Word: dune
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David Lynch is an industry these days. America's most distinctive moviemaker had directed just four features (Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Dune and Blue Velvet) in a 15-year career, but now he's everywhere. His Twin Peaks brought flaming weirdness to prime-time television. He has directed TV commercials and a 25-minute music video. This fall he is co-producing a documentary series for the Fox network. And here's Wild at Heart, another three-ring freak show that won the top prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival and serves as an entertaining anthology of Lynch...
Lynch moved to Los Angeles in 1970 and spent five years making Eraserhead. The film became a cult hit and led to his first mainstream film, The Elephant Man. Lynch's next project, the big-budget sci-fi movie Dune, was a critical and commercial disaster, but Blue Velvet brought him widespread critical / acclaim. A couple of aborted projects later (including a script for Steve Martin called One Saliva Bubble), Lynch is finishing a new film, Wild at Heart, starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern...
...century, the Italian-born De Laurentiis produced a handful of successes that include the Fellini-directed La Strada (1954), Serpico (1974), King Kong (1976) and Conan the Barbarian (1982). But the hits have been overshadowed by hundreds of commercial duds, most notably the $50 million sci-fi film Dune, a 1984 mega-flop that helped send Dino down the chute...
...mile coastline arcs southward from the limestone cliffs of Musandam to the powdery beaches of Salalah, a major trading town in the monsoon-brushed province of Dhofar. Southwest of the former slave-trading port of Sur lies a 5,000-sq.-mi. sea of sand whose dune ridges rise as high as 350 ft. above the Wahiba desert floor. To the north, the Jebel Akhdar (Green Mountain) anchors the Hajar range. Mud-brick houses cling to its steep slopes, and fortresses whose foundations precede the age of Islam guard entry to its valleys...