA 16801 n. But it was keeping him from seeing what State And so have you. We're part of the prob- j real problem was. AUGUST PARTY (Trek) few months of lem—because we've blinded ourselves and all It took him a while, and a Rosslyn Westpark Hotel our words and believe in 7-9, 1981 bstinence, but he began to readjust the of those who read Washington, D.C. August the real crime of dope—that it costs us August Party of his life. He began by editing out us, to iicture Box 893 humanity, a little bit each time. 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Chapter 1 "A New View ii By KERRY O'QUINN

I looked up was invigorating. The air was cool, Taun-tauns gallop. From the outside, "Hi!" Well, what did I expect? Maybe a John Itand the Sun was warm. It was the kind everything looked totally unmagical. Williams fanfare—maybe a towering figure of weather that gives people a reason to Inside, surrounding the reception room, like Lord Vader—maybe the booming voice ve to northern , is a cluster of business offices, and down a are a millionaire corporate executive— 'steered my car into the parking lot ofthe long hallway behind locked doors of with maybe the wise-cracking, sweet-talking • brick building spread out in a quiet storyboard studios and rooms filled jargon of a Hollywood moviemaker— Durban community near thefoot ofa rug- model spaceships, miniature landscapes, maybe I expected a mighty handshake that I chain of mountains. I stood outside for matte cameras—all with such tight security would still feel the next day. foment and looked at the building. that even the Los Angeles employees of What I saw was a man in his thirties, of Well, what did I expect ? Maybe aflashing Lucasfilm Ltd. cannot get inside those modest build with a pleasant, smiling face neon sign proclaiming, "You have arrived doors. appoint- and the familiar glasses, beard, jeans and ur Industrial Light & Magic— the special ef- I identified myself: "I have an ' sneakers I had always seen him wearing in fects home of Star Wars and The Empire ment with George Lucas. ' I was a half-hour photos. He seemed almost embarrassed by Strikes Back! early, so I sat down and began leafing the occasion. What I actually found was no sign at all. through my notes. Suddenly I heard a bright ILM's production manager, Tom Smith, In fact, no clue that inside these walls were was kind enough to loan us his office the administrative staff, the artists and (George doesn 't even have an office there) technicians who make the TIE's fly and Above: Lucas and O'Quinn at ILM.

STARLOG/yu/y 1981 25 visible. When you were young—younger than so, like everyone else, we could sit down I have had has made me too KOQ: the you are now—what kind of things did you en- behind closed doors. KOQ: Is it monetary success that draws * * * spotlight to you? joy most? with People GL: One of my favorite things were Republic KERRY O'QUINN: Let me tell you why I GL: I think it's all monetary of things. They serials and things like Flash Gordon. I'd wanted this interview. When I was growing magazine and those kinds just care watch them and say, "This is fantastic!" up, Walt Disney was a very important person don't care about the movies. They program called guy's real rich!" But I think There was a television to me—not just because his movies entertain- about "Gee, this night. they like the "Adventure Theater" at 6:00 every ed me and excited me about life, but because the kids are interested because set, I used to go over it, and, therefore, We didn't have a TV so the man created his own world—built from film, they're amazed by to a friend's house, and we watched it nothing but determination and imagination. impressed by me. Wind was big box of- religiously every night. It was a twenty- It was a wonderful lesson to me, and I think KOQ: Gone With The Victor Fleming a minute serial chapter, and the left-over that you have that same sort of influence on fice too, but it didn't make fairly minutes of the half-hour was filled with today's youth. Not only your work, but you cult hero. Producers and directors are I read it's the stars that "Crusader Rabbit." I loved it. Tommy as a person. And yet you are not a well- invisible people. Generally, Tomorrow and, of course, lots of (other) known quantity to most people—certainly fans idolize. I a director I comics. not to our readers. I'm here to get to know GL: As I said, when became kind? I was going to be able to remain KOQ: What you as a human being. I want you to reveal assumed that into problems GL: Mostly the DC comics— and yourself in any way you're willing and to say anonymous, but I got shoved Superman. But I was also real keen on whatever you want. I'm interested in your because of the monetary success; the fact that history made Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck and that soul and for you to share some of it with the film was the biggest hit in sort of thing. And I loved Amazing Stories STARLOG. everything focus on me because it was an being "number one." If that and those other science-fiction pulps that GEORGE LUCAS: All right, fine. I have to achievement— that time. I think the kids still would were around at admit that I read STARLOG. Starting in 1973 hadn't happened, have been impressed because Star Wars was KOQ: Any particular novels? I was very much focused on science fic- young people, and very GL: I wasn't a reader when I was young. I was tion—the genre people, the conventions, the designed as a film for of person. I like that today. It more of a picture-oriented type magazines, every fantasy thing I could get my few films are being made read a few books like Treasure Island and hands on—to see where everybody's head was done with all the energy and intelligence sort of thing. muster. It was not Swiss Family Robinson—that was. And I've sort of continued it. and thought that I could we KOQ: Certain people would think of those as KOQ: What are you doing these days? done like "Oh, this is just a kid's movie, so unfluences. Does it to worry about it." It was done rather un-profound GL: I get up very early each morning and go don't have best movie that bother you when critics say Lucas has created to work writing the next Star Wars—Revenge like "This is going to be the mental "junk food" or that Star Wars is of The Jedi—until early that afternoon. can possibly be made under the cir- but an old-fashioned formula? I think that because of that at- nothing Next, I work on Raiders Of The Lost Ark. I cumstances." GL: When you look at Star Warsit seems ex- was editing the film, and now I'm helping titude Star Wars turns out to shine among all tremely simplistic, but it's like most suc- with the special effects here—sort of checking the other films that are done in the science- cessful creations: you struggle and you strug- in at ILM and letting them know what they fiction genre. and you are gle and you struggle—for the obvious! You can send to Steve Spielberg, who is directing KOQ: The spotlight is on you, personal finally get there, and you say, "Why didn't I Raiders in Los Angeles, and what needs a lit- not rushing toward it. Why? Is it a think of this six months ago? " But it requires to reluctance or is it a practical problem? tle more work . After that, I usually have go to get down to the ob- all the interviews that quite a thought process to my office, read my mail and answer my GL: It's both. If I did isn't that all the letters vious. It's very difficult because it phone calls and do all my business. Then, are asked of me and anwered time to do obvious when you start out. usually around 6:00 pm is when I have any that come to me, I wouldn't have Star Wars, and they try pick a few in- Now, people look at meetings I have to have. And that's about the anything else— literally! I to nothing to year, just so everyone say, "Oh, that's simple—there's way my life is today. terviews to do each it." They say it's like this movie or that Next week I'm going to London to look for doesn't think I'm a recluse and call me a her- it isn't like any other person. I don't do movie. But the truth is, a director for Revenge and to listen to the mit. But I am a very shy have tendency to think that it groups. I was terrible in movie. People a score of Raiders. And it just continues like very well in large just took The fact, the things that, for most was just a formula—"Oh, he that. speech class. In Wizard OfOz and turned it inside out." But KOQ: So you're pre-producing and post- kids, are the terror of their lives, were also the always if you look at those two movies, they are producing right now. It sounds like 12-hour terror of my life—and still are. You adult you'll totally different ideas. I mean, you can see days. assume that when you become an Rotary meetings and that certain similarities between almost any two GL: At least! I'm lucky if I can get a 12-hour be able to speak at At least with movies. But coming up with a basic idea and day, and unfortunately, for the last few mon- sort of thing. It doesn't happen. developing it and making it work is very dif- ths, it's also been seven days a week. me it hasn't. that shyness turns out to be ficult and not to be underestimated. Although it's business, I count this (upcom- KOQ: I've found promising characteristic Now, nobody likes critics. ing) trip to London as a weekend off—even a very nice and often with what people. Perhaps the lack of social told me he used to be concerned though I'll be on an airplane most of the time. in young critics say. But he stopped getting upset when KOQ: Are you aware of the fact that you are activity is replaced by more mental activity. years develop- I had when I he realized that he spent three a kind of cultural hero to a lot of today's GL: I think so. The advantage that ing an idea—working on it day and youth—not to mention some of today's was young—younger than I am now—is quiet, most night—then somebody walks in and sees the adults? being shy, I was fairly quiet, being for hours and spends a half-hour I was fairly smart. I listened a film two GL: Yes, I'm aware of it. I get a lot of mail, people thought it. the critic spends a in Japan, if you don't talk, writing a review of So, and I get a lot of kids coming up to me on the lot. You know, that genius. In this country, I total of 2Vz hours on something you street and in restaurants. I didn't get into the they think you're a than spent three years on. Kubrick said that after movie business with any anticipation of think most people like to talk more for listens is more easily he realized that, critics held no interest becoming famous. It happened despite my listen. So someone who talking—because him. best efforts, and it's something I don't really liked by those who enjoy to talk to. I've discovered Critics are entitled to their opinions, and a want. It's something I have to go through, they have someone fools of lot of times what they say is true. It's just that but ultimately I'm just someone who makes that most people who talk a lot make don't talk too much, it they don't realize the effort and pain and movies—like someone who builds buildings. themselves. So, if you intelligent than you really struggling that went into something. A friend I haven't any desire at all to have a spotlight makes you more of mine made a film at the North Pole, and focused on me, but unfortunately the success are.

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movie, or something like that. That's really

all I expected of it. And the fact that it became such a popular film and appeals to people

over 14 years old—it still amazes me! KOQ: So you weren't really expecting this kind of success. Is that why you ran off to Hawaii to avoid the premiere of Star Wars?

GL: The main reason for that was that I

worked on the film right up until the day it

opened. In fact, I was mixing sound on

foreign versions of the film the day it opened

here. I had been working so hard that,

truthfully, I forgot the film was being released that day. My wife was mixing New York, New York at night at the same place we were mixing during the day, so at 6:00 she came in

for the night shift just as I was leaving on the day shift. So we ran off to grab dinner at Hamburger Hamlet, which, by coincidence,

is right across the street from the Chinese Theatre—and there was a huge line around

the block. I said, "What' that? " I had forgot- Lucas and crew line up a miniature FX shot for Empire at the ILM facilities. ten completely, and I really couldn't believe whether I think the film is great or not, I Death Valley and actually got some shots of it. But I had planned a vacation as soon as I

finished, I'm glad I did because I really would say, ' 'That is an achievement! " That's him going more than three feet. So in the and a very difficult thing to do. It's like the Alaska beginning there are actually a few shots of didn't want to be around for all the craziness pipeline; it's something that was a lot of him going somewhere. You get the impres- that happened after that. work, and you can't ridicule it and say it's sion that he moves through the whole movie, I think I'd do that on every film, because nothing! The guys who made that film were but he doesn't. you don't want to be around for people to call " up there in 50-below-zero, trying to make Everything was a prototype on the first and say , Gee, what a terrible movie—what a cameras turn-over and make polar bears do movie, like "Gee, we're going to build disaster! Did you read what Vince Canby said ?" what they wanted them to do. And critics this—we have no money, but have to try to about you. . . And if it becomes a big hit, ." forget that. make this, work But nothing really worked. you don't have to put up with all the people KOQ: In the case of Star Wars—forgetting On Empire we improved the size of the robot, calling with, "Oh, wow, I really loved your the behind-the-scenes struggles that you and we managed to make things work a little movie. ..." The people who usualy call and know went into the making it—is the finished bit better. We still had problems, but at least say that, are really not the people you want to product an important film? R2 could go down the road and his head talk to.

GL: That's a hard question to answer. . . would turn. KOQ: So, your satisfaction comes not from KOQ: Has the film changed lives? KOQ: As long as you got the illusion across, the acclaim?

GL: I assume it has. I have my own personal how you really did it is just your concern. The GL: The satisfaction is in the movie. So far, feelings about what I think of the movie, audience was obviously not disappointed. every movie I've made is the movie I wanted

GL: I'm sort of baffled by the movie, I have to make, and I've been happy with it— THX,

KOQ: What are they? to admit. I mean, I expected it to be American Grafitti, Star Wars, Empire and

GL: I don't want to upset your readers too moderately successful film—like a Disney now Raiders. I look at a film in the rough cut much, but it's just a movie. It's no big deal. ran a technical point of view—my own oint of view— I don't think it's altogether

well-made a movie, because I was work- g under extremely difficult conditions. ii film school, a student would show his orkshop project, and someone would say, " "Gee that doesn't make sense to me tad the filmmaker would go into a disserta- a of explanations, "Well, that day the and man didn't show up, and the landlady Kin and ran us out, and I just had time to is one angle, etc." And the instructor

toeid say, "Well, put it on a title card at the

ead of the film. Say 'This is why the movie is

•ay it is—because we had all these pro-

what it was, Star Wars was made very apensively—a real low-budget movie

ery , very difficult getting things to

ort. The truth is that the robots didn't work £ all. 3-PO works very painfully—and dur- ng the whole shooting of the picture I couldn't get R2 to go more than three feet rbout running into something. So you'll

otice in the film that he moves very little. rhe 2nd Unit came back here to ILM and Lucas on location with Star Wars, as "Bantha" patiently awaits its cue. rebuilt the robot, and we took him out to

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to another film. for the first time, and so far it's always turned and go on Yes, it helps to have the same group of out to be what I wanted the movie to be. I GL: people that you work with because they know mean, I can argue technically about how well, in the case of Star Wars, the or not, the film is made—about story points, you. And is so unique that to bring someone ideas—but if I get an enjoyment out of it, vocabulary in from the outside takes a long time to clue then I say, OK, I'm happy. It does what I in. If 1 "Jawa," people here know wanted it to do. And I don't really care about them say tall he is, the premiere or the critics or all the rest of what a Jawa is— they know how he looks like, how he talks. If I say we're it ... what KOQ: Do you have any free time to goof off going to have R2 do this and this and this, nowadays? they know whether R2 can do that—as GL: No, unfortunately. opposed to someone coming in from the out- KOQ: Can't you take a vacation or go to the side who would just sit there and scratch their .!" beach? head and say, "Well, all right. . The peo- ple here what I like and what I don't GL: When I started out in film school, it was know 24-hours a day, seven days a week—that was like; it saves a lot of time. Communication is important to all all I thought about and did. I didn't do Lucas and Spielberg take a break. KOQ: especially in a series like Star anything else! Then when I started working filmmaking, but at helm really must get his professionally and got married, I hadio work as a simple fairy tale, and that's all it really is. Wars. The man the across to a lot of other creative people. all the time in order just to get anywhere. And It doesn't go off into some crazy. . .thing. ideas like that would be especially difficult I didn't have a vacation until I finished my It's really a little bit more controlled than you Seems

first film and went to Europe. I had a couple might think. When it comes out, people will for a shy person. I have to of bucks in the bank, and I said, "It's now or say, "Oh, my God. How obvious! Why GL: I am now in a situation where never." My wife had been bugging me. I'd couldn't they think of something more in- do a lot of talking, and I am amazed that I do I it is alien to the way I am been at it for four or five years straight, and teresting than that?" But I'm stuck with the what do—because I never have thought that I she said, "You can't go on like this." That way it was originally planned , and I can ' t sud- as a person. would director of films. When was in 1973. I didn't have another vacation denly go off on some tangent. would end up being a said I could do until 1977—when I went to Hawaii, after Star All I can do is make the movie, and people I was 16, if you had

liars. will either love it or hate it, and there is this— direct films— I'd have said, "Im- with people My wife likes to have vacations. She nothing I can do about it—because it is what possible—I can't communicate but doesn't like not to be able to go anywhere, it is. If a mistake was made, it was made six that well." I don't like being the General, year in and year out. She'd like to be able to years ago. And it will be another two or three I ended up doing it. When you care about say, "Look, let's take off for two or three years before people find out about it. something, the idea and the talk automatical- really nothing to talk about weeks and just cool out." So I promised her KOQ: Is there going to be character continui- ly come. There's that after Star Wars every year we'd take two ty among all three trilogies? except what I want— whatever vision I vacations—two to three weeks each year. GL: No—possibly the robots, but they have—and that's easy. Directing is a reaction at least thou- That lasted for one year. Now, I try to get in weren't originally designed to go through the to everything— I have to make a day. thousand people . decisions a one vacation a year, for a week or so. It whole . . nobody was designed to go through sand A always comes down to saying, "Next week. all three. I'd like to see the robots go through coming up to you every day—and this is not saying, or blue?" Just let me get past this thing. ..." By the them, but I don't know whether they will. an exaggeration— "Red time you get past this thing, there's always KOQ: What will provide the continuity then? And you have to say, at that moment, with something else, and you can't leave. Now, GL: Well, the next trilogy—the first about 15 seconds to make up your mind, if they have reasons that it 1983 is my goal; I intend to take off for a year, one—since it's about Ben Kenobi as a young "OK, blue." And so, have if 1 can, and just not do anything. And that is man, is the same character, just a different ac- should be different, they say and you why I'm not planning any other projects. tor. And it's the same thing with all the another 15 seconds to analyze that. I guess film that ultimately your level of success is how KOQ: How is the Revenge script coming? characters. Luke ends up in the third of right decisions and how GL: It's coming the first trilogy just three-and-a-half years many of those are the in the wrong decisions. If you can KOQ: Is it easier than the last time? old. There is a continuity with characters, many are GL: No. They never get easier. They only get other words, but not with actors—and the make the right decisions, you end up with a harder. look of the films will be different. good movie. And if you make the wrong deci- terrible. movie. KOQ: Is this trilogy going to wrap up a story? The first trilogy will not be as much of an sion, you end up with a GL: Yes, definitely. action adventure kind of thing. Maybe we'll KOQ: If, at 16, you had no idea that you what were you pas- KOQ: No cliff-hanger this time? make it have some humor, but right now it's could direct movies, GL: No cliff-hanger. The original idea kind much more humorless than this one. This one sionately interested in doing in terms of of got segmented, and the fact that the story is is where all the excitement is, which is why I career?

in it. little GL: I wanted to be a race driver at 16. 1 was a i fairy tale kind of got lost, especially the started with The other ones are a more beginning, because the science fiction took Machiavellian— it's all plotting—more of a mechanic in a foreign car service, and my am- race driver sports cars, ower. I kept saying, "Don't call it science fic- mystery. I think we'll try, on the next one, to bition was to be a — That was it; that was my whole tion!" I think that Revenge, for better or write all three scripts at once. Then they can Formula One. lived, breathed cars! That was worse, is going to put the whole thing in come out every other year instead of every life. I ate,

perspective. I don't know whether people are three years. Doing it the way we do it now, we everything to me.

going to like it that much, but the truth of it is, race though one, and as soon as we finish one that's the way the film was originally design- we race into the next one, and we go as fast as to —quite a ed. I think people have perceived it sort of dif- we can. We just barely get it done in time, and From sports cars issue will ferent from the way it really is, and in this one we race right into the next one. At ILM, they transition, and next George Lucas becomes obvious what it was all get six-month breaks between movies, but it's take us with him along that fascinating tuned. along—which, essentially, is a fairy tale. a non-stop race for me and for the main pro- journey. Stay KOQ: Is it going to shift gears significantly? duction people. GL: It doesn't shift gears; it goes down the KOQ: Here at ILM, you have formed a kind Next issue: road, but what happens is, I should say, more of repertory company—unlike most films, Chapter 2: obvious than most people think. It's not where people are hired free-lance for the "The Cold Fish Strikes Back" nearly as complicated. As I say, it started out duration of the project and they they leave

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Special 06-Page Anniversary Section STRIKES BACK THE EMPIRE J movie of Undoubtedly the most successful and entertaining SF Strikes Back. The film received the past 1 2 months was The Empire from the an Academy Award for sound, and a special award Richard Academy for visual effects was given to Brian Johnson, Edlund, Dennis Muen and . picks up Essentially the middle act of a three act play, Empire between the where Star Wars left off—the life and death struggle were Rebel Alliance and the Empire. Two major new characters Calrissian, one also introduced: Yoda, the Jedi master, and Lando owner of the Millen- of Han Solo's reprobate friends (and former ending, nium Falcon). Unlike Star Wars, Empire has a cliffhanger hunter Boba with a quick-frozen Solo being carted off by bounty about his returning in Fett. Although there was some initial doubt contract immedi- the next chapter (Harrison Ford did not sign his in Revenge of the ately), we've been assured that Solo strikes back Jedi, due out in May 1983.

