Word: fi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Take me to your section leader. If grad students have always seemed like aliens to you, but you still wanted concrete proof, join them as they watch cinema dealing with their own kind. The Dudley House Film series continues tonight as the classic 1950s sci-fi movies Forbidden Planet and The Day the Earth Stood Still play on a big-screen TV. Forbidden Planet, 6 p.m; The Day the Earth Stood Still, 8 p.m., Lehman Hall, Graduate Student Lounge. FREE...
...honors as narrator for the recent documentary "Behind the Planet of the Apes." The job called for an open embrace of the sci-fi/camp classics that Charlton Heston had clearly sidestepped, just as he did by bowing out of the series after just a teaser role in the first sequel. McDowall loved every minute of it; you could see it in his eyes. He loved the makeup, the social commentary, the sense of doing something that hadn't been done, then doing it over and over again as long as they kept paying you. McDowall was a pro -- temperamental...
...excesses. But the Beasties' new CD comes across not as a send-up but as a limp imitation of more interesting performers. The album's buzzing, beeping, video-game-like sound is an exhausted ripoff of hip-hop folk star Beck. A few songs work, like the sci-fi rap number Intergalactic. But for the most part, listening to this album is a tedious, dispiriting task not unlike sorting a backlog of junk e-mail...
...SEMPER FI...
...hoping Mulder will show up. The aliens, you see, were earth's original inhabitants, and they are being tracked by that all-round evilest of government conspiracies, FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency). We feel ourselves sliding deeper into Art Bell territory--into the all-night radioland of sci-fi-cobabble. Believe who will. Follow...