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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pick a house, any average American house, and chances are the folks inside will be fans of science fiction. This pretty house in Washington, for example. The family has just had the cable Sci-Fi Channel installed. Mom has been known to try to commune with a dead woman who once lived there. And Dad? He just saw the new alien-invasion epic Independence Day--at home. Dean Devlin, the co-writer and producer, watched Dad watch the film, and Devlin was impressed: "He was whipping off facts about history, talking about social and international issues. But when the movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE INVASION HAS BEGUN! | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

...year 2023 still sounds like a sci-fi film to me, and who could ever predict our future whereabouts. I am not deluded by work-free fairy tales, but neither am I dissuaded because they are fairy tales. There is another side to that rainbow. Is it enough for us to prance around a single end with our petty games? Or can we move toward the unprofessional and the unknown? I guess we ll find out at the 25th...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: Have a Happy Hour | 6/22/1996 | See Source »

...Comedy Central, said the network was not picking up the show. Negotiations to devise a new format were unfruitful; two weeks ago, Herzog gave Best Brains, MST3K's production company, permission to try to sell the program elsewhere. The final new episode--a fond savaging of the sluggish sci-fi teen-angst epic Laserblast--will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ROBOCRITICS TAKE FLIGHT | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

Best of all, there's word that cable's Sci-Fi Channel may pick up the show for next year. The graybeards who have religiously taped every episode--and the recruits who will find laugh at first sight watching the new movie--can only hope that their favorite space travelers will be stranded up there for eons to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ROBOCRITICS TAKE FLIGHT | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

TIME: Who is Timothy McVeigh? Who are you? What moves you? McVeigh: I don't think there is any way to narrow my personality down and label it as one thing or another. I'm just like anyone else. Movies I enjoy, comedies, sci fi. The big misconception is that I'm a loner. Well, I believe in having my own space. But that in no way means I'm a loner. I like women, social life. I don't think there is anything wrong with that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKLAHOMA CITY: I'M JUST LIKE ANYONE ELSE | 4/15/1996 | See Source »

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