Word: sci-fi
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...acting career began with a stint as TV's Chiquita Banana lady. The next time Barbara Carrera is seen peeling anything, however, it will be the clothes off her back in a new sci-fi epic titled Embryo. "I had a lot of qualms about it," she says of her nude scene with Co-Star Rock Hudson, a physician-researcher who cultivates Barbara from birth, so to speak, in his basement laboratory. In her role, the Nicaraguan-born actress grows quickly into the good doctor's lovemate, then a dope addict and finally a 120-year...
...Teddy's greatest boons is a battery-powered, astronaut-type pressure suit with its own portable air-filtration system. Donning it, he is able to venture outdoors for several hours at a time. Though embarrassed at first by the suit's Buck Rogers look, Sci-Fi Buff...
What is Sophia Loren, 41, doing in yet another B flick? Now the Fiamma Napoletana is making Cassandra Crossing, a sci-fi thriller produced by Husband Carlo Ponti and co-starring Richard Harris, 42. In the movie, about a train that is supposedly germ-infested and is being shuttled around Europe with 1,000 passengers on board, Loren and Harris play a love-hating couple. "This role is basically ironic . . . it pleases me because I believe it is within my nature," says Sophia. That is not necessarily intended to be a comment on her 19-year marriage to Carlo, however...
...viewer, ABC "nights"-meaning in TV jargon the nights the network swamps the ratings-are not much different from the other networks' fare. ABC's top shows are only too familiar comedies such as Happy Days and its offspring Laverne and Shirley, sci-fi fantasies like The Six Million Dollar Man, from whose stainless-steel rib was cloned the Bionic Woman, and a lineup of crime that includes Starsky and Hutch and S. W.A. T. ABC has placed at least four shows in the top ten since the start of the second season...
...sci-fi fantasies also seemed to carry over to Bowie's music. A mastermind in the studio, he produced instrumental tracks that were almost chilling in their precision. But if you weren't bothered by the calculated flavor of it all, his instrumentals were every bit as rewarding as his lyrics. Bowie took advantage of nearly all the techniques open to him, from guitar to strings, from harmonica to horn arrangements and used them with economy and deftness. What's more, he had ace guitarist Mick Ronson at his disposal. The result was textured and complex, but at the same...