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...Frankenstein. The original 1931 Boris Karloff classic...
FRANKFURTER can be found just below Frankenstein in the dictionary. It can also be found immediately beneath contempt in Ralph Nader's vast lexicon of villains. To Nader, the ABM and the smart bomb are scarcely more lethal than a chain of processed sausages. Hot dogs, insists the consumer advocate, are "among America's deadliest missiles." New York City's Consumer Affairs Commissioner Bess Myerson agrees: "After I found out what was in hot dogs, I stopped eating them." This people's entrée, this frank companion of alfresco meals and ball games...
...civilization and await the arrival of Charlton Heston. the famous astronaut whose visit was described in Episode 1 . . . Anybody who is confused-or thinks that he has wandered into a children's matinee-has not been following one of the most successful movie series since the progeny of Frankenstein. Twentieth Century-Fox's Planet of the Apes( 1968) and its sequels. Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) and Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), have already taken in $135 million at box offices round the world and become the objects of a minor cult. Next...
...does not indulge in such speculation. He is a scrupulous genre writer who is content to dress up old tales with new gadgetry. Andromeda Strain, for example, was in some sense a rewrite of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. The Terminal Man is an update of Frankenstein. Can Dracula, or Wolfman in sheep's clothing, be far behind...
...Frankenstein, starring Boris Karlott, Lehman Hall, 8 and 10, April...