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Book by SIDNEY MICHAELS Music by LARRY GROSSMAN Lyrics by HAL HACKADY...
Directed by HAL ASHBY...
...keep such an ambition from being more than facile presumption, Beatty and his co-writer Robert Towne (Chinatown) and Director Hal Ashby (The Last Detail) would have needed all their wit about them. All through the movie, though, their attitude toward George wavers. When he bemoans to Jill the general poverty of his life, it sounds like just another of his ploys to mollify an anxious, angry woman. But the end of Shampoo subverts what has gone before. George discovers that Jackie is his one true love and he blubbers out a proposal -marriage, kids, the whole number -that reveals...
...from the short, contained prose of Frank Herbert to the philosophic ramblings to Theodore Sturgeon. The book is labelled "A Discursive Symposium" and indeed, it is a comprehensive survey of the field. Frederik Phol and George Zebrowski analyze science fiction in publishing and the visual media Poul Anderson and Hal Clement, in back-to-back essays, explain how writers create imaginary worlds and creatures, drawing on scientific data. And one of the few female science fiction novelists. Anne McCaffrey, examines the lack of glamour and romance in science fiction...
...Superbowl ballyhoo in America couldn't camouflage sportswriters Hal Beck and Ben Olan's tired attempt to capture Pittsburgh Steeler star Joe Greene in Football Stars...