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Lawrence Kasdan does, with a vengeance. Like John Sayles (Alligator, Return of the Secaucus 7), Kasdan proposes a return to basics in screenplays: clean narrative lines, understandable characters, tantalizing plot precipices. His scripts live comfortably within the conventions of their genres: sci-fi intrigue in The Empire Strikes Back, Saturday-matinee thrills in Raiders of the Lost Ark, the steamy crime story in Body Heat. All these films were made with George Lucas or Steven Spielberg; now Spielberg serves as an executive producer of the script, written in 1977, that brought Kasdan to his attention. Continental Divide...
...picture that will remain longest in most viewers' minds will doubtless be the simulation of a 15-megaton thermonuclear fireball devastating Omaha. The $87,000 worth of special effects lavished on that sequence conveyed as much vivid horror as any megabucks sci-fi movie. But it would be a pity if that memory distracted attention from other merits of the CBS News series The Defense of the United States, which aired for an hour on each of five successive nights last week. Complex issues, like that of high-technology vs. simpler weapons, usually the preserve of scholarly tomes, were...
...Sci-Fi Author Ray Bradbury at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont. Calif...
...steel-spined, me-first mercenaries stalked by a mysterious killer. (In Alien it was a mutating monster; here it is a dangerous drug.) Mix them together with the plot from the old Gary Cooper western High Noon and you have the formula for this summer's big-budget sci fi-horror clone...
...golfing debut after recovering from a head wound suffered while playing intramural softball...Alexander reported that roommate Scheft played exceptionally well on the second, third, and fourth holes, eventually posting an exceptional score over the other 14.. Scheft was unavailable for comment pending the tidal wave of Nat Sci 124 term papers scheduled for today...