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The major non-outer space SF film released during the past 12 Hurt, months was Ken Russell's Altered Stares, starring William were sup- Blair Brown and Bob Balaban. Brilliant special effects Bran Fer- plied by premiere makeup artist Dick Smith and young Adapted from ren, who handled the mechanical and optical effects. investigation Paddy Chayefsky's novel, the film is a psychedelicized truths and of inner space—with emphasis on the search for ultimate is worthy of merit ultimate meaning in life. For that alone, this film Picture Arts & Although slighted by the Academy of Motion SF fans agree that Sciences at its annual awards ceremony, many fiction films of the past Altered States is one of the best science- decade.

changing Control monitor shows Jessup in the throes of matter

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STARLOGA/u/y 1981 37 and the miniature and optical ef- of the classic set designs they felt was a cavalier treatment film had a massive effects crew, others enjoyed fects. The material, while just as many Frank headed by such talented technicians as PLASH light, comic book approach. the (photographic FX), George counter- Van Der Veer the production side, suits and On supervisor) and Richard Conway ("Flash") Jones Gibbs (SFX suits were filed by both Sam skies). CORDON inter- (models and in a huge and De Laurentiis, resulting to Hash Gordon fans were also close which, as of this writing, pro- national legal battle of Max Von De Laurentiis' lavish $30 million unanimous in their praise Dino be resolved. a cause of has yet to of the Emperor duction of Flash Cordon was most Sydow's characterization Although there were some dissenters, SF fans were divided in and Brian Blessed's Prince Voltan. several controversies. was pleased with the fabulous Ming angered by what of the audience their reactions: many were CALAXINA OUTLAND

Above left: One of the more offbeat SF films Out/and. Billed as High Noon in outer space, Ironside (Revok), Jennifer O'Neill (Kim) and ofthe past year was Galaxina, starring the late Outland features top-notch performances by Patrick McGoohan (Dr. Ruth), is Dorothy Stratten, a former Playboy Play- Sean Connery (Marshall O'Niel) and Frances an investigation of artificially induced mate of the Year, as the sexy, unstoppable Stemhagen (Dr. Lazarus). Below: Scanners telepathy and psychic powers. This photo is android. Above right: Hard working miners was the class entry in the SF/horror field this from the film's original climactic ending, fill their oxygen tanks before descending into year. Directed by David Cronenberg and star- which was reshot before being released. the depths of Io, third moon of Jupiter, in ring Stephen Lack (Cameron Vale), Michael

SCANNERS

STARLOC/July 1981 39 ANNIVERSARY CONTEST

FIFTH ANNIVERSARY CONTEST!

celebra- year, to prolong our Anniversary This three-part, tion we're running a three-issue, get to the contest prize-laden contest. Before we list of the prizes: and regulations, here is a rules Com- GRAND PRIZE: Atari's two game car- puter System, complete with and Atari s tridges—the popular "Combat" game addition, the brand-new "Missile Command." In copy of the rare Grand Prize winner will receive a limited "Empire Promotional Art Portfolio" Ltd. (For full infor- series, courtesy of Lucasfilm, item, see the mation on this incredible collector's Entry" on page 9.) Star Wars Fan Club "Log FIRST PRIZE: There will be three first prize equivalent of $50 winners. Each will receive the portfolios and worth of SF publications—art mart-* books-from New York's newest SF/comics Broadway m "Forbidden Planet" (located at 821 winners will get Manhattan). In addition, first prize "Space: 1999 Year a copy of the incredibly rare col- One Promotional Book." These spectacular $100 each at SF cons, ;/ lector's items sell for up to the first prize you can find one. And rounding out Star Wars packages are a set of 10x12" four-color iron-ons. SECOND PRIZE: The three second prize win- of Ballantine's fuU- ners will each receive a copy Art Portfolio, color "The Empire Strikes Back Plus, they will with art bv Ralph McQuarrie. Year Two Pro- receive a copy of the "Space: 1999 "Year One motional Book" (as rare as the colorful Star Wars books), and also a set of the

iron-ons. . Video . Above: Atari's home PRIZE: Three third prize winners will THIRD Computer System with "Missile One" or a "Year Two" receive either a "Year game cartridge. books Command" promotional book from Space: 1999 (these Right: Inside McQuarrie posters by ITC's New York office), plus a are supplied and outside packaging for the dozen Star Wars iron-ons. "Empire Promotional Art Port- There will be 40 fourth prize FOURTH PRIZE: The two together form plus folio." each receiving a STARLOG T-shirt, winners, the Grand Prize for the ANNI- Star Wars iron-ons. VERSARY CONTEST. a RUNNERS-UP: Fifty runners-up will receive either Star Wars novelization of plus the Star Wars or The Empire Strikes Back, iron-ons.

Ltd., O'Quinn 4. Employees of Atari, Lucasfilm, members of their Studios and Starlog press and RULES & contest. CONTEST families may not enter the appears here, on the page 5 PART I of the contest REGULATIONS by former opposite. This whimsical iUustration based on comments of Starlog artist Ted Enik was until all three parts; not send in any entries modelers who worked on , . do made by the mothership been published. Part n«M« the he contest have the small detailing of the ship, in #50 CE3K For Part III will be printed small, in issue #49 and entertained themselves by sticking published, place craftsmen parts have been craft For Aft r all three objects around the 2 Make totally out of place three in a single envelope. the yourlwerstoall entrants must list as many of return address the contest, print your name and artwork. lure that you as they can find in the somewhere on your en- separate elements your T-shirt size a bi-plane (at Z See For example: "King Kong holding of fifty (50) items must be Park top of illo.). A minimum to: Starlog's 5th 475 f'send all entries Good luck! NY, 10016. named. Avenue South, New York, ANNIVERSARY CONTEST

CTsuinr./dJu 7.0,97 41 STRIPJ S F COMIC BOOKS Science Fiction in The Comics Today

By ROBERT GREENBERCER

number of science-fiction comic in the 1960s Thestrips decreased steadily has the and early 70s. Only recently growth. And this is field experienced any new boom in SF a direct result of the successful strips direct tie- films, with many of the new Star Trek, and ins to movies-Star Wars, given impe- Buck Rogers. Television has also of more superhero tus to the development and the Hulk. strips, such as Spider-Man To make way for these strips, newspapers unfortunate have dropped others. One of the Star Hawks victims has been the innovative adventures currently providing daily Star Wars Goulart and . Archie Goodwm and are strip, created by Ron strips, the Printed twice the size of normal about a but we do a big splash and then, pretty heavy into science fiction series made fiction has floundered in books. . .science sci- the size was reduced to and that is the adventure year and a half ago, attempt at a what we do best past year. DC Comics' replaced Goulart with the referringto Marvel's Star Trek normal, the syndicate comic has been can- ence fiction," papers dollar-sized anthology can- Goodwin and the series lost Star Wars books and the recently Archie replacement, a revived version and popular names of celled and its that opted for the more with celled Battlestar Galactica. in Space, also was cancelled still of Mystery has been so Rogers and Star Wars. Star Hawks "Science fiction in the comics Buck pulled right off the presses. and Kane one issue being Shooter says. One runs today, with Roger McKenzie poorly done in the past," Time Warp was introduced with an unprece- Rex's adventures around the Marvel hasn't attempted an anthology still continuing guide of sorts being sent to reason Goulart and dented writer's comic contrasts, fresh collection of the is the nature of the galaxy. A the stories reflected comic Press potential writers and ownership of will be released by Playboy which give the company total Kane strips viewpoints. pessimistic created by the writers and later this year. and characters used and The book was cancelled after six issues Flash Gordon has lost much Dan Barry's brought back from lim- artists. was to that Raymond gave the strip Illustrated is the answer of the majesty Alex until editor Paul "Epic fill the production gap of the Dino bo to believes. Epic was intro- created it but the advent problem," Shooter when he come up with a fresh science-fic- kept the adven- Levitz could much hoopla, and the DeLaurentiis production has for a duced last year, after comic. Len Wein was assigned MIS alive. tion prospered—growing from a quar- tures of Flash and company use left- book has trial run and was forced to been three-issue five issues. For the film-inspired strips have recently terly to a bi-monthly in The stories. most tal- over Time Warp a different con- with care by some of the slick, four-color magazine, handled to convince the powers- comics. Star Wein managed creators to retain experienced people in is used, allowing the ented should continue with tract Thomas that-be that the title and characters. was initially written by Roy copyrights to their stories Wars ones that dealt with human others, and drawn fresh stories, can find science fiction in , among Actually , readers and feelings. His natural enthusi- Alcala. It's emotions and magazines such as Epic by Russ Manning and Alfredo and he numerous illustrated and asm excited the staff and freelancers Warren Publishing being handled by and Heavy Metal, and now with unsolicited manuscripts to do the was swamped of sex and science Williamson. The two teamed up has its own special brand Al volunteering to do art. No one Empire and people alive and well in adaptation of The fiction in 1994. (SF is also supportive than Gerry Conway, Star Wars #50. was more publications," formerly Strikes Back and the recent several "alternative written science-fiction novels and being done by Jim who has or "comix." But Buck Rogers is currently known as undergrounds short stories. Gray Morrow. a little bit later.) Lawrence (Dallas) and talent and we'll get to them with all of this potential front, Spider-Man, Even still have science On the superhero-strip the Most comic books today enthusiasm, the title failed on held on but with honest elements. Perfect examples Conan and the Hulk have shops. fiction themes or newsstands and in the comic specialty same holds true for the Four, Starlord, , some struggle. The people who picked are Fantastic Why? Wein believes, "the Let's Greatest Super-Heroes Featuring and . World's still Time Warp. Paradox, the early issues saw it was release of Superman II up most popular superhero Superman. With the where we face it, the world's issue they pulled (#118) was a new burst The alien. Comics and month, the strip should find also happens to be an this That was the first all-Wein issue enough, the took off." of their substance to and, if it holds out long superheroes owe much of life are now in inventory and Conway but the stories of the early pulp (currently handled by Gerry the science-fiction stories strip in the other anthology Batman as waiting for a place and George Tuska) will introduce magazines. the up- books. . oj Super- to help promote is the popular Legion a major character editor-in-chief Jim One such Over at Marvel, really Batman movie. Heroes, edited by Mike W. Barr. "It's coming like science fiction. We're world of comic Shooter says: "We And in the wonderful S F COMIC BOOKS STRIPS

Flash Gordon by Dan Barry

udo-science," Barr explains about the black and white. 1951. He wrote and drew three stories over on's exploits in the 30th Century. Barr's First Kingdom concerns itself with gods the years to test the waters, so to speak, for

:n working with Gerry Conway on the and mortals, aliens coming to Earth and their the idea. Finally, in 1976 he decided it was

ies but now he'll be working with Roy cyborgs and super-cyborgs. There is a con- time and began work on the Kingdom. a year for omas, who is eager to play with 26 youth- stant search for history and immortality. 1980 was not necessarily good superheroes that only appear in this one ti- Publishing only two books a year (with science fiction comics but like the rest of the "Roy's enthusiasm may cause him to use perhaps three in 1981), Katz has devoted his comics field, it was in a state of change. There thinking magazines wait- ire SF elements or put them to a better use life to this project. He began about are new ideas cooking, new Gerry has in the past few years," Barr doing an epic story mixing fantasy, sword ing to premiere and more readers eager for a far as worlds. s. and sorcery and science fiction as back chance to explore new Since the mid-seventies a number of small es have published their own illustrated enture magazines, some using a mixture

if fan and professional talent. Among the ewer ones are Eclipse Magazine, and Fan- tasy Illustrated and Adventures Illustrated. both from New Media Publishing. But there

s one artist who has toiled for five years on an 5>ic-length series that is only just over half finished. At the age of 45, having already enjoyed several successful careers, artist Jack Katz de- ided to do things his own way. He returned Bripts to several comic companies and com-

ritted himself to writing and then drawing an Honishing SF opus called The First King-

font. When he had finished the script, it came

out to fit into exactly 24 books of 32 pages each, the same structure as that in The Iliad pd The Odyssey. Pure chance, Katz says, nt he admits to a certain amount of mystifi- jtaoon. The First Kingdom spans several millenia,

s Earth's mutated population struggles to re-

iblish societal order after a devastating ic holocaust. Thirteen books have been blished so far. In them, readers have been leated to many different stories interwoven er the books, all of them told in the first srson and existing in their own space/time. keep the chrono- i running narrative helps traight. The books really constitute a hie novel, Katz says, and as such do not brm to the standard continuing-adven- format as regular comics. In addition, will not put in gratuitous fights just to ride action for readers. He says there

i't many young readers of TFK because complexity of the storyline and the lack innecessary action. His fights are justified short. 3ne physical difference between TFK and

itream comics is the absence of word ms. With his wife Carolyn helping, the ns and dialogue are type-set and placed top of each panel or page (each book several full-page illustrations). Another

erence is that the books are printed in The cover of the current volume from the prolific and talented Jack Katz.

START CiC/Julv 1981 43 The Year at a Glance Compiled by ROBERT CREENBERGER

w BeyondRounnd Westworld Awards Scroll) #36, p. 39 ALIEN #35, p. 14 (Golden 14 (Golden Scroll) #36, p. 40 #37, p. Black Hole, The of SF, F, #40, p. 14 (Academy #39, p. 9 #35, p. 16 14 H) #40, p. #36, p. 42, 77 #41, p. 34 Balaban, Bob Alien Contamination #44, p. 16 #45, p. 10 16 The Aliens are Coming #46, p. 38 #36, p. Barbarosa Altered States #39, p. 14 #42, p. 12 #46, p. 12 Battle Beyond the Stars also, Balaban, Bob see #35, p. 59 Brown, Blair #36, p. 67 Joe Alves, #37, p. 34 #46, p. 48 Amazing Spider-Man Battlestar Galactica (TV series) #36, p. 35 #36, p. 36 #39, p. 45 , #41, p. 10 . #see Space Report Animation Anderson, Melody #38, p. 13 (Warner) #41, p. 43 Anniversary Salute #36, p. 50

Apple, The #39, p. 14

Art Shows #36, p. 13 Bonestell, Chesley #39, p. 12 #45, p. 10 Astronomical Society of Bowerhouse the Pacific #40, p. 12 #43, p. 15

Martin J. Auctions Bower, 1999 #40, p. 28 Space: #39, p. 10 "Meanies" Miniatures Avery, Tex #41, p. 34 ALIEN Gordon #42, p. 14 #44', p. 48 Flash Miniatures Awakening, The Bowerhouse | see also: #41, p. 9 1

Close Encounters of the Third Empire Strikes Back, The Flight of the War Witch

Kind-The Special Edition #35, p. 35 (poster art) see Buck Rogers #38, p. 16 #36, p. 45 Frieberger, Fred #37, p. 24 #39, p. 49, Star Trek Conan #40, p. 9, 12 58, Space: 1999 #38, p. 13 see also: Ford, Harrison #40, p. #39. p. 14 Hamill, Mark Ford, Harrison #44, p. 9 Kurtz, Gary #37, p. 15, 16 Williams, Billy Dee Condorman Fuse Blocks #40. p. 14 Escape from New York p. 34 p. #45, #44, 36 #37, p. 15 #39, p. 14 Conrad, Robert Galactica: 1980 #41, p. 28 #36, #42, p. 36 p. 35 #45. 28 p. #37, p. 9 Corbett, Tom Galaxina #39, p. 37 #38, p. 43 #43. p. 32

Cosmos Gerard, Gil p. 12 #38. p. 9 #38, Bradbury, Ray #40, p. 52 #39. p. 24 #45, p. 14 Cronenberg, David Greatest American Hero, The Brave New World #46, 28 #43, p. 24 p. #36, p. 38 Dare, Dan Hamill, Mark Brown, Blair 10 #35, p. 9 #37, p. #46. p. 35 #40, p. 16 Detective Comics #41, p. 14 Bubblegum Picture Cards #42. p. 13 #43. p. 52 Hamlin, Harry Devil and Max Devil, The #46, p. 17 Buck Rogers #46. p. 10 #35. p. 35 (Bruce Lansbury) #36. p. 34 Dicks, Terrence Evilspeak #37. p. 9 #37, p. 45 #40, p. 11 p. 25 (Flight of the War Witch) Disney Excalibur #38. p. 38 (Episode Guide) #38, p. 14 (formerly Knights) p. 49 (Flight of the War #39. p. 14 #39, p. 14 Witch) #42, p. 14 #45. p. 9 #39. p. 17 #40. p. 30 (Flight of the War Dr. Who Fan Scene Witch) #36. p. 37 #37. p. 21 Los Angeles

#43. p. 15 #38. p. 10 #38, p. 71 Los Angeles #45. p. 16 #39. p. 14.30 #40, p. 21 Ideas about ideas see also: Christopher. Thorn #41, p. 14 #41, p. 31 Running a Con Gerard. Gil #42. p. 44 #42, p. 61 Equicon O'Connor. Tim #43, p. 12 #43, p. 46 Society for Creative #44, p. 1 Anachronism

' Bugs Bunny #44, p. 46 To the Stars Electric Grandmother, The I #35. p. 10 #45, p. 21 Star Trek lives #46, p. 13 Burns, Bob Fantasy Modeling Ellison, Harlan 36, p. 11 #39. p. 32 Hammer House of Horror #40. p. 10 #37, p. 14 #41, p. 14 Fields, Verna #39, p. 30 #44. p. 13 #44, p. 24 Hangar 18 #41, p. 13 #36. p. 36 Final Conflict, The 16 #45, p. 13 #46, p. Captain Canuck Final Countdown, The Heartbeeps I #38. p. 13 #39, p. 13 #37, p. 15 14 Childhood's End #40, p. #46, p. 10

I #42. p. 48 First Men in the Moon Heavy Metal Movie 38 Christopher, Thom #37, p. #36, p. 11 #45. 16 #41, p. 11 p. Flash Gordon (New Film) #44, p. 13 #35, 49 Clash of the Titans p. #38, p. 36 (TV) Alfred I #38. p. 58 Hitchcock, #40, p. 9 #41. p. 13 #37, p. 15 #41, p. 13 #46. p. 16 #42, p. 11,21 Hitch Hiker's Guide to the p. 17 #44, p. 48 (miniatures) Galaxy, The see also: Hamlin, Harry see also: Anderson, Melody #39, p. 30 Cliffhangers Hodges, Mike #43, p. 13 #45, p. 11 | #36. p. 36 Jones, Sam J.

