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...plays the Emperor in this summer's broadcast of Showtime TV's Faerie Tale Theater. Anticipating the end of the Rolling Stones after two decades of great music, Jagger seems to be pointing toward a new life in film. Let's Spend the Night Together, Director Hal Ashby's portrait of the Stones' 1981 U.S. tour, will be released next month. But hold. Dare Jagger really leave rock forever? In The Nightingale, the Emperor recovers from an illness only when his original songbird is brought back to sing...
...made to think, as HAL seemed to be doing in 2001, when it murdered the astronauts who might challenge its command of the spaceflight. That answer is simple: computers do not think, but they do simulate many of the processes ci the human brain: remembering, comparing, analyzing. And as people rely on the computer to do things that they used to do inside their heads, what happens to their heads...
...Hoffman had been looking for a script that would permit him to explore the questions "What makes someone a man? What makes someone a woman?" He batted the theme around with a friend, Playwright Murray Schisgal. By the time he and Pollack (who followed Dick Richards and Hal Ashby as director) joined forces, he had acquired not only various draft scripts but a ferocious proprietary interest in the film. Says Hoffman: "The great scripts don't drop out of the sky; you have to invent them...
...master," replies HAL. Outside, on the edge of a tree-lined ravine behind the Marince home, a 13-ft. parabolic dish antenna jolts into motion and begins sweeping the sky. It stops and focuses on a communications satellite orbiting 22,300 miles above the equator...
...when Rob says, "Satellite search," the Scott machine takes a numerical snapshot of the sound pattern and compares that picture with patterns Rob has previously recorded. When the machine finds a matching formation, it sends the computer the corresponding command. With some artful jiggering, Gary and Ted have extended HAL'S vocabulary to more than 280 words...