@@@@@ @ @ @@@@@ @ @ @@@@@@@ @ @ @@@@@ @@@@@ @@@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @@@@@ @@@@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @@@@@ @ @ @ @ @@@@@ @@@@@ @@@ Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society Club Notice - 11/11/88 -- Vol. 7, No. 20 MEETINGS UPCOMING: Unless otherwise stated, all meetings are on Wednesdays at noon. LZ meetings are in LZ 2R-158. _D_A_T_E _T_O_P_I_C 11/30 LZ: Book Swap 12/07 MT: Book Swap (MT 4A-217) 12/21 LZ: TBA 1989: 01/11 LZ: TBA 01/18 MT: "Space Colonies in Fact and Fiction" (video) (room to be announced) _D_A_T_E _E_X_T_E_R_N_A_L _M_E_E_T_I_N_G_S/_C_O_N_V_E_N_T_I_O_N_S/_E_T_C. 11/12 Science Fiction Association of Bergen County: Jody Lee, artist (phone 201-933-2724 for details) 11/18 CONTEXT. Whitehall OH. GoH: C. J. Cherryh -11/20 Info: Fanaco Inc, 376 Colonial Ave, Worthington OH 43085, 614-888-5826 11/19 New Jersey Science Fiction Society: TBA (phone 201-432-5965 for details) 05/05/89 CONTRAPTION. MI. GoH: Mike Resnick; FGoHs: Mark & Evelyn Leeper. -05/07/89 Info: Diana Harlan Stein, 1325 Key West, Troy MI 48083. 08/31/89 NOREASCON III (47th World SF Con). MA. GoHs: Andre Norton, Ian & Betty -09/04/89 Ballantine; FGoH: The Stranger Club. Info: Noreascon Three, Box 46, MIT Branch P.O., Cambridge, MA 02139. HO Chair: John Jetzt HO 1E-525 834-1563 mtuxo!jetzt LZ Chair: Rob Mitchell LZ 1B-306 576-6106 mtuxo!jrrt MT Chair: Mark Leeper MT 3E-433 957-5619 mtgzz!leeper HO Librarian: Tim Schroeder HO 3M-420 949-5866 homxb!tps LZ Librarian: Lance Larsen LZ 3L-312 576-6142 lzfme!lfl MT Librarian: Will Harmon MT 3C-406 957-5128 mtgzz!wch Factotum: Evelyn Leeper MT 1F-329 957-2070 mtgzy!ecl All material copyright by author unless otherwise noted. 1. Newton Lee has started a separate club dedicated to looking a the philosophical, sociological, spiritual, legal, moral, etc. THE MT VOID Page 2 implications of the Star Trek mythos. Actually he seems to just uses Star Trek as a springboard to deeper discussions. The following is an announcement of a co-sponsored activity between his club and this one. Discussion on Future Science and Technology sponsored by Star Trek in the 20th Century Club co-sponsored by Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society Date: December 20, 1988 Time: 6:30 p.m. Place: Lincroft, LZ 2D-305 Laser beams, microwave ovens, and direct broadcast satellites all seemed right out of science fiction stories and movies two decades ago, yet today they are taken for granted. What incredible surprises does the future hold? Let us explore the remarkable possibilities of: 1. riding cable cars to the moon 2. communication using gravitational waves and neutrinos 3. living aboard floating worldships with all the amenities of life on Earth, but few of the problems 4. traveling through time 5. soaring through the solar system on matter/anti-matter fuel 6. defying gravity We will base our discussion on the book: Future Magic (1988 - Paperback, $3.95) by Dr. Robert L. Forward Avon Books ISBN 0-380-89814-4 For more information, please send e-mail to mtund!newton or call 576-3541. Note: Star Trek in the 20th Century Club and Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society are independent and unrelated Bell Labs Clubs. 2. Our next film festival is prompted by a couple of things. First, we missed Halloween this year because we were at Lake Manyara, Tanzania, and they don't celebrate Halloween there. As far as I could see, anyway. So we owe you a couple of horror films. Second, our last few film festivals have been so dang pretentious, I want to have a little bit of fun. No? Got to be a serious fest? OK! OK! The next film fest is going to be a THE MT VOID Page 3 serious study of treatments of traditional monsters in modern settings. We are going to show two such films at 7 PM on Thursday, November 17. (But both are fun horror films anyway.) Old Wine, New Bottles COUNT YORGA, VAMPIRE (1970) dir. by Bob Kelljan THE HOWLING (1980) dir. by Joe Dante COUNT YORGA was, I have recently found out, originally intended to be a porno film but the producers changed their minds (not unlike what happened with FLESH GORDON). This is the only horror film I have seen since I was a pre-teen that really came near to scaring me. It presented a radically different view of vampires than any before. They are more bestial, less hypnotic and spiritual, and more animalistic vampires. More like wolves striking in packs. Speaking of wolves, THE HOWLING offers werewolves, state-of-the-art special effects, and a good script. The script is by John Sayles who went on to direct cheapies like RETURN OF THE SECAUCUS SEVEN, MATEWAN, and EIGHT MEN OUT. This is the screen's most impressive- looking and frightening conception of werewolves and they transform right on the screen. The script is quite good too with a slight dab of tongue-in-cheek, but not enough to kill the effect of the horror. 3. First, my apologies for those of you who didn't get the last four electronic MT VOIDs until after we returned from our vacation. The shell script I had written had a bug in it when called from the cron; it is fixed now. [-ecl] 4. Second, my apologies for not being able to inform you of the room change for the last LZ meeting (or was it the one before the last?). I didn't get the mail until after I returned and all the intervening MT VOIDs had been done in advance. [-ecl] Mark Leeper MT 3E-433 957-5619 ...mtgzz!leeper BORN IN EAST L.A. A film review by Evelyn C. Leeper Copyright 1988 Evelyn C. Leeper When you hear "Cheech Marin," you don't think "romantic comedy with a message," but believe it or not, that's what _B_o_r_n _i_n _E_a_s_t _L._A. is. Yes, there are drugs, but Cheech isn't doing them (he accidentally meets up with a couple of drug smugglers). (Maybe it has something to do with the absence of Thomas Chong, Cheech's long-time partner.) So what is this _r_a_r_a _a_v_i_s, this "family-oriented" Cheech Marin movie? _B_o_r_n _i_n _E_a_s_t _L._A. is the story of an American of Mexican origin, but born and raised in East Los Angeles, who accidentally gets caught up in an immigration raid on a factory. So while his cousin, the true illegal alien (played by stand-up comedian Paul Rodriguez), escapes and begins to enjoy the pleasures of life in the United States (occasionally with hilarious results), Cheech finds himself south of the border with no way to get home or prove his citizenship. But Yanqui ingenuity prevails and Cheech manages to find ways to hustle enough money to pay someone to smuggle him back across the border. His life is complicated by a Nicaraguan (?) refugee he meets and falls in love with who is also trying to get to the United States. As I said, this film also carries a message, a very positive message about life in the United States and what is valuable about it. (It also has the best video to Neil Diamond's "America" that I have seen.) It points out the problems caused by an immigration policy that makes everyone of Hispanic origin an alien until proved otherwise. If you avoided this film in the theaters because you don't like Cheech Marin movies, give it a try now on video or cable.