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L'J Dj\]G5 aunching into fid o The League dinar/ Gentlemen X E O N2Xt JGGU5 CJrJ S/\L5 STARLOG: The Science Fiction Universe is published monthly by STARLOC CROUP, INC., 475 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016. STARLOG and The Science Fiction universe are registered trademarks of STARLOC CROUP, INC. (ISSN 0191-1626) (Canadian GST number: R-124704826) This is issue Number 313, August 2003. Content is © Copyright 2003 by STARLOC GROUP, INC. All rights reserved. Reprint or reproduction in part or in whole—including the reprinting or posting of articles and graph- ics on any internet or computer site—without the publishers' written permission is strictly forbidden. STARLOC accepts no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, if Please photos or other materials, but if submittals are accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope, they'll be considered and, necessary, returned. do not call the editorial office re: this material. Freelancer phone calls will not be accepted. 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This candid, anecdote- President heavy tome hits bookstores this month (John Executive Vice RITA EISENSTEIN Wiley & Sons, tpb, $15.95). Watch for it! Executive Art Director W.R. MOHALLEY Successful Editor QUOTE OF THE MONTH DAVID MCDONNELL "The Pawnee have returned. I suppose Director they want their souls back." Art HEINER FEIL —Mr. Burns, The Simpsons TELEVISION Managing Editor STUPID MOVIE DECISION ALLAN DART OF THE MONTH Contributing Editors Warner Bros.: For assuming (and presuming) Writing ANTHONY TIMPONE too much about the Matrix phenomenon. Know MICHAEL CINCOLD this: The mainstream is fickle. They have no TOM WEAVER IAN SPELLING spoons. JOE NAZZARO STUPID TV DECISION Consultant OF THE MONTH "3 KERRY OQUINN Lee Goldberg It's a tie! UPN (for closing The Twilight William Financial Director Zone) and Fox (for not recalling John Doe). Rabkm DEB IRWIN Both shows got a semi-fair, full-season shot Executive Assistants: Dee Erwine, at success and a brief test each in other time Phillip Genessie, Andrew Schvvarz. slots. Still, we can't help but believe, from the Correspondents: (west coast) Kyle evidence so far, they're better than some of Counts, Pat Jankiewicz, Kim Howard Johnson, Rhonda Krafchin, Bob their replacements debuting this fall. Lee Goldberg and William Rabkin Miller, Marc Shapiro, Bill warren, Dan provide the provocative lessons to Yakir; (NYC) Dan Dickholtz, Mike STUPID STARLOG DECISION Successful Television Writing. McAvennie, Maureen McTigue, Keith OF THE MONTH Olexa; (Boston) Will Murray; (Phoenix) Bill Florence; (Orlando) Bill Wilson; Well, it wasn't a decision. It was an accident, (Canada) Peter Bloch-Hansen, Mark a SNAFU. Last issue, a computer glitch trans- BOOKS OF DAVID Phillips; (England) Anne Cay, Stan The third volume in Nicholls; (Booklog) Penny Kenny, Peter David's Sir Jean-Marc Lofficier, Michael Wolff; (Toons) Kevin Brockschmidt, Alain >r's HiGHrcfA\>JLER. AGEtJCi!. Apropos Nothing T«f INSURANCE of "Big Bad Bubba" Chaperon, Mike comedic fantasy saga, Fisher, Tom Holtkamp, Bob Muleady; MOW HE'S HERE TAKIN& CAKE OF NOW HE'S WOT.' SOU WHEN SOU REAAIY NEED Tong Lashing (he, $25), (Photos) Donn Nottage. Lisa Orris, Albert L. Ortega, Jo Beth Taylor, Glenn will be unleashed by & Scott Weiner. Pocket Books in August. Special Thanks to.