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...outdone, Tandy, one of Apple's chief competitors, supported federal legislation tailored to promote its Radio Shack line of computers. Tandy gave books, slides, even special Superman computer comics to schools and made available free instruction to each of America's 2.4 million schoolteachers. "It's good business for us," says Bill Gattis, director of Tandy's education division...
...Living Doll, Julie Newmar was a robot who camouflaged her engineering as sexual equipment: her breasts encased solar batteries. Lee Majors as The Six Million Dollar Man was simply state-of-the-art beefcake. Now an ABC show of stupefying banality called Auto-man offers a fluorescent, blond Superman who is summoned up by a wimpish computer jock in moments of crisis. Automan owes more to I Dream of Jeannie than to computer science, however. Another new show, NBC's Riptide, has something for every armchair technocrat, including a klutzy orange robot with a display screen in its chest...
Laurie Anderson: O Superman (directed by Josh White). Performance art in outer space; a satellite transmission from a forbidden planet...
...probably depicts Gris' favorite character pulp fiction. He was a supercrook named Fantómas, whose nefarious deeds were eagerly devoured by Picasso, Apollinaire and everyone in the cubist circle. Appearing and disappearing at will, frustrating the law at every turn, Fantómas was to cubism what Superman, 50 years later, would be to Pop. He epitomized the grand game of detection, ambiguity challenging reality, that the cubists, Gris included, wanted to install at the center of painting. This game was what Juan Gris' use of collage was really about, and as a result his work...
Everybody's somebody's baby, especially when Hollywood goes on a field trip for new stars. Nothing succeeds like last year's success, and this year the talent scouts came back with Tom Cruise, who looks like a baby-faced Christopher Reeve. Here he is, Superman in miniature (Reeve is 6 ft. 4 in., Cruise 5 ft. 9 in.): the hooded eyes, the sculpted body, the off-beat comic timing, the self-deprecating manner, the winning smile. Cruise played a psychotic cadet in Taps, a winsome greaser in The Outsiders, but it was in Paul Brickman...