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Project UFO Kurtz, Gary Hodges, Mike #36, p. 36 #36. p. 16 #44, p. 59 #43, p. 16 Prowse, David #36, p. 80 Larson, Glen #44, p. 10 #36, p. 29 #45, p. 16 Quartermass #36, p. 14 Lathe of Heaven I, Robot #36, p. 38 #38. p. 13 Quest #35, p. 45 Lee, Bernard Imaginary Places (Book) #37, p. 37 #45, p. 14 #44, p. 14 #38, p. 46 #46. p. 12 #40, p. 48 In Syndication 32 Lenard, Mark #41, p. #44, p. 64 (Introduction) #42, p. 28 #42, p. 24 #45, p. 68 () #43, p. 48 #44, p. 13 #46, p. 64 (PBS) #45, p. 52 Muppets the Rings #46, p. 61 Hulk, The Lord of Incredible #36. p. 9 #35, p. 10 (ABC) #36, p. 37 Raise the Titanic #38. p. 12(Bakshi) #38. 13 Chronicles p. Namos #39, p. 14 #39. p. 27 #45, p. 11 Lord of Light #43, p. 33 (Episode Guide) Reach for the Sun #36, p. 13 NASA #46, p. 40 10 Solar Satellites Lucas, George #36. p. p. 54 Solar System Reeve, Christopher #37, p. 15 #43. p. 9 #36, p. 9 #46, p. 13 Noel Martian Chronicles, The Neil, #45, p. 13 #36, p. 38 Nichelle Marvel Comics Nichols, #36. p. 24 #40, p. 12

Nightfall Mattingly, David #39, p. 14 #38, p. 64 Nighf Skies Millennium #42. 10 (formerly Air Raid) p. 14 #39. p. Norman, Neil 18 Miniatures #42, p. 36 Harvey Mayo #37. p. Nova #42. p. 34 ALIEN #39, p. 24 #44, p. 48 Flash Gordon O'Connor, Tim Moonraker #38, p. 35 #36. p. 44 Incredible Shrinking Woman, Outland Mork and Mindy The #41, p. 9 #36, p. 37 #35, p. 49 #45, p. 47 p. 26 the Jedi #43, p. 10 #39, Revenge of #44, p. 24 Overton, Rick #43, p. 15 Munro, Caroline see also: Fields, Verna #40, p. 22 #44, p. 11 Riverworld Inseminoid Pal, George #44, p. 13 Munster's Revenge #37, p. 15 #37, p. 12 #44, p. 16 #44, p. 11 #38, p. 55 Interplanetary Excursions, Inc. Robby the Robot #39, p. 34 (Venus) Panic Offshore #44, p. 10 (also known as The Lucifer Rig Roddenberry, Gene Interviewer's Notebook or Intruder Within) 31 #40, p. 43 #37, p. #45, p. 31 #43, p. 14 (Books) Jason of Star Command Paper Tiger 44 #36, p. 39 #45, p. Rumblings #35, p. 23 They Left out the Johnson, Brian Pearson, Bill Magic 34 ALIEN Miniatures #35, p. 32 #41, p. #36, p. 22 The Write Way 48 Flash Gordon #44, p. #37, p. 22 Plugh-ed In Jones, Sam J. Miniatures #38, p. 24 The Empire Strikes #41, p. 16 See also: Bowerhouse Out #39, p. 16 The Mailbox Kelly, DeForest Planet of Horrors #40, p. 70 Thunder and #38, p. 26 p. 12 #46, Lightning Miners Khambatta, Persis Popeye #41, p. 22 The Cloud p. 22 The Good Guys #37, p. 48 #41, p. 10 #42, 22 Pride and Prejudice #43, p. 43 #43, p. of the Dwarves #44, p. 22 Meeting the Challenge Kingdom #45, p. 14 #45, p. 24

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Trek Two in the Stars #45, p. 22 Space to Dream Star 41 #38. p. 10 #46, p. 22 In the Cards #36. p. #42, p. 14 UFO Chronicles Salvage One #43, p. 10 (books) #41 p. 40 #36, p. 35 #46, p. 9 , see also: Kelly, DeForest Uforia Saturday Morning TV Khambatta, Persis (formerly Escape) #36, p. 39 Lenard, Mark #38. p. 13 #38, p. 9 Nichols, Nichelle #39, p. 14 #39, p. 28 Shatner, William

Saturn 3 Universal Pictures Star Wars #36, p. 43 #35, p. 48 #36, p. 9 Scanners #42, p. 10, 13 Urshurak #46, p. 24 #37, p. 14 #37, p. 10 see also: #43, p. 24 Empire Strikes Back, Velez, #46, p. 16 Walter The Star Wars Fan Club #44, p. 42 Scared to Death #35, p. 44 #38, p. 32 Superman Seymour, Jane Somewhere in Time #37, p. 10 10 #40, p. 24 #35, p. 49 #40, p. #39, p. 10 Superman II SF in the Comics see also: Seymour, Jane #41, p. 49 In the Beginning #46, p. 31 #42. p. 32 The 30's Sorcerer's Apprentice, The Superbman #43, p. 56 The Super 40's #39, p. 14 #40, p. 13 #44, p. 56 The 40's 54 The 50's Space Art #45, p. Swamp Thing #46, p. 42The60's/70's #36, p. 58 #43, p. 14

SF in Production Space Invaders Szwarc, Jeannot #44, p. 30 #43, p. 12 #43, p. 60 SF Movie Preview Space Music Takei, George #36, p. 62 #36, p. 84 #43. p. 13 #42, p. 8 Space: 1999 Tales of the Green Lantern Movie Review see also: Frieberger. Fred, SF Corps #36, p. 40 also: Space Report #44, p. 14 SF Merchandise Guide Space Report (Space: 1999) Visions Thinking Cap Co. #40. p. 35 #35, p. 31 Mysterious Unknc #36, p. 96 Freeze Frames #42. p. 16 Force II #37, p. 64 Emotional SF Radio Experiences #36, p. 72 Three D #36. p. 90 #38, p. 30 Writer's Guide I #38, p. 72 SF Music I #44, p. 14 #39, p. 22 Writer's Guide II #39. p. 64 SF Music II see also: Special Effects SFTV #40. p. 28 Martin Bower #40, p. 72 SF Music III #34. 36 p. #41, p. 37 Thirty Thomas, Roy #41, p. 64 SF on TV in the 50's #39, p. 13 in the 50's #38, p. 12 #42. p. 64 SF on TV Shuttle Space #43, p. 72 SF on TV in the 50's Shatner, William #45, p. 10 14 #39. p. see Saturday Morning TV Voyage to the Bottom of the Space Toys Sea Sheena #35, p. 12 Time Bandits, The #35, p. 25 #38. p. 13 #36, p. 88 #39, p. 14 #42, p. 12 #40, p. 11 Voyager Trapdoor #44, p. 32 Smithsonian Special Effects #39. p. 14 #45, p. 39 #38. p. 14 #35, p. 60 The Crew #46. p. 10 #37, p. 56 Mr. Wizard Skotak #39, p. 56 Brothers Wanted (Book) #40, p. 64 The Empire #39. p. 9 #41, p. 56 Three D #42. p. 56 Magicam Watcher in the Woods #43, p. 64 Altered States #36. p. 73 #45, p. 60 Flash Gordon #37. p. 9 #46, p. 56 Planet Star Blazers #36, p. 39 #35, p. 51 Williams, Billy Dee Star Patrol #35. p. 41 #39, p. 14 #41, p. 38 Williams, John see also: Munro, Caroline #37, p. 29

Starstruck X-Po #41, p. 24 #36. p. 14

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STARLOGA/M/y 1981 51 Vincent DiFate One of SF literature's premiere illustrators talks about his career today and his struggles in the past.

By SUSAN ADAMO

amid a pool of public, though controversy over this first, June 24, 1947, Kenneth hour. When he landed, surfaces. Arnold said the objects heavily-publicized sighting still Arnold left Chehalis for a flight to newspaper reporters, On two- not yet skipped it In 1947, Vincent DiFate was Yakima, Washington. He was ap- flew "like a saucer would if you And when the reporters years old. proaching Mount Rainier at 3 p.m. when his across the water." the award- typewriters they coined a "As an impressionable kid," plane was suddenly bathed in a bright were back at their these winning illustrator says today, "I was curious then again. Arnold term—flying saucers—to describe light . . . once, and full of stars. disk-shaped things. , and excited and my brain was reported nine objects nearing the mountain mysterious, fast, early age. To U.S.A.F. to the American "I started reading SF at an and he clocked their speed at 1,700 miles per explained the me, science fiction is not a world of machines. adventure. To me, SF is a world of human The machine is a catalyst that creates the reason for why the story happens. But it is the human being coming to grips with his fun- damental humanness that the science-fiction story should really be about—and that's the kind of SF that I've always responded to and the kind of thing I grew up with." Since 1969, when DiFate sold his first il- lustration to John W. Campbell, legendary editor of Analog, legions of SF fans have identified some of their favorite science- fiction stories and novels with the hundreds of DiFate illustrations that have graced the covers and interior pages of most of the genre publications. "For me, reading a manuscript is a visual exercise," DiFate reveals. "I see it in my head. Not all stories, even good stories, are necessarily visual. There are a great many stories that should not have pictures associated with them. But my job is to create those pictures whether they are there or not the and sometimes I have to go outside of material in the book. But, more often than direc- not, when I do that, it's because of art tion or somebody saying that we have to mislead in some way in order to get people in- terested." New wave Era DiFate entered the SF market at the end of wave what is tagged science fiction's "new finally era." It was a time when the genre received academic recognition; when English professors redefined their boundaries to in- clude courses in SF literature and librarians began stocking SF on their bookshelves. It was, DiFate recalls, an era shaped by Harlan Ellison, Norman Spinrad, and Samuel "Chip" Delany—young authors who were "writing stories of generally greater literary content than the old nuts-and-bolts stories of time the '20s, '30s and '40s." It was also a when book publishers began to repackage audience their SF offerings to attract an older by removing their juvenile covers and replac- with surrealistic art covers. DiFate. Right: ing them Out of the Deeps inspired this cover art from Above- John Wyndam's "This," DiFate reports, "was like a kiss of Waldo and Magic, Inc. "Waldoes" appeared as the cover painting for Heinlein's

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a purely statistical standpoint, death. As a commercial entity, it (surrealistic "From when I came into the business," he recalls, covers) lasted perhaps two or three years and "there were 30 science-fiction titles published died so dramatically that you couldn't get a a year—that's 30 in a whole year. There are piece of surrealistic art on a paperback cover some publishers now who have that large a in the early '70s even if you paid to have it list every month. So it was a whole different published. when I came into the business. "There were social factors, like the Viet- ballgame very few of us," he says, br- nam War. People had enough exposure to the There were also inging forth names and praises of Paul Lehr, negative aspects of life that to resort to this Ellis, Jerry Podwell, Gene Scafran and kind of escapist literature was to bring them Dean Robert Foster. back full circle to the things that they dread- "Now," he continues, "there are a great ed, which was a bit difficult for them to deal many more artists in the field and I would with. Also, surrealism is a type of art which I venture to say that there are probably too think has limited commercial value. Intellec- many of us. Science fiction has undergone tually, it is a wonderful art form but I think enormous expansion. I don't know the actual commercially it leaves too much to the im- of titles a year but I would guess it's agination .... number 1,000." surrealistic got to be very close to 600 to "Here I was, an inspired painter, a trained figure painter, and I was "DiFcite's catalogue" coming into the genre just when everything Among the more recent SF titles, in fact, is that I loved about art was about to roll over DiFate's Catalogue of Science Fiction Hard- and die commercially. And I was being asked ware. Released last November by Workman to paint spaceships." collaboration with Ian Summers This sudden reversal to traditional packag- Press, this (coauthor of Barlowe's Guide to Extrater- ing was something newcomer illustrators had restrials) is a lavish guide to the future featur- to reckon with, but a few years later, DiFate paintings and 100 blueprints had become renowned for his detailed and ing 50 full-color of SF's most incredible technological crea- colorful renderings of SF's gadgetry. tions—including Jules Verne's Nautilus, "I had a great deal of difficulty learning the ' Life Wand says, Robert A. Heinlein's Martian skills of how to paint the machines, ' he novel Double Star), 's "because to me there had to be some kind of (from his Ringworld and a selection of portable en- human element. And then I began to realize vironments, weaponry and much more. that a machine could have a certain amount "The point and purpose of the book is to of personality also. But it was a long and awaken people to the fact that technology is tedious process to learn how to make that extension of us," says DiFate. "Itisnot a transition." an us. Our TV sets, pocket Guiding DiFate along the way were the replacement for computers.. .should not replace works of Chesley Bonestell, Bob McCall and calculators, They should be devices to aug- others whom DiFate first emulated and then our minds. and to improve the quality departed from as he developed an "indepen- ment what we do life. But, in utilizing these techno- dent" feeling towards the art. of human

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logies," DiFate cautions, "we have to have some sense of responsibility in the way we| deal with them. DiFate sees the American public asl "audacious, but in a confused state about our technology" and says this attitude of "cutting and running" is preventing us from realizing our potential. "We're not the only nation on Earth to ex- plore space, but our main exploration of

space is, at least at this point, somewhat more developed than that of the Soviet Union's, "| he says. "It would seem to me that space in- dustry should be the frontier for American technology right now. While others are squabbling over finite quantities of coalj fossil fuels and whatever other natural resources are rapidly depleting, we should be doing something to develop new resources NtUTBAUHf | \

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his wife Roseanne and their sons, "I like not to resolve too much," he adds TV series; teaching at both the elementary Christopher and Victor] reveals how the artist on. "I prefer to do pencil sketches rather than and college levels; lecture tours which have starts work on an assignment. Book pages, color sketches because color sketch- taken him to conventions, museums, univer- separated from their binding, are grouped es are so much like the finished painting that sities, and the Air & ; and il-

with scenes underlined and thumbnail il- really, there are no surprises. I like to have a lustrating for those wonderful folks at lustrations sketched in the narrow page certain amount of danger involved, you NASA) and kudos (including the Science Fic- margins. know. There has to be some element of the tion Achievement Award, commonly known From the thumbnail sketches, DiFate unknown." as the HUGO, for Best Professional Artist of the Frank R. Paul Award for develops a pencil or . color sketch and Sometimes as happens to artists, some of 1978, and ' Outstanding Achievement in Science Fiction sometimes does what he calls ' the cover con- DiFate's landmark paintings are the ones he ference thing" with the publisher or art direc- considers least worthy. "My worst ones are Illustration for that same year), this premiere tor with whom he's working. my most popular ones, which is really artist is now maneuvering his career through

"More often than not, though, I just frustrating. People remember me for the new turns, seeking more non-machinery-type ' assignments. generally tend to be left on my own, ' he says. covers; they remember me for the "I'm kind of adinosaurin this business. Peo- Riverworld covers and those are the paintings "I love gadget painting, believe me," he

ple trust me and I guess that I have that kind I suffered through more than anything I've says. "I enjoy trying to make something that of reputation where people know that they ever done professionally, (the ones) that I feel doesn't exist look like it does. That deception

shouldn't fight with me anyway. I just go missed being anything near what I wanted is what I love. But to do nothing else but that,

and produce a finished painting. As them to be." to do nothing but machines . . . I'd like to | ahead Paul Lehr once said, 'Beyond this point, it's Today, with a wealth of experience (in- deceive people with a convincing alien every ^Kt sheer physical labor.' cluding work on Krantz Films' Spiderman now and then," he concludes with a smile.*

STARLOG/Jh/v 1981 55 Let Halley Ply By of nucleus, believed to consist ago when the body called the processes that went on long miles and rock and to be less than five forming. There are good ice JOSEPH VEVERKA solar svstem was comet remains far from BY represent across. As long as the believing that comets reasons for temperatures are cold, nothing the most un- the Sun where most primitive-that is, orbit takes most famous of all the But if the comet's Halley, the the solar system much happens. changed-solid material in very different. Comet approaching our to the Sun, things are comets, is rapidly primitive bodies left, it close today. Being the most its surface 1986, it will approaches the Sun, neiehborhood. Early in window into the As the comet should provide our best begin to before retreating into they and some of the ices briefly dazzle our skies processes that went on heats up chemical and physical quantities of gas for another 76 years releasing large the outer solar system when the planets were evaporate, 4 6 billion years ago, of dust. These an unprecedented world- and freeine copious amounts Not surprisingly, reason is that comets may forming. Another the nucleus, pro- is under way. spread away from effort to study the comet of life on materials wide help us understand the origin the about comets, also shroud-like atmosphere called Scientists have many questions evidence that the ducing a better. There is good 10.0UU close study of Earth often reaches out some questions which they hope a a significant coma which material of comets contains Some of the gas help answer. The European miles away from the nucleus. Halley might of organic molecules-including Union, and component coma gets pushed back by the Space Agency (ESA), the Soviet were produced by and dust in the amino acids-which wind (elec- plans to send space some sunlight and by the solar have all announced nebula from force of Japan chemical processes in the early escaping it returns. protons continuously explore the comet when It has trons and probes to our solar system was formed. our own which forming tails which sometimes as it may seem, of comets from the Sun), Unbelievable suggested that the impacts no such been miles in a direction away government has announced of organic extend a million the original input tiny urging by provided Quite amazingly, it is the in spite of very active which all from the Sun. plans-this to the primitive Earth from past four to material heart of the comet which States scientists over the proposed that nucleus at the United It has even been life developed. all this activity. undertake an explora- is the source of five years that NASA source of some of ultimately cometary ices were a major have orbits is still go- not all alike. Some of Hallev in 1986. The struggle the Earth, Comets are tion gases in the atmospheres of These rapidly. Unless the within the orbit of Jupiter. on, but time is running out completely ing Mars, and Venus. Encke or Tem- very soon, we run the risk short-period comets, such as something happens most of us, a com- But what is a comet? To one of the most fantastic pei2 havespentalotoftimeintheSun'sprox- of sitting out object with a long tail stretch- et is a luminous most of their ices. in this century. and have used up voyages of exploration of the sky: some- imity, ing across a fair fraction longer produce are rather faint, and no or Comet Ikeya- They thing like Comet Bennet tail activity. comets? spectacular displays of coma and investigate are much less con- Why Seki. But many comets different. Halley s about comets, and like Halley is very But why all this fuss A comet spicuous objects. . within the orbit One reason is that com- elongated orbit takes it from Halley in particular? is a tiny solid At the heart of every comet places to find clues to the ets may be the best nucleus, is very tiny and highly accurate

targeting is required if we are to reach its vicinity. Second, Halley passes through the Unexplored? inner solar system at a very high speed. Thus, crucial measurements must be taken quickly of Venus out beyond that of Neptune once What does the nucleus look like in detail? and efficiently. Finally, dust coming off the every 76 years. Does dust and gas come off uniformly or in nucleus will hit the spacecraft at high speed, But 74 of these 76 years are spent beyond spurts or jets? Is comet ice mostly water ice, and an effective dust shield is needed to pro-

the orbit of Jupiter, where it is very cold and or are other ices involved? Is the rocky tect the instruments. high intercept ices do not evaporate. Only during its brief material—the dust—similar to the car- One way of avoiding the fleeting visits to the inner solar system does bonaceous chondrite meteorites that occa- velocity is to speed up the spacecraft to match the surface of the comet heat up enough to sionally fall to Earth? Do complex organic the high speed of the comet. In fact, this type vaporize some of the ices producing the spec- molecules exist in the gases surrounding the of mission—called a rendezvous—was tacular coma and tail displays which make the nucleus? A journey to Halley will answer originally proposed. It allows a much more comet famous. But the amount of ice lost on many of these fundamental questions, but extended period of observation as the nucleus

each of these brief visits is relatively small, such a mission must be viewed as more than and spacecraft fly side by side at distances of and Halley retains much of its pristine an important scientific experiment. It is also a 100 miles or less, but does require the use of a original composition. spectacular voyage of exploration. new highly efficient propulsion system called There are very few comets such as Halley's. A mission to Halley can also be considered SEPS (for Solar Electric Propulsion System).

In fact, Halley is the only bright active comet something of a cultural pilgrimage. When Readers of STARLOG are well aware of the whose orbit we know well enough to be able Halley returns to our skies, it becomes a past struggle to get SEPS approved. For a o send a spacecraft to the vicinity of its remarkable object that has attracted the at- time it seemed that the struggle would be suc- nucleus. Thus, Halley's 1986 apparition pro- tention of humans for millennia. Past ap- cessful. Congress did actually add funds to vides the only chance within our lifetimes of pearances of Halley are associated with many the NASA budget to begin work on the obtaining certain crucial science data on historical events, from the fall of Jerusalem in development of the system; however, the active AD 70, to the conquest of Britain in 1066, and whole project has now been cancelled by the [ bright comets. on through to the birth of Mark Twain in new administration in order to save money. The Key Questions 1835. Mark Twain quipped that Halley had But all is not lost, yet. As our first mission to any comet, a mis- no doubt appeared in 1835 to mark his ad- sion to Halley would provide badly needed vent, and added that he would be disap- JPL's Halley intercept aformation about comets in general. For, in pointed if Halley didn't return to mark the During the past year, the Jet Propulsion spite of the attention that their brief, spec- year of his death. Halley returned early in Laboratory in Pasadena has designed a mis- tacular appearances generate, comets remain 1910; Mark Twain died later that year. sion—called the Halley Intercept—which is

jooriy understood. This is especially true of A spacecraft mission to Halley is a capable of investigating Halley even at a high

the heart of a comet, its nucleus, which is just challenging enterprise for at least three encounter velocity. The unique feature of this iny to be studied adequately from Earth. reasons. First, our primary objective, the spacecraft is that it can deliver the cameras

starlog/7u/v 1981 57 i^^^x^s^^^^^f^^^^^^'^^^^ sure that the spacecraft is to make gases and dust on the measurements on the to the and accurately make survives its closest approach and science instruments safely and survive the en- spacecraft emitted by the nucleus, observing time ot from the comet's If it does, our to a preselected distance about 3 miles nucleus. counter. If Halley's nucleus is the exciting one-quarter of the space- would be doubled-all of nucleus. Almost best images will Halley across, as we expect, our could be re- lbs. is in the dust made on approach craft's total weight of 3500 across-com- observations detail as small as 50 feet comet. More the instruments show fly away from the shield which will protect Orbiter im- peated as we some of the best Viking sent to closest ap- parable to spacecraft could be from the high speed dust during importantly, the the surface of Mars. that get called optical ages of encounter. The trajectories proach. A special technique the Halley another and many other ways, spacecraft the spacecraft In these are such that the navigation will be used to guide important ele- us to Halley Intercept mission is the most year after nucleus. The Halley close to Earth about one accurately close to the effort to explore passes ment of the worldwide encounter). Close combining both of these (four months after Intercept is unique in only mission that launch Halley in 1986. It is the be used to re- swing-bys of the Earth can essential features. observatory phase for monitor- approach to the combines an and send the spacecraft Halley will make its closest guaranteed shape the trajectory comet's activity with the Our journey to the ing the another exciting encounter with- Sun on February 9, 1986. instruments to a on its way to delivery of the for second July, 1985, with a accurate Possible targets a comet would begin in nucleus. And in three years. Cape preselected distance from the comets such as using the Space Shuttle from encounter are short-period launch sophisticated the instruments, comet in no matter how as well as some Earth- Kennedy. We would intercept the measurements Encke and Tempel 2, can't make the crucial Geographos. about one month after its they asteroids, such as March of 1986, end up where needed. crossing that needed if they don't the Halley Intercept the Sun, and at a time There is no doubt that closest approach to of the observatory phase The importance scientifically re- would be most will be exciting and tail and coma activity only will this mission its be underestimated. Not chal- about two months cannot Sure, the mission has some developed. Beginning provide essential new warding. phase of the mission has Viking, what is called the aspects, but a nation that before encounter, during the means of com- lenging data, but it will be past can of the mission, high science and Columbia in its recent Observatory Phase world the progress of this Voyager will municating to the rapidly running out. If images of the coma and the tail What bet- solve these. But time is resolution exploration as it evolves. into color voyage of spectacular voyage in- regularly, and combined ques- are to carry out this be taken be offered to universal we two to ter answer could we must start now. of the comet's activity. Some does to the world of comets, movies is a comet? What tions such as, "What in 1986, few the encounter, the analytical we're not ready for Halley four days before than regular movies of the If outer Halley look like?" again in 2062. will begin sensing the higher us will be around to try instruments at progressively of intensifies. comet's activity reaches of the comet as activity approaches the as the spacecraft find will be within resolution, Starloggers! You can help. To Closest approach to the nucleus Attention nucleus? , 10. two . Entries" page * close enough to obtain some out how, see "Log 500 miles, for the massive dust shield nucleus, A major reason dozen high resolution images of the N EXCLUSIVE CREATION

