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...computer buffs at ease with the graphic virtuosity of Max Headroom, the FAA demonstration might seem primitive. But to air-traffic professionals gathered in the agency's sixth-floor "war room," it represented a technological breakthrough. Prior to last week, FAA radar data showing the location of planes flying over the U.S. could be shown only piecemeal on computer screens at one or more of the aviation agency's 20 regional control centers. Now, all that information has been merged and displayed on a single cathode-ray screen, giving the nation's air-traffic controllers an unprecedented view of overhead...
...much of a good thing," seems to be the axiom behind the scores of cinema novelizations that America's publishing houses have been spewing out with clock-like regularity. Two recent publications epitomize the best and worst in this copycat trend: the eponymous Ran and Max Headroom: 20 minutes into the future...
...HEADROOM stars the semi-computer-generated talk show host that everyone in America has heard of and nobody has seen--except on Coke commercials. Not many people realize that Headroom was originally a T.V. movie for Britain's weirdo Channel...
...bastard son of Network by way of Brazil, the Headroom movie posits a futuristic Britain addicted to television. The evil Network 23 has invented Blipverts, super-effective commercials that have an unfortunate tendency to make couch potatoes explode. Unfortunately for Network 23's plans, their top-rated investigative reporter--played by Matt Frewer, the flesh behind the Headroom fantasy--is trying to uncover the story...
...Headroom the movie was a witty techno-fantasy with so-so acting and great special effects. Headroom the book has color film stills and the "novelized" story, but this is a weak substitute for the original movie, particularly when burdened by the tinkertoy style of writer Steve Roberts. Still, the stills are handsome enough, and if you just can't get enough of Headroom's electro-magnetic looks, this book might tide you over until you can hook up to his cable talk-show...