Word: fi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Steven Spielberg was all of 26 when he was hired. At the age of 16, he had made a 2½-hour feature for $500, partly bankrolled by his father, a computer executive. Young Spielberg premiered this maiden effort-a sci-fi monster flick-in his home town of Phoenix with all the trimmings, including limousines and klieg lights raking the sky. By 20, he was in college just outside Los Angeles and had bluffed his way onto the Universal lot, where he hung around movie sets "until I got thrown off. Hitchcock, Franklin Schaffner, I was bounced...
Among sci-fi's most tired conventions is the one in which some latter-day cataclysm releases from an aeons-long sleep a monstrous prehistoric creature who rampages around for eight or nine reels until the combined brains of the military-scientific-industrial complex figure out a novel ploy to dispatch the thing...
Last week Lincoln Center decided that Szell had been right. Renamed Avery Fisher Hall in September 1973 in recognition of a gift of some $10 million from a pioneer manufacturer of hi-fi equipment, the structure will be closed for five months starting in May 1976. Its entire inner auditorium will be demolished and rebuilt. The cost is put, optimistically perhaps, at $3 million. In charge of the renovations will be Acoustician Cyril M. Harris of Columbia University. He was responsible for the excellent sound in the Metropolitan Opera, and tuned the various halls at Washington's Kennedy Center...
...Apocalypse. It is only three years since he appeared in the sleeper Brian's Song and then exploded with the intensity of a young Jimmy Cagney to become a star in The Godfather. Now, after Cinderella Liberty, The Gambler, Funny Lady and the upcoming sci-fi drama Rollerball, he is one of the five top box office draws in the country...
Brooks went back to the '30s ostensibly looking for a sci-fi classic to spoof, and got carried away. At first he appears to be parodying the original Dr. Frankenstein, made forty years ago. In fact, he takes his original material quite seriously and treats it with respect. He has to; he's not only getting story, structure and characters gratis, but he's getting a perfect medium for parody of a much broader scope. Dr. Frankenstein was a first, a great film, which provoked a rash of science fiction movies over the next decade or so that decreased...