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The show's humor and Magicam effects hit and a breath have made it an outstanding schedule. of fresh air on the prime-time Another breath of fresh air that received Carl Sagan's bridge quite a bit of attention was did little more than sit on the was not a particularly character again, past year 13-week series on PBS, Cosmos. Once worried. She had one interesting The fiction television and get good one for science effects helped Sagan reach a wide star Mark Lenard, though. Magicam were the bright spots script with guest shows. There audience and explain space and science in Because of the show's poor ratings NBC the dull spots and very little fell in be- by everyone. and the April terms that could be understood it from the schedule after of series continues to removed tween. The number Also helping were two other PBS series: The come and 16 episode. dwindle and the telefilms have Question, hosted with wit and Another show that went through some Body in gone, mostly with little notice. Miller and Connec- time, the wonder by Jonathan changes is Mork and Mindy. This the biggest disappointment of made Probably tions, a show that host James Burke changes were for the better as the show went the year was the poor showing Buck Rogers unusual and sometimes previous season saw a special by taking ratings. back to the basics. The in the 25th Century made in the technology and society. as well whimsical looks at different kind of Mork that didn't fare Delayed considerably by the actors' strike, morning television was once slipping down in the ratings. Saturday of the revamped series did with the fans, con- the first episode again riddled with dismal animation, With new Paramount decided to make Mork the simple' not premiere until early January. strike a balance between society's rules and stantly trying to at the alien who gets confused by Executive Producer John Mantley against violence and cereal and the show is parent groups significant rituals. The change worked helm, replacing Bruce Lansbury, One show to make people sit up ratings-wise but nowhere advertisers. effort to make the doing much better changes were made in an notice was Thundarr the Barbarian it was con- and take near as well as its first year when stronger and better. in an alternate future show Ivjindy was (ABC). Thundarr lives sistently in the top ten. The role of casualty was Tim O'Connor's role as his world and One the where man has destroyed also expanded, allowing Pam Dawber removed when the decision was to barbarism Dr. Huer, • civilization has been reduced opportunity to act and react with people take the show into space. Aboard reigning made to show with tribes, mutants and magic Wilma other than her friend from Ork. This The Searcher, Buck (Gil Gerard) and Former comics writer Steve Gerber return. supreme. jobs as the ship, can be expected to (Erin Gray) had ill-defined as a story editor and the show was to shrink The Incredible served of Admiral Asimov Universal tried Toth. under the command designed by artists Jack Kirby and Alex to size (budget-wise) this season, of the science fiction Hulk down intelligently (linear descendant is one of the most coughed up more money to keep the Thundarr searched for the lost tribes of Earth. but CBS mornings in writer), Audiences crafted shows to air on Saturday with the show at the same level of quality. These tribes, not to be confused been picked up for a second "Hulk-outs" per show and years. It has the time of its were given two Galactica tribes, left Earth at with several new episodes ordered. fact, true Hulk fans got a season have been out of con- lots of carnage. In has atomic holocaust and On the syndication front, Doctor Who to see what they have waited four It was an interesting idea chance tact for centuries. continued to gain stations as Time-Life the Hulk literally ripping a place much in the scripts. seasons for; the that was never really used Television has finally brought over shreds without any thought. This is the introduced was a new robot, to Baker as the Also Some remaining serials featuring Tom Hulk that CBS found in the comics. Crichton, (named after author Michael Both Space: 1999 and were made. One easy-going Doctor. was built other interesting episodes Crichton) who refused to believe he Galactica showed up around the Ferrigno in two roles—as a Battlestar was sort of the Charles featured Lou by humans. He at odd hours along with Wonder the Hulk— in a show that country the nuts and bolts weight lifter and EmersonWinchester III of Woman and the bionic people. In this area, at gave him his network acting and speaking production line. Dr. Goodfellow (Wilfrid between the best to least, viewers had a choice Bill Bixby was allowed the chance was added to help provide in- debut. Hyde-White) and the worst. help all sorts of people who had problems and scientific analysis. meet and was aired cidental While little of lasting significance almost as great as his own and Jack was Hawk, an alien with troubles next And then there year, one can always hope for the (Jack Colvin) has yet to fully figure this and force of character. Or so it McGee worked pride, dignity David season. The schedules are still being out the connection between the drifter in his two hour introductory episode. the potential seemed on at press time but a look at and the green menace he calls the Hulk. race of bird people, Hawk (Thorn It just Last of his pilots gives little encouragement. may brightest spot on the schedule involved joined The Searcher in the The television to Christopher), people take the return of Star Trek to a mid-season replacement that kept that one of the lost tribes has more commitments hopes Greatest spur the networks into making talking and the ratings soaring. The members of his race. where quality has a high priority. American Hero successfully trod the fine line to SF series Mantley promised -to make the next year. * While If not, it'll be more of the same between satire and comedy, paying homage character of Wilma more feminine, Gray's :kwise from left: Cast from Greatest American Hero, Ariel from Thundarr, Mork and Mindy, the Hulk and Carl Sagan.

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SCIENCE FICTION Toys & Games For 81-82 combines the challenge of board game Toy Manufacturers of America By DAVID HIRSCH strategy with the sophistication of an elec- The the annual American Toy Fair hosts of the game is to Imperial tronic computer. The object York City each February, are two more bounty hunters, an in New Brigands who guard the Power Solo and Princess defeat the toy companies unleash and promote Walker pilot, Lobot, Han when Scepter within the tower. You must also solve press. Outfit). New playsets will their new lines to store buyers and the Leia (in Hoth the Riddle of the Keys, as your crusade takes Annual Toy Yoda's home, Hoth Laser Turret This past February, at the 78th include The game has Imperial you across four kingdoms. continuing growth of the electronic (with probot), Boba Fett's ship, an Fair, the variations—so many in fact no clear (not from the many was quite evident, while licensed toys, Walker and assorted craft toy winner emerges until the final moves. such as Star Trek, all but films, but possibly early concepts). based on SF films introduces Reflex, a game entering Parker Brothers disappeared—with the exception of the ever- Mattel appears to be cautiously to its name. Each of the five waiting to see how that lives up popular Star Wars lines and Mattel's bid for with Clash toys, probably games requires the players to act fast. One, fares at the box office before success with its Clash of the Titans set. well the film is an electronic tether ball. will be intro- called Windup, According to the TMA's National expanding the line. Six figures is a race to discover the source of one of Thallo, Calibos, Charon Pounce Statistics Chart, the electronic toy segment duced first: Perseus, winged horse <6'/j" to two spinning lights. has grown at a staggering rate (all 4" tall), Pegasus, the the industry (i.e. those who Vs" tall) For the most adventurous years. The electronic toy tall) and the monsterous Kraken ( 1 4 over the last four Intelli- can afford it), Mattel Electronics will also be a toy of the mechanical introduced in 1977, when, it is estimated, There was system features seven new game cart- magical owl, Bubo. Vision $21 million worth of such toys were shipped ridges with the same colorful visuals as the amount of Electronic toys are coming on strong to stores. In 1980, however, the personal with current line. Mattel is also adding on $476 million. This thanks to the public's fascination shipments had increased to programmed to record Electronics introduces a computer cassettes does not include such items as video gadgets. Mattel figure or banking business. hand-held of new items. There's I.A.N.—The stocks games, but is based on the various number the people who've taken both the Alien Neutralizer, which helps Atari, and tabletop games available. Growth in this Invisible home and the arcade video game scene by wide youngsters ages 8 and up track down unseen field has slowed, mainly because of the storm the last few years, are introducing a invaders and zap them. And there is also the variety of electronic toys curently available. which radio- holographic game unit called Cosmos, the industry are Amazing Ralph, a two-wheeled But further advances in nine different changes direction can be programmed with to come up with new controlled robot that allowing manufacturers Popular Space Invaders, user's head. games including the toys that will be available literally at the nod of its and more complex Asteroids. Cosmos combines introduces its spaceship- Superman and price ("simple" items are Tiger Electronics at a reasonable called Holoptic with capabilities of a three-dimensional image $20 to $50 while more com- shaped Space Chaser priced between play. Atari is also games: Race in Space, with sounds and LED game high as $100). playing three different plex ones go for as system by introducing and Space Battle. This improving their home sales and high license fees have made Space Maze Poor control which will eliminate the wires has three skill levels, arcade remote toy a short-lived item. Products hand-held game the licensed huddling around the control box. records scores. and the based on Star Trek— The Motion Picture, sounds and With the launch of the space shuttle, Revell Cordon have Ever wanted to see your name up in lights? The Black Hole and Flash with space 40-character is of course keeping stores stocked Ideal's Skywriter projects any failed to meet the popularity of the Star Wars kits. new word or phrase up to 50 feet, thanks to high shuttle line which continues to see the release of In an effort to add additional play value to licensees, intensity LEDs. toys from Lucasfilm's two major audi- excitement of Lionel Trains and to attract a younger division and Kenner. Bandai America brings the Fundimension's MPC introduces L.A.S.E.R controller home with ence, Fundimensions new kits to its Star being a real air traffic MPC has added three And Space Early Reaction Air Traffic Controller game. By Train (Land line. The first is the Imperial Walker, the TC-7 Wars set of five cars, featuring speed and altitude you con- Train). This is a replica with movable legs. For controlling the air an 8-inch tall missile, flat-bed with landings of each plane. engine, a ram-jet cruise experienced modeler, MPC offers trol the take-offs and the less tracking car, and L.A.S.E.R. allows two players to con- helicopter, two snap-together action scene kits: the Bat- Miracle Baseball 54" security car with laser guns. A 36" x play includes trol the pitching and batting of an LCD tle on the Ice Planet Hoth, which the images of figures as mat included. Walkers, Snowspeeders and rebel troops; display which carries So, get that model glue out of the cabinet with Yoda on Dagobah, a opposed to dots. and Encounter your favorite game fingers. com- Those wonderful folks who brought you and start flexing recreation of the Jedi Master's home whir- have introduced The toy industry's going to keep you Yoda and R2-D2. Milton, the talking game, plete with Luke, and buzzing throughout the new this year for sword and ring, bleeping Nine new action Figures will be added to something * Electronics' Dark Tower year. Enjoy! Kenner's own Star Wars line. Among these sorcery fans. MB holographic Cosmos game. Perseus' Perseus from Mattel's Clash of the Titans line. Atari's too leff Fundimension's L A.S.E.R. Train, Clockwise from Imperial Walker. of Revell's Space Shuttles and MPC's winged hoTse Pegasus, taking aim with I AN., one

62 STARLOG/July 1981 STARLOO/Juty 1981 63 SHUTTLES: FACT FICTION Shuttles in Space: A visionary concept in Fact & On Film By DAVID HIRSCH The space shuttle—the world's first reusable spacecraft— represents a giant step forward in realizing the ages-old dream of outward migration. Designed as a short haul, multi- purpose ferry, the shuttle is a now- familiar concept, popularized by the pragmatic planners and inspired dreamers in both the scientific and entertainment communities.

idea of a shuttle-type space Thevehicle has been around for a while, both in Hollywood and at NASA. One TV series took a real experimen-

tal shuttle and made it a reel craft, when The Six Million Dollar Man premiered in 1973. The spectacular crash of an out-of-control, prototype-lifting body vividly pictured in the anding. Above: Space: Top: The real U.S. Space Shuttle Enterprise comes i first episode (and at the opening of each Eagle Transporter lifts off from Moonbase Alpha. weekly show) is actually NASA footage of a real test flight. In the series, Col. Austin re- a similar design for his 2001—And Beyond quired S6 million worth of bionic repairs for George Pal used in Stanley station in Con- Space shuttles abound the damage caused in the crash. In real life, Earth to space 2001: A Space Space, another film spun-off from Kubrick's 1968 masterpiece, the test pilot actually was able to walk away quest of Odyssey. We first see the winged Pan Am from the wrecked craft with just a few scratches the Collier's series. Dr. Haywood Floyd The space shuttle then quickly disappeared Space Clipper transport and bruises. His and stayed away for 10 to the half-completed space station. One of the earliest appearances of the from the silver screen Moon is via the primarily because film producers journey from there to the shuttle on film is the 1 953 production of years, space and once expensive to build a single ball-shaped Aries 1-B space shuttle, Project Moonbase. This low-budget space found it less box-like moonbus shuttles that could do everything. Voyage on the Moon, the classic featured the launch of a moonship spaceship sort of an him to the TMA-1 excavation. The deep orbital station. Crew and supplies to the End of the Universe ( 1 965)— from an three centered on the space "sleep-ship," Discovery 1, has shuttled to and from Earth in finned, early Battlestar Galactica— were shuttle per- they fled their dy- work pods which are designed to multi-stage rocketships. These craft were crew of an alien starship as new home. Their sonnel around the starship's exterior. based on designs by Wernher Von Braun, as ing planet in search of a pulp hero Perry Rhodan Icarus, had four flying-saucer That same year, illustrated by Chesley Bonestell, that were ship, the Earth and back years later, in 1967, flew from the Moon to the published in a series of articles in Collier's shaped shuttlecraft. Two Beyond again aboard the faster-than-light Arkon from 1951-53. The moonship, which was a group of aliens in They Camefrom looked ex- with missile-shaped shuttlecraft, a sphere-like ship that non-aerodynamic in design (and also based Space, came equipped a cinematic convenient travel between actly like its mothership, in his first on a Bonestell painting), was to take a crew of shuttle rocket for Stardust. their moonbase. adventure, Mission three to the Moon and back. Two years later, Earth and

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spacecraft The shuttlecraft of the Battlestar Galac- The Travel Pod from Star Trek— The Motion The remarkably insect-like prison barge. its voyage to Saturn 3. tica on its way to the Picture on its way to the drydock. begins

No less than three films followed in 1969 with shuttlecraft playing key roles. The first was Gerry Anderson's Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, in which a wedge-shaped shuttle is used by a pair of astronauts to land on a "mysterious planet" from their orbiting spacecraft. The shuttle crashes in a storm, but when one astronaut discovers he's on a duplicate (but reversed image) Earth, he at- tempts to reach his mothership in a duplicate shuttle. An experimental Air Force shuttle was used that same year to rescue three astronauts who were Marooned in Earth orbit, and the

title craft in Hammer's space Western, Moon

Zero Two is an advanced-design Lunar Ex- cursion Module used to hop around the Moon. The space shuttle was a necessary plot device in Star Wars but went basically un- seen. Men were transported to Tatooine from Darth Vader's Star Destroyer, but it wasn't until the sequel, The Empire Strikes Back, in 1980, that shuttles were something more than a mere line of dialogue. In Empire, we briefly see Captain Needa's shuttle transport him to Vader's Star Destroyer. Between Star Wars and Empire, however, shuttlecraft made visible appearances in six Calactica, the 1978 I major films. Battlestar theatrical version of the TV pilot, had a box- like shuttle fleet to transport personnel to and from planets. An arrow-head shaped shut- tlecraft provides the only escape for Warrent Officer Ripley from the A LlEN'm 1979. That year also saw Princess Ardala arrive on Earth aboard her personal shuttle to vamp Buck Rogers, and NASA's space shuttle starred in the 11th James Bond epic, Moonraker. The long-awaited Star Trek— The Motion

I Picture offered three different shuttles. The I Work Bee and travel pods were used to transport equipment (the Bee) and personnel (the pod) from Star Fleet's space station to

'' the Enterprise's dry' dock. A Vulcan shuttle (with warp-drive sled) brings Mr. Spock aboard the starship, but a new version of the

Enterprise shuttles is yet to be seen. A spectacular piece of miniature work by and company for Moonraker. Saturn 3, in 1980, featured a bizarre, bug-

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like shuttlecraft that takes the mad Captain Benson and his robot to the Saturn research station on the third moon. The shuttle's latest film appearance is in Sean Connery's current SF movie, (Jutland. This box-like craft has four powerful rocket engines to fight against Jupiter's massive gravitational pull. Popular on TV Over the last 20 years, shuttle-type craft have appeared on the TV screen in just about every space series. The 1961 supermariona- tion series, Fireball XLS featured a space patrol craft with a detachable nose cone that was used to make planetfalls. Doctor Who, the longest running SF-TV series (since 1963), has had space shuttles from time to time in such serials as ' 'The Invisible Enemy' and "The Invasion of Time." Thunderbird 3, International Rescue's space rocket in 1964's Thunderbirds, saw a lot of use as a shuttle craft, transporting men and supplies to the Thunderbird 5 space sta-

tion from its island base, while Star Trek's starships carried a fleet of shuttlecraft; box- like ships with warp-drive engines. In 1967, during its third season. Lost In Space got its own shuttle in the wake of lunar-module- fever spun-off from the forth- coming Moon landing. This small shuttle was berthed in the rear of the Jupiter II (where it was during the first two seasons is anybody's guess). In the 1-969 series UFO, personnel traveled to the SH ADO Moonbase via shuttle and the residents of the space colony Earth II also shuttled to and from their home planet in the 1971 TV movie pilot. The aforementioned Six Million Dollar Man started off his bionic life after crashing in an experimental shuttle in the '73 pilot. More space shuttles appeared in Gerry Anderson's Space: 1999 series (1975) than anywhere else. The base's main craft, the Eagle Transporter, was an insect-like shuttle which could be fitted with a variety of work modules. The Eagle, prior to the Moon's "Breakaway" from Earth, was used mostly as a shuttlecraft and lunar workhorse. During the Moon's journey throughout the cosmos, the Eagle transported personnel from "spaceship Moon" to alien planets and starships. Alien shuttles also appeared in such episodes as "Collision Course," "Last Enemy" and "The Bringers of Wonder." The 1976 TV-special Day After Tomor- row, featured a shuttlecraft that took a crew of a spaceship to an orbiting space station arid well depend on row a design from a popular film to recapture the Battlestar Calactica shuttle made fre- how it is designed, may very shuttle the interest of the public. In any case, the appearances in the weekly TV series. the progress and success of the real quent and for second and shuttle-type craft seems to be a pragmatic One of the prettiest, more exotic craft from program. NASA's concepts space-faring shuttles may catch the im- necessary one for any the first season of Buck Rogers in the 25th third generation or prob- planet— according to the inspirational Century, was Princess Ardala's sleek, per- agination of Hollywood filmmakers, could force NASA dreamers working in space science and sonal shuttlecraft. lems with the program perhaps to bor- science fiction. * Where the next reel shuttle shows up, and back to the drawing board—

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film, Space Odyssey. A Shuttle Pod departs from the great starship Discovery 1 in Stanley Kubrick's monumental 2001: A

STARLOC/July 1981 67 RETURN

I look up and eut= See the stars, search the skies. Seeking my starting point

Sparkling focm jewel set afire, Pinpoint in space, It i§ there

I feel the call:

I look down in wonder A rainbow vision beneath my feet. Orbiting the Earth,

Struggling free of gravity's hold Into the inky Universe I go. Spaceship, take me home

1979 Howard Zimmerman

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might sound like typical Hollywood the title role of his E/visTV movie. "He made By STEVE SWIRES Ithype coming from any other director, Snake his own, which is what I wanted him to but when John Carpenter says his new do. He gave him more depth and dimension, film Escape From New York is "better than 1 action picture and those aspects were tougher and makes you care a lot more for him than I ever thought it would be" he seems sincere. than I'd ever done before, but in terms of tell- thought would be possible."

