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...asteroid disaster movie ever gets made again after this summer's glut, here's a good opening scene: Panicked scientist testifies before congressional committee. A mountain-sized space rock, he warns, "could hit tomorrow and we wouldn't even know it was coming." Pan across committee members wearing concerned expressions. Cut to spinning newspapers with alarmist headlines. Melt to crowds of city dwellers gazing anxiously at the heavens...
...humane and good-fatherish as Morgan Freeman is in the White House; that the demographically useful teenager who discovers the threatening comet is a smart, plucky puppy like Elijah Wood; that somebody as down-home and dutiful as Robert Duvall is commanding the space mission charged with diverting the asteroid from its deadly path. We could probably do with fewer of ambitious TV reporter Tea Leoni's problems with her wayward dad, but on the whole there are worse people with whom to spend our (presumably final) days. Director Mimi Leder handles the scene of mass panic very well...
...DEATH BY ASTEROID...
...chances that anyone will die from an asteroid collision with Earth are close to zero [SPACE, March 23]. Perhaps we should take a look at another threat to countless lives, the nuclear bombs around the world. What would happen if one of those went off? NATHAN S. VAN CUREN Maryville, Tenn...
...cosmic false alarm: If aliens are benevolent, maybe they can save us from any asteroid crashes! DAVID BENSCH Mount Vernon, Wash...