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Treasure hunters are delighted by the trend, which has made many previously unreachable or unknown offshore wrecks accessible to enterprising amateurs. But scientists are becoming agitated. "This technology is out of control," Ballard told a congressional hearing last year. Says Helen Hooper, a consultant for the Society for Archaeology: "There's a mini-gold rush going on right now, and it's endangering some of the more important sites. We're afraid that if there isn't some slowing down of this treasure hunting, there won't be anything left...
...attended to the stilted dialogue, leaden performances and not-so-special effects. But today's cognoscenti find the dew of nostalgia on these pictures, then wink and say, "They're so bad, they're good." Smart directors stoke the trend with camp updates of the olden turkeys. In Tobe Hooper's remake of the 1953 Invaders from Mars you can see tongues burrowing into cheeks on both sides of the camera. Sometimes, though, directors can outsmart themselves. Invaders from Mars is so good at mimicking '50s mediocrity...
...Victoria G.T. Bassetti '86-'87 Kristin A. Goss '87 David S. Hilzenrath '87 Allison L. Jernow '89 Joseph F. Kahn '87 John N. Rosenthal '87 James E. Schwartz '88 Editorial Editor: Nicholas S. Wurf '87 Feature Editors: Elizabeth S. Colt '87 Robert F. Cuhna '87 Copy Editor: Cynthia V. Hooper '89 Photo Editor: Courtney C. Crockett '88 Sports Editor: Jonathan Putnam '88 Business Editor: John P. Siracuse...
Also helping the Crimson attack were Rob Hooper, who shot an 80 and Mike McGowan and Co-Captain Jim Fearon...
...scenes in which Hopper practices piano in a distinctly American living room, the film sets itself up as a voice of patriotism and loyalty. Although Hopper defies his crotchety piano teacher by playing jazz instead of classics and hangs out with the shiftless and disreputable Nicky, the director emphasizes Hooper's innate goodness. He doesn't put on airs to woo the snooty upper class preps who ridicule him at the bowling alley and even when he discovers that Caddie is an upper class "Gatsby girl," he takes pride in his humble, yet honorable, origins...