He claims this is a unique feeling of optimism ing the story the way I wanted, it was a lot eas- Perhaps, even more incongruously, Car- for him, one he hasn't experienced with any ier. Things seemed to fall into place pretty penter chose veteran 'fantasy-film villain of his previous projects. However, "I've been well, whereas with The Fog it was a struggle Donald Pleasance, with whom he'd previous- working with it in pieces for so long that it's from the beginning to make the story work." ly worked in his breakthrough film Hallo- difficult to judge," he acknowledges during a This time his story is a "high adventure in ween, to portray the President. "I have no break in post-production, just ten days the future," in which the world's greatest intellectual explanation for why I cast him. before he's scheduled .to deliver his answer criminal, Snake Plissken, attempts to rescue When I thought of the character and what he print to Avco-Embassy Pictures. the kidnapped President of the United States had to go through, I immediately thought of

"It's been a long hard struggle. Making a from the maximum-security prison of Man- Donald. Maybe it was because of his brilliant movie is one of the hardest things you can do. hattan Island in 1997. To make it work he performance in Roman Polanski's Cul De

Making a good movie is probably the hardest made some unusual casting choices for key Sac, in which he played a victim who was thing you can do. So it's very difficult for me roles. Playing the rugged anti-hero Plissken, completely out of place where he was. Also to tell how it's turned out, because I've seen it for example, is former child star Kurt Russell. he's one of my favorite actors of all time." too many times now." "I think Kurt turned out fabulously and Carpenter made another unusual choice in

Nevertheless Carpenter is instinctively pos- was the absolute right choice for the role," filming most of the exterior locations in St. itive, especially since he thinks Escape is an Carpenter says of the actor he first directed in Louis, restricting actual New York footage to improvement over his last movie in at least establishing shots. "St. Louis looks a lot like one respect. "Physically Escape was more Carpenter, center, talks with Lee Van Cleef on a destroyed New York," he explains. "In ad- difficult to make than The Fog because it's an the set of the Security headquarters. dition to having the architecture of a big East-

STARLOGAfa/v 1981 73 Carpenter, center, set ocation.

fortunately his wife, Adrienne Barbeau, ern city they agreed to let us shut down the most people don't know the geography of but playing the female lead so she was present streets, set them on fire, crash an airplane, New York, so it doesn't really matter." was necessary sustenance. "She had an close down bridges and do anything we Most of the movie takes place at night, to provide decided to film it, apothecary jar containing every vitamin wanted—so it was ready-made. We also shot which is when Carpenter which known to man and I took them all. I was vita- part of it in and Los Angeles, and you rather than shooting "day for night" every day," he laughs. "She also had really can't tell which is where. I'm delighted would have been more convenient. Such au- mized exhausting, this herbal stuff called 'Zoom,' which in- with how it goes together. Don't forget that thenticity proved to be physically

is escape alive. Donald Pleasance, as the President, is being rescued by Harry Dean Stanton (Brain). All they have to do now

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creases your energy so you feel better. I took that a couple of times a day and it kind of took the edge off. I even gained a lot of weight." Carpenter also found himself living a vam- pire's lifestyle. "We'd finish shooting at about 6 a.m. and I'd be just going to sleep at 7 when the Sun would be coming up. I'd wake up around 5 or 6 p.m., depending on whether or not we had dailies, and by the time I got go- ing the Sun would be setting. So for about 2 Vi months I never saw daylight, which was really strange." The Escape budget was $7 million, a modest sum compared to most other movies but the largest amount of money he'd had to date. Carpenter still found it necessary to economize, but he managed it without con- stricting his creativity. "I was able to cut a lot , ' of corners because I j ust shot what I needed he says. "That comes from my experience making low-budget films. Also the two TV movies I directed taught me how to move fast Confronted by Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell), Brain must explain his motives. when the going gets rough. With that com- bined knowledge I felt fairly confident that in independent. I talked to him a grim situation I could get something done. wanted and told them: 'Here's what we want because he's an another project. I you to do.' There was a dead silence. Then but he was involved with about Rob- FX—Illusions & Attitudes they asked: 'You mean you don't want us to also can't say enough nice things what I want bie Blalock. He's a terrific guy and tried real Carpenter faced a grim situation in his storyboard it?' I said: 'No, thisis it just not?' I think that hard to make things work out, but search for a special-effects crew capable of you to do. Can you do it or that didn't fly. didn't quite work out with him. I have creating the complex illusions he required. He was the first problem, because I something I wasn't pre- nothing against him or his work, which candidly admits it was a dismaying though ul- "I encountered along with think is excellent, but there were other consid- timately educational experience. "I found pared for. I'm real easy to get but for the erations. He's very open and amenable and out something very interesting about all the when people are working with me, didn't pretty firm grasp of what I would bring up suggestions, and that effects facilities. I don't want to bad mouth most part I have a joy for bother me. He's the kind of person you can them, but they were outrageous beyond my want. I would think that would be a ideas, but but apparently not. I collaborate with, who brings in wildest dreams. I talked to and an effects company, preferred to be inti- doesn't play 'Hey, I'm Mr. Big. ' I got that to the Universal/Hartland people and I think they would have me I as- I grand from some of the others and was couldn't believe their price and their attitude. midated by their machines. got the tounded." Their estimates and bids were mind boggling. tour of all the places with all their toys and lot to of the effects shots Carpenter needed They have the attitude that they're celebrities, computers, which didn't really mean a Most I paintings and miniatures, I guess I was supposed to be so boggled. involved matte and I don't understand it. I suppose they have me. he which he reveals are "mainly used in the be- an absolute right to act that way after a movie don't mean to bad mouth anybody," helicopter attack I just a littlebit surprised by ginning of the film during a like Star Wars. They want to do something repeats, "but was on the prison. When the President's plane is that's going to make them a whole lot of it all." police state flies into motion. money. On a more positive note, however, Carpen- hijacked, the that some effects technicians They take off from their base on Liberty Is- "I approached it differently. My produc- ter discovered and conscientious, for ex- land and fly across the bay and over the pri- tion designer, Joe Alves, and I drew very spe- are "very modest a different story son wall into New York, and that's where we cific storyboards for every effects shot we ample Jim Danforth. He's used most of our tricks. We also utilized a lot of mattes in a scene in which Plissken flies a glider and lands on top of the World Trade Center. When the glider flies between build- ings, they're really miniatures." To create these illusions he hired the New World Pictures effects crew which previously worked on Battle Beyond the Stars. "I went with them because they have more of a style than the other people and they could do it for the price," he explains. "I was very impressed by what they did with very little in Battle. I guess they just try harder. They want to build a reputation, and had some ways to short cut

that I liked a lot. They have much, if not all, the capability a studio like Dykstra's has." As to how well their work turned out, Car- penter feels "there are some effects that are better than others. If you do a film about outer space it's easy to do spaceships against a black background and stars. When you're doing a city at night with water and airplanes flying by and people standing in the fore- Effects crew works on a miniature of the World Trade Center, now part of the jail. STARLOG/Jw/V 1981 75 . — ground, that's hard to do. It's much more of the paranoia 'Who goes there?,' 'Who North or South Pole because it's just too hard difficult to do something realistic as a trick are you?' —was totally left out of the film. to shoot there."

because it's very easy to spot. When the glider They didn't know how to do it back then, To that end, and to stay within his pro-

lands on top of the Trade Center, I imagine which I can understand. It was one of the first jected $10 million budget, Carpenter doesn't " the entire audience will know that we didn't science- fiction monster movies ever made and expect to cast any stars in the picture. I think

really land a glider there, but I think it's so ef- it was tough, because up to then they had unknowns would give it a more interesting fectively done that they won't care. The real- vampires and werewolves and supernatural look. These are men up in an Arctic base who

ism isn't part of it, because the whole film stuff and here comes this flying saucer. Now I are isolated from the world. There is a certain takes place in the future. If I were going to do think we can portray the monster in quite a kind of person who goes up there. To aim for

it present-day and have a plane crash in New unique way. We have a design for it which is a little bit more reality, which is what I'm at-

York, then it might be a different story. I'm under lock and key that is mind-boggling." tempting to do, I want to use people you

extremely pleased with what we've got." Campbell described the creature as being haven't seen before. I may sprinkle in a cou- four feet tall with three red eyes, but accord- ple of actors I've worked with previously, but

Beyond "Escape" ing to Carpenter "our monster won't be ex- I haven't made my decision on that yet." With Escape all but wrapped up at the time actly like that. It's going to be a deep secret. Campbell's story prefigures ALIEN to a

of this interview in early March, Carpenter The design is different, although it does simi- remarkable extent, a similarity Carpenter rec- was simultaneously working on his next two lar things as the one in the story." In most re- ognizes. "How about that? You see, Dan

projects. First is the inevitable Halloween II, spects, however, Carpenter intends to be O'Bannon and I have talked about The Thing

' which he and his long-time associate Debra 'loyal to the story because I feel it's so incred- for years. When he wrote A LIEN he told me Hill have co-written and will co-produce for ibly frightening. The Thing could be the king that's what it was. There wegoing to be com-

Universal, with and Irwin of the monster movies." parisons. You can't help it because they're so Yablans serving as co-executive producers. close in some ways, but they didn't quite do The original cast will be returning, as the film what the story did." "I was able to cut a lot starts five minutes after the first one ended. As does ALIEN, The Thing contains ex-

Directing is a newcomer named Rick Rosen- tremely gruesome violence, and to recreate it of corners because l thal who impressed Carpenter with a short Carpenter's already spoken to make-up mas- film he made for the American Film Institute, shot what I needed . . ters and . While he "so I'm going to give him a chance." As for isn't ready to announce his final choice just in a grim situation I why a sequel is justified, "You can't kill the yet, Carpenter confirms that matte expert boogey man," Carpenter warns. "He is evil, could get something would add his talents to the and evil lives." done." picture, as will Carpenter's favorite His subsequent picture was to be a Western cinematographer . In addition entitled El Diablo, but EMI Films balked at to directing, Carpenter himself will once the proposed $15 million budget, especially in A Most Horrific Script again compose the music score. the wake of the Heaven's Gate implosion. Carpenter isn't opposed to making Summing up his hopes for what may well However, "it's not dead at all" Carpenter necessary changes, because "I don't know be his greatest creative challenge, Carpenter reports, as DeLaurentiis has ridden to the whether some of the stuff in there can be predicts The Thing will be "a strong film. offer co-financing. Never- done. Bill Lancaster wrote the screenplay and rescue with an of There's no way it will get a PG rating, but theless it must wait at least a year until he it's the most horrific script I've ever read. I there's a whole area of how much you show. completes his most ambitious film yet, a new read it in St. Louis while shooting Escape and Sometimes you can suggest what you don't version of The Thing for Universal which he almost fell out of my chair. He had to do show. The violence will all be integral and hopes to begin this August or September. some fixing of the story, but he restructured it won't be gratuitous. If something explicitly in a way that was so dynamic. com- Lest Carpenter be accused of presumptu- He was gory happens it won't be just to show some- ously ripping off a classic, it should be noted pletely faithful to it, but has certain things thing explicit, but to further the story. That's his of happening at different times. The key is the that film won't be a remake Howard the one thing I do promise." Hawks' movie but rather a more accurate dog fight scene when the monster comes out As his previous pictures have proven, Car- dramatization of John W. Campbell's origi- and the men realize what's happening, and he penter usually delivers far more than he nal 1938 short story "Who Goes There?" also had to do some tricks in the beginning." promises. With a new film for release and two

"I'm only doing it because of the story," he Whereas Hawks' film pitted the impracti- more in production his career is certainly in insists. "Hawks didn't do the story, and no- cal scientists against the heroic soldiers, Car- high gear. But unlike some other acclaimed body else has either. If I had to remake it just penter will restore. Campbell's concept of directors who unfortunately take their re- in terms of the movie I wouldn't dare, be- conflict among the exclusively male scientists views too seriously and become self-indulgent cause it's so well done it wouldn't be worth it. operating without military supervision. "The in their work, John Carpenter tries to use his But there's this element of the story which is scientists versus the military is a cliche now," unprecedented success as a shield with which so fine and interesting and unique, and that's he says. "The paranoia of an enclosed group to protect himself from peaking too soon. what I'm going to concentrate on." of men is more sufficient to the point. There However, he's learning that's not always easy The story element to which he refers is the will be some scientists who say one thing and to do. collective paranoia among a group of scien- some who say another, but it's not a military "I have a very unique way of living and " tists on an Antarctic expedition after they re- installation anymore. We've updated it to a don't indulge in the 'Hollywood lifestyle,' vive an alien creature frozen in the snow. The non-nation area sponsored by the United he reflects, "But I've become a businessman first film ended less than midway through the States National Science Foundation. There sort of against my own wishes. I'm involved

story with the creature's electrocution. may be camps representing different coun- with all these corporations, and all of a sud-

Carpenter promises his version will focus on tries, but they're all scientists. There's no mil- den there's a whole other side to life now. It

the remainder of the story, in which the scien- itary intervention and no boundaries so would be fair to say that I achieved financial

tists discover that though the alien's form has there's no nationality, which is what we security from Halloween, and at this point I

been destroyed its homicidal spirit has taken found to be truth when we did the research." need never work again to support himself. It

possession of some of their bodies. In further pursuit of authenticity he plans was a strange moment when I realized I didn't

"My favorite scene in the story is the blood to film "in the snows, maybe in Alaska or a have to worry anymore. I used to worry a lot

test," Carpenter relates, "when McReady, little higher. We want to shoot it in this hemi- because the movie business is so unstable.

the meteorologist, says he knows some of the sphere. At the time we shoot it has to be cov- You never know, though. If I'm a bad busi- men are human and some aren't and he's got ered with snow, and if we go to the Antarctic nessman and don't handle my money correct-

a way to prove it. That's what convinced me we'll have some problems because it'll be ly, then I may have to work. But at this point

that we should do the movie. The whole idea their summer. I also don't want to go to the I'm doing okay." *

76 STARLOG/Jw/v 1981 STARLOG EXCLUSIVE BILL MUMY "Lost in Space's" Will Robinson talks about life on and off

the "Jupiter ll" and his plans to rev her engines again.

By BILL COTTER & MIKE CLARK

remembers the Hollywood legend and played catch with the star during breaks. or three years he was part of a family Mumy still, lit- After working in segments of The Mun- marooned on several uncharted plan- cautioning him, "If you do not stand in 1964, 1 will drive a nail through your foot sters, Bewitched and The Virginian ets. Before that, he was a monster who tle boy, K for the role of was cast by Irwin Allen terrorized a small town, a boy who talked into the floor, and blood will gush from your Mumy pilot of Space Family Robin- with his deceased grandmother, and a child toes like milk!" Mumy didn't move. Will in the TV color, was who haunts his father in a closed amusement At the age of 10, Mumy starred with James son. The original pilot, filmed in park. At one time he flirted with Brigitte Bar- Stewart in the feature Dear Brigitte (original one hour long and covered the launch and ac- dot, another time he was directed by Alfred title—Erasmus with Freckles). Mumy played subsequent loss of the Gemini XII. The Hitchcock. a brainy boy whose only human-like trait was tion continued on an uncharted planet where Bill Mumy had quite an amazing child- his obsession with Brigitte Bardot, who made the Robinson's dealt with survival on a day- sets, futur- hood. His playthings were movie a cameo appearance ("I'm still waiting for to-day basis. After the pilot was completed, robots. While ordinary istic props, and witty Dear Brigitte—Part //.'"). From the beginning story editor Anthony Wilson felt the show read Sawyer, Mumy school children Tom of his career, Mumy had a natural talent for lacked something and provided two addition- memorizing dialogue as he shot around was memorizing a script with only one reading. He al characters: Col. Zachary Smith, an enemy space in the Jupiter II. The ship never made it used this skill to prompt Stewart on his lines, (continued on page 80) back to Earth, but if Bill Mumy has his way, we haven't heard the last of the Robinson family, who may be coming home at last in a proposed sequel to Lost in Space. Mumy's first television appearance was on local TV in Los Angeles. The show was Romper Room, and he liked the medium enough to pursue other endeavors in TV. His first network performance was on ABC's Riverboat, followed quickly by live appear- ances on Red Skelton, Playhouse 90 and . His many filmed programs include Have Gun— Will Travel, Ozzie & Harriet and Ben Casey. Mumy also provided the voice of Matty Mattel on Matty's Funday Funnies in the early sixties. Mumy's early TV work is best seen in re- runs of The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitch- cock Presents. The first Zone he appeared in was "Long Distance Call," involving a de- ceased grandmother's attempts to lure a boy into an early grave via a toy telephone. In 1963 Mumy appeared with Jack Klugman in Rod Serling's "In Praiseof Pip." Pip was the young spirit of a soldier seriously wounded in Vietnam (an early reference to that war) who returns to his father's deserted carnival for a mysterious reunion. Mumy has an inborn aversion to amusement parks ("I think I must have died at one in a former life!") and the filming of the episode was difficult, especially when he was secluded in a house of mirrors. Mumy's most effective Zone was "It's a Good Life." As a six-year-old telekinetic named Anthony Fremont, Mumy removed his small town to an unknown void, and used his powers against those who displeased him. At the climax of the drama, a birthday party guest is transformed into a livjng jack-in-the- box, as the other party-goers stifle their terror and fear. Long-time friend Cloris Leachman played his mother in that memorable episode.

Another standout performance is seen in "Bang, You're Dead!" from Alfred Hitch- cock Presents. Future Lost in Space co-star Marta Kristen has a cameo in this episode, Mumy as he appears today and as Will in one of the few directed by Hitchcock himself. CLASSIFIEDf

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Mumy SL: What do you think were the worst epi- SL: Do you think he would agree to be in the sodes? new version? We've heard that he's now liv-

BM: I wish to apologize now for being affili- ing in South America, and might not be (continuedfrom page 77) ated with "The Great Vegetable Rebellion." available. agent trapped on board the ship (now re- I'm a vegetarian, but I don't want to see a big BM: I don't want to speculate too much, but named the Jupiter II) and an environmental carrot walking around. That'was a horrible I'm sure if a good dramatic role came along, control robot, whose purpose was to test hu- show, embarassing beyond all belief, but I he'd be interested in doing it. I would assume there are planes man adaptability to the Robinson's original still love the series and it had its great that. The man's an actor and destination, Alpha Centauri. Smith was moments. that go to L.A. every day. scheduled to die after episode three, but Jon- SL: Did you watch the show as it appeared on SL: Getting back to the first year, how did athan Harris made him so appealing a char- Wednesday nights? they manage to produce a TV series with so acter that he was saved and thus changed the BM: Yes. Sat there with a bowl of Jiffy much of you in every episode? How was this the child labor laws? course of the series. Pop. . . switching back and forth to Batman. possible with school and Lost in Space ran three years on CBS, and SL: Like everybody else in the country. Do BM: It was a pain, but it was also fun. You'd in reruns will probably run past 1997, the time you think Lost in Space was influenced by the go and shoot a scene and then immediately period of the series' pilot. attitude of Batman. run to this trailer for 20 minutes of school. Bill Mumy now resides in the Hollywood BM: I guess it definitely had its influ- Seventeen minutes didn't count, it had to be Hills of Los Angeles, lead player and vocal ence—that whole camp trip. We were on the 20. So after every shot they would rush me off for Bill Mumy and the Igloos. Always re- same lot, and Lost in Space took up a lot of to school and expect me to lock into an entire- membered as Will Robinson, Mumy is at- room. The exterior of the Jupiter //and inter- ly different head space and study geometry. tempting to re-unite the original cast again for ior of the upper deck were on one stage, the And suddenly the 20 minutes were up and it one last adventure. Along with friends Paul lower deck on another. was "OK, get Mumy in here!" I'd come run- Gordon and Brian Greer, Mumy has written SL: Was there any critical feedback from Ir- ning in there, save the Universe, and then go the two-hour script, consulting with friend win Allen? back and fail geometry. and former co-star Mark Goddard. Mumy BM: Irwin sat apart in his building. People SL: The third season almost returned, to some recently took time out of his schedule to dis- used to storm off and talk to Irwin all the of the good aspects of the first season. cuss his work on Lost in Space and the possi- time... I'M GOING TO TALK TO IR- BM: I really like the hint of what the third it bet- bilities of a new made-for-TV movie. WIN!" But Irwin didn't interfere with us. He season would be. I thought was getting * * * was our guide and overseer. Irwin demanded ter. . .much better than the second season. left after the third season, there was Starlog: When did you first notice the series a lot of respect and got it . . . deservedly so. Ir- When we was starting to slide in your direction? win was always just "Mr. Allen" to me no doubt we were coming back. CBS picked to cut Bill Mumy: I think towards the end of the "Hello, how are you, sir?" Irwin loved a. us up for a fourth season, but wanted that that. first season. The "Smith-Will-Robot" syn- good lurch scene. He was always there for all our budget. Irwin refused and was drome started to become a reality and cement the good special effects stuff. SL: We hear that Irwin Allen had a script for Earth. itself into place. The first season I feel very SL: It's well known that Guy Williams didn't the final episode, where you return to trial guilty, and good about. After that, I can't say that it was like the direction Lost in Space took. Dr. Smith is put on and found a quality science-fiction show anymore. BM: Guy wasn't given too much to do half as punishment is sent out in space again. Is SL: What were your favorite episodes? the time, which wasn't the way he started on that true? BM: "The Keeper" (a two-part episode with the series, as the star of the show. The talking BM: No, I never heard of that.

