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...MST3K movie (Manos -- the Hands of Fate) or about the off-camera relationship of Murphy and Beaulieu to their puppets Tom and Crow (Murphy: "We have a little place up in the Poconos"; Beaulieu: "Crow and I are not on speaking terms"). The creative staff, led by producer Jim Mallon, signed autographs for hours. At another panel, Beverly Garland, plucky star of three Roger Corman dramas savaged by MST3K, said, "My God, I wish we had had that dialogue when we were doing the picture!" The convention moved to Minneapolis' State Theater for a hilarious deconstruction...
...government to Northern Ireland, which has been ruled directly by London since 1972. But the hope is that the talks will eventually lead to a permanent end to the conflict, and the improving prosperity of the Catholics should help. "People want an end to all the killings," said Seamus Mallon, a leader of the liberal Social Democratic and Labour Party. Protestant extremists and the Irish Republican Army, whose political wing, Sinn Fein, was denied a seat at the talks, are expected to respond with a new wave of violence...
...fact, Mallon says he never intended to be realistic about things. He changed building and course names to suit his plot and intentionally made his characters "cartoonish." And he says he was amused when he visited his publisher's office and saw the copy editor use a map of Harvard to assure that the characters did not cross imaginary intersections...
...exaggeration and somewhat cavalier regard for reality that Mallon displays in Arts and Sciences help to brighten a novel with a potentially depressing theme. Mallon says his novel is "really intended as light entertainment." "There's a great element of silliness in the book," but that "does seem to go along with the territory...
...Mallon says he had not visited Harvard since his graduation in 1978 at the time he wrote the novel but relied entirely on memory for his description He says he is currently working on a book about the history of plagiarism and has begun "nibbling" on a novel based on his childhood...