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...giant explosion hurls the moon onto an uncharted trajectory. Led by the intrepid commander, John Koenig, the crew overcomes such obstacles as Gwent, the man turned machine; Arra (played by Margaret Leighton), the queen of the enormous planet Astheria; and the temptress of the heavens, the Guardian of Piri. The special effects far exceed anything on Star Trek. They include fleets of hovering cockroach-shaped spaceships, squads of yellow moon buggies and an array of enticing equipment from whatever passes for the Abercrombie & Fitch of intergalactic travel. Laser beams are flashed around like Saturday night specials...
...film school is in the planning stages. TWC's film plans are appropriately ambitious. They include a biography of Billie Holiday (Motown, a black record company, is already shooting its version of the Billie Holiday story, starring Diana Ross), a film from the works of Puerto Rican Author Piri Thomas, and an adaptation of John O. Killens' chilling war novel, And Then We Heard the Thunder...
...SWINGER'S GUIDE TO LONDON by Piri Halasz. 207 pages. Coward-McCann...
...They are very serious about their seemingly playful work, and their background is apt to be broader-or at any rate more technical-than that of the traditional artist. Their experience includes such far-away fields as nuclear physics, optics and electronics. "They are of the technical age," says Piri Halasz, who wrote the story, "but they remain artists primarily." Researcher Leah Gordon found Nuclear Engineer Earl Reiback's projection technology so complicated that she brought along Science Researcher Sydnor Vanderschmidt to help her interview...
...wasn't necessarily planned that way, but Piri's visits to London were good preparation for writing this week's cover story on the swinging city. She drew more immediately on the work of seven staffers in our London bureau, as well as five U.S. and British photographers. They reported to the slightly jealous eyes of the editors in New York that the project involved four days of "the most concentrated swinging - discothéques, restaurants, art gallery and private parties, gambling, pub crawling - that any group of individuals has ever enjoyed or suffered, depending on your...