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The West has positioned itself as the protagonist of development, giving rise to a vast multi-billion dollar poverty industry — the business of doing good has never been better. Yet the results have been mixed, in some cases even catastrophic, and leaders in the developing world are growing increasingly vocal in calling for change. Drawing from over interviews filmed in 20 countries, Poverty, Inc. Could I be part of the problem? From scandalous headlines to little white lies, Dis Honesty — The Truth About Lies explores the complex impact dishonesty has on our lives and everyday society.

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One year, two friends, four conversations…twenty five years ago, Craig Detweiler and John Marks roomed together at Davidson College. John was a Christian and Craig was an Atheist. After college, they went their separate ways. John left the faith. Craig joined the faith. Two decades later, two old friends with a shared history and divided beliefs sit down and talk it all out with anger, wit, love and sorrow.

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Who would have thought a 5-year-old boy who fought leukemia would transform a city and a nation for a day? Not the thousands of volunteers who came from near and far to help make his wish come true. Batkid Begins is a documentary that takes you back to November 15th, , the day San Francisco turned into Gotham City, and the day the internet was nice. More than a billion people took to social media to cheer on BatKid, even President Obama!

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Using video games, animated videos, and group activities to help put her message across, Fischer encourages the kids to pray for George W. Bush, and Mike Papantonio, a Christian talk-show host who believes the right-wing slant of many Christian evangelists is taking the church into a dangerous direction. Kurt Cobain, lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of Nirvana, remains an icon 20 years after his death. The killers live just down the road, and have been in power ever since the genocide. The killers still hold power, so these confrontations are dangerous.

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The Look Of Silence does something virtually without precedent in cinema or in the aftermath of genocide: A laugh-out-loud real life romantic comedy about Ravi Patel, an almostyear-old Indian-American who enters a love triangle between the woman of his dreams…and his parents. This hilarious and heartwarming film reveals how love is a family affair. The beer-swilling, politically outspoken and whip-smart comic whose efforts in the 70s and 80s fostered the talents of the next generation of standup comedians.

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Jewish culture reflects the heart of a vital ethnic history. As that culture continues to shift and adapt alongside mainstream America, delicatessen food — as its name suggests — remains a beloved communal delicacy. In Houston, Texas, third-generation deli man Ziggy Gruber has built arguably the finest delicatessen restaurant in the U. Locked away from society in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Angulo brothers learn about the outside world through the films that they watch.

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When their year-old roommate Petyr, turns something human hipster Nick, into a vampire, the guys must guide him through his newfound eternal life. In return, they are forced to learn a thing or two about modern society, fashion, technology, and the internet. Sons of Perdition follows three boys after they leave Colorado City. With limited educations and rarely a stable address, the obstacles are enormous. All the boys have big dreams — starting with the hope of attending high school — but what they want most is contact with their families. For one teen in the film, this means numerous attempts to help his fourteen-year-old sister escape before an arranged marriage.

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On these never-before-filmed streets of ancient Mecca, he joins 4 million Muslims, from the majority, peace-loving pilgrims fulfilling a lifelong calling, to brutal jihadists for whom violence is a creed. Sharma yearns to find his own place within an Islam he has always known, an Islam that bears no resemblance to the bastardized versions creating havoc around the Muslim world.

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A master deceiver who came out of the closet at the age of 81, Randi created fictional characters, fake psychics, and even turned his partner of 25 years, the artist Jose Alvarez, into a sham guru named Carlos. You think you know this story? This documentary is an intimate but explosive portrait of the man behind the greatest fraud in sporting history. Lance Armstrong enriched himself by cheating his fans, his sport and the truth.

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Michael Dowd stole money and dealt drugs while patrolling the streets of 80s Brooklyn. He tells all in this explosive true crime saga. At 81 years old, the tenacious and enthusiastic performer has no intention of slowing down. This loving portrait peels away the instances that inspired his creation of Big Bird and as the yellow feathers give way to grey hair, it is the man, not the puppet, who will steal your heart. The streets, an orphanage, or with the family he fled in the first place? Tucked in the Appalachian mountains of Southern West Virginia, Oceana, is a small, once thriving coal-mining town that has fallen victim to the fast spreading scourge of prescription painkiller Oxycontin.

