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...risking his world to save the flame-tressed Lyssa (Lysette Anthony). His hearty crew: a wizened wizard named Ynyr (Freddie Jones), a sad-faced Cyclops (Bernard Bresslaw), the scabrous brigand Torquil (Alun Armstrong) and Ergo, the inept conjurer (David Battley). The villain: a reptilian Beast who looks like the Alien from the Black Lagoon...
...punctuated by sporadic intervention. Generally, North Americans have preferred to look in other directions, particularly East and West, toward old friends and big enemies. The troubles of Central America have seemed sordid and insoluble, uninviting and even unworthy of American ministration; the peoples and cultures there have remained surprisingly alien, given their proximity...
...aspect of working life that would displease most Western reporters: Yomiuri gives almost no bylines. Editorial Board Chairman Tsuneo Watanabe explains, "I would want to develop star reporters, but the Japanese tradition of anonymity among writers dies hard." If any one thing would make Japanese newspapering seem utterly alien to U.S. reporters, that is it: journalists who prefer to be unknown and who nonetheless ride in limousines. -By William A. Henry...
Theatre III Woody Alien Film Festival Continuing until September 15 Call for times...
Imagine a tiny, alien creature landing in St. Louis on a hot summer's evening. His mission: to find out what all this imperial talk of crowning a Miss Universe is about. Making his way to the wings of the stage, he turns and sees Pageant Host Bob Barker, 59. (Truth or Consequences and The Price Is Right are not in syndication on his planet yet, but the visitor feels Bob looks shorter in person than on the TV monitor.) He also gets a new twist on "singing," when Guest Star John Schneider (The Dukes of Hazzard) belts...