- Lexie Aliotti, And the long-awaited Shawn Ashmore, Monica Bellucci, Meredith Blume, Jasin Boland, sequel to David's Knight Michael Broidy, Kristine Cheren, Carol Life, One Knight Only Cundieff, Ralph Eggleston, Patrick (Ace, he, $23.95), storms Gilmore, Andrew Cordon, Howard Green, Michael Gross, Karen bookstores this month. In Hartquist, Doug Ikeler, Oren Jacob, this volume of his 21st Shelley Jeffrey, Jakob Jensen, Tim century adventures, King Johnson, Angelina Jolie, Lana Kim, Arthur serves as U.S. Fumi Kitahara, Henrik Knudsen, Art: Mike Fisher Michael Lantieri, Stan Lee, Megan President. Camelot in- Lichko, Jonathan Mostow, Glen deed! Murakami, Ellen Muth, Tom Phillips, formed all the captions on 13 pages (the movie Keanu Reeves, Chris Reichert, Rebec- ca Romijn-Stamos, Arnold Schwarzen- and comics Hulk stories, contents page, SCI-FI egger, Fiona Searson, Irika Slavin, TV) from Helvetica Bold into plain ol' Helveti- FILM FANTASY CALENDAR Emma Snowden, Gina Soliz, Aaron ca without any italic to indicate movie, TV and Stanford, Andrew Stanton, Carolyn dates are extremely subject to Release Sudeth, Alex Uliantzeff, Lee Unkrich, book titles. It didn't look very good. We were change. Jeff Walker, Mark Walsh, Graham Wal- unhappy. July: Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas ters, Shane West. Cover images: T3: ilm/©2003 imf (7/2), T3: Rise of the Machines (7/2), Pirates Internationale Medien und Film BY OUR CONTRIBUTORS the Caribbean: Curse the Black Pearl of of GmbH & Co.3 Produktions KG; Matrix in the mid-80s, Lee Goldberg and Back (7/9), The League of Extraordinary Gentle- Reloaded: Melinda Sue Gordon/ William Rabkin made their national pro- Bros. Village Road- \men (7/11), Johnny English (7/18), Lara ©2003 Warner & fessional magazine writing debuts in STAR- show; Lara Croft: Alex Bailey/©2003 Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Life of paramount Pictures. Tomb Raider & LOG. Since then, they've gone on to write (7/25), Spy Kids 3-D (7/25). Lara Croft are Trademarks of Core and often produce— 100-odd hours of — August: Freaky Friday (8/1), Freddy vs. Design Ltd. episodic television {Spenser: For Hire, Diag- For Advertising information: Jason (8/15), American Splendor (8/15), nosis Murder, Nero Wolfe, Monk, SeaQuest, (212) 689-2830. FAX (212) 839-7933 Jeepers Creepers 2 (8/29). 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Beginning at 8 a.m. July 3, SCI FI Kevin Wallace (a former Andrew Lloyd Webber will air 44 consecutive hours of classic Zone. associate). The book and lyrics are by Shawn Guillermo del Toro is no longer interested McKenna, music by Stephen Keeling & Bernd in directing the Creature from the Black Stromberger. It's being targeted for a 2005 pre- Lagoon remake. miere. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen's By DAVID MCDONNELL Tor Books is doing novels set in the T3 Uni- title won 't be shortened to The League after all. verse—a separate deal from the T2 spin-off Breck (The Invisible Man TV pilot) Eisner books Bantam has published. The first, Termina- will direct the movie version of Clive Cussler's Sahara, rolling this tor Dreams by Aaron Aliston, will be out in hardcover in December. fall. He replaces Rob Bowman. Matthew McConaughey—who As of yet, there are no plans for a Terminator stage musical. starred in Bowman's Reign of Fire—is taking on the heroic role of Dirk Pitt. Veteran Trek writer-producer Herb Wright is reshaping Gene CHARACTER CASTINGS Roddenberry's The Questor Tapes for possible revival. The fall's new mainstream shows are employing their share of Looks like Tim Burton will direct the new movie version of the genre vets: Ghostbusters' Ernie Hudson stars in ABC's 10-8 as late Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Dahl actu- a tough officer training LA Deputy Sheriffs. Supernova's Robert ally didn't much like the previous film adaptation, 1971's Willy Forster is the retired Marshal dad to Florida U.S.