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This is not say that Campbell is an android bent on winning and nothing else. As he said, he leaves his testiness on the court...
...over the world, the individual using its resources is completely alone. In the basement of the Science Center, blank faces stare for hours into the computer screens. Occasionally, a humorous message forces a chuckle from one of the terminals, an oasis of human emotion amid a desert of android typists...
...Arnott, "we looked at each other and said, 'This isn't Naked Gun.' " Black, who wrote Lethal Weapon and The Last Boy Scout, says, "I hate action movies," but he also maintains that the new film is "a heartfelt example" of the genre. Sort of. For instance, the villainous android-cop from Schwarzenegger's Terminator 2 appears in a cameo. At another point, Slater/ Schwarzenegger unwittingly delivers the Terminator's famous salutation, "I'll be back." "You always say that," his boy companion replies...
...wide-eyed audiences of Terminator 2, the android called the T-1000, with its ability to assume the shape of anything it touches, is a state-of- the-art killing machine sent from the future to do battle with Arnold Schwarzenegger. But to the special-effects wizards at Industrial Light & Magic, the T-1000 is a technological marvel that represents, in the words of coordinator Dennis Muren, "the beginning of a new period of filmmaking." The San Rafael, Calif., firm, which director George Lucas founded in 1975 to design the special effects for his Star Wars, has crafted dazzling sequences...
...writers have become savvy about inflaming the bidding passions of the big studios. Last month about 20 producers and studio bosses received packages containing black alarm clocks and the cryptic message "The Ticking Man Is Coming." The note described a screenplay by Manny Coto and Brian ( Helgeland about an android with a nuclear bomb implanted in its head. The next day producer Larry Gordon bought The Ticking Man for $1.2 million...