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Sometimes Clarke's humor proves accessible only to sci-fi fans, as in his tongue-in-cheek query as to the current whereabouts of former colleague Ron Hubbard. "He was a damn good writer," Clarke says. "He could easily make ten cents a word today." For the uninitiated, L. Ron Hubbard was the man who casually remarked to a science fiction convention that writing for a penny a word was ridiculous. Anyone who really wanted to make a million bucks wouldn't waste his time writing science fiction, Hubbard contended, he'd start a religion. Hubbard then acted...
...entire movie industry may well have missed the point on the bonanza of Star Wars [Aug. 22]: the reason for the success of Wars is not the sci-fi appeal; it is the fun of the movie. Star Wars is a movie of today, like the romantic movies of yesteryear...
...Sci-fi The emphasis is on fi. In NBC's The Man from Atlantis, a fishy survivor from the lost civilization teams up with a comely lady scientist for some underwater heroics. CBS's Logan s Run, a spin-off from the film, zaps into the 24th century. In it a man and woman are on the run from certain death, and each week they seek shelter in a different society...
...blood in order to keep from liquefying. Universal Pictures plans to remake The Thing from Another World, originally directed by Howard Hawks in 1951, and The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), which will star Lily Tomlin this time as an incredible shrinking woman. Even the Disney studios are joining the sci-fi follies with a new kid flick titled The Cat from Outer Space...
...people are as pleased with Hollywood's new trend as Producer George Pal, whose sci-fi films of the 1950s regularly won Academy Awards for their special effects. Not only are Pal pictures like The War of the Worlds (1953) and When Worlds Collide (1951) being rereleased, but the latter is about to be remade by Director John Frankenheimer. Pal himself, now 69, is at work writing a sequel to his 1961 film The Time Machine. Says he: "Star Wars has proved again that a special effect is as big a star as any in the world...