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...interview with Southside Johnny began cautiously but ended with a walk down Memory Lane to take a look at Madame Marie's, a fortunetelling parlor that also figures in Springsteen's music. "The whole scene was eerie," Vallely says, "like the stage set for an episode of Twilight Zone. I loved it." The 'final story, edited by Martha Duffy, was written by Associate Editor Jay Cocks, who regularly reviews new movies but coveted this writing assignment as an early Springsteen...
...Strange Land. (How would you portray "groking?" Who would accept a giant sandworm in a serious film?) Some of the finest science fiction on film was specifically written for that medium. Ironically, Ellison himself is responsible for some of the better television screenplays: "Soldier" on Rod Sterling's Twilight Zone, a chilling preview of a war-wracked future through the eyes of a genetically engineered warrior, fleeing his opponents through time travel; and an excellent script for Star Trek, "A City At the Edge of Forever...
...subject is the twilight of Empire. The year is 1878, but already night has fallen all along India's northwest frontier. Someone in the 20th Indian Light Cavalry is assaulting women. The entire regiment is in a flap. Surly, cynical Second Lieut. Edward Millington (James Faulkner) is accused of brutalizing comely Marjorie Scarlett (Susannah York), widow of a regimental hero...
...second leave in three years.) She is on probation now. If she had kept her name out of the newspapers and waited several months before announcing a change of plans, she would have been beyond the reach of the department. Instead she was caught in the twilight area between the time the department votes tenure and the administration and the Corporation approve it. The impetus for the May reconsideration reportedly came from the administration, and it is between the dean and the president that the nomination may face its most serious obstacle...
Pentagon and State Department sources anticipate no shortage of volunteers. Several former military men who served along the DMZ in Viet Nam are already looking forward to a return to the fascinating twilight world of "dipsy doodle" radar scans and "big bird" spy satellites. They are also looking forward to pay that could add up to $40,000 or more a year...