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MT meetings are in the cafeteria. _D_A_T_E _T_O_P_I_C 01/09 LZ: BRAIN WAVE by Poul Anderson (Intelligence) 01/30 LZ: RITE OF PASSAGE by Alexei Panshin (Adolescence) 02/20 LZ: MARTIANS, GO HOME! by Frederic Brown (Social Satire) 03/13 LZ: TOM SWIFT by Victor Appleton II (Juvenile SF) _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. 01/10/90 SFABC: Science Fiction Association of Bergen County: TBA (phone 201-933-2724 for details) (Saturday) 01/19/91 NJSFS: New Jersey Science Fiction Society: TBA (phone 201-432-5965 for details) (Saturday) HO Chair: John Jetzt HO 1E-525 834-1563 hocpa!jetzt LZ Chair: Rob Mitchell LZ 1B-306 576-6106 mtuxo!jrrt MT Chair: Mark Leeper MT 3D-441 957-5619 mtgzy!leeper HO Librarian: Tim Schroeder HO 3B-301 949-4488 hotsc!tps LZ Librarian: Lance Larsen LZ 3L-312 576-3346 mtunq!lfl MT Librarian: Evelyn Leeper MT 1F-329 957-2070 mtgzy!ecl Factotum: Evelyn Leeper MT 1F-329 957-2070 mtgzy!ecl All material copyright by author unless otherwise noted. 1. Unlike many science fiction fans, I am not also a comic book fan. This, in itself, is a dangerous confession. Lots of comic book fans are perfectly sane and normal people. But when a film or a television show wants to portray someone whose elevator doesn't quite get up to the top floor, they show a big bruiser with a two- day growth of beard and he is reading a comic book. Reading comic books is synonymous with being a dolt. Perhaps it is not surprising then that there is a backlash of comic book fans who have been rubbed raw by this sort of thing and are (shall we say?) overly sensitive. I remember when somebody said the _B_a_t_m_a_n film was in the hands of people who were fans of the comic book my response on Usenet was that was the good news and the bad news was that they read the comic book while they popped their bubble gum THE MT VOID Page 2 after finishing their paper routes. My implication was not that it was _a_l_l comic book fans I was describing; it was one type of comic book fan. Nonetheless, I was flamed to a crispy black for an imagined implication that it was all comic book fans I was describing. It happens to be true, but I imagine it would help not at all to point out that some of my best friends are comic book fans. Anyway, let me just say that comic books are a form of fantasy that I do not care for, but which I do not feel is inherently inferior to, say, vampire and werewolf stories which, in some cases, do appeal to me more. I can make a hole in my world-view that can accept there is a vampire running around. I cannot find a hole in my world-view that supports a scene of a crusty district attorney talking about what moves can be made against the Legion of Doom. The scene just strikes me as silly. Crusty old D.A.s just don't talk about things like a Legion of Doom. Well, art imitates life and eventually life imitates art I guess. Sometime in mid-November the Federal Government won a legal case against the Legion of Doom. In this case the Legion of Doom is a genuine, for-real crime organization. Actually they were computer hackers who got caught attacking BellSouth. Their name was inspired by comic books and that was really what they called themselves, so that was whom the government prosecuted. They have also prosecuted another hacker who called himself Shadowhawk. The prosecutors say they feel a little silly doing it, but they have to tell the judges about the nefarious activities of the Legion of Doom. And the world is a little closer to being like a comic book. Mark Leeper MT 3D-441 957-5619 ...mtgzy!leeper Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will like them only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful easily break through them. -- Anacharsis HAVANA A film review by Mark R. Leeper Copyright 1990 Mark R. Leeper Capsule review: _C_u_b_a_b_l_a_n_c_a. A victory of detailed setting over a much weaker political thriller plot and a love story of little interest. Rating: 0 (-4 to +4). Gambler Jack Weil (played by Robert Redford) has a piece of advice for revolutionary Bobby Duran (played by Lena Olin) about how to play roulette. You should not put all your money on one number. You go for a more modest bet, like betting on black. "You still lose you money, but you lose it more slowly." Or another example: Hollywood should bet on a bankable combination like Sidney Pollack directing Robert Redford in films like _T_h_e _W_a_y _W_e _W_e_r_e, _T_h_r_e_e _D_a_y_s _o_f _t_h_e _C_o_n_d_o_r, _E_l_e_c_t_r_i_c _H_o_r_s_e_m_a_n, and _O_u_t _o_f _A_f_r_i_c_a. Eventually