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Harris finally turned in Hannibal in 1999. De Laurentiis quickly bought the book for $10 million. "Worth every penny!" says De Laurentiis, whose English is obscured by his ornate Italian accent. After six decades in the movie industry (his credits include La Strada, Barbarella and the 1990 remake of The Desperate Hours, in which Hopkins co-starred), De Laurentiis is, like Hannibal, unstoppable. Asked what would have happened if his old friend Hopkins had turned down the sequel, he answers quickly, "We open with Hannibal in plastic surgery...
...holy grail of pornography, though, has always been a machine that delivers a virtual experience so real that it is indistinguishable from sex, other than the fact that it isn't at all disappointing. Though prototypes have appeared in films (the Pleasure Organ in Barbarella, the Orgasmatron in Sleeper, the fembots in Austin Powers), reality has remained painfully elusive. In his 1991 book Virtual Reality, Howard Rheingold devoted an entire chapter to "teledildonics," his not-so-clever name for devices that allow people to have sex without being in the same area code. Rheingold imagines putting on a "diaphanous bodysuit...
...There is a disturbing trend in Hollywood to obliterate camp - even though campiness is a chief asset of a cult classic or any movie that acquires legendary status. But suddenly, movie execs want purity--"truth" at all costs. The latest victim is Barbarella, that terribly cheesy but wonderfully entertaining 1968 film starring Jane Fonda; Fonda vamped it up as an astronaut in the 41st century trying to save a positronic ray. Audiences ate it up. Drew Barrymore has signed on for a remake, but the new Barbarella will dump the camp factor and tell a very serious scientific story about...
DIED. JEAN-CLAUDE FOREST, 68, comic-strip artist; near Paris. Best remembered as the creator of the sci-fi cheesecake character Barbarella, he also designed the sets for the 1968 Jane Fonda film...
...first one. "Desperation #5" opens the album, and it is also the first song Weiland wrote after he came out of heroin rehab. Stealing judiciously from "Jane Says" and Bowie's Diamond Dogs, the funky drum machine sound can't save the song from going nowhere. Following it is "Barbarella," a plea to the space-faring sex kitten to save Weiland from his malaise. Weiland's despairing vocals are backed by a chord progression lifted straight from Hunky Dory, and more chock-full of sound effects than anything off the White Album. There's enough ideas in it for four...