Word: martian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another phase of the $1 billion Project Viking, the most ambitious mission to another planet to date. Back in 1975, twin spacecraft, each consisting of an orbiter and a lander, were sent off to Mars. A key objective: to determine if the Red Planet harbors life. After going into Martian orbit ten months later, the mated spacecraft split apart. Their spider-legged landers touched down on the surface, while the orbiters continued patrolling overhead, mapping the planet with their cameras and acting as relay stations for the instrument packages below...
Director Alan Rudolph, whose Welcome to L.A. examined the West Coast music scene from a perspective so distant it seemed almost Martian, has fashioned Roadie into a kind of live-action Road Runner cartoon and added the exuberant bad taste of Russ Meyer's redneck sex movies. Roadie has bar brawls, earth quakes, sloppy eaters, hair-rollered harridans, fire-engine-red panties and lots of loud rock 'n' roll. In its second hour, the movie loses some of this mad enchantment: Guest Stars Alice Cooper and Deborah Harry (Blondie) do not jell with Rudolph's genially...