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...physics holds another fascination for him: "It shows that the world is not really the way we see it." As if to illustrate the point, the computer screen on his table suddenly erupts in tiny bursts of colorful sparks without any special prompting. Glancing at it, Lertola, ever the sci-fi fan, says, "I'd like to look 100 years into the future and see how sophisticated equipment will be then...
Lynch moved to Los Angeles in 1970 and spent five years making Eraserhead. The film became a cult hit and led to his first mainstream film, The Elephant Man. Lynch's next project, the big-budget sci-fi movie Dune, was a critical and commercial disaster, but Blue Velvet brought him widespread critical / acclaim. A couple of aborted projects later (including a script for Steve Martin called One Saliva Bubble), Lynch is finishing a new film, Wild at Heart, starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern...
...that spans half a century, the Italian-born De Laurentiis produced a handful of successes that include the Fellini-directed La Strada (1954), Serpico (1974), King Kong (1976) and Conan the Barbarian (1982). But the hits have been overshadowed by hundreds of commercial duds, most notably the $50 million sci-fi film Dune, a 1984 mega-flop that helped send Dino down the chute...
...hard to see why. Since September alone, Goodman has helped Al Pacino catch a serial murderer in Sea of Love, watched Richard Dreyfuss crash to earth in Always, and dried Bette Midler's tears in the just released weeper Stella. He is currently shooting a sci-fi film for Steven Spielberg, Arachnophobia, in which he plays an exterminator battling killer spiders. All that in addition to his regular weekday job: playing Roseanne Barr's TV husband in the top-rated ABC sitcom Roseanne. "More has happened to me in the last year," says Goodman, "than anybody except maybe Nicolae Ceausescu...
TREMORS. Kevin Bacon fights off an attack of 30-ft.-long earthworms in this crowd-pleasing sci-fi flick. Shrewdly written, energetically directed and played with high comic conviction, Tremors is bound to become a cult classic...