Michael Rennie) was good. I like "Return to carrots were also reasons why Guy wasn't SL: What did you do after the end of Lost in Earth," too. happy. Space? BM: I did a picture for Disney, Rascal, a good film that made a lot of money. I also did some guest shots on TV shows like Lancer, Here Come the Brides and things like that. Then there were the Sunshine shows—I felt they were a real quality television project. I did Papillion in 1973, after Bless the Beasts and the Children in 1971. When Bless the Beasts

was completed I had a band, Redwood, that I believed was on the verge of doing something

good. It didn't work out the way we planned. SL: I imagine your musical plans must have affected your acting career at the time.

BM: I did kind of stop acting for a couple of

years.and then I did Papillion, which was a

great disappointment to me. I spent three months and ended up with about 20 minutes on the screen and a shaved head. It wasn't a pleasant experience, although working with Hoffman and McQueen was great. SL: As far as your career today, we know

you're still involved with music. However, we're quite interested in your latest project. Who first came up with the idea of reviving Lost in Space?

BM: Paul Gordon and I came up with the concept about three years ago. People are always coming on to me for Lost in Space things. There's an energy there that just hasn't dissipated. Everybody's done sequels,

and to me Lost in Space was never resolved. I The "Invaders from the Fifth Dimension" plan to use Will's brain in episode eight. mean, I care about those people and wanted

80 STARLOG/Ju/v 1981 Angela Cartwright, , Marta Kristen and the Robot. Left to right. Mark Goddard, June Lockhart, Guy Williams, Mumy,

would do it. It's SL: You mentioned that they were without yes. I'm sure June Lockhardt resolve it. I carry Will around inside of me. to eight in- you think there's a message in that a definite study of these was a good influence and is definitely fuel. Do He person. It's fuel in an dividuals . . . it's not a lot of one for America . . . surviving without there. way. very intricate parts for everybody. It's good, SL: Will was always so polite. alternative want to do it from a BM: Sure, (laughter) and everybody would BM: Yeah, I liked that. of view. robot still in the show? dramatic point SL: How long have you been working on the SL: Is the said that Mark Goddard was also in- BM: The robot is there. We also have a new SL: You script? project. character—Don and Judy have a son, little volved in spearheading the BM: Several months now. It's basically done, West. BM: Mark approached me with some ideas, and runs about two hours with commercials. Joshua and turned it over to us. He's definitely in- fiction SL: We know you don't want to reveal too it's a psychological drama in a science level. We're hoping much of the plot, but do the Robinsons enter- volved on a production setting. It's one probable reality of what of returning to Earth? Mark and I can produce it, but it's too early would happen to a family of eight people who tain the idea to say. have been stranded on a very small planet BM: Yes, they do. you be able to counteract the last two SL: How will Irwin Allen figure into this? without any alien beings around them for SL: Will Smith's character? BM: I can't imagine doing a new Lost in fuel. season's influence of Dr. about 15 years. . .with no the is the same man at all. Space, without Irwin. I think show sound like a typical Lost in BM: Yeah. He's not SL: This doesn't Century Have you received any positive answers equally owned by Irwin and 20th Space outing. SL: members? Fox. It's a big, complicated thing, but that's BM: We're not trying to write a show that's from the other cast solve ... big, BM: Yes. Besides Mark Goddard and myself, what those studio people love to full of gimmicks. We're trying to write a I think everything will be Marta Kristen wants to do it. I think complicated things. drama. The thrust of this story is "How did I know the script. It's most Angela Cartwright would, although I haven't fine once they read they survive all those years on an isolated achievable thing. * with her about it yet, to get a definite definitely an planet?" spoken STARLOGA/u/y 1981 81 — ' I ^

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CON-AM 27, set against the bleak landscape of lo. A new process called IntroVision was used to mix man and miniature.

SF-XTRA Talks About Making Move Magic (Without Divulging Too Many Secrets)

By SAM MARONIE

with the SF film explosion a was on. I finally few roles as Along going landed a a models as well; well, of course I could, and fresh group of special-effects child actor; my biggest success in that respect they were so impressed by my work that they

. ' wizards has entered the. scene. To- came when I landed a part in a film called This offered me a permanent position with them day these newcomers helm the bulk of optical Happy Breed in 1944." Stears ended up filling a variety of roles for work featured in current movie offerings. Stears soon outgrew these juvenile assign- the Rank motion picture organization. He

Yet there are still a few old timers among ments and shifted his interests into other constructed models, painted mattes, worked the ranks of effects men—veterans like John areas. After attending art college he went on optical effects and cartoon animation. His Stears, who has toiled on SF movies for directly into the British Air Ministry as a de- dream job lasted five years until Rank col- almost two decades. Among Stears' most signer/draftsman for radar equipment. From lapsed and Stears decided to go the free lance noteworthy credits are the initial James that branch of the service he was drafted into route. Bond-007 films, the phenomenally popular National Service where he served as a military At this point Stears was uncertain about his Star Wars and the current (Jutland. policeman for three years. When his term of future in the picture industry. The artist cites While the English artist is primarily known duty ended, Stears decided he was going to his meeting with fellow effects creator for his labors behind the camera, he actually get back to doing what he enjoyed the most Howard Lydecker as a turning point in his began his cinematic career on the other side of making models. career. Lydecker, who was known for his ex- the lens as an actor. "I got a chance to build miniatures for a cellent creation of miniatures for the now de- "I used to live close to Denham Studios," film called Reach For the Sky. This picture funct Republic Studios, proved an inspira- the good-natured craftsman explains. was about the famous British pilot, Douglas tion for his British colleague.

"Movies were sort of the local industry in that Barda, who lost his legs in a tragic plane acci- "Howard and I worked together over here

area and I often sneaked on the lot to see what dent. The studio asked if I could fly these on the film Sink the Bismark. I learned a hell

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land-speeder. Stears was in charge of mechanical effects such as the The first Englishman to be involved on Star Wars,

his work on very, very underpowered motor. The trick If Stears genuinely feels that of a lot from him; he was a wonderful person cer- off very marginally and managed to the Bond pictures became repetitious, and full of exciting ideas. Howard fired a lot came but that's the kind of thing tainly Star Wars offered an opportunity to of my continued enthusiasm for the effects squeak through, Mechanical Ef- all the time and you just have to flex new creative muscles. As business and was a terrific influence." that happens the best way you can." fects Supervisor for George Lucas' space (Lydecker's skilled use of detailed models meet the challenges problems in stride, saga, Stears was challenged by the demanding graced many of Irwin Allen's teleseries in the Although he takes such Award he received production. late 1960s. Most notable among his contribu- Stears found the Academy for reward for his efforts. "I had done work for a lot of pictures tions were the various submarines in Voyage for Bond an ample be- 20th-Fox prior to Star Wars," Stears ex- in "I was very proud. . .very honored, To the Bottom of the Sea , Lost Space's charge of the highest accolade plains. "Peter Beale, who was in Jupiter II and other spacecraft.) cause the Oscar is really too, Fox UK at the time, asked if I could meet with This rekindled fervor was somewhat tem- of them all. It's a humbling experience, I love doing and the Gary Kurtz. pered by Stears' work on an anemic Bob for I'm only doing what know, you "At that time Elliott Scott was the de- Hope comedy, : definitely not award is one hell of a plus. You thought of an signer, not John Barry, and I went to see him. one of the craftsman's most favorite experi- don't make pictures with the but actually winning He had Ralph McQuarrie's sketches and we ences. While Stears felt he might be con- Oscar on your mind, discussed various ways I hope to win looked over them and demned to more such mediocre films, a ma- one is the thrill of a lifetime. of pulling things off. Elliott couldn't stay and jor turning point occurred in his life in 1 963— another one someday!" lot of peo- quick to point out that the entire finish, so John Barry came on. A Dr. No. It was the first of a long association Stears is two such ple don't know it, but Scotty was responsible with the James Bond thrillers. Bond output has only been awarded concepts. Actually, I awards, making his prize more impressive. for most of the initial to become involved <007' sets A Challenge "I wouldn't do another one (Bond) was the first English person I. Barry came is gone. There was an with Star Wars—Elliott and Stears toiled on each chapter of the 007 because the team spirit aura about the early pictures be- aboard much later on the scene." saga from Dr. No through The Man With the absolute were breaking new Golden Gun and was largely responsible for cause it seemed like we everybody was pulling his weight. The ifs' of "Star wars" the mechanical gadgetry that distinguished ground and with producer Kurtz, he (Connery) left and Roger When Stears met these pictures. While each succeeding film But when Sean their discussions filled with a lot of big it just wasn't the same at all. found for him to outdo the previous one, (Moore) came in, called land speeder to Kevin 'ifs.' //Stears could get the never stumped. Well, almost "I was hoping—really hoping—that Stears was would be operation- . .//the R2 units McClory and I could pull together another work. never. . Star Wars gimmickry . parts of the with Sean. Kevin has the rights to al. . major "I almost was beaten by that damned fly- Bond film Bond character now; 10 years after hinged on the effects man's skill. ing car in Golden Gun" Stears recalls the was something like " Thunderball he could make his own movies, "I think the start date amusedly. I had designed the model to actu- all of these mechani- written for him. He spent over a million April 22 and I had to get ally fly by way of a special motor that was to as it turned out, every- dollars of his own money trying to launch the cal effects together. As be built by a firm in Texas. When it came time not before. project but, unfortunately, things thing worked ... on that date and to shoot the sequence the motor, of course, Warhead was that we had only just didn't jell." The next thing we knew was not ready and I had to play around with a STARLOG/July 1981 83 S/JPK.

Stears' work on Outland involved 1 8 months developing the CON-AM 27 miniature with Bill Pearson and Martin Bower.

10 days to pick up and go to Tunisia—and off we went!"

Stears reveals that he had relatively little contact with Director Lucas, dealing mainly with Kurtz on the day-to-day business of filming. Since the picture carried a small budget (only around $8 million), he found himself scurrying around trying to create ef- fects at the last minute under less-than-ideal circumstances. Not even all the R2D2 units were rigged by the start date and they were continually being redesigned and added to. While he found the picture challenging and fun to work on, his enthusiasm was not shared by all of the studio people. "Peter Beale came to me after several weeks of filming had been completed and asked: 'Johnny, what -should we do? Should

we get out or stay in?' 1 told him: 'Stay in! Stay in! This is going to be a terrific film and Fox is going to make a lot of money!' Connery in You Only Live Twice, riding a Stears-developed vehicle. "They stayed in for a while, but towards the end they got cold feet and sold some of has become extremely mechanical and heart- introvision: complex fx their shares. Of course, they're really kicking less; but I guess that's what's bound to hap- without The cost themselves for that decision now." pen." Despite his mistrust of these automated Star Wars utilized a newly-developed com- Stears uses the travelling matte process as effects, Stears' current work in Outland puterized camera to achieve many of its ef- an illustration. He feels that the optical has involves the use of a new process called Intro- fects shots quickly, accurately and cheaply. been used so often by people who really don't vision. Developed by inventors John Eppo- Despite the process' awesome achievements, understand or care, that it has lost its special lito, Tom Naud and Peck Prior, Introvision, the veteran Stears maintains a skeptical wari- quality and degenerated to just another stan- in its simplest terms, can be described as plac- ness. dard trick. ing a live person convincingly in the

"I think we have to be very, very careful. "The whole thing about special effects," framework of a still photo, model, etc.

What they're doing now with this technology Stears says, "is that it is a creative medium; While the action in Outland involves is really nothing new in terms of effects; it's you mustn't stop creating. If you get a new miners exploring the volcanic surface of Io,

just a quick way of doing it. That's great; thing like this computerized camera, people the convincing effect is achieved in front of a every process certainly has its use, but it must get blase about it—they feed the stuff in one large motion-picture screen and the Intro-

be used properly. end and it comes out finished at the other. vision equipment. "A lot of my colleagues in the effects busi- Great. They got a shot. But what comes on "It's great," Stears enthuses about the new ness ask me: 'What's happened? What's go- the screen is wooden and has no feeling. That breakthrough. "Introvision puts people in- ing on here? ' The whole area of special effects is what worries me the most." side or right behind the model or whatever it is

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Pearson, the trio spent over brought off with a very small crew and a very your shooting. For example, if you had a Bower and Bill putting the 18-foot "miniature" small budget. plate of the Acropolis, you could make the three months The effects-man laughs about his misfor- actors walk in and out of the pillars. It's total- into shape. somewhat like an off-shore oil tunes and tells how, while lensing Outland at ly convincing. You can go out and photo- Looking on a scale of Pinewood Studios in England, friend Brian graph something, use a photographic plate or rig, the complex was constructed Space: poised on stilts to respond to the in- Johnson (The Empire Strikes Back, a miniature or whatever you want. There's an 1 :200 and gravitational force exerted by Jupiter. 1999) was also on the lot working on the fan- incredible control over such things as size and tense world pulls the moon's surface, these tastic Dragonslayer. picture quality." As the would keep all the structures per- "Here he was, working with a force of Stears, like the Introvision creators, is mobile stilts some 40 effects people while 10 of us were on keeping secret the nuts-and-bolts explanation pendicular. types of plastic and metal another stage doing Outland. It just doesn't of the process. What they do speak about is Many different in the building of Con-Am 27 and a make a lot of sense to me." how their invention will revolutionize the were used to mold the geodetic Stears admitted to a keen interest in production of SF/Fantasy films by allowing special tool was designed recalls that five interna- SF/fantasy films. He and his wife have their complex effects to be created in an economi- structures. Stears firms were employed to supply own film company located at the EMI cal manner. tional instruments. Studios in England and hope to turn out a Working again with Sean Connery on Out- materials and special kilometers (4.4 miles) of fantastic picture or two of their own. But land was much like old home week for the "We used seven to light the while Outland is in the final stages of post- craftsman. After laboring together on all of Japanese-imported fibre optics types were tested until we production, the artist is searching around for the actor's Bond films, Connery and Stears model. Dozens of that would transmit another assignment. remain old acquaintances. found just the right one Using special Stears winds up his discussion of Outland "Sean's acting has matured so much. He the proper light resolution." Vision camera, the by expressing dismay with the current film- was always very good, but now he's the best lenses and an old Vista as close as two inches from the makers who expose the "secrets" of special- ever. Peter Hyams ((Jutland's director) I crew shot the painstaking detail holding up effects. found to be a very interesting character, and I model, with "You can't go around telling how every- think he's really put together a fine picture. I under close scrutiny. Father While the results are said to be impressive, thing is done; it's like there's no like to think of Outland as High Noon in enjoyment. still not quite satisfied. Christmas—it ruins audience's space; there's Sean hunting down these hit Stears is ' "There's always room to do better," he I've turned down lots of opportunities to give men out to get him, and it's all very exciting. never seem to get the time or lectures and write articles explaining what One of the maj or stars of Outland is not an remarks. "We I hear about all these fantastic special-effects are all about." actor but a thing—Con-Am 27, the two-mile- the money. and how many millions Stears pauses briefly, and then adds: "We long mining colony located on the Jovian movies being made Circle, but effects cost, but I never seem to get that may not be members of the Magic moon, Io. the are always we're magicians in the same league." * Working with model-masters Martin sort of money. My pictures

capable of lift-off and it did landing on cue. For You Only Live Twice, Stears and co. built a full-scale rocket that was STARLOG/yw/y 1981 85 . .

What goes into the making of a weekly science-fiction TV series? After six months on "Buck Rogers" an ex-crew it member has figured out and tells all in . . Confessions Of A Story Editor

Shaking his head and smiling, David says,

"Boy, this one's got everything in it but a dog." We laugh and continue making notes on the script. Not thirty seconds later, line producer Jock Gaynor pops his head into the office. "Oh good, you're all here," he says. "Listen,

I wanted to talk to you about Fighting 69th. We're gonna put a dog into it." We start laughing, but Jock goes on:

"Now it seems there's this dog, named

Lucky. . .the National Enquirer found it a

few years ago, near death, and they nursed it

back to health and put it on the cover and it's been in a couple of TV shows since By ALAN BRENNERT then...." The realization sinks in slowly: he isn 't kid- ding. They really do want to put a dog in the of you who believe that television enchantment, then Those at least bemused reflec- show! Is this real? Am I hallucinating? David shows are produced efficiently, eco- tions. Here are some of mine. . is slipping into a state of shock, I have my nomically, with a minimum of waste I am sitting in story consultant Anne Col- "Springtime for Hitler" face on, and Anne is with and cooperation among producers, ac- lins' office; from the single window one can snapping up the phone to call Bruce Lans- tors, writers, network and studio—please see the dry cement waterbed that runs parallel bury. "Bruce, you can't be serious. ..." I stay after class; I have some swampland in to the Universal lot, strange mutant can't hear Bruce's end of the conversation,

New Jersey you might be interested in. Inade- growing out of cracks and fissures in the ce- but it's clear he's adamant; the Enquirer will quate "lead" (preparation) time, network ment. This is one of the nicer views. Anne, do a photo-feature, it'll be good publicity. and studio dictates often at odds with one David Carren, and I are going over the latest Anne sputters helplessly on her end: another, ego explosions by temperamental (Dear God, how many has it been!) rewrite of "Bruce, this is the cheapest thing we've done stars—all contribute to the controlled chaos David's script, "The Return of the Fighting in—two or three weeks! " Sure, but when has of producing a weekly TV series. When 69th." that ever stopped anyone in television? Lucky something exemplary is produced, it is usu- For weeks, Anne and I have had one word ally by accident. (Or, as in the old joke about pounded into our heads by the network: re- the fictitious Miracle Studios: "If it's a good latability. The characters in this show must be picture, it's a Miracle!") ones the audience can relate to; the stories I tried writing this article as a chronological must have mature, adult themes. (Right after account of my thankfully brief tenure as story telling us this, one executive—a genuinely editor on Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, bright man, I must add—told us, in the same but discovered that that gave the experience breath mind you, "Y'know, we should have more coherence than was actual, and so I a story sometime where Buck goes under- have abandoned that tack for the scattershot cover as a robot, and he takes Twiki along approach which follows. Excuse, if you will, with him. . . It'd be cute." You begin to see the frequent changes of scene and tense, but the dichotomy here?)

when I recall my six months on Buck, it is not In our quest for relatability, we have per- as a contiguous whole, but as isolated scenes, haps gone a bit too far with David's script, like blackouts in a bad stage play. although this does not occur to us at the mo- And don't expect any juicy salacious ment. Not only do we have a corps of over- gossip, I'm afraid; my aim is to give you some the-hill pilots proving their worth after years idea of the funny, frenetic activity that goes of retirement . . . not only do we have a heart- with making a weekly television series. (Al- tugging father-daughter relationship between though when I told Bruce Lansbury, Buck's Wilma and Noah Cooper, the squadron's

former supervising producer, that I was going leader. . .but in the last draft we also had to write a piece on the amusing incidents that David change a minor character into a deaf- occurred on the show, there was a moment of mute servant girl who spunkily helps our puzzled silence, and then: "I didn't know heroes escape. Taking no chances on this one, there were any. ") Well, distance lends, if not boy. Alan Brennert; first season survivor.

