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...awake at night thinking about that far away paradise where children get their own targeted comicbooks. Luckily a pair of smart, fun books from this land, called Japan, have been brought over here. "Marmalade Boy" (Tokyopop; 200pp; $9.99) swoops down and entertains all those sad little 'tween girls while "Astro Boy" (Dark Horse Comics; 224pp; $9.95) has arrived to delight the boys...
...Visitors to the MCA will be immediately struck, not by darkness but by an explosion of Day-Glo pop. Kenji Yanobe's bubble-blowing Astro Boy wall sculpture, Myeong-eun Shin's floor of 400 plastic pink poodles, and Satoshi Hirose's room of 5,000 fragrant lemons seem to celebrate Japan's ongoing culture of kawaii (cute). But like a sugar-coated almond, "NEO-TOKYO" leaves a slightly bitter aftertaste...
...strictly for the cash. Though he later took other roles, he was forever branded as extraterrestrial Uncle Martin. He was so closely identified with the role that in 1996, when NASA thought it had found life on Mars, CBS News wanted to use him in a segment with two astro-scientists...
...course, only a transmitter of outer space to those of us on terra firma. By contrast, the new space station, a U.S.-led international effort that has already cost some $60 billion, is to be a constant outpost in the heavens. It hosted its first party of astro- and cosmonauts in the fall, and progress was monitored on the big screen at mission control in Moscow. In mid-November Russia's space program announced it was finally decommissioning its tattered, battered old station...
...most unusual, and infinitely rewatchable, movies are a trio of no-budget wonders that belong in the video collection of any serious student of outré cinema. "The Astro Zombies" (1968), coscripted by "M*A*S*H"'s Wayne Rogers, stars John Carradine a - natch - a mad scientist, and Tura Satana as a dragon lady criminal mastermind. Tura is one of many individuals looking to snatch Carradine's secret of bringing cadavers back to life with solar energy (don't ask). The horrendous creatures he resurrects are incarnated by stunt men wearing dimestore skull masks, so a good time...