Word: shavelson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...author of April in Paris, Screenwriter Melville Shavelson converted his Radio Shack home computer into a word processor with the addition of inexpensive software. This double-barreled capacity to tap and then manipulate information allows him a futuristic scope: "I subscribe to a Virginia computer service called The Source. I can get Jack Anderson scoops three days before they're scoops," claims Shavelson. "I can feed into it any two cities in the world and it'll figure out the airline connections for me, with a restaurant guide to various cities. Also I have a research service...
...John Wayne film canon and all episodes of the M*A*S*H TV series. The equipment in the seagoing media room includes a Javelin night-vision TV camera that scans the ocean or shoreline and projects what it sees on a wide screen amidships. Hollywood Writer-Director Melville Shavelson has so much electronic gear-including a computer hooked up to a U.P.I, news wire-that he has had to divide it between two rooms. Says he: "Theater for the home is already here. A media room becomes a focal point for the family. You make your own popcorn, make...