Word: pan
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...were watching when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, you almost certainly believed that this "one small step" was the first in an imminent journey out to the planets and the stars. A year earlier, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey had portrayed a near future where Pan Am spaceships carried business travelers and vacationers to the moon. Who would have believed then that when 2001 rolled around, there would be no trips to the moon--and for that matter, no Pan...
...Peter Pan Live Color Broadcast NBC, March...
Think of Peter Pan as a TV salesman, and in that regard, this show was one of the most successful ever broadcast. One of the first color specials, it reached as many as 65 million homes. NBC, then owned by RCA, had no small interest in moving its expensive new color TVs, and Pan was a two-hour, $400,000 commercial for the glories of color. People gathered at the homes of neighbors who had "color" to watch. They were not disappointed. "Surely there must be fairy dust from coast to coast this morning," raved a critic...
...last year raked in almost $30 million (City of God cost less than $5 million to make). Last year some 50 films were made in Brazil, raising the domestic market share to 8.3%. Now U.S. distribution giants like Miramax and Columbia have jumped in to give the films unprecedented pan-Latin American and global play. As authoritarian regimes tumble as Mexico's has, the range of stories that can now be told on Latin American screens has increased. The region's new films "frame societies in the making ? based on our point of view," says Central Station director Walter Salles...
...never met Arthur Dent, engaged the Improbability Drive or sipped a pan-galactic gargle blaster, stop reading now: this article may leave you as cold as a Vogon's heart. If, however, you're among the millions of fans of Douglas Adams, who died two years ago at 49, you can rejoice at the publication of the first major biography of the man who must be Britain's most popular cult author since Tolkien. Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy began life as a BBC radio series 25 years ago this month, and went on to sell millions...