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Tired of directors who spoof old sci-fi and horror movies? Who isn't? A genre spoof is usually an act of artistic masturbation: it exercises the adolescent imagination over an object that may have been too trashy ever to get excited about.In the process, spoofery tends to diminish both its own value and whatever power or charm the original work might have had. It is nostalgia calcified into camp...
...ratio and new capabilities. Whoever controls the channels of distribution controls the market." The sheer volume of machines is clogging the market. Because of limits on shelf space and trained personnel, most computer stores can handle only three or four brands. Admits Sandow Ruby, the president of Tech Hi Fi, a chain with 65 outlets: "No one likes to look like a fool in front of his customers...
...drawn ("It's a pejorative, demeaning. I got a brain, you know"). Nevertheless, it is getting him good movie-acting work. He starred in Brimstone and Treacle and will appear as the head heavy in the upcoming Dino De Laurentiis/David Lynch film of Frank Herbert's sci-fi behemoth Dune. Stage presence and movie appearances tend to reinforce each other, producing a charisma that may be inadvertent but is certainly undeniable. Copeland puts it simply, "His face is our face...
...billion-dollar publishing venture. Doraemon, an atomic-powered robot cat, makes Garfield look like something the human dragged in. Created in 1970, Doraemon has now appeared in a 26-volume collection with sales of $50 million. In 1980 Akira Toriyama sold 15 million copies of his 17-volume sci-fi comic Dr. Slump. There is even a manga temple outside Tokyo where, above the central altar, a legend is inscribed: THE IDEAL PRIEST...
...countries recently negotiated numerous "voluntary" agreements to limit commerce. The European Community, for example, promised the U.S. to hold steel exports to an average of only 5.4% of the American market. Europe won assurances from the Japanese that they would restrain exports of autos, light trucks, quartz watches, hi-fi equipment, computer-controlled machine tools and television tubes. Japan also agreed to put a 1.68 million ceiling on its auto shipments to the U.S. for the third straight year. The Geneva-based trade organization GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) estimates that roughly half of world commerce is affected...