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Every year hundreds of people — mostly women — are attacked with acid in Pakistan. SAVING FACE follows several of these survivors, their fight for justice, and a Pakistani plastic surgeon who has returned to his homeland to help them restore their faces and their lives. In an industry obsessed with youth, these older women dispel conventional ideas about beauty and aging and prove that with age comes grace, confidence, boldness, flair and new, unimagined opportunities for fame and fortune.

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Jerry Seinfeld, Jay Leno, Kathy Griffin and other comic greats pay tribute to the legendary stand-up stage founded in by Budd Friedman. Abandoned in a foreclosed home, Lou is one of thousands of parrots in need of rescue. From the wilds of Costa Rica to suburban America, a lovable, quirky cast of parrots will reveal their unforgettable tales and the bittersweet world they share with humans.

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Meanwhile, down the street, South Bronx is the poorest congressional district in the U. Bypassing politics and fingerpointing, this forward-thinking documentary zeroes in on enterprising individuals — from a wind farmer to a solar-panel retrofitter — who are devising business-minded ways to avert the looming climate crisis. Setting out to explore whether America still has a sense of community where people help each other through hard times, year-old Joseph Garner spends a month depending on the goodness of Craigslist posters for his survival.

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In over people led by Rev. Jim Jones died in the largest mass murder-suicide in history, at Jonestown, Guyana. The story is told by survivors, Temple defectors, relatives, and journalists. Married 54 years, Mike and Mina Block were the picture of if not wedded bliss then at least rock-solid stability — or so thought their son, documentary filmmaker Doug Block. Turning his lens on his own family, he discovers much he never knew about the people who raised him. Enthralling black holes, stars that perish and others that spring to life, and other planets possibly bustling with life are just some of the sights seen along the journey.

The master horseman reveals details of his troubled childhood and his dawning awareness of new ways that humans and horses might work with one another. As Buck learns more about horses, he finds that the ways we communicate with our animal companions offer lessons on how we relate to fellow human beings. With a staggering number of Americans suffering from obesity and other food-related maladies, this film takes a timely and hard-hitting look at how the food we eat is helping or hurting our health, and what we can do to live and eat better.

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Rick Moranis has two new movies: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, in which he plays a goofy scientist whose miniaturization machine inadvertently does what many parents would like to do to their own kids with a frying pan, and Ghostbusters II, in which Moranis reprises the role of Louis the accountant, who has since gone to night school and become a lawyer and organizer for the team that wants to de-slime the Big Apple. Still, even funny guys have bad days. The expostulation is caused by a spilled can of soda on his end of the line; the spirit of the interview remains dampened long after the soda has dried.

Moranis says this with dripping sar- casm. He must be kidding, because there are plenty of ques- tions that he really hates. And that gets us into the movie. Transportation includes a giant bee and a friendly ant made of latex foam core covered with horse hair, requiring up to a dozen operators. This is something that people are doing more and more of, and it's something that you must concentrate on. It's just another style of act- ing. It's not any harder or easier than anything else.

In Ghostbusters, I have a scene where I'm being chased by a dog that isn't there. As I'm talking, I'm leaving holes for something to be added later. But in the finished movie, there are tiny children swimming for their lives amidst Cheerios the size of Saturn's rings. The Cheerios are played by textured inner tubes; the 16, gallons of milk is chlorinated water, pigment and a food product thickener.

Was it hard to be funny on an empty set, looking down into a bowl of breakfast cereal? So, in certain instances, a performer is really not that in touch with what the final product is going to be, especially in an effects situation. Ad Libs Not knowing how funny "funny" is go- ing to be when it winds up on the screen seems to cause Moranis less anxiety than not knowing how funny "funny" is going to be when it winds up in print.

After giving numerous "funny" interviews, when he was "younger and greener and more glib," Moranis has turned over a new leaf. No more playful sparring with reporters. All right, he does say something funny, but he does it so reluctantly, he makes it sound like something out of an historical compendium of late 20th-century humor.

Although he doesn't only play nerds— "I do As a scientist, Moranis doesn't mind shrinking kids, but as an actor, he takes offense to shortening movie titles like Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. It's sort of unavoidable for me. When I did Dark Helmet in Spaceballs, the note for the character said he wore this gigantic helmet. He was Napoleonic, he was fascist. And the press came out and said I was playing the nerdy leader.

