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Although his motto is more Semper Fight than Semper Fi, boxer RIDDICK BOWE has joined the Marine Corps Reserve. "It's something I always wanted to do," says Bowe, "and I thought I'd do it before I got too old." The 29-year-old almost didn't make it. The Marines had to waive the enlistment-age limit of 28 to admit him. He won't be the first Marine who was a boxing champ (Gene Tunney, Leon Spinks and Ken Norton served on active duty), but he is one of a very few multimillionaires ever to join...
...Dollar Baby" stamped all over it. "Star Wars" is a rousing crowdpleaser, a reaffirmation that the good guys still win some of the time, and an affectionate needle at the legendary Flash Gordon movies of yesteryear all wrapped into one very slick package. And while devotees of the sci-fi movie genre may not take too kindly to the implicit parody of their chosen cult contained in Lucas' film, the dazzling special effects of "Star Wars" by themselves should prove sufficient to eclipse any lingering qualms they might experience about this decidedly good-natured spoof of motion pictures that journey...
...publicity mill of Twentieth-Century Fox makes abundantly clear--in the course of leafing through some 39 handouts--that Lucas has maintained an ongoing infatuation for many years with the sci-fi heroes who thrilled a generation, and then some, of American youths from the 1930s onwards. Lucas worked hard on "Star Wars"; his first film since the 1974 hit "American Graffiti," the 33-year-old director spent the better part of three years writing the script (during which time he drew up four different versions) before he commenced shooting in March 1976. A lot of care and effort went...
...from $2,148 to $3,548) resembles an arresting 2001: A Space Odyssey-type monolith. Toshiba has included the usual alphabet soup of goodies: 17-in. monitors, Pentium/200 processors, 32-MB ram and 8X CD-ROM drives. The mix creates a superb AV package, controlled by a large, hi-fi-like volume knob, an addition long overdue...
Sound farfetched? In fact, primitive versions of these self-created environments--known as role-playing games--have been a staple of the geeky sci-fi set since the heyday of Dungeons & Dragons in the 1970s. Computer networks make it easier for D&D enthusiasts to find one another and to create game sites that can support hundreds of players at once. The single most popular content area on the Games Channel, says Schick, is a role-playing game called Gemstone...