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Maybe the college professors think Shakespeare produced only 37 plays, but this off-Broadway lark is the Bard's long-lost science-fiction rock musical. Small of scale and free of spirit, it features the obligatory mad monster, fair maiden, evil scientist and heroic space pilot. Sci-fi junkies will recognize the plot from the 1956 MGM flick Forbidden Planet, which the more literary-minded in turn saw as an amalgam of Shakespeare's The Tempest and dime-store Freud. (The killer demons were escapees from the id of a man who, like most sci-fi antiheroes, tried to play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 21, 1991 | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

...expect dramatic discoveries to appear on cue for 1992 is unrealistic. The Holy Grail of Columbus studies would be the long-lost original log of his first voyage to what he called "the Indies," which exists only in a badly garbled abridgment made after his death by the Spanish priest Bartolome de las Casas. Las Casas, who wrote voluminously on the Spanish colonization of the New World, was not a mariner, and his version is filled with errors that have caused endless dispute over such basic matters as Columbus' course on his historic sail and where his little fleet made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Who Was That Man? | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

...least initially. In ABC's Step by Step, two single parents (Patrick Duffy and Suzanne Somers) marry and merge their respective three-child broods; the kids are at one another's throats instantly. In NBC's Flesh 'n' Blood, a yuppie lawyer (Lisa Darr) is visited by her long-lost brother (David Keith), a hillbilly layabout, and his two unwashed kids. Much to her dismay (and ours), they promptly move in. In CBS's < The Royal Family, Redd Foxx plays a sour Atlanta mailman whose sunset years with his wife (Della Reese) are interrupted by yet another band of unwanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is The Sitcom Played Out? | 9/9/1991 | See Source »

...went on a quest to find our long-lost roommate--he's a fugitive," says Nikos Buxeda...

Author: By Jonathan Samuels, | Title: WACKY WAYS TO KILL A WEEK | 6/5/1991 | See Source »

...think of anything better than finding my long-lost roommate," he says...

Author: By Jonathan Samuels, | Title: WACKY WAYS TO KILL A WEEK | 6/5/1991 | See Source »

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