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ATLANTA: Bernard Shaw's blossoming film career took a hit today when CNN president Tom Johnson said that CNN is reconsidering its policy of allowing its news anchors to play themselves in movies. CNN had been roundly criticized for appearances by 13 CNN on-air personnel in the movie "Contact" delivering fictional news reports about a message from an alien civilization. Earlier, Shaw had appeared in "The Lost World" reporting that dinosaurs had run amok in San Diego. But "Contact" came under special scrutiny because CNN's parent company, Time Warner, also owns Warner Bros., which produced the film. Johnson...
...turned out, Pathfinder rolled to a stop in precisely the right position, with its base down and its antenna up. Inside mission control, Manning squinted at his monitor and saw that contact with the ship had been maintained. "A signal is barely visible," he announced with a grin. The controllers burst into cheers...
Your poll showed that 13% of Americans believe intelligent beings from other planets have been in contact with members of the U.S. government. I think the numbers would have been higher if you had asked people if they thought U.S. government officials were from another planet. Why would E.T.s want to speak to anyone in our government? MARE MEYER Los Angeles...
...eyes are the windows of the soul, it seems there are more and more strange souls out there. Custom-designed soft contact lenses have made irises the latest accessory. "It's a statement," says California optometrist Richard Silver, who designed Schwarzenegger's cool orbs for Batman & Robin. ("These make the Terminator look like a baby sitter," Arnold boasted.) The painted lenses are costly ($800 and up), must be professionally prescribed and fitted, and are not readily available because of FDA restrictions...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Turns out that President Clinton is one of the stars of "Contact," the new Robert Zemeckis film about communicating with an alien civilization, and his attorneys are not amused. The movie twice uses footage of existing Clinton speeches to imply that the President is speaking about a message from the aliens, an extension of a tactic Zemeckis used in "Forrest Gump," where the protagonist was cut into historical footage so that he appeared to be talking to everyone from LBJ to Nixon. Clinton lawyer Charles Ruff says Zemeckis effectively gave the President a role in the film without...