Does that also apply to Moranis? I feel very uncomfortable trying to come up with an answer for that question. He hated doing Streets of Fire, mostly because he was not allowed to improvise, and he disliked the finished product. I really separate the experience of doing a movie from the final product.

I real- ly put a tremendous value on the experience of doing it, which determines to a great ex- tent how I choose my projects. But Moranis wouldn't do a sequel just for the sake of doing a se- quel. Being down there was pretty frightening. It is absolutely the most polluted place you can imagine. There were days I woke up in my hotel room, and I swore I was sleeping in a garage.

The air in my room felt like a car was idling there over- night. The Mexican people are wonderful. They're just in this unfortunate time and place, living in this overpopulated, terribly polluted valley with an inversion layer that has 40 million diesel engines pumping terri- ble fumes into it. You saw all the knots, the hardwood, the heads of the nails, and all the idiosyncracies of a wood floor Janine Annie Potts and Louis Moranis do their bit to promote the Ghostbusters' return.

Also, there were these huge, foot tall blades of grass, and soil and ants. He told me about this movie and about the kind of film he wanted to do. I read the script and looked at my kids— well, at that time I had one kid— and thought, 'What the heck. Moranis also has a movie script of his own, a comedy "God, I hope so" that he isn't ready to discuss. It's a story of people coping with being a parent and a child in to- day's culture.

Somebody's got- ta do the books. It's very col- laborative and fairly improvisational in terms of looking for jokes and action. A river of slime is roil- ing beneath Manhattan, and it all has to do with a museum painting of Vigo the Car- pathian, a baddie who is gradually coming to life. Moranis speaks often about the impor- tance of collaboration among writers, actors and technicians on movies. But will he ever again have the creative freedom he once had with his Canadian confreres in SCTV1 "That was a unique situation," he observes. When you're young and hungry and green and you're in Edmon- ton and you're on at As soon as the network realizes, 'Hey, this is good, let's put this on in prime time,' it's over.

Because now you have peo- ple flying up to Edmonton telling you, Wo, no, no, no, this should be a close-up, don't do that. There is some debate over just how awful the past hour has been. Rick Moranis, much friendlier by now, in- sists it hasn't been all that bad. After hear- ing some evidence to the contrary, he ad- mits, "In other words, then, this was like a bad date.

There, as the final test in the training process of would-be robot controllers, Athena has to climb to the top of a jungle gymlike ap- paratus, the bars of which shake so violently they can throw people off. Certain bars can also heat up enough to burn a person, or produce electric shocks. It was a very time-consuming and difficult sequence to shoot.

But I enjoy FX movies; there's fun in creating something that doesn't exist and making it believable. And in this film, it was the robots, making the audience believe they're real and weigh 3, tons. Gordon's robots have had an extended birthing process. While the scope and com- plexity of the special FX alone would have guaranteed a two-year shoot, production was held up an additional year due to Em- pire Pictures' financial woes, which resulted in their shutting the film down twice, pulling David Allen's crew out of the desert.

Later, Trans World Entertainment stepped in, viewed existing footage and decided to finish the movie. The subsequent unpredictable weather patterns on the Mojave sands stretched the rest of the filming out several more months. Metal Aftermath An early professional brush with the genre came when Gordon produced Warp, a science-fiction trilogy inspired by Marvel comics, on stage for the Organic Theatre Company.

During that time, he became friends with comic artists Berni Wrightson and Neal Adams. Drawing an analogy be- tween his love for comics and his new film, Gordon notes that "one thing they do well in comics is to create a sense of power with enormous characters or creatures of size, so I think comics were helpful in that regard. Comics are storyboards, really, and as a matter of fact, many comic book artists are doing storyboards and conceptual work. While the producers of Poltergeist and Gordon have been developing a Warp film, no firm plans have yet been made. Peter O'Toole stars as Torquemada, the Grand Inquisitor of Spain, the real-life expert on torture responsible for thousands of deaths, all in a religious fervor.

You have to find new ways to strike fear in- to their hearts. In a bit of swashbuckling, he gets to battle 25 guards while attempting an escape. And Sherilyn The Wraith Fenn plays a suspected witch, who Torquemada tortures while, at the same time, falling in love with her. This will be much truer to the spirit of Poe than the [] Roger Corman film was, although I'm a fan of the Corman movie. I don't want to put it down in any way. They went as far as they could when that film was made, and we'll do the same for today. Their still-in-development Shadow Over Inns- mouth is about "a town in New England where all the inhabitants are turning into fish; pretty wild stuff.

