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...hubbub Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) have encountered -- and caused -- on their voyages, the Back to the Future movies have moved along the time-space continuum with easy, free- striding confidence. Maybe Marty and Doc (and the rest of us, looking on) have suffered momentary disorientations. But director Robert Zemeckis and writer Bob Gale have always known where they were and, better still, where they were heading...
This concluding chapter in what has turned out to be the most delightful and conscientiously made series since Star Wars finds our intrepid explorers back in the Old West of 1885. Marty is trying to bend history around an inconvenient shooting in which it is preordained that Doc will die. Were that to happen, of course, everything that has already occurred in Future I and II would be rendered impossible. In a sense Marty is fighting not only for Doc but also for his own future, which now lies in our movie past...
...There is as much reason for us to be here as there is for anything else. It is like Back to the Future, Part II. In the movie Doc Brown goes to a blackboard and draws a chart. The top line is history as it actually occurred. But if you make this teeny little change, which is Biff Tannen getting that sports almanac, then history veers off. It isn't that it is random that it happened the second way. You see, people mistakenly think that my book Wonderful Life is a claim that evolution is random, totally chaotic...
teach an old Doc new tricks...
...living archive of musical history). Just sit back and watch Dr. John work his way through the likes of C.C. Rider and Pine Top Boogie. You may not be able to play the tunes when the videotape's over -- it takes a pretty advanced pianist even to follow the Doc's fingering -- but you will have got a graduate course in soul. (Homespun Tapes, Box 694, Woodstock...