Word: planet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he flew over Metropolis back in 1939, he was merely a mild-mannered reporter with amazing superpowers. Now Clark Kent is back, but as the Yuppie of Steel. When he is not chasing stories as a star journalist for the Daily Planet, he writes novels, attends evening parties and shares his inner feelings -- can we talk? -- with his friend and colleague Lois Lane. His superbody has been redrawn along Rambo lines to reflect the iron-pumping fad of the '80s. Nor does Superman come quite as cheap as he used to. Last week a new, updated version of Superman...
...also is fortunate in having cinematographer Ernest Dickerson as his old film school buddy. Dickerson, who also filmed John Sayles' Brother From Another Planet, created She's Gotta Have It in elegant, tastefully washed-out black and white. His stills of modern-day Brooklyn people and places are a fine touch...
...Arctic home. The fact that lush forests could have grown so far north indicates that the climate there was once far more hospitable. In fact, scientists have long known that during the early part of the Tertiary period, which began about 65 million years ago, the entire planet was warmer, probably due to carbon dioxide that spewed into the atmosphere during movements of the earth's crust. The result was a greenhouse effect, in which the excess carbon dioxide, like the windows of a greenhouse, trapped the heat of sunlight...
...criminals create the shadow planet, or does the shadow planet create them? Whatever. The planet thrives, where even Ozzie and Harriet's little boy, grown middle-aged and off camera, is said to have floated high on cocaine en route to dying. It is as if the American mind itself were divided between clarity and dreams, freedom and addiction...
Their efforts produced some stunning footage for Lucasfilm, including a 37- second hologram of a planet floating in space in Return of the Jedi. There was also a memorable one-minute sequence in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan of a barren, moonlike sphere being transformed into a living planet, complete with computer-generated mountains, oceans and blue-green atmospheric haze. But in the end, even Lucas balked at the cost. "I don't want to be in the R.-and- D. business," he said earlier this year. "It's just too time consuming and expensive." Enter Jobs...