He does, though, have a story credit on Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, which began as his own directorial project, The Teenie Weenies see page Stuart Gordon admits he would like to do an all-out comedy one day, noting ironical- ly, "It's amusing to me that, when I, directed theater in Chicago, what I mainly did was comedy but, since Re-Animator, it has been horror and, now, science fiction. But I still love them; I wouldn't want to leave the genre.

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His first two movies, Pee- wee's Big Adventure and Beetlejuice, were relatively small-budget productions that became box-office "sleepers" — hits that were not heralded by excessive hype and "name" stars, but were made popular by growing word-of-mouth response to their quirky originality and sense of fun. But directing Batman was different. Discussing the movie over lunch at Pinewood Studios in England, where it was filmed, Burton makes it clear that Batman was a far more strenuous challenge for him than either Pee-wee or Beetlejuice.

We were shooting six days a week. Usually, if you have the weekend, you can re-group a little bit. There was absolutely no time to re- group. Presiding over Batman's world, Tim Burton notes the problem of making Robin fit. It looks good on paper, but when people are working that hard on this kind of movie, myself included, Saturday rolls around and you're working in negative space.

You're so scatterbrained, and then the problems just Build up. You don't have a second to think about it and resolve it, and step back and say, 'Well, see, let's cut this out,' because you are blindly going through it. By the end, I was taking it almost a day at a into troubles because, by the shoot's end, there were sequences that weren't quite solidified. I figure if I ever had it to do over again, I would want to make the script bet- ter. But there's no point irr freaking out. You must stick by what you're doing, and I think it got a little bit out of hand.

If 1 feel that they're right, then I let them— with me— tone it to their individual selves, because otherwise, you shouldn't have had that person in the role. To tell you the truth, it was so shocking that I had a weird response to the whole situa- tion—and I actually didn't like my response. I mean, I was very sad and upset, but I just said, 'OK, well, [find another actress]. Kim added a lot to the reality of it. She did really good and I'm very happy. It's safe to say it probably would have gone in a little different direction with Sean, because she's a different person.

Michael Keaton, who portrays the Dark Knight, also played the title character in Burton's Beetlejuice. But the working ex- perience was different this time, the director says. This was a tough one for Michael because much of what he had to do, especially at the begin- ning, was, he would come in at the day's end, put on his Batsuit, which was a very uncomfortable suit, and do two shots.

I think— if I were him— I would react that way. I learned a lot. He's really great at that. What I really ap- preciated about Peter is that he got into the spirit of the movie very, very strongly. He's a great director as a director, and so I admired him for that, and then I admired him doubly for doing what he did for me. Just because of the enormous weight of this picture, and the tremendous amount to do, and how important it is for me that movies feel personal— I mean that in the sense that it just doesn't look like it has been made by a committee and loses its feel.

But again, I couldn't have had better help. Anton is one of the best people in any country and I like him. I always have to feel like I'm friends with the production designer and the cameraman. While much of contemporary SF has, for better or worse, inextricably fused itself with fantasy elements, Gibson has instead assimilated an unhealthy dose of reality.

A Gibson character wouldn't know a unicorn if he hallucinated one. After winning the Hugo Award for his debut novel Neuromancer, Gibson found himself entangled in a battle between the contemporary SF literary community in- censed at this Young Turk's mainstream media attention and a savage new front pointing to Gibson as their leader and call- ing themselves Cyberpunks. His heroes are the new breed of outlaw: Throughout Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive as well as most of the short fiction collected in Burning Chrome, Gibson's vi- sion has delineated the Sprawl, a huge urban mess stretching from Boston to Atlanta and peopled with misfits of every stripe and creed.

While the occasional visit to a cor- porate bigwig might give us a glance at lux- ury in the penthouses, the truly stunning moments come from the fringes — the derelict satellites populated by Rastafarians in Neuromancer, the lethal clashes between Goth punks and militant preppy Kasuals in Count Zero, the mournful contaminated landfill Dog Solitude in Mona Lisa Over- drive. Either ironically or appropriately, STARLOG catches up with Gibson on a grey, rainy, winter morning while the author recovers from a case of food poisoning.

