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CHRIS CARTER, creator of The X-Files, is going the extra light-year to make sure the future is filled with conventions where people in Scully and Mulder masks beg former extras on the show for autographs and talk sotto voce about aliens they have met. He has recorded a spoken-word piece on the movie sound track for The X Files: Fight the Future. But only true believers will catch it--it's 10 minutes and 13 seconds after the last track. As any aficionado knows, Ten Thirteen is the name of Carter's production company...
After perusing Toho's holy writ and digesting its meaning, Emmerich faxed the parameters of the studio's Godzilla-by-committee to Patrick Tatopoulos, creator of the aliens in Independence Day, the duo's biggest hit so far. As fate would have it, Tatopoulos never got the fax. Forging ahead anyway, he designed a monster that tampers with nearly every rule in The Book and is likely to leave fans of the old radioactive reptile either in awe or screaming "Heresy...
...creating the monster, the new plot is somewhat less revolutionary. As in 1954, Godzilla is the spawn of nuclear tests in the Pacific, and this time he makes his way quickly to New York City. Matthew Broderick plays an American scientist, Dr. Nick Tatopoulos (a nod to the new creator); Jean Reno is a mysterious agent for the French; Maria Pitillo is a newscaster wannabe; and Hank Azaria is a TV cameraman. Together they battle not just Godzilla but a teeming snake pit of little Godzillas. Though referred to as "he," the monster belongs to transgender studies, reproducing by parthenogenesis...
...hoodwink the independent counsel's office on a plea-bargain agreement. He certainly didn't know they would be made public as edited by Burton's chief investigator, David N. Bossie, who presumably picked up his notion of fair play partly from his old colleague Floyd Brown, the creator of the Willie Horton campaign commercial...
...lofty chatfests symbolize the intimate political relationship between Clinton, a "new Democrat," and Blair, creator of new Labour. Each claims to embody a type of politics that is not just a poll-driven centrism but a "third way," a favorite Blair slogan and a phrase that Clinton highlighted in this year's State of the Union message. "Both governments have to react to challenges like globalization and better education for workers, and we have similar perspectives on what's needed," says White House aide Sidney Blumenthal, who organizes the meetings with his British counterpart, David Miliband, Blair's policy chief...