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Besides, by late last month Bill Bennett's name was rising fast on Dole's ever changing short list. While preparing for his July 30 speech praising the values of the sci-fi blockbuster Independence Day--a subject, and a movie, that Bennett had urged upon Dole--the two men spent several days on the road together. The night before the speech, Dole invited Bennett to a meeting at the Hotel Sofitel in Los Angeles. With his press secretary Nelson Warfield and California campaign chief Ken Kachigian also in the room, Dole talked mainly about his upcoming tax-cut proposals...
Paramount boss Jon Dolgen says studios will make more films together to share costs and spread risks. TriStar is teaming with Disney, for example, on Starship Troopers, an expensive sci-fi epic directed by Robocop's Paul Verhoeven that is taking the same July 4 slot occupied so successfully this year by Independence...
There is a kind of movie out there known as the "special-effects flick"--this much scientists have confirmed. Some become sci-fi epics, a la "Terminator 2"; others are fun-filled fantasies, such as good ol' Roger Rabbit's tale. Yet a special few are so wretched, so abominable, so unpardonably content-less that one hesitates even to say their names again for fear of incurring the wrath of the Gods of Good Taste. The Michael J. Fox debacle falls into the last category...
While extraterrestrials remain rumors, some sci-fi is less and less fi. Robots used to be staples of futuristic novels, but now they are virtually essential to production lines, scientific research, nuclear safety and antiterrorist swat teams. Below, with their costs, are a few recent models of modern commercial robots...
...film's well-executed special effects and adventure sequences show that there is nothing wrong with borrowing from other movies so long as it's done well. Viewers will have flashbacks to a wide array of adventure, sci-fi, and apocalyptic classics: "Star Wars," "Top Gun," "Alien," "The Day the Earth Stood Still," and TV movie landmarks like "V," and "The Day After." Even the acronym-based ad campaign reminds one of "Terminator 2: Judgement...