Just pretend I'm an ordinary, unbiased reader, and tell me: The problem with that is I'm not sure there are Cyberpunks. It doesn't exist, but there are imitations! It was a group of people I was hanging around with, although actually we were geographically scattered. There were at least two of them in Austin, Texas, so that seems to be the geographical epicenter of the thing.

Someone came along and said, "These guys are like a group," and someone in the group William Gibson, Neuromantic in case you haven't noticed, SF literature has become Dig business, you have to expect a few industrial saboteurs. Stay away from labels. He was publishing Cheap Truth, an SF newsletter attacking the straight guys anonymously. Things like that sort of snowballed, but now people talk about it as though it was ordered at every level, like we planned to storm the Bastille.

To make matters more confus- ing, the Mirrorshades anthology really presented itself as some kind of manifesto. Yeah, well, the best thing in Mir- rorshades is the introduction, if you ask me. The intro's more exciting than the combined weight of the material. The thing that makes me most dubious about "Cyberpunk" as a term is that I think the rhetoric might lull people into forgetting that the main core of genre SF is still militaristic spaceship stuff and unicorn fantasies. In pop culture, the closest equivalent to Cyberpunk would be, uhm They played outlaw country.

I see the country music industry and the SF print industry as very similar; they're both about the same size, and there's a kind of innate conservatism to the forms. So, this thing they call Cyberpunk is just an example of a bunch of people deciding not to be a part of the genre and finding themselves in it anyway. Most of them are younger than I am. I'm weirdly old to be doing this, to tell the truth, because I'm Bruce Sterling's in his mids now, but most of them aren't quite You get to be young in SF forever.

We only recently quit calling Harlan Ellison an "angry young man. There is a horror equivalent to Cyberpunk — Clive Barker. Regular American horror fiction never made it for me. So many of the stories are structured like dirty jokes, you know, with the revela- tion of obscenity at the end. Those writers are so coy, with that deliberate and sometimes totally false naivete about the stories' sexual underpinnings, whereas Barker seems totally conscious of it. He forges ahead with the sexual material. It's interesting, but I wonder what effect it has had on the genre consumer, the guy who walks into the bookstore and says, "Gimme the next third-rate Stephen King clone.

Both you and Barker came on- to the big scene at roughly the same time. Barker's always getting trashed by these holier-than-thou writers who think they own the genre because they've been writing it for so long. Have you met with that kind of resistance? Yeah, I have, but less of it than I would have expected. When I started writing, I didn't think it would go very far, particularly when I did Neuromancer. I felt I was setting myself up for some weird fate. I thought someday the book would be translated and sold in France as a cult trip like Philip Dick, or maybe in England with people who like J.

In a way, I was right, because the im- mediate response from England and France was very positive. But at the same time, SF people gave me all the awards, and I couldn't understand their reasons for it. You have to be an attending member to vote, you see, so the American vote was minimized. If it had been in Kansas City or someplace, the bulk of American writers could have afforded to go, and I think the award would have gone to someone else.

The Australians are like the British. They have similar tastes. But some people were saying, "Oh, this isn't science fiction. We don't know what it is, but we're SF. You can't take a platform and say, "This stuff isn't any good," unless you've got something else to make everyone go, "Yeah, this is much more hip. You say when you first started writing, you didn't expect it to go far. You weren't thinking of "the Neuromancer Trilogy"?

That brings up a funny point. One of my regular detractors is fond of pointing out that last line in Neuromancer, "And he never saw Molly again. I never liked Chandler, because it was all puritan, asexual, "last honest man in LA" stuff. The reason that line is in Neuromancer is that when I got the first draft back from the publisher, he sent a letter saying, "This is pretty good. I want a sequel. At that point, Molly and Case [Neuromancer' s pro- tagonist] were the main characters.

Count Zero didn't start out to be a se- quel. I began writing it in the desert in Mex- ico, where it opens up. In the end, it just evolved into a connection with the first. Strangely enough, I think that may be because I started going down to Hollywood. I hadn't been exposed before to Hollywood styles and Hollywood people, and I thought, "Man, this is some serious material, real Edge City stuff, and these people are living it. I decided Mona Lisa Overdrive would be more consciously about media. I had used the Simstim [a futuristic entertain- ment form where users jack into re-creations of a person's experiences; the name presumably stands for "simulated stimula- tion"] as a metaphor for mass media in general and what people do with it.

