Word: chris
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Sudduth, however, is only one of two college undergraduates to make the team and is the second youngest member (after Chris Penny of Princeton...
Many retailers are impressed with the manual for Apple's new Macintosh computer. Designed to be used with tapes and video displays, it guides Macintosh owners gently through a technological thicket. Says Chris Espinosa, 22, an eight-year Apple veteran who supervised the booklet's preparation: "A good manual is not a narrative; it is an outline or report. Nobody ever reads a manual cover to cover-only mutants do that...
...brain that hatched Gremlins was 21 years old at the time and productively disturbed. In the summer of 1981, Chris Columbus, a former student at the New York University Film School, was living in a loft in the garment district of Manhattan. "When I went to sleep at night," he recalls, "I could hear mice scurrying along the floor. I slept with my arm draped over the side of the bed, hanging just above floor level, and I kept having this nightmare of waking up with a mouse nibbling on my fingers. That's how I got the idea...
...encouraged by the new Old Guard. With Gremlins Spielberg, 36, has played godfather to two successive waves of moviemakers: Dante, 36, and Columbus, now all of 25, who is at work writing another script for his mentor. Says Spielberg: "You can drop a stone into the black hole of Chris' imagination and never hear it hit bottom. I'd never thought about directing Gremlins myself-I wanted to take a long vacation from anything with a wire trailing from its rear end that makes a creature smile when you pull it-but Joe seemed perfect...
Well, no. The gremlins really are an army of latex-skinned puppets devised by Special Effects Maven Chris Walas (Piranha, Raiders of the Lost Ark) and assembled for a bargain-basement $1.3 million. (By contrast, Carlo Rambaldi's E.T. creature alone cost $1.5 million.) The greenish-brown monsters, standing 23 in. tall with their 10-in. bat ears, were controlled by hands, cables, rods, radio signals and a simple but effective method that Walas describes as "throw-'em-across-the-room puppetry." The most complicated gremlin had 60 cables operated by a dozen technicians standing...