Word: cocoon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eyes of Wall Streeters, Ron Howard has made a successful transition from tyke to tycoon. Once the lovable little red-haired Opie on the Andy Griffith Show, Howard, 32, is now a film director and businessman whose movies Splash and Cocoon were commercial and critical smashes. Imagine Films Entertainment, the production company that he started this year with Partner Brian Grazer, 34, went public last week, selling 1.7 million units at $8 each. On the first day of the offering, the price surged to $18.25, and the stock closed out the week at $15.25. As Opie's friend Gomer Pyle...
...devised the special effects not just for Lucas' three Star Wars epics, but for such Steven Spielberg hits as E.T., Poltergeist and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Now ILM's handiwork seems to be everywhere. The company created the effects for six of last year's releases, among them Cocoon (for which ILM technicians won their seventh visual-effects Oscar), Back to the Future, Young Sherlock Holmes and Explorers. And that does not count smaller jobs on films like Out of Africa. (The train that wends its way through the African landscape in the opening credit sequence is actually...
...work on matte paintings that provide the fake backgrounds for many scenes (the outer-space vistas in Star Wars, for example, or the cavernous warehouse at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark). In the model shop, workers craft detailed miniatures of such objects as the spaceship from Cocoon and the De Lorean car that flew through time in Back to the Future. The creature shop is the birthplace for most of the monsters and other grotesques that populate Lucas' fantasyland, from the Rancor Pit monster in Return of the Jedi to the yet-to-beunveiled Howard the Duck...
...water therapy, and Cal-a-Vie offers three Continental treatments that relax and help detoxify the body. The piece de resistance: thalassotherapy, from the Greek thalassa, or sea. Guests lie naked on a table while their bodies are painted with a deep-green seaweed paste. Then they are wrapped cocoon-like in a large plastic-coated heating blanket and roasted gently for 20 minutes. A shower, then a rewrapping, this time in aluminum foil for another 20 minutes, after which they shower again and stagger off to rest. The spa stresses elegance. Fresh flowers are ( everywhere, and gourmet, though...
...Bountiful. William Hurt was named Best Actor for his portrayal of a homosexual prisoner in Kiss of the Spider Woman. The awards for Best Supporting players went to Anjelica Huston, who was a Mafia princess in Prizzi's Honor, and Don Ameche, 77, for portraying the rejuvenated geriatric in Cocoon...