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...Spielberg movies-E.T. and Poltergeist-were due to be released, but on paper they did not at first look as if they were likely candidates for Hollywood immortality. Says Associate Editor Richard Corliss, who wrote the main story for this week's effort-with contributions from John Skow and Reporter-Researcher Melissa Ludtke Lincoln: "Here were two movies with no stars. Both were small budget. Together they cost much less than Annie. How important could lowbudget, horror or science-fiction films be?" The answer: so important that Corliss delayed a long-scheduled trip to the Cannes Film Festival...
...John Skow...
...London Pirates, and the profits, if any, will be used to resuscitate D'Oyly Carte. The idea of old conventions saved by audacious newcomers is an irony that Savoyards may resent. But Gilbert would have cherished it, and Sullivan would have set it to music. -By John Skow...
...John Skow...
...Winter Park, Fla., it took Sandra Hinson only one quarter "to confirm what I'd known since high school phys.-ed.: yours truly is a total eye-hand klutz." TIME Contributor John Skow, who wrote the story, claims "no aptitude, but considerable attraction" toward the beeping machines. He found his skill grew roughly at the rate his money vanished. Skow also tested home game systems and found what any father could have predicted: his 15-year-old daughter wiped him out. Working with Skow was Reporter-Researcher Peter Ainslie, who has been dueling with arcade machines for three years...