Sucking on the glass teat? You don't need the jacks and the cyberspace rig, just turn the TV up real loud. Often the things in my work that worry people the most are the real-life elements. It's happening, it just might not have happened to you yet. Is it a deliberate move on your part to always have your stories' background agree, as if they all happen in the same universe? Definitely within the three books, although I don't do it to the extent that any of the old SF masters would have.

I do it in a random way. There's some real confusion that Neuromancer causes. When the Interplay guy came down to talk to me about the Neuromancer com- puter game, he said, "OK, we've got the Sprawl from Boston to Atlanta. What's happening in the Midwest? I never mentioned it. I haven't got a clue. It's all one molecule thick. One very distinct aspect of your vision of the future is a technologically opulent veneer over a society that's actually tainted, overpopulated, polluted— GIBSON: I think of it as some impres- sionistic take on contemporary reality.

I can't see how anybody could write a serious novel today and not deal with a couple of topics that require the language of SF. You need the vocabulary of SF to deal with such things. You already mentioned how you feel about horror fiction, but a horror vocabulary might work as well. You've got that moment in Mona Lisa Overdrive when the character Slick Henry has the memory lapses and he says, "Please, don't let me forget and drink cancer water off the ground.

I've never introduced any characters who've had time to become suffi- ciently aware of environmental issues. You pay attention to drug sub- cultures, whereas the rest of SF seems to think, "The day the first manned flight leaves for Mars, dope is history. I spoke at a literary festival in Vancouver and some high school kid asked me, "Mr. Gibson, why are there all these drugs in your books?

If drugs aren't there, I would have to explain where they went. You tell me, fella. You also display something of a Japan fixation. Well, come on, have you looked at international finance lately? How about the cosmetic surgery and implants? They do tons of plastic surgery in Japan now, did you know that? Beauty is most important. We advise you to maximize it. My wife used to teach Japanese students English in Vancouver, which is where I got my sense of what that culture is like.

So, we looked up some of these people when we traveled to Tokyo, and they all said, "Boy, it has really changed a lot. All the girls have had plastic surgery. It has this Japanese guy in Tokyo, but it specifies that he's a Japanese American. You see a Japanese American walking down the street in Tokyo, and it doesn't matter whether he's dressed in the most conservative suit— you know he's not Japanese.

The body language is different. Is Kathryn Bigelow still the director on that project? John Shirley and I just handed in our first draft of the screenplay. I was expecting— I don't know, some crabbed Lower East Side type. The interesting thing about New Rose Hotel is that we're shooting it in Tokyo, but we're not going to call it the future. It'll be just present-day Tokyo. People will prob- ably say, "This is Tokyo? I'm flattered you read it that way, because it seemed to me I was working from a very detailed page treatment. They gave you the story?

I think it's standard. They give you the story, then they say, "Do whatever you want. I learned a lot doing that. It's like being offered the keys to some enormous Jaguar, a really fast- moving vehicle. Yeah, I figured I would give this baby a test spin. Giger did for the first film that they didn't use. I've seen the drawings.

The part where Ripley finds the bodies, it's like an obscene grotto festooned with bones and tennis shoes. Also, in the se- cond movie, the most elaborate set Cameron built was the mining town sur- rounding the oxygen generator. They shot this sequence that explains what happened to Newt's family [which was deleted]. I want to put both these things into the script.

You know, I used to think that doing a sequel ruined your original work, but I've learned it's how you sequelize. At the newsstand recently, there was a book whose cover said, "Book Seven of the Such-and-So Trilogy. How can there be—? These things are conceived in such epic propor- tions, no one bothers to wait and see if The Baltiffs of Gown actually deserves a second book, let alone a third.

Anything with a made-up name in the title I won't read. I don't know whether this is my imagination or not, but I get the sense that entry-level SF writers have been meeting in the last 15 years with this in- creasing eye toward careerism. It's no longer a totally insane career choice to become a science-fiction writer. You can make a living at it. You might not make as much on the average as a Bell technician [Laughs], but there are people doing it. Maybe I'm a romantic, but I think in the old days, it was done by people who couldn't do anything else, guys like Phil Dick.

