Word: vegas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...jolly Jet Propulsion Lab fellows liked to drown out the Martian silence with Twist and Shout, these movies are about the wisdom of being quiet enough to hear the otherworldly message--the simple sequence of chords that announces the aliens' arrival in Close Encounters, the pounding radio signal from Vega that Jodie Foster's character picks up in Contact...
...Arroway, a brilliant astronomer who has devoted her life to attempting to communicate with the extraterrestrial life she feels sure must exist somewhere among the billions of stars. Battling continual funding problems and other setbacks, her search is finally vindicated when a radio transmission arrives from the distant star Vega. It is decoded to reveal instructions for building a machine believed to be capable of transporting its occupant through deep space...
...than anything that follows. The movie lumbers along for about an hour until the signal arrives. Then it kicks into high speed, only to lapse once again into plodding. There are a few unexpected and welcome turns--most notably the chilling sight of the first visual image transmitted from Vega; and whenever elusive, eccentric billionaire S.R. Hadden (John Hurt), Ellie's secret ally, pops...
...body, not to say skimpy. Minis are micro, midriffs bare. Pinpricked Airtex, borrowed from athletes' uniforms, reigns here. Perhaps the chicest outfit in the group is a plain black vinyl shift. The very latest fashion fabric, polyester treated to appear holographic, appears in pretty iridescent tops. Daphne Rubin-Vega, who plays Mimi in the show and models the clothes here, gets to the point when she says, "They're really bohemian." Well, boho goes uptown...
...starting to look amazing," wrote Marcus Featherston of Panama City, Florida, in a Usenet newsgroup called sci.astro.amateur. "I could see it through my car window!" And that was while Hyakutake was still brightening. When it reaches maximum intensity this week, the comet should be nearly as bright as Vega, one of the most luminous stars in the heavens. Astronomy clubs, colleges and planetariums have organized "star parties" for comet wannasees; World Wide Web users have created a dozen fact-packed Hyakutake sites, including NASA's Night of the Comet home page http://ccf.arc.nasa.gov/comet/)...