you will come up double-zero on a $45 million spectacle, but it will take longer. Double-zero is essentially what Universal has with _H_a_v_a_n_a. One of the zeroes is a political thriller that pits the pre-revolutionary scummy government of Batista against the idealistic supporters of Fidel Castro, most of whom we know are destined to have a rude awakening in the years to come. The other zero is a love story in which the lovers have all the chemistry of champagne and Miracle Whip*. Redford plays Jack Weil, a wise-cracking gambler who sticks to business, but might have more going on below the surface, much like Rick Blaine in _C_a_s_a_b_l_a_n_c_a. He becomes the third side of a triangle in which the other two sides are a married couple of revolutionaries (Lena Olin and Raul Julia) living a dangerous life, much like Ilsa Lund and Victor Laszlo in _C_a_s_a_b_l_a_n_c_a. Weil must decide if he will do nothing and let events take their course, try to steal the woman, or become committed to the cause, much as Rick does in _C_a_s_a_b_l_a_n_c_a. Now it seems to me that some film other than _H_a_v_a_n_a has used this plot before. It's on the tip of my mind, but ... oh, well. Seriously, one reason that this film does not engage the audience like _C_a_s_a_b_l_a_n_c_a did is that Bogart was an actor who could show pain. Redford can wince a little. Of the love story, the political thriller, and the setting, the setting wins by default. Much of that humungous budget went into creating the look and feel of Havana of 1958. Others have vouched for its accuracy; I can vouch only for its believability. Not that pre- revolutionary Havana was that interesting a city but, filming in the Dominican Republic, Pollack has captured at least a believable look. And at nearly two and a half hours in length, the film lets you get a long look. And you might as well look at the background; you are not missing much in the foreground. I give this film a 0 on the -4 to +4 scale. __________ * Miracle Whip is a trademark of Kraft Foods Co. MERMAIDS A film review by Mark R. Leeper Copyright 1990 Mark R. Leeper Capsule review: While a comedy on the surface _M_e_r_m_a_i_d_s has a serious underside. Cher plays a mother whose irresponsible self-indulgence is destroying the lives of her family. Rating: low +2 (-4 to +4). Rachel Flax (played by Cher) has not handle responsibility well. On the surface she seems a likable kook with some odd ways of getting through life with minimal commitment. When life gets too hectic for her, she packs up and moves on, together with her two daughters. What she refuses to face is that she is hurting everyone around her and making both daughters incredibly neurotic. At first the viewer chuckles at the odd quirks of the family, but with time the chuckling becomes more uneasy and we get a feel for the painful contortions the Flax family is being put through by their mother's willful avoidance of any commitment. The movie is seen from 15-year-old daughter Charlotte's point of view as she desperately tries to understand her coming-of-age with no guidance whatsoever from her mother. (Charlotte is played by the ubiquitous Winona Ryder, who is currently in _E_d_w_a_r_d _S_c_i_s_s_o_r_h_a_n_d_s and _W_e_l_c_o_m_e _H_o_m_e, _R_o_x_y _C_a_r_m_i_c_h_a_e_l and is rumored to have had a nervous breakdown that prevented her from also being cast as Michael Corleone's daughter in _T_h_e _G_o_d_f_a_t_h_e_r _I_I_I. Predictably she gets everything confused. One minute she wants to become a nun (though she is Jewish), she is fixated on Catholicism), and the next she is praying to be raped by the 26-year-old hunk who is the caretaker at a nearby convent. Mrs. Flax is having her current affair with a Lou Landsky who owns the local shoe store "Foot Friendly." There are a couple of problems here, actually. "Foot Friendly" at least sounds like a take-off on the phrase "user-friendly," but _M_e_r_m_a_i_d_s is set in 1963, before terminology like "X-friendly" was familiar or perhaps even invented. The second is that the script apparently calls for Lou to be Jewish and from the Midwest and the role is something of a stretch for actor Bob Hoskins. His character Lou realizes that behind all the weirdness there is a lot of pain in the Flax family. He wants to help but must tread a narrow line of helping the children and not scaring Rachel into "moving on." Richard Benjamin directed, though a recent PBS discussion said that Cher was able to maintain much of the artistic control. The script's worst faults are its lulling the audience into believing the