Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Talk about role identification. Eight years ago, Kyle MacLachlan read in a newspaper that the rights to Dune, Frank Herbert's epic science-fiction fantasy, had been sold to a movie-production company...
...They ate Billy's dog. They killed Billy's mom, and her head flew down the Starrs. It was kind of grim." In its final form Gremlins is "soft" enough to have won a PG rating. Says Spielberg, who has managed to make three horror or science-fiction movies (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Poltergeist, E. T.) in which not a single person dies: "I'm not sure if anybody really dies in this one either. I never saw the gremlins as homicidal, psychotic, maniacal killers. Perhaps they are the dark side of the founding father...
...remake of every movie alluded to in it. I like movies. And I like to make movies for people who like movies." Says Spielberg of Dante: "He's a filmophile. If Joe weren't a moviemaker, right now he'd be at a science-fiction convention...
...FICTION 1. The Aquitaine Progression, Ludlum (1 last week) 2. The Haj, Uris (2) 3. Heretics of Dune, Herbert (3) 4. The Butter Battle Book, Seuss (4) 5. Warday, Strieberand Kunetka (5) 6. Pet Sematary, King (6) 7. Descent from Xanadu, Robbins (7) 8. Fling, Beck and Massman 9. Smart Women, Blume (9) 10. The Danger, Francis...
...somehow "natural"--a weakness which the faculty member has succumbed to, but which should not be allowed to ruin his career or otherwise affect the past of his life. Dzeich and Weiner show how the pervasive myths about college women's beauty, voluptuousness and often sexual looseness, in fiction and is much academic office chatter, help give professors this impression that the young women in their classes are somehow there for the taking. In another compelling formulation, the authors take account not only of the academic profession's particular setup, which is ideal for the harasser who is so frequently...