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Enter Cameron, a college dropout but a graduate of Roger Corman's famous schlock shop, where directors as divergent as Francis Coppola and Martin Scorsese had done their early professional work. There he also met his future wife, who was Corman's executive assistant. Cameron left in 1982 to direct his first feature, Piranha II. By 1983 Cameron and Hurd had written an original script called The Terminator, and Alien's proprietors were impressed with it. They called Cameron in to discuss another project, about which they could not reach agreement. Before he left, however, Producer David Giler threw...
Each of the central characters in the play is the product of a blighted past. Take, for example, Niles Harris (Guy Strauss), the renouned art history professor who ends his heralded teaching career by announcing to his class that he knows nothing about art. Or Father William Doherty (Leonard Corman), the kind, elderly parishoner who is torn between molding his foster son (Mark Rogers) into a badly-needed Indian physician and allowing him to pursue a lucrative and prestigious position in cancer research. Or Marion Clay (Maryann Bergonzi), the widow of a wealthy artist who divides her time between lamenting...
Like Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, John Sayles and Paul Bartel, Dante is an honors graduate of the Roger Corman night school of no-budget film making. Working for slave wages at Gorman's New World Pictures in the mid-'70s, Dante learned how to finesse movies on a frayed shoestring. He and Co-Director Allan Arkush shot their first film, Hollywood Boulevard, for a niggardly $60,000 in 1976. Dante's solo directorial debut, the 1978 Piranha, was made for slightly in excess of $1 million. In this fleet-wilted Jaws parody one could...
...from Dante's favorite movies: The Searchers, Close Encounters, The Wizard of Oz, To Please a Lady, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Orpheus, The Road Warrior, It's a Wonderful Life, animated cartoons by Warners Old Masters Chuck Jones and Bob Clampett, the complete works of Roger Corman. You have to be sharp to catch some of the references. At a meeting of gadgeteers, Billy's dad chats with Robby the Robot of Forbidden Planet as Spielberg tools about in wheelchair and leg cast; in the background is H.G. Wells' time machine (from the 1960 movie...
...Winthrop defense, which allowed no first downs in the first half, recovered a fumble just one minute following Bechtold's score. Slack immediately found Corman McLeod 34 yards downfield, to put the ball at the K-Land I. But Kirkland stiffened, and after four attempts, Winthrop went back on defense...