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...Consider Justin Cartwright's Masai Dreaming (Random House; 287 pages; $23), a novel about the making of a Hollywood adventure movie with a Holocaust hook. The satirical possibilities are unnerving. Spectacular East African scenery, colorful colonials and free-range tribesmen, with the Final Solution worked in. How about Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts...
Commander Robert "Hoot" Gibson had the demanding task of steering the 100-ton Atlantis to within three inches of the 123-ton Mir, at a closing rate no faster than one foot in 10 seconds, while the two ships sped in tandem around the Earth...
...easy thing to do, but ...it's the kind of thing you can train to do," Gibson, a former fighter and test pilot, said before the flight. "It's kind of along the lines of some of the stuff I used to do, air-to-air refueling and any of those precision tasks...
...their space station this time as hard as Apollo hit Soyuz back in 1975," says TIME's veteran aerospace watcher Jerry Hannifin. But that may not be an easy task. As the two spacecraft hurtle toward theirscheduled 9 am docking over Central Asia tomorrow, pilot Hoot Gibson will have to contend with a much more difficult linking than in the Apollo-Soyuz maneuver. "The Apollo and Soyuz capsules approached each other straight on," notes Hannifin. "This time, Mir will be stationary while the shuttle comes from underneath. The inertia of two 100-ton objects traveling at 17,500 miles...
...thing. And yes, the real Pocahontas probably didn't have Tina Turner's posture and Iman's neck. She probably didn't sing Broadway-style songs either or talk to a clever raccoon and a persnickety hummingbird. Maybe John Smith didn't look like Fabio and sound like Mel Gibson (who speaks the role). But this is a movie-a cartoon, for goodness' sake! It is a boy-meets-girl, boy-gets-girl, boy-loses-girl story whose plot is familiar in every weepie affair, from Romeo and Juliet to The Bridges of Madison County. And it follows the rule...