That's all he could do, sit there and write endless novels. When I was a teenager grow- ing up in southwestern Virginia in the s, SF was absolutely the only source of subver- sive ideas that I had. I used to read these books and think, "Wow! No one knows I'm reading this! Well, that subversive level of science fic- tion has fallen off terribly. The bulk of this stuff is consumer product, dog food, and there's so much of it. When I walk into an SF bookstore, my head swims. I remember when I could buy every new SF paperback published in America every month, because there were two.

But they're a lot of fun. It's a wonderful part, galloping after a tank when you're on horseback and things like that. Slipping back into the character was as comfortable as putting on an old shoe, according to Rhys-Davies, who claims Sallah hasn't changed much during his long absence from the screen. He's a little more resolute now, and he's more ready to have a physical go at the Ger- mans himself. But other than that, he's still the same old Sallah. And I said to Steven, 'What do you expect me to do — have surgery at the knees? Sallah has a fair measure of natural cowardice in him, but he can over- come this.

Because he has a loyalty to Indy, he will do most things. Perhaps he's grateful to Indy because Indy has always brought out the best in him. A part very distant from Sallah is the gypsy striken with lycanthropy in Waxwork. He said, 'Steve, I wouldn't do this. The relationship between Sallah and Marcus Brody is slightly more protec- tive. Sallah is trying to look after him because he's not awfully competent. Inevitably, the indelible impression he made as Sallah has led to numerous adventure film roles. I've been terribly sick on both of them.

On the one in Tunisia [Raiders], we all went down with this damned bug that we had there. My God, it was terrible! Harrison that day was af- flicted with what all of us had been afflicted with, and he wasn't in the best of moods. At gunpoint, he gets conscripted to help pull this damned truck. Then, Sallah manages to get away. By now, he's lost the rope, and he knows he has to get Indy out. So, he goes rummaging through the Germans' camp trying to steal bits of clothing in order to tie them together and make a rope. He's discovered and chased by a young German.

Sallah then gets commandeered by another lot of Germans to start serving up the food. There's a very prolonged scene where he manages to tip the food over on this Nazi officer. And he final- ly manages to get back and help Indiana, and they go down into the Well of Souk. They give this order to this young German who has been chasing him because Sallah has been stealing his clothing. The snag is the young German is a cook. He's a soldier, but he's never ac- tually killed anyone. He lines Sallah up against a tree and aims. Sallah's lookmg at him, and he can 't do it.

So, he lets Sallah off with his life. It was a very nice sequence. I had no objection. Since the original agreement Steven, George and Har- rison had was that they would do three if the first was successful, they felt they should try to bring back Sallah for the last one. One action sequence par- ticularly stands out as a painful memory. And I spent the entire damn film taking pain pills or finding some way— acupuncture at one stage— to get rid of this damned sciatica. And riding a horse through that is not to be recommended. It's all right when you're actually up on these ' a di rir.

It's the in- tervening. Harrison is more of a mainline leading man these days and I'm not sure that he really wants to do any more Indiana Jones films. And this isn't really the sort of film Steven wants to direct. I think he's more into areas of the human heart than action and adventure. But you never know. One such script came disguised as a remake of a film classic, King Solomon's Mines, which had the added attraction of reuniting him with his Shogun co-star Richard Chamberlain.

Richard Chamberlain will never do this. And I thought, wouldn't it be nice to do that again. It was directed by an English director who subse- quently became a very great friend of mine, J. This time, Rhys-Davies will fight to keep all his scenes Intact. The Cannon Films production and its se- quel, Allan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold, which Rhys-Davies was not in- volved with, met with nearly universal critical and box-office apathy— an opinion Rhys-Davies shares.

Despite the fact that we were trying to rewrite on the set, the script quality really wasn't there. We had good actors like Richard and Herbert Lorn, but it dicta t really work. I would love to make a good remake of the old King Solomon's Mines. I made the mistake of going up in a light plane with an inexperienced pilot who crashed on takeoff and nearly took my leg off That was during the filming, but it had nothing to do with the film.

We used to fly away for the weekend because we wanted to get out of the Harari. It was not an awfully memorable film aside from that. But as a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Com- pany, he can remember a time when danger had an entirely different meaning. At Strat- ford, we always tended to be a bit com- petitive. But for the best of reasons. You would go on stage at Stratford and you would think, 'Oh my God, I've got to do something to that guy. And you sud- denly got it wham! And you batted it back to somebody else. Not all actors can do it. But when you get a sufficient group of good actors really com- mitting their energies to it, then it's quite ex- traordinary.