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will be written into the show. "All right. But I won't put him in the spaceship!" Anne in-

sists. "He stays on the ground." Suddenly, I have an image of a small mongrel dog in a sitting the wing of a starfighter, ^ THEPLfiflET spacesuit, on like Snoopy on his doghouse. I try not to think of this too much. This was not, of course, the only instance of promoting a show right into the ground. Fred Silverman, his network in the ratings cellar, was doing everything possible to hype

his fall schedule as the steamiest thing since the "Rape of the Sabine Women." With a Buck it was easier than most; we always had female guest star to play off Buck, and she almost always was wearing a Lycra spandex outfit that looked as though it had been sprayed on. But things didn't stop there. By Any other Name Bruce had planned a motif for the episode

titles, ala The Wild Wild West (which he also produced): each episode was to be "Flight womenl" UCLA theater course we were both taking; to," "Flight of," "Flight from," etc. Sort of "No! Desperate Anne laughed, furiously making notes. whenheaskedme,"Doyouknowmyson?", classy, and it gave the show a certain consis- I replied, "No, but I stole his office.") Great! Desperate women. . .with a tency. Class, however, was a luxury we were "Great! .!" At Universal, all the Bright Young Execu- startling secret. . to be denied. I was in my office, giving Jim Next week, Buck is trap- tives (of which there are many) are eager to Steranko an interview for Mediascene, when "Shocking secret! their jobs) by tell- . their value (and keep planet of desperate women . . with a prove Bruce entered, looking grim. ped on a ing the creative people—many of whom have "These are our new episode titles, as per shocking secret!" " Lurid? Misleading? You bet. And, been in the business longer than the B.Y.E.s the network," he announced. 'Flight from Tacky? to predictably enough, everybody loved it, thus have been eating solid food—how produce the Legion of Death' is now 'The Plot to Kill a forcing us each week to come up with things a TV sho.w. All the B.Y.E.s have dark , City'; 'Flight from Sinaloa' is now 'Vegas in conservative three-piece suits, and are is like, "Princess Ardala returns ... with a wear Space' ; and 'Flight to Sorcerer's Mountain' scheme to bring the Earth to its usually pretty snotty to boot; the one execu- now 'Planet of the Slave Girls'." diabolical fellow knees—and Buck Rogers to the altar!" tive I knew who was actually a decent I immediately stuck my head inside a metal (There was a dirtier version of this one, but we wore a flower in his lapel, presumably to dis- bookcase and wondered if I could take my o'clock show.) tinguish himself from the others. name off the credit roll at the end of the show were, after all, an eight Universalis kind of a strange place to At Universal, employees often use golf (Jim tried to coax me out of the bookcase Now, Universal, it's easier to get a secre- carts to get from one end of the sprawling lot by saying that "Planet of the Slave Girls" ac- work. At typewriter, and about the to another. It's a lot of fun, puttering back tually had a nice, pulpy, Planet Stories-type tary than a good only way you can get an office is through and forth to the commissary, through sound sound to it, but it was pretty hard to find any single intervention. When I first took the job, stages and the like, and may be the redeeming qualities to such a thuddingly divine Ellison (who had worked briefly at most redeeming feature of working at the unimaginative title as "Vegas in Space.") Harlan Universal on The Sixth Sense) warned, studio. There are restrictions, however. The Bill Taylor's script, "Escape from Zeta," sure they give you an office, with your Teamsters, who provide the studio with was also deemed not promotable enough "Make that if two on the door. That way it's harder for drivers for trucks and limos, prefer under that title, and the network asked us to name about you." Sure or more staffers must go somewhere, they come up with something "jazzier." The story them to fire or forget first day at work, the Black Tower hire a Teamster driver to take them there. . had Buck freeing a female convict from an in- enough, informs us that there aren't any offices avail- usually in a van or station wagon. Thus, it is terstellar prison on a desert planet; not a for or Medora Heilbron, the new illegal for two people to ride in a golf cart (I'm whole lot you can do with that, I thought. able me associate producer. There were two dandy not making this up—there's even a $500 fine); Bruce kept telling me to come up with some- rooms on the second floor, but they were oc- better you should call a car and use five times thing jazzier, and I kept hoping he'd forget. cupied by a couple of Universal staff writers, the energy. No such luck. As we came down to the wire of whom was Richard Christian Mathe- With this in mind, picture if you will the on finalizing a title, Bruce came up with one one of the novelist/screenwriter. following: sure to delight sex maniacs of all ages, to wit: son, son ' ' I coming out of a screening with Bruce '.'!.' Well, as luck would have it, inside of a am ' Unchained Woman were hired to Lansbury and his secretary, Harriet Urg. week Matheson and his partner story editors on Quincy, and within Marguiles, near the front of the lot. Bruce It wasn 't enough that the titles be jazzy and be vacating their offices, and I have come in (separate) -carts; Harriet the women pneumatic; the coming attrac- moments of their I seized them, claimed squatters' took the tram. Bruce, ever the gentleman, tions had to be sexy, too. One day I was sitting Medora and the Tower that they'd gives his cart to Harriet. "But how'll you get with Anne, trying to come up with a promo rights and informed directory 'cause we back?" she asks. "I'll go with Alan," he says, line for "Planet of the Amazon Women" better change their office moving. No one said any- nonchalantly climbing into the cart beside (another great title from the House of Redun- had no intention of men!); thing, and we had our offices. A few weeks me. Alan starts to get a funny feeling at the pit dancy ; have you ever met any amazon later, Matheson and his partner were no of his stomach. "Uh, Bruce... are you we were both getting a little punchy by this — (doubtless through no fault sure " "Leave it to me. Drive." point, and the conversation went something longer on Quincy in this their Jack Klugman changes story I respect Bruce as I do few producers like this: of own; people change their town, but somehow I know this is a bad idea. Me: "All right! They want sex? They want editors the way some to us that We start puttering up a steep hill, toward the steamy? We'll give them stuff to make the underwear), and word floated back tour they'd kind of like their offices back. Too back of the lot. As we do, a large bus paper curl at the edges! Let's see. . .'Next the hill, — " late. turns a bend and comes slowly down week, Buck is trapped ' ." street . The driver sees later, I met Matheson Sr. at a on the other side of the ". . (A year Anne: . .on a planet of women. STARLOG/Ju/V 1981 87 " —

us and starts yelling and gesticulating wildly. writing funny memos to one another. In fact, turned to our bodies.

"Hey! You! Stop!" I can't remember any memos crossing my Then there was the time on the set when I I look at Bruce, but he doesn't blink an eye. desk, except for those from NBC's Broadcast was talking to Fred Bronson, NBC's excellent

"Keep driving, " he says. I take a deep breath, Standards, which were, I suppose, funny in publicity director and all-around good per- keep driving, and make a left turn between their own way. (My favorite: "As indicated, son, and Larry Stewart—who was to direct two sound stages, the bus driver's impreca- Wilma breaks into Ariela's home with the use the next week's "Space Vampire" episode tions fading away behind us. of a laser blast which causes an explosion. joined us. "Oh, Alan," he began noncha- might One think, well, that's that. . .ex- [Great syntax, eh?] This could be considered lantly, "I had some ideas for the vampire

cept that when we get to the next road (which illegal entry on the part of our heroine and a script. I thought it might be interesting if,

runs parallel to the first hill we were going up) way must be found to justify this." Italics are when Wilma is turned into a vampire, she de-

I look back to find that the bus has circled all mine. I suggested having Wilma knock po- velops a kind of stutter—you know, some the way around the north end of the lot and is litely on the door, ask, "Excuse me, are you identifiable mannerism: 'All r-right, B-Buck, right in back of us! holding my friend Buck captive in there?", now you d-d-die,' like that. What do you 1 "What is he doing'." Bruce says, in dis- and maybe, if we really wanted to get violent, think?" belief. have her ring the doorbell.) I stood there, speechless, my career flash- "Chasing us?" I offer. This is not to say we didn't have our share ing before my eyes, finally managing to stam- "Jesus Christ!" of jokes. mer out, "Uh, gee, Larry, I don't— I mean, life Suddenly, becomes a movie— speci- I remember sitting in dailies (the screening do you really think that'll play! I mean, fically, it becomes Duel. The bus picks up o f scenes shot the previous day) for " Fighting I—uh—

speed, bearing down on us, and I keep telling Larry grinned mischeivously, glanced at myself that Dennis Weaver managed to send Fred Bronson. "He thinks I'm serious," he that sucker tumbling into a ravine, but unfor- said. After my cardiovascular system began is tunately there a scarcity of ravines here on working again, I chuckled appreciatively the Universal lot and since my cart can go along with Larry and Fred, feeling less em- maybe five miles an hour, tops, I suspect this barrassed at having been snowed than re- will not be an instance of life imitating art. lieved that Erin Gray would not be sounding

The crazed bus driver comes in at an angle, like the Porky Pig of the Undead. (What can I wedging us between his bus and the side of say? Writers are fragile sorts, and after Stage 29. Bruce is stunned; he can't believe you've had one or two of your scripts turned this is really happening. Neither can I, but into diced celery by heavy-handed directors, now I'm starting to get into it. The driver you're apt to believe anything that comes out

stops the bus, I stop the cart; he starts out of of the mouth of a director, no matter how the bus to read us the riot act, when suddenly absurd.)

I slam the cart into reverse, spin the wheel, As it turned out, we needed as many jokes and take off at a dizzying five miles an hour as around the office as we could muster, be- the theme of Mannix kicks in inside my head! cause they sure as hell weren't finding their "We'll head for the river road!" I shout way into the scripts. over the rush of the wind. (Well, it seems like Anne and I did our best to mix melodrama- the wind is rushing.) The bus driver is doubt- tic action and relatively sophisticated humor; less staring in disbelief, wondering who the my own feeling (borne out, I think, by the two in the loons cart could be; we gain mo- "new" Buck Rogers this season) was that if mentum as we pitch forward down a small you tried to do the show as straight drama, hill, which leads to a narrow road parallel to you would end up with a half-baked space the dried-out waterbed. (Remember that?) opera as leaden as Battlestar Glockenspiel. The idea is, the road is too narrow for the bus, Although the stories were basically serious, since it's and also about five feet lower than we tried to inject a light, irreverent humor in- the other road, we should be shielded from to them—gently spoofing themselves, much the driver's view if he decides to pace us. as Tenspeed and Brownshoe would later do. (Who says writing melodrama doesn't have Unfortunately this attitude was, as far as 1 practical applications in the real world?) can tell, shared by virtually no one else associ- I zoom (well, putter quickly) along the ated with the show, and so we found all our road, certain that the cunning bus driver is best jokes and most amusing character lurking in wait on the road above, pacing us 69th" when the projectionist announced, moments eliminated on the set. When the cleverly. A few blocks before we would nor- "Hartland [our special-effects shop] wants rough cuts were screened, the stories would mally stop to get to our offices, Bruce says, you to see some footage of the asteroid field emerge about as light and cheery as Night of "Stop and ditch the cart here." We ditch they just shot." The film was cued up, the the Living Dead, and then I'd have to go back the getaway vehicle next to some bushes, lights went dim—and we were treated to the and "save" the show by writing throwaway scramble up an embankment to a tangle of sight of several dozen sponge-rubber aster- lines (usually for Twiki) to be dubbed in later, bungalows, then try to walk as nonchalantly oids bouncing spastically across the screen, in order to stop the audience from slitting as possible back to our offices. No bus. No suspended by a series of thick, jiggling, their collective wrists before the first station driver. We get back to the office and collapse highly- visible copper wires! break. (Which explains why Twiki usually into gibbering heaps of laughter on the floor, Half the people in the room had coronary' had the funniest lines.) and everyone thinks we're crazy. occlusions right then and there. Bruce snap- Out of boredom and frustration one day, After that, I am very careful never to ride ped up the phone and called Wayne Smith at while writing voiceover lines for such things

two in a cart again, not having any desire to Hartland, sounding for all the world like a as PA systems at the spaceport, I got a little find a dead horse's head on my typewriter in Bob Newhart routine: "Wayne? Bruce. Fine. punchy and wrote this announcement: the morning, if you catch my drift. Listen, we just looked at that asteroid footage "Will Dr. of Alpha Cen- .'. you sent over. Uh huh. Oh, was it. A joke. tauri please report to the reservations desk All Kidding Oh. Yes, that very .?" Aside was funny, Wayne. Yes, immediately. . One of my biggest disappointments on the we certainly did get a kick out of that. This became my escape valve—writing ob- job was discovering that, The Making ofStar Thanks. Bye." scure in-jokes just for my own amusement as notwithstanding, people Trek most on TV Bruce hung up, announcing in a perfect a longtime comics fan. I sometimes wondered shows do not spend the majority of their time deadpan: "That was a joke." Breath re- just what the poor actors on the dubbing

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stage thought about having to pronounce stay, he doesn't belong anymore. She starts the nuts-and-bolts of television production. I working with a names like Katar Hoi, Thranagar, Rann, off, but Buck grabs her, spins her around also had the pleasure of of fine, talented people, some of Norrin Radd, et al;* although I did include a and in her place we see a skull-faced corpse. number pronounciation guide and they usually got Buck wakes with a shout. He gets up, picks whom, with my editor's indulgence, I must even the toughest names right. up a picture—of Jennifer—from a table, then List here: In addition to Bruce, Anne, Medora, and No one was more surprised than I when angrily hurls it to the floor. We MATCH- people actually started picking up on these CUT to a pair of starfighters roaring through Jock (the "core group" of the show, all of throwaways, and listening for them. (Al- space: Buck and Wilma. They land at a whom I had worked with on Wonder though no one—except Harlan Ellison spaceport, where Buck again sees the Jen- Woman), there was Tim O'Connor, a fine ac- always picked up on the fact that the roguish space nifer-like woman. After pursuing and losing tor, consummate professional, and a lovely pirate, Barney, in "Plot to Kill a City" was in her, he tries to get name from a reservations joy to write dialog for; Erin Gray, a

I I allowed to fact loosely based on Black Barney, one of clerk; Wilma, in a gesture of friendship and lady for whom wish had been the regulars in the original comic strip. Nor caring, shows the clerk her ID and instructs write larger parts; guest stars Gary Coleman, did people notice how often characters nam- him to give Buck the information. James Sloyan, Buster Crabbe, Markie Post, ed "Nowlan" and "Calkins" seemed to pop The air version of that went as follows: and Robert Cornthwaite; directors Dick the woman at the mall, Buck Lowry and David Moessinger; writers Oavid up. . . or that Bill Taylor in his episode, "Un- After seeing chained Woman," named a starfighter lieu- goes to sleep and (seemingly) wakes up in Carren, Bill Taylor, Kathleen Barnes & David tenant "Zimmerman," after the editor of a Houston. He has no reaction. He merely gets Wise; Bill Nuss, Paul King, and Fred Bron-

is perfectly normal. When son at NBC; Tip Corbin of Universal; and certain SF-film magazine. . .) up, as if everything especially our amazing and energetic After five months, however, it became ap- Jennifer appears, they exchange romantic most including Williamson, parent, first to Anne and then to me, that if platitudes, and Buck promises that after this secretarial staff, Lynn we continued on Buck we might become very deepspace mission, he'll never leave her. Peggy Schmezter, Darlene Carr, Harriet ..." Marguiles, and Cathy Fein. It was fun, gang. wealthy, but would probably be spending our "Never leave you . . . never leave you He money from the inside of a sanitarium for the wakes up back in the 25th Century, looks at Originally I'd planned to close this article incurably disillusioned. Contrary to what you Jennifer's picture. Cut to the starfighters, with some reflections on the new, "improv- writing might have read elsewhere, we left the show- then to the spaceport, where, before the ed" Buck Rogers, which as of this for that sargasso of lost SF very much of our own volition, despite en- chase, Wilma is lost really quickly; Buck gets looks destined

. after all, ill of treaties from Bruce, NBC, and Universal for the woman's name because the clerk recog- series in the sky But why, speak the or Let's face it; any pro- us to stay. As for why we left —rather than nizes him as the famous Captain Rogers. dead, near-dead? gram whose idea of adult subject matter is a point any accusing fingers, I will offer one ex- This example is fairly typical. Every time ample of the conditions that forced our resig- we attempted to make the character of Buck character who can unscrew his head like a nations. more human and vulnerable, showing fear lightbulb is just too easy a target. In the one and pain and anger as well as courage and time I met them, John Mantley and Calvin have other Clements impressed me as reasonable, intelli- 'Jennifer' Et Al. strength . . . every time we tried to The original version of my script, "Jenni- characters, like Wilma, help him, even as real gent men; I can only assume that they labored restraints as we. fer," opened this way: human beings must help and depend on one under many of the same As for why Buck Rogers, in his third screen After seeing a mysterious woman at a another. . .we were thwarted. shopping mall, a troubled Buck goes to bed Under the circumstances, the only ra- incarnation, failed ... well, others have and (seemingly) awakens back in 20th cen- tional, self-respecting thing to do was quit. speculated before me, some even before the

reached the air, I shall, I think, tury Houston. He is at first stunned, disbe- show and lieving, then overjoyed; even the sounds of All In All defer to their judgement. cars honking in the street are beautiful to him Still, despite all the craziness, all the chaos, Then his girlfriend Jennifer appears (who all the frustrations attendant upon turning "It is my show, I am Buck Rogers. If the looks exactly like the woman in the mall). He out a weekly TV show, it's an experience I audience likes me, then it will be a success. If " will embraces her, but she looks sad, says he can't value and one which I am glad I did not miss. they don't, then it fail. For me, at least, working in television is fun, —Gil Gerard, in an interview in the and a weekly show is the purest distillation of Post, September 16, 1979 •Adam Strange is DC Comics' most popular space opera

character; Rann is his planet of operation. Kater Hoi is television imaginable; it's a valuable learning Hawkman who comes from the planet Thanagar and experience. You learn to write quickly, under Rest in peace, William Anthony Rogers. Norrin Radd is the real name of the Silver Surfer. any circumstances whatever, and you learn And better luck in your next incarnation. *

STARI OG Jiilv 1981 89 5th Anniversary Greetings from the Science Fiction world

again, members of the science-fiction community are helping us cele- Oncebrate ouranniversary. The worlds of SF-TV, literature, filmmaking and artare represented here by many of the finest talents around, from Asimov and Clarke to Chris Reeve and Doug Trumbull; from Bonestell and DiFate to Thorn Christopher and . We hope that you'll enjoy their messages and words of encouragement and take heart, as we do, that the golden age of science fiction is just beginning.

ARTHUR C. CLARKE outstretched, pointing towards the new and ANTON PHILLIPS (SF author, science fact writer, screenwriter, boundless frontier— the West .... (Actor: Dr. Mathias Chancellor—University of of Moratuwa, Sri That frontier, which must have seemed in- on Space: 1999)

Lanka) finite in the Sixteenth Century, has now gone I almost missed your

It's years since I've seen Millais' famous forever. To us, the oceans across which Raleigh deadline as I was away painting "The Boyhood of Sir Walter and his crews labored for months represent no on a short holiday at Raleigh," but STARLOG has more than a couple of meals and an in-flight the multi-colored Gas

suddenly reminded me of it. . . . In case you're movie. Yet we are the lucky ones— for the Gardens on Sing, a not familiar with this Victorian masterpiece, it young explorers of today have waiting for them charming planet in the shows the future explorer as a boy of fifteen or not merely a new world, but a new universe. Auriga Constellation. The journey was made

so, listening entranced to a grizzled old sailor as Psychologically, that's still a very recent possible because I have perfected my Mass to he spins tales of El Dorado and the lands discovery— less than ten years old! In 1972, Energy Converter Laser Beam Transporter beyond the sea. The storyteller's hand is Mariner 9 gave us our first view of the real (Detailed specifications to be published as soon

Mars, with its twenty-mile-high volcanoes, its as world-wide patents secured). The diaries of

continent-spanning canyons, its evidence of an- my trip have amused my friends, and I may

cient catastrophic floods. Then Mercury, send you one or two entries. Anyway, I would

Venus, Jupiter and Saturn were all recon- gladly traverse the galaxy to wish you a Happy noitered, with stunning results. Astronomers Anniversary. May you prosper and multiply,

are still punch-drunk over the rings of Jupiter, because, as we all know, the stars are not the the impenetrable clouds of Titan, the inferno of limit. Venus, the supersonic volcanoes of Io, the braided rings of Saturn, and a hundred other

marvels. The discovery of the Solar System is barely a decade old; and what's waiting for us

out there on Uranus, Neptune, Pluto . . . ? It's very encouraging that, in this time of gloom and crises, STARLOG (and a welcome consultant, handful of popular science magazines) can pass (NASA science advisor: Star on these wonders to a new generation. The Trek-The Motion United States desperately needs such sources of Picture) inspiration, to repair the defects in its school STARLOG's 5th system— recently pinpointed by the disclosure Anniversary is a that millions of deprived Americans don't yet proud event for Kerry know that Evolution is a fact now almost as O'Quinn, Norman well-established as the shape of the earth. Jacobs and the staff. The magazine's dauntless (Unless, of course, God has perpetrated a col- dedication to humankind's future and to the ossal fraud in creating the entire wonderful and is statement for the beautiful record of geology. There's no way of space program a ringing potential in all of us and for our longed-for disproving such a ridiculous theory—but to any ability to make technological evolution part of intelligent Christian it must be blasphemous.) evolution. yearning for So good luck, STARLOG—keep up your natural biological That work of entertainment, inspirations and educa- humankind's maturation has spoken again and again from the pages of STARLOG and your tion. We need all three, though the mixture- ratio should vary from time editorials. May the future be as good and bright for as it for to time, to prevent boredom. Not that science- your magazine should be the space program! fiction fans are ever in great danger of that\

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JACK KATZ CHESLEY BONESTELL DAVE PROWSE (Artist, author, creator of The First Kingdom) (Astronomical artist, (Actor: Star Wars, matte painter: When The Empire Strikes Worlds Collide, War Back, Clockwork of the Worlds, Desti- Orange, Hitch-Hikers nation Moon) Guide to the Galaxy)

Five years?? Con- I never realized that gratulations!! Keep STARLOG started up at up the good work. the same time as I was stomping around Elstree Studios bringing

- life to George Lucas's chilling creation Darth Vader! The "Force" has been TO with us all since and I'm especially pleased to CHRISTOPHER REEVE be able to share this fifth birthday. As you lectures at SF con- $TW*LQG (Actor: Superman, know, I do the rounds of universities, and if you tAM Fifth of July, ventions, colleges and you Somewhere in Time) could hear the round of spontaneous applause

that goes up when I talk about STARLOG being CONTINUE I like to support anything that encour- the best SF magazine in the world, you would w/f and "Force" UNTIL ages fantasy. It's an indeed be gratified. More power REACH THE important element in to your pens. Just because you're best in the relax your stan- all our lives. It has to world doesn't mean you can do not only with the films and plays and books dards. Keep up the Pv standard u and music we expose ourselves to, but also to excellent \ and I'll write for you N \ OP our personal dreams. iPNZE again in anotherither five yQut.)t \ rov^l years.

