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...ultimate UFO-the Big Mama of the flying saucers -is the mother ship, part of which was built in a giant air plane hangar in Mobile, Ala. Big Mama is a huge, circular construction, with narrow spires rising from the center and a hundred or so windows around the rim. The mother ship is supposed to land at night, and Trumbull placed 2,000 flood lights and six arc lights along its edge to create what he calls a "wall of light" and the illusion that the entire ship is whirring as it settles to the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A City in the Sky | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

This handsome hulk of a capitalist-benefactor was born in a boxcar, son of an Italian immigrant mother and a French-Italian father en route to a railroad job in California. Mama and Papa Lavette perish in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Daniel is left with his father's small boat and a shockproof will to rise in the world. He is a tough, practical, democratic cuss who cares little for racial, religious or class barriers. To keep track of his profitable fishing venture, he hires a Chinese bookkeeper and later takes a Jewish business partner. An unselfconscious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reds to Riches | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

This doesn't sound like tha same person who wrote the Three Dog Night hit "Mama Told Me Not to Come...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: Simple Music | 10/18/1977 | See Source »

...lesser films. The ambience of the Twenties is effectively recaptured by the film, but Valentino never gets around to addressing the ethos that prevailed in the America of that fabled epoch. And judging by this performance, Michelle Phillips would do well to try a comeback as a reconstructed Mama with any Papas she can find...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cold War and Cold Blood | 10/13/1977 | See Source »

...lesser films. The ambience of the Twenties is effectively recaptured by the film, but "Valentino" never gets around to addressing the ethos that prevailed in the America of that fabled epoch. And judging by this performance, Michelle Phillips would do well to try a comeback as a reconstructed Mama with any Papas she can find...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Not So Sweet Diane | 10/6/1977 | See Source »

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