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...picture the layout of the center of Hiroshima, which covers much of the ground of Kawamoto's story, place your right hand palm down on a flat surface with your fingers spread wide. Your fingers are rivers. On the land between your third and fourth fingers lies the Peace Park. Between your fourth and fifth fingers Kawamoto's school was situated. The heel of your hand is Hiroshima Bay, and beyond your fingertips lie mountains and countryside...
Modern Los Alamos makes it easy to picture what the town looked like in 1943, when the physicists began to arrive and settle in. Like Hiroshima, Los Alamos lives in two eras simultaneously; a road sign near Bandelier National Monument park indicates six miles to the "Atomic City. Birthplace of the Atomic Age, scientific laboratory and museum, gas-food-lodging-golf course." The makeshift wooden apartments that once housed the physicists and their families are long down, as are the PX with its cathedral-like jukebox and the commissary and the walls of bed sheets drying...
However exotic the plot, it seizes on a basic parental fear: losing one's child to drugs or suicide or a religious cult or ordinary adolescent independence. But Boorman, a 52-year-old wild child who combines lush visual sophistication with the oneiric storytelling sense of a Hyde Park ranter, will always opt for youth's reckless hurtle into the unknown. In his forest, the prime evil is civilized man, and "back to nature" is a great leap forward. So the father in this dizzy, rapturous adventure picture must allow Tomme to do his own thing; indeed, he must destroy...
...remember when the cicadas invaded Chicago back in June of '73. With great horror I watched the little red-eyed beasties swarm all over everything. I doubt that anyone took a liking to them or thought they were cute. Michael Franks Highland Park...
Produced by George Lucas. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Starring Michael Jackson. A wild fantasy? Well, yes and no. It is a fantasy film, but the project is very real. Lucas has been working at Disneyland to revamp Tomorrowland, and when Jackson, a well-known amusement-park freak, heard Lucas had a movie in mind, he asked in. He got the title role, and will also provide the music. Set to premiere in 1986, the twelve-minute film, titled Captain Eo, will feature state-of the-art 3-D effects, and the chance to play with that process attracted Coppola...