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Minority Report (June 21): As if to clean up the fiasco that was A.I., Steven Spielberg’s latest jaunt into sci-fi goes all-out, Indiana Jones-style. Based on the short story by science fiction guru Philip K. Dick, Minority Report is set in 2054 Washington, D.C., where a psychic method called Pre-Crime witnesses, verifies, arrests and convicts murderers before they even commit their crime. But when the head of the Pre-Crime division (Cruise) is accused of the murder of a man he hasn’t even met yet, he finds himself being stalked...
DIED. DAMON KNIGHT, 79, science-fiction author and critic whose darkly wry short story To Serve Man became a famous episode of TV's Twilight Zone; in Eugene, Ore. An early member, with Isaac Asimov, of the influential writers' group the Futurians, Knight, in 1956, wrote In Search of Wonder, considered among the most important works of science-fiction criticism. The title To Serve Man refers to the name of a manual carried by aliens promising to end Earth's war and hunger. The manual turns out to be a cookbook...
...strongly on nonfiction filmmaking,” says Newkirk, a former VES major himself, who subsequently switched to physics. “It is a club for all people, including VES people, but it was made by non-VES people.” Newkirk found himself doing non-fiction filmmaking again when Ware and Newkirk worked out the conditions for Cabot House to buy the digital camera: 1) It would be for use by Cabot House students only, 2) Cabot House students would have to make three short films a year, and 3) someone would have to make two nonfiction...
...overjoyed to finally be finishing his dream. “It’s like having an orgasm for six days,” he says. “I just...I love doing it.” He looks forward eagerly to The Great Givendi, his next fiction film, to be shot over the summer. He is being joined on this project by Catherine Sheehan, the co-writer and producer of Givendi, and Julia Reischel, who is doing the casting for the film...
...pang and think—but you tried to kill him.” Nonetheless, she finds herself becoming unnervingly comfortable with them, and begins having the family smuggle her letters to Omar. The climax is a finale so unexpected and breathtaking that it would be entirely implausible as fiction...