Word: sagan
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...lander, with instruments and cameras of its own, could function for as little as a month or as long as a year. Even after it winks out, it will continue to serve an important symbolic function. On Saturday NASA announced that it would rename the spent lander the Carl Sagan Memorial Station...
MOVIES . . . CONTACT: "The movie 'CONTACT'," says TIME's Richard Schickel, "is something like one of those mysterious asteroids that get the astronomers all worked up: a large body of gaseous matter surrounding a relatively small core of solid substance." The movie, adapted from Carl Sagan's novel, is good -- up to a point -- on the inevitable hubbub that follows. Leading it are a national security adviser (James Woods) going nastily paranoid about space invasion; a presidential science adviser (Tom Skerritt) trying to shunt Ellie out of the loop as the government builds the shuttle (plans kindly provided by the aliens...
...observation is more or less true as well for two of this summer's potential movie blockbusters: Men in Black, an inventive action-comedy loosely based on lore about mysterious dark-suited agents who harass people who've seen UFOs; and the more solemn Contact, based on the Carl Sagan novel and said to be, in the words of its director Bob Zemeckis, the rare alien movie "rooted in true scientific believability." "We've done more for them than they do for us," says Price of Hollywood. A handsome, weather-beaten man with surprisingly still, pale blue eyes...
...national phenomenon here and not a Beaverton-centric statistical anomaly, I checked with Raoul Felder, one of New York's better-known divorce lawyers (he handled the off-line antinuptials of Robin Givens as well as those of the ex-missuses of Frank Gifford, David Susskind and Carl Sagan). "I have a number of those things where they meet on the Net and talk dirty and arrange rendezvous," confirms Felder. In fact, he says, his firm has handled "50 or so. Easily...
...chatty group of the subject's friends and relatives. Producers can generally procure interviews with living subjects too (if not, they rely on existing news footage), since the series does not aim for Hard Copy-esque lambasting. If anything, Biography is uncritical to a fault. An episode on Carl Sagan had movie producer Lynda Obst rhapsodizing about the astronomer's romance with her friend Annie Druyan. The sing-songy-voiced narrator seemed just as enchanted with the story, even though the reality was far from a fairy tale: Sagan was married and a father when he took up with Druyan...