Word: lantern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...befriended by three school-age children. "Poltergeist is a scream," Spielberg says. "E.T. is a whisper." The first film means to thrill, the second to enthrall. Both succeed beyond anyone's expectations, perhaps even those of their prodigious creator. They re-establish the movie screen as a magic lantern, where science plays tricks on the eye as an artist enters the heart and nervous system with images that bemuse and beguile...
...show's characters do not much resemble the gray-suited, close-cropped, lantern-jawed, devout, straight-arrow white males preferred by longtime Director J. Edgar Hoover, who had iron control of the earlier series, personally approving every actor cast as an FBI agent to be sure he "looked the part." The ensemble includes a black recruited from military intelligence, played in the pilot by Charles Brown and afterward by Harold Sylvester; a smashing-looking woman psychologist who teaches pistol-marks-personship (Carol Potter); a salon-coiffed, hip-talking pretty boy (Joseph Cali); and a sarcastic, ever grinning preppie athlete...
...Magick Lantern Cycle--Program I, Saturday and Sunday at 4:30 and 7:45 p.m.; Program II, Saturday and Sunday at 6:15 and 9:30 p.m.; Carpenter Center...
Also playing the Beantown Flick Circuit this weekend are The Magick Lantern Cycle and Ticket to Heaven at the Orson Welles and Sleeper, Friday on Channel...
...image posed an unusual challenge. Because the new National Aquarium was so well integrated into its surroundings that it "blended into the background," Thai used ten tungsten floodlights to illuminate the 157-ft. building and shot the picture at night. "We made the building glow like a huge lantern," says Thai. "When the architect saw it he was thrilled." Senior Editor Christopher Porterfield, who edited the story, recalls visiting East Baltimore Street's notorious "Block" while stationed near by in the Army in 1960-but Senior Writer Michael Demarest, who wrote the story, can top that. His memories...