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Time was, Mars was a busy place. Everybody, it seemed--or at least everybody at NASA--wanted to fling something the Red Planet's way. First there were Mariner probes whizzing through the Martian neighborhood, then Mariner probes orbiting the planet. Next there was a Viking probe that actually landed on the surface, and another followed a few months later. Before long, so the thinking went, the unmanned probes would have surveyed the whole planet, and the manned missions could at last begin...
Then more life news: the discovery in a Martian meteorite of organic molecules that might be the residue of some extinct life form. Not terribly solid evidence, but suggestive enough--and brilliantly hyped by a beleaguered NASA--to start a mini-boom for Mars exploration...
Around the same time, a Crimson reporter referred to the traditional Korean music performed at an ethnic studies rally as "banging on drums and metal lids." An astute reader complained that such a description seemed like an anthropological description of a Martian ritual and not a celebration of the heritage of Harvard's Korean-Americans...
...save America from DENNIS RODMAN? He plays a Martian on 3rd Rock from the Sun! He does a risque lingerie commercial with a supermodel! He announces on TV that he's getting married, mystifying everyone including his stripper girlfriend! He shows up at a book signing in a wedding dress! He goes to Rome to make a movie with Jean-Claude Van Damme! All just a regular week or two at the office for the publicity terrier. Over at the Rodman Group (his manager has an 800 number, natch) they're unapologetic. "This is a small representation of things coming...
...WALSTON, SEVENTYISH, BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA; Actor For a generation of Americans, Martians weren't little green men--they looked like Walston, who starred with the late Bill Bixby in the 1963-66 TV series My Favorite Martian. A Broadway veteran (he won a Tony for playing the Devil in Damn Yankees), he took the extraterrestrial role of Bixby's Uncle Martin expecting the show to be a serious look at parallel worlds, a proto-Star Trek, and was upset by its evolution into what he calls "a silly sitcom." Since then he has appeared in plays, films and other...