Word: merlins
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DIED. ROBERTSON DAVIES, 82, author; in Orangeville, Ontario. Davies earned his Merlin-like mien: his novels were steeped in literal and figurative magic, juxtaposing Jungian soul searching and sweeping myth with minutely detailed portraits of Canadian provincialism. In fact, Davies was one of the first writers from that country to develop an international following. The best known of his works is the Deptford trilogy, which tracked the lives of a magician, his manager and a one-legged schoolmaster...
Incidentally, the Table was supposed to have been a wedding present from Guinevere's father, later fortified with the magician Merlin's magic. In the movie, however, Guinevere's father is dead and Merlin doesn't even exist...
There's sorcery everywhere on the vast stage of EFX. Merlin does battle with Morgana--she with her six-ton mechanical dragon, he with an even more gigantic fire breather. From beyond the grave Harry Houdini romances his wife with a misty melody and a huge set that flies away in a spectral swooosh! H.G. Wells zips through the centuries in his Time Machine and escapes the clutches of the dreaded Morlocks in a getaway that puts the Miss Saigon helicopter to shame. And at the end another magician, the EFX! Master, sits atop a crystalline globe held...
COVER: Photo illustration. Photograph by Merlin A. Summers...
Joel's final episode features the movie "Mitchell," a truly terrible 70s action flick starring, among others, Joe Don Baker, Martin Balsam, Linda Evans, and Merlin Olson in an early role as an evil henchman. Unfortunately, the jokes don't entirely succeed in making this movie watchable...