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...with an army of invisible vegetable-chopping elves, a lifetime supply of those miniature glass bowls that hold no more than a dab of anchovy paste, and children who gladly eat dishes with French names and 23 ingredients. Then I realized that show would have to run on the Sci-Fi Channel...
...This isn't science fiction. It's science fact. [laughter] What is that phrase from? Who said that? Is that from like some cheesy sci-fi movie...
...death-wish fantasies go, none of those is anywhere near as satisfying as our fading images of nuclear war, which had the great advantage of plausibility. By comparison, most religious versions of Armageddon (the biblical episode) seem as unreal as Armageddon (the sci-fi film). Even most devout Christians don't expect that any time soon they will see the seven-headed beast from The Revelation of St. John, the New Testament's dense and cryptic vision of the last things. But in these final days of the 20th century, religious millennialism has once again found a real world problem...
DIED. JEAN-CLAUDE FOREST, 68, comic-strip artist; near Paris. Best remembered as the creator of the sci-fi cheesecake character Barbarella, he also designed the sets for the 1968 Jane Fonda film...
JOHN TRAVOLTA last week finalized plans to bring Scientology founder L. RON HUBBARD's sci-fi novel Battlefield Earth to the big screen. Travolta's longtime manager-producer JONATHAN KRANE says the new deal calls for small indie Franchise Pictures, run by L.A. club owner and actress Tia Carrere's husband Elie Samaha, to finance the production. Distribution is planned via Franchise's ties to fellow indie Morgan Creek, whose movies are handled by Warner Bros. Krane adds that ROGER CHRISTIAN, a filmmaking protege of GEORGE LUCAS', is directing the summer '99 shoot, and Patrick Tatopoulos, who designed creature effects...