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...tremendous confidence in the potential of the "peaceful atom" prevailed after World War II Proponents foresaw an "Age of Plenty" in which weather would be atomically controlled, cars would travel for years on small pellets of uranium, and the moon would be only a short distance away via atomic powered vehicles. One of the chairmen of the Commission even forecast that electricity would probably be "too cheap to meter" The A.E.C. has spent the last three decades trying to fulfill these high hopes, but, as Ford shows, the intentions have gone dangerously astray...
...what Joanne can do," adds the film's writer Stewart Stern. "He's constantly trying to provide a setting where the world can see what he sees in her." He has directed her twice since then, in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds and The Shadow Box. In the first of these, their pretty blond daughter Nell (then 13, now 23) played opposite Joanne...
...Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (directed 1972): I may not have been able to make the transition from stage to film. Too much theater and not enough cinema. I screwed up there...
...These four films will be released for selective engagements in a few cities in the hope of garnering media attention and year-end critics' awards. But there will be less time and space available for serious pictures in competition with the inevitable Christmas hits. In shooting for the moon with these ambitious films, Hollywood may end up shooting itself in the foot...
...satellites. Yet somehow, in less than a generation, they have firmly established themselves in the fabric of contemporary life, shrinking time and space, almost as if the world craved to be brought closer together. Perhaps the space age's real giant steps were not the ones on the moon but the ones that are being taken overhead, like Columbia's flight, every passing moment...