MARTIN J. BOWER (Modelmaker: Space: ALAN DEAN FOSTER 1999, Outland, GERRY ANDERSON (Author: Outland, ALIEN) Splinter of the Mind's Congratulations on (Creator/Producer: Star, the Eye, Dark the last five years and !$ Space: 1999, UFO, Flinx and Pip trilogy) for the Thunderbirds) good luck JA | | As far as I know next millennium! - -it My best wishes to there are only two followers of my work groups of people in throughout the this world who world. Thank you all regularly criticize dreams: psychiatrists and HILL for your wonderful REG readers. science-fiction (Producer, art director: UFO, Thunderbirds, suport. I know this simple but important their internal The psychiatrists have own Captain Scarlet, Space: 1999) message will reach all of you for I have yet to journals (which is not to say they read the meet an SF fan who does not read innards of animals, as their predecessors used STARLOG—a tribute to a truly remarkable to) and at least one popular magazine, magazine. Quote of the century: "Science Fic- readers " Psychology Today. Science-fiction tion is a thing of the past. . . —A Film Finan- publish an enormous amount of criticism and cier. Who said there is intelligent life on this discussion through the medium of fanzines. planet? Despite this, Supermao-omation is on Beyond the fanzines lie the prozines. its way. Watch this space. s\ In-between are publications which partake of both. There aren't many of them, because it's tough to strike a balance between having fun and getting serious. STARLOG manages to achieve both. Keep up the good work, and (SFX artist: 2001, RON MILLER happy birthday. CE3K, Star Trek-The (Astronomical Artist; Motion Picture) Editor of Space Art) I'd like to exploit Happy Anniver- your gala 5th anni- sary! Unlike any versary issue to forma- other SF "media" MIKE MINOR announce the magazine, STARLOG (Art director, produc- tion of our new has realized that that tion illustrator for company, the Entertainment Effects Group. word includes more Star Trek— The Mo- (2001, Close Encounters, Star

I have formed a partnership which than printed matter and motion pictures. You tion Picture) Trek) and acquired virtually all of the photographic have devoted space to all the art forms. In your "If a man does not has keep pace with his effects equipment previously built for Close pages I have seen sculpture, painting, theatre, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, architecture; you have discussed SF music and fellows, perhaps it is Encounters and because he hears a as well as the 20,000 sq. ft. building which is carried it further by publishing fine recordings. you'll be surprised Most importantly, you have been unswerving in different drummer; let him march to the music now our home. We think " next! Good luck . what's coming your support of those just entering the field of he hears, however measured or far away. . and amazed by it, both and I in many more years of STARLOG, and we hope SF art. You have given the amateur artists Thoreau expressed and STARLOG long association with your fine the serious treatment they require and deserve. have been doing it since both were born—may to continue a all the joyously. magazine I wish you the continued success very sincerely. of you do same,

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MARTIN LANDAU THE BROTHERS HILDEBRANDT THOM CHRISTOPHER (Actor: Space: 1999, SF-fantasy illustrators: Atlantis, (Actor: Hawk on Mission: Impossible, Lord of the Rings calendars, Urshurak) Buck Rogers) Meteor) Congratulations on your 5th anni-versary I am very happy Happy Anniversary spectacular. We are happy to be part of that STARLOG has, in to all my friends on your celebration. We feel that STARLOG has its Fifth Anniversary STARLOG's staff - and become a tremendous asset to SF and fantasy issue, given me the to regards to all your loyal fans. It's nice to know that someone cares opportunity thank all have readers and my about all of us who believe in the fantastic. l\lw & publicly who wonderful fans who read your magazine. Keep up the great work. We wish you years of responded so enthusiastically to the new continued success. character of Hawk. The mail received has constantly referred to the character's sense of individuality, passion, nobility of spirit and 'iV*^. intelligence—oddly enough, all the qualitites BOB BURNS inherent in the human species when it functions F"m ec"tor assistant &%t 'i^mUM*. I ( ' with responsibility. If what Buckminster Fuller ™ monster maker, calls "This Spaceship Earth" as it travels into actor; "Tracy the many tomorrows, it will only do so when we Gorilla" in Ghost acknowledge the responsibility we have to

I Busters; Further ourselves, each other and the life around us. Adventures ofMajor jf Mars. I For five happy years you have given us- regular gifts of a terrific magazine and the fun HARRISON ELLENSHAW (Matte Artist: The of anticipating the arrival of the next issue. I Empire Strikes Back, Now, on your birthday.we loyal fans give to I Star Wars, The Black you a gift; our congratulations, our support, I Hole) our interest and our love. I look forward to You don't have to joining you as you hold the future's hand and Em ^TH be crazy to work in lead it to countless readers for their wonder and jHI this business, but it enlightenment. helps! Good luck, | JHi LOUSCHEIMER STARLOG. ' fit" (Executive Producer: r Jason of Star yj&W* 'Zjb*t+< JOE HALE Command, Flash DAVID QERROLD Gordon-Animated, (Animator: Mary Poppins, Pete's (Author: The ) Dragon, The Black Hole) Galactic Whirlpool, Being a part of I have been a fan of STARLOG for the last Deathbeast, Trouble always learn something the "STARLOG four years and new with Trlbbles) Family" has been from every edition. Fiye years of great!!! STARLOG! The mind

boggles! I hope the next five years are even better. ISAAC ASIMOV <3^cuc>^ vJDcfe/fc-®^ (Science fact, SF author: /, Robot, The Foundation Trilogy, (Model maker: In Memory Yet CE3K, , Green, Opus 200) 1941, Dark Star) I understand the A happy 5th Anni- BUSTER CRABBE fifth anniversary is versary to STARLOG "wooden" which its (Actor, first portrayer and all fans of of Buck Rogers and suits STARIOG. The seventy-fifth is SF/fantasy. which also suits Flash Gordon) "diamond" STARLOG. May Whatever your age, Congratulations on this be an indication that you will progress "May all your dreams seventy-fifth smoothly another successful from fifth to and come true!" triumphantly. year.

GENE WARREN (SFX artist, model WALTER KOENIG maker; Man from (Executive Producer: (Actor: Star Trek. Atlantis, Land of the Jason of Star Author: Chekov's Lost, Kronos) Command, Flash Enterprise) Congratulations, Gordon-A nimated, STARLOG: "fair as STARLOG on your Space Academy) a star, when only one FIFTH! Thank you

It's been great is shining in the for your great articles flying through space sky"— Wordsworth. and especially for keeping my fans posted so with you for five years! Congratulations on now I have reason to thank all of them for my Here's to the future! five years. Now may you support. go on five times five! f(HcC~

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HOWARD CRUSE VINCENT Dl FATE FRANK VAN DER VEER (SF-fantasy vNiili''^ illustrator: Di Fate's Catalog of Science Fiction Hardware) In the brief time

since it first began publication, STARLOG has become an important voice in the ever expanding fields of and

literature. It has helped to fill the hearts and (Optical effects: Flash Gordon, The Empire minds of young people everywhere with dreams Strikes Back, Superman, Star Wars)

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good to try to cheer me up. They're right, you And missed them. THE SYMPATH know. I'm a real dunsel." "Come on up to my room." "A what?" "Huh?" I turned so quickly I got my Yashica "A dunsel. You know. A useless article." and Panasonic straps tangled.

By W. KEITH BRENTON "You're not that," I consoled her. I was in love? Maybe. "You're right; I'm a mathom." "I've got a room upstairs," she explained.

I met her at VUL-CON 10, the "first of the new- "You aren't that, either." "Oh?" ". celestial jetsam, "Alicia and Dawn and Jenna and Suzi and me." wave ST conventions," which as it happened was . .asliceof interstellar refuse, ." congregating around the Hilton lounge in my a hunk of. . .of. . "Oh." hometown. "Stardrek." "But they've gone to get a pizza. I told them I'd She was five feet-four with tangled raven hair, "I hate you." wait, as long as I didn't miss the costume competi- black calf-boots and a purple velour microdress I was taken aback. "Why?" tion. But it's tomorrow and I'm not hungry with some sort of gold insignia on it. She was green. "I'm sorry; I don't know why I said that. I don't anyway, and they won't be back for hours." ! ' ' elevator. ! At least, every square inch of epidermis visible to hate you. I hate it when people try to cheer me up by "Oh I followed her to the Swish Ten me was green: pretty, pouting face; long, lean being witty and I want to smile in the middle of a or twelve bearded Yangs ran out, apparently in fingers; longer, lovely legs. good, healthy siege of self pity." pursuit of the backwards gun-bearers. I didn't even

. Yashica. Have to come back 1 was not in love. Her mascara. . .or whatever. .was beginning bother with the the ex- Not yet. But 1 was intrigued. Me and my Yashica to turn her cheeks a shade of forest green. I daubed tomorrow, I thought. Maybe I could talk exten- 35mm and my Panasonic cassette. (Later, I would at them bravely with my finger. ecutive producer into giving me a one-day suggest that my executive producer equip me with a "Thank you." She seemed to have regained sion. Hah! Fat chance. When he says 'photo essay news' he means 'jump!' tricorder—but at the time, 1 had never met one.) some composure. "Lucky for you I didn't decide for tonight's ten o'clock

I could overhear the huddle of onlookers to be a Troyian princess." "I have an urge to say 'fifth floor,' like they do gathered about her. The one with the pointed ears "Really?" on the turbo-lifts," she confided. did say your name is?" seemed to be their jeerleader. "Yes. . .my tears would have enslaved you "Uh-huh. What you "I thought red, blue and tenne were the only of- forever." "I didn't. Call me Shaandra. Three 'a's' —but

I ficial uniform colors," said the Elf. "Oh. . . right. Of course." I wished knew what not in a row."

"Nah. Franz Joseph had a whole page of the devil she was talking about. "I kind of like the, I nodded politely, and punched for the fifth uniform colors in the Fleet manual," another uh, purple uniform. Looks nice with green. Com- floor. refuted. plementary colors." We went up. "Dummy," put in a dark, false-bearded Yang- "Honestly?" "Which way will you be dressed— native style, type. "Uniform means 'standard' in that case. "Oh, yes." or uniform?"

Franz Joseph Schnaubelt used 'uniform' colors "Which one of them is your favorite? Of the I thought. Heaven only knew what native style

throughout, even on the ships!" races, I mean." would be. "Uniform."

. It with said. "I always thought that tunic Dummy subsided, scratching his face. was "Uh. . " Now where was she going the "Good," she covered with hair, a false upturned snout, and dark conversation? "Kentucky Derby, I guess." with the wide epaulettes looked faggy. Oooh, corneal contact lenses. He looked like a teenage "Tease! Come on, tell me." wouldn't orange be nice for an Andorian to wear?

..." blue skin tone. I always did like were-pig. And the silks. . . Desperation. "The ... uh It began to dawn Contrast with the the second pilot. 1 snapped. on me that she was referring to some of the in- the apricot shirts in the pilot and

Beautiful group shot. Normally, I would have tergalactic races connected with this whole, nutty Turned up the color to make them look brighter." moved on, but they gave no sign of letting up. And TV universe. Creatures with antennae were com- "Of course. Is Shaandra your name?" which looked she hadn't said anything. mon in sci-fi, I reasoned. Surely. . . 1 put an index She looked at me. Deep blue eyes

"Skin's too green, too." 1 thought this an odd finger of either hand behind my head. And wiggled ridiculous with green skin. But nice. "No, but you

comment from the caped, hawklike Elf, whose them. In doing this, I missed a great picture of a six- can call me that." pallor was decidedly off-pink. foot fuzzball walking out of an elevator. "What would you like to call me?" "Paint her greener!" one of the others said Swish! She looked thoughtful. "Thelin. Mr. Thelin.

reverently, as if quoting. They laughed. "Oh, the Andorians! " she said. "Yes. Beautiful Captain Thelin! I don't care if he was a commander Jeering laughter. Was that sound familiar! How sky-blue skin, snow-white hair. Antenna-shaped and science officer; you should be a captain at

many days had I ridden the bus home from school, ears. Warriors and Spartans; I love them. Are you least!" my only friends in my pocket: Bradbury, Heinlein, going to be an Andorian tomorrow night?" Swish!

it disappeared elevator doors dilated (dilated! Ah, Asimov. . . My eyes followed the fuzzball as The

"Well, she'll never win," Yang said, pointing at down a corridor. I sighed. Heinlein!) and we emerged. ' confronted us. her armstripe of gold braid. "Whoever heard of a "It won't be that hard, ' she assured me, sweeping Elf, Yang Prime, and Dummy wild Orion woman serving as a lieutenant on a star- a gesture around to recapture my attention. She hit "Hey, she's with an alien!" This seemed hilarious ship?" a tiny figurine firing a backwards gun at a three- to them. "Take me to your Potentate!" "Besides, the Interstellar Ambassadors headed snake creature. The blue-shirted figurine She ignored them elegantly. Costume Ball isn't until 9 o'clock tomorrow toppled from his precarious perch, rolled off the • "Smile!" I grinned, and snapped. Only two pictures of night," the were-pig put in, delivering the coup de coffeetable between us and bounced into my lap. I shots so far, and both of them were well have been draft- grace. Dummy, you dummy. picked it up. A miniature elf, complete with those three losers! I might as executive producer on They shuffled off toward an elevator, leaving pointed ears. Niven would have loved it; company ing my resignation to the

her whimpering and slouched in her deep lounge for his Modes. But I could not get it to stand aright. high contrast paper.

lay. . .an or- chair. Shish! went the elevator door. "Oh, hey. Sorry." She replaced it deftly. "In the The magic door, beyond which seen. Twice. Aw, what the heck. I was feeling pretty words of a famous Orion novelist, 'Let me help'." dinary hotel room. 2001 I had The Yashica. chivalrous. I sat down beside her. Swish! second time with my sang. For the first time, I She spoke, all soft-voiced and feminine. She said A task force of similarly-uniformed (?) people "Here we are," she than a dirty word. went by, brandishing silver-grey backwards pistols. realized she couldn't be over seventeen. More

blast Journalism 201 . She was way over "Beg pardon?" I said, ever so tactfully. Gold, red and blue shirts and microdresses—what seventeen; trying not to stare at what her Instead of repeating it, she said: "It won't do any color! I fumbled with the film advance. seventeen. But I was

96 STARLOG/y«/y 1981 .

gold breast-badge was pointing toward. "Come on deadline; hopefully no one would recognize them She fought back a smile, and lost. "Sure." in." as press stills and from a ten-year-old rerun which Warm. Glowing. Fiery! There was a wild Orion

I left the door open. we reran after the 10 o'clock news; and if the ex- girl under that purple uniform. bed. "Have seat. ecutive She motioned me to a a Now producer didn't like them /could tell him to "Live long and prosper. . .until tomorrow?" just a minute; I'll be back." She disappeared into jump! she said.

the bathroom. But. . .somehow. . .they didn't look like press "Beyond tomorrow."

A moment. I looked at my watch. One hour to stills. "Where did you...?" I stammered. "Hey, that would have been a good episode deadline. "Look...!" title."

Now a different green girl emerged. Perfectly "Yes, some of them are in color. They're The magic door closed. I floated toward the blonde, and carrying a smaller black version of the positives taken from actual film clips from the elevator (floaied\ Ah, Ursula K. LeGuin!), to be giant fuzzball. show. You know, you rephotograph them as slides awakened by a beeping noise at my hip. My

"Better?" she asked, still combing. and make negatives, then print a positive from Panasonic. A C-30 cassette, and thank God, I had

"I... I'd have to see it without the, that. I'm getting better on the color ones. I use a remembered to press the 'record' button!

I uh. . .without the green, guess." low-density filter and high-contrast paper on the Beyond tomorrow . . "Well," she sighed. "I'm no Susan Oliver." She prints, and rear-project the slides on frosted glass ... a whole planet full of aqua-colored children crossed to her suitcase and dumped the wig in. for the color negative. You can get them a little with black and white hair, and vestigial antennae. Then, searched, throwing garments wildly. Finally clearer that way, rather than contact-printing But first things first. The prints. A quick two extracted a thick manilla envelope and proffered it them. Can't sell them; they're just nice to have. minutes of copy about the convention celebrating to me. "This is what I wanted to show you. Let's Especially for a photojournalist. That's what I the return of the sci-fi series as "THE MOTION see if we can find some Andorians." want to major in. Or maybe masscomm with an PICTURE." Maybe even catch the rerun after the

1 opened it. "Pictures!" I nearly shouted. Love- English minor, you know. Too bad, in a way, you news—it couldn't be as bad as Batlleslar Galactica. ly, artistic 8x10 glossies! Starships and aliens and can't get a major in Science Fiction — half of my And then I would spend the rest of the night monsters and control rooms! Dumbfounded, I outside reading would already be. . .hey, what's looking all over town for sky-blue body makeup, managed: "They're fantastic! Can I borrow the matter?" white hairspray dye, a pair of rubber-dart anten- them?" I was in love! nae, gold braid, and an orange velour shirt. Swish!

"Sure." "Shaandra. . .uh!!!I have to go." went the elevator door.

I had almost 40 minutes to contact-print them, Her lower lip pouted. "The Captain's famous Elf, Yang Prime, and Dummy. "Greetings, first a negative print and then a positive. Then they last words to his woman. But you'll be back." alien!" They posed. were truly 'my' pictures! I wouldn't have to come "I promise . Can I . . . we . . . seal it with it with a Oh, why not? back after all, except to return them; I'd meet my kiss?" I snapped. +

STARLOG/Jw/v 1981 97 LASTWORD NEXTMONTH

i t's time now to say "thank you" JAMES BOND RETURN to all of those who have helped | #49 will films since Dr. premiered I us reach this fifth birthday, still the STARLOG No number one SF-media magazine in the present special coverage in 1962. Then there will be world. of the James Bond series an in-depth interview with First, thanks must go to the with two exciting features. "007" SFX-man Derek professionals those talented people — First, we'll have a Meddings, who'll be without whose work there would be no SF retrospective look at the revealing trade secrets about entertainment. These are the people about special effects that have been his work on the Bond films whom we write. They work at typewriters, created and used in the Bond and his latest project, Superman II in front of easels, behind and in front of camera; they work in laboratories, studios and the theatre of the mind. Their art, product and vision are the heart of this magazine.

Then there is the staff, both in-house and freelance, who help put together a new issue of STARLOG every 28 days. They are the soul of the magazine. Kudos go to Art Director Cheh Nam Low, who is one very talented fellow and a heck of a nice guy to work with. Associate Art Director Bob Sefcik has also helped make my job

easier and the magazine brighter. On the editorial side. . . I just can't say enough about the job Managing Editor Susan Adamo has done since taking over the position. Her boundless energy and

enthusiasm, her dedication. . .the way she puts up with my

craziness . . . Sue has been just, well, Sue-perl A round of thanks must also go to SFX and Science Editor David Hutchison, whose work and expertise are central to this publication—even though he still hasn't learned how to meet a deadline. And thank you, too, to the rest of the crew: all of those other names that readers see, issue after issue, on the masthead. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK But the biggest round of thanks must go to you—the STARLOG readers and fans. You make it fun, you make it a challenge; you We've also got another double-barreled film treatment support us, emotionally as well as economically. slated for next issue. Editor David Hutchinson will be The hundreds cards and letters that you sent in honor of our of talking with optical effects supervisor about fifth anniversary are truly appreciated. One example, the artwork at storyboarding the FX. And he'll also be talking with director of the bottom of this column, was sent in by STARLOG fan Mark Raiders, Steven Spielberg. McNeil. There was no letter accompanying it, but I don't think one

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I think we have the greatest audience in the world, and we at STARLOG are determined to give you the best SF magazine in the FROM NEW world.! don't think we've hit our stride yet, but I bet the next five years are going to be very interesting and exciting around here. I YORK hope you'll share them with us. Howard Zimmerman/Editor John Carpenter's first SF offering, Escape From W, nut. ©ii^ti New York, is now upon us. We'll have feature interviews )IF with the film's two stars, Kurt Russell and Adrienne Bar- beau. They'll be talking about

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Issue #49 will feature "Chapter 2" of publisher O'Quinn's interview with George Lucas, and the second half of Jim Burns' interview with George ("Mr. Sulu") Takei. In addition, we'll preview New World Pictures' upcoming Planet ofHorrors, take a consumer look at SF video and computer games and, as always, there'll be a few special surprises. STARLOG #49 on sale TUESDAY JULY 7, 1981

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