You would get five or six dangerous actors on stage, and it was a com- petition and a game and a fight using William Shakespeare's words. I really don't have much time for people who imagine that danger is confined to hitting cameramen ott stage and getting drunk. WL "uostTnspace Marta Kristen found! Send cash, check or money order payable to: Foreign ardors, wnd U. Are the Bond movies moving toward a more classical, neater, cleaner structure? They seem to trim all the extras. I would like to think that, because my favorite Bond movies were the early ones, and they did capture the spirit of the Bond books well.

I can read those books today and still get totally in- volved and keep turning the pages and I can look at those early films and really enjoy them. I don't know if you could ever call Ian Fleming's works classics, but in the sense you intend, yes. How bound are you to Bond? No more than Harrison Ford is to Indiana Jones.

One must remember that for all the pleasure and entertainment and success it can bring, and for all the hard work that goes into making it for 18 weeks, a Bond movie is only two hours every two years! That's not much in the scale of things! There have to be other things in be- tween. How could I be an actor, how could I be the actor I am, if I did nothing else? So, you make unusual choices, like Hawks! It's probably the most enjoyable experience I've had making a film. Hawks is about two men who are facing a premature death, since they have cancer— and that puts life into focus.

It's provocative, a serious comedy, a black comedy. It deals with or- dinary people who are going slightly crazy because of the situation they're in— it's somewhat life-affirming, challenging, ag- gressive. Fight for your life; don't give in! Has it affected you in any way? It's certainly the kind of film that can make you realize that survival can be up to you— up to a point.

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It certainly reminds us how we take life for granted, and how we shouldn't, because it's precious. What motivates you to act in the first place? That's something I think about constantly, because it has to be for a pur- pose, it's not just self-indulgence. People often say, "Well, it's just the way I express myself. You work to express the piece, because you believe the piece has value and that it can be communicated to other people who will see something new of life because of it. You must believe that it will in some small or big way make a difference to their lives.

Shakespeare, perhaps more than any playwright, explored the ultimate reaches of the human emotion. Eugene O'Neill is, to me, the greatest playwright of the 20th cen- tury, but when you enter the back of a dark theater in Sydney or London or New York and see the way people react to Bond, that counts, too. Perhaps it's not on the same scale of things, but it's definitely worth- while! Does he watch the show? I like very much what Pat's doing.

If the rest of the cast allow themselves to be blown away by him, that's their problem. The function of leading is to lead. Pat has a job to do. He has to be the commander and he has a huge amount of experience on the stage and in television. And he's a damn good actor. It wouldn't do to have Picard less confident or certain than he is. The other characters do not seem to me to have the in- terest yet that the first Star Trek people had.

That's probably because they're still getting into it. And the other cast, I think, were older to begin with. They were a more mature lot. There's a difference between what you bring when you're 40 and when you're If they work at it, they'll get better. Rhys-Davies showed up for work only to be confronted by a dilemma: He was asked to shave his head.

For unbeknownst to him, his character, known only as Wilson Fisk in the script, was based on Daredevil's bald nemesis, the Kingpin. After conferring with director Bill Bixby, they compromised. He kept his hair and the role. As a former Shakespearean actor, did he find it disconcerting to play opposite a green monster and a masked man in black tights? I always like working with actors-turned-directors. They're marvelous people to work with. Since I am myself interested in directing in the not-too-distant future, it's always good to be able to pick their brains.

Daredevil, my oppo- nent, and I only get together for a very brief scene when he comes in to rescue someone I've kidnapped. I have set him up and have found a way of absolutely sapping his abilities.

When I turn on the machine, he's totally vulnerable to my men who come in and, we hope, kick him to death. He rips the door open like a telephone book. And I have to remove myself from the scene because I think I've killed Daredevil. Ah, it's such satisfying work. I play the good king's brother, the bad Duke. And very bad, too. It's a fairly free adapta- tion of the story by Oscar Wilde set in that fairy-tale world of woodcutters and palaces and spoiled princesses and kings who are moping for their dead wives.

Although his character does not return in this summer's License to Kill, Rhys-Davies doesn't rule out another outing in what could be a recurring role in the series. But if it's not, let's not: