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...honeymoon, Hughie has a complicated relationship with his sister. Growing up, the little warmth their father Hugh Rodham Sr. had to give went primarily to Hillary. She was the Warrior Princess of Oak Park, Ill., beating up the boys in the neighborhood, always the captain when her brothers played "spaceship," less afraid, by her telling, of the scary flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz than Baby Hughie, who tried to hide under his seat at a Chicago movie theater...
...woke up a cockroach, and nothing was the same anymore. The dream logic of surrealism, the theater of the absurd, the shock edits of the French New Wave all followed. Soon you could have an ape-man throw a bone in the air and--blink--it's an orbiting spaceship...
When seers forecast the future literally instead of metaphysically, they usually miss by light-years. The Buck Rogers comic strip of the 1950s attempted to depict life in the 25th century. But even before the end of the 20th century, Buck's spaceship looked more like a 1956 Cadillac than any realistic vision of a technological tomorrow that is already with us. Nor can the exactitude of modern science save us from silliness in attempting to know what will happen next year, or next week, or even this afternoon. Economics is called the dismal science as much for being dismally...
Still, reporters hoped he might throw them a bone. One asked: If Duchovny's going to be in 11 episodes, yet there'll be only six or seven mythology ones - during at least some of which he'll presumably be on a spaceship - how will they work the abductee into the stand-alones in the meantime? "You'll see how that works," he said. "And hopefully you'll think it's very clever of us." Judging by how well the man improvises onstage, we won't be a bit surprised...
...show. And some of Carter's questioners had Sci-Fi-Convention Syndrome, expecting the creator to spit out, like a creative jukebox, the answers to all manner of ephemera and hypotheticals. How will Mulder feel if it turns out Scully's preggers by somebody else? Was the spaceship in the season finale the same kind of spaceship as in the movie? "This one was the sports car," Carter said, bemused, "and the other was the Lincoln Continental...