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...what a week in L.A., where basketball's prodigal problem child took El Nino's spot on the roster of California calamities. Rodman rained tears at a press conference held at--where else?--Planet Hollywood in Beverly Hills, where he complained about being unappreciated and underpaid but was profanely perky while discussing his sex life with current wife and former Baywatch babe Carmen Electra...
...with the boss's daughter (Elizabeth Hurley). Suddenly, a flash of light illuminates the sky, and he slams on the brakes. A spacecraft has landed on the nearby Enter Martian--a red, three-eyed creature who sees O'Hara recovering from the shock and, realizing he has landed on planet earth, chews on a piece of blue gum enabling him to transform into Christopher Lloyd. Grace, the spoiled boss's daughter whose glossy lipstick, tight apparel and wonder-bra breasts reek of superficiality, pulls up in her red sports car equipped with a "Dad's Girl" license plate. Emanating...
...urgency is introduced: Martin must repair the spaceship soon or else the ship's Interstellar Safety System, designed to keep other races from acquiring the advanced Martian technology, will explode. Meanwhile, a government agency, SETI has been trying to find the Martian. Will Uncle Martin get off the planet before the greedy scientists get their hands...
...else. That's a little tongue-in-cheek although I think it's true, that L.A. is where you go if you want to be somebody else. And the preponderance of people who want to be somebody else, who live in L.A., have skewed it off the axis of planet earth. I would not want to live in the immediate center, I have no interest in keeping up with popular culture, I enjoy the American midwest, and I'll never live in L.A. again. I haven't lived in L.A. for 18 years...
Fantastic Planet at the Brattle. (See Friday listing for details...