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...clubs with beef. 1) The Catholic Student Association vs. the Chinese Students Association. The CSAs are tired of people confusing their events—that wine is not to celebrate Chinese New Year. And it’s not cheap. 2) The Harvard Advocate vs. The Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association. For a publication whose logo is a winged-horse, the Advocate contains far too little magic and far too few spaceships. 3) Harvard-Radcliffe Society for Creative Anachronism vs. Current Magazine. What’s so special about the present? The 16th century was fun enough. 4) Committee...
...Arthur C. Clarke, a world-renowned British science fiction writer who wrote over 100 novels and short stories, including “2001: A Space Odyssey” and its sequels, passed away last month in his adopted home of Sri Lanka...
...movie career that stretched from those student films, to a final appearance in 2003 as Nazi war criminal Joseph Mengele (hey, how'd that happen?), Heston would often venture beyond the epic. He made plenty of Westerns, some important science-fiction films, a few comedies (for which he was constitutionally unsuited). And he was willing to fight for directors he believed in. He assured the financing of Touch of Evil, Orson Welles' most satisfying post-Citizen Kane Hollywood film, by agreeing to star in it. He also offered to give back part of his salary so Sam Peckinpah could finish...
MOSES IN DYSTOPIA And when he wasn't at home in the past, he was a voyager into the future. For a while in the late 60s and early 70s, Heston owned the upscale science fiction genre. As the stranded astronaut on the Planet of the Apes, he was the ultimate loner: the only member of his species in a world ruled by monkeys. Heston had caught a cold on the shoot, but director Franklin Schaffner insisted they keep filming, because the new gruffness in the star's voice lent a desperate urgency to his lines, from his first words...
...Apes movie (which spawned four sequels, only one of which Heston appeared in) shows that in Vietnam-era science fiction, no less than in other films of the period, happy endings were not mandatory. Even escapist films offered scant chance of escape from the sour national mood. The 1971 The Omega Man (recently remade with Will Smith as I Am Legend) was another dystopian fantasy film. Again Heston was possibly the last human on earth, battling predatory subhuman creatures who might have been the Black Panthers, the Weather Underground or the Watergate plotters. In the jungle that has replaced civilization...