material would be light-weight, and a gratuitous piece of suspense toward the end that cheapens the effect of the film and makes it seem more manipulative where earlier it had been more sensitive. Still _M_e_r_m_a_i_d_s has more to it than first meets the eye. I rate it a low +2 on the -4 to +4 scale. VINCENT AND THEO A film review by Mark R. Leeper Copyright 1990 Mark R. Leeper Capsule review: Robert Altman does Ken Russell doing a biography of Vincent Van Gogh. The film is over-long and mostly very unappealing. Rating: -1 (-4 to +4). With the world celebrating the 100th anniversary of Vincent Van Gogh's death, the time was ripe for a biographic film about the artist. Kirk Douglas had played Van Gogh in the 1956 film _L_u_s_t _f_o_r _L_i_f_e, but that was a sort of polished Hollywood version. This time we have an international production directed by Robert Altman. It seems from Altman's film about the great artist who was so misunderstood in his own time that, in fact, there was good reason to misunderstand Vincent Van Gogh. Tim Roth, who plays Van Gogh with an English accent, makes his subject not just someone you would _n_o_t want to meet, he makes him someone who could drive you out of a room just be entering it. Vincent chooses to live in squalor not through poverty--at least initially--but through apathy. His teeth are rotted and discolored through lack of care and his clothing is tattered. His fascination with color is by no means limited to his painting. He seems to have a passion for smearing himself with paint and for eating his paints--we see him licking paint at several points in the film. _V_i_n_c_e_n_t _a_n_d _T_h_e_o concentrates, not surprisingly, on the love/hate relationship between Vincent and his brother Theo. A little ungraciously the film shows Theo's wife as having little but disgust and disregard for Vincent while historically it was her perseverance that eventually brought the art of Vincent Van Gogh to the attention of critics. While that is not wholly inconsistent with what we see in the film, it does seem unlikely considering her constantly unfriendly attitude toward her brother-in-law--not surprisingly toward a man who seems to like to take a big mouthful of wine and then drool it out of his mouth. Kirk Douglas played Van Gogh as a man of deep passions. Roth plays him as just plain weird and cold with occasional explosions of emotions. It is hard to judge which is the more accurate representation, though the earlier interpretation is by far the more watchable and dramatically interesting. There is an odd disjointed quality to the script. Syphilis victim Theo in one scene tries, fails, and tells his wife, "I can't pee any more." In the next scene he is back at work as if it were just an activity of no importance that has been dropped from his schedule. Vincent and Theo December 24, 1990 Page 2 Though my wife did not remember it, I really thought I heard one character tell another to look him up in the phone book. We both heard a reference to South American velvet painting, which seems a likely anachronism. The time may have been ripe for a film biography of Van Gogh, but I just don't feel this was the one. I give it a -1 on the -4 to +4 scale. THE RUSSIA HOUSE A film review by Mark R. Leeper Copyright 1990 Mark R. Leeper Capsule review: Colorless spy story keeps promising to pay off with something happening, but plot twists are a long time coming. Photography in Russia tries to make it look exotic and interesting, but the rather drab cities are not the best photographic subjects. Rating: 0 (-4 to +4). At the beginning of _T_h_e _R_u_s_s_i_a _H_o_u_s_e three notebooks purportedly containing Soviet military secrets have been passed to a British publisher and the British want to know if the notebooks are genuine. An hour and forty minutes into _T_h_e _R_u_s_s_i_a _H_o_u_s_e we have seen a lot of Russian scenery, we know some of the characters involved a little better, a fourth notebook has been passed, and now the Americans as well as the British want to know if the notebooks are genuine. That may well be how the spy business really is, but it really is not a very good piece of story-telling. It would be one thing if the evidence built up in an interesting way the way it did in a previous LeCarre adaptation, _T_i_n_k_e_r, _T_a_i_l_o_r, _S_o_l_d_i_e_r, _S_p_y. But here we are dealing with far less than compelling characters. The two main characters are Sean Connery as British publisher Barley Blair and Michelle Pfeiffer as Soviet publisher Katya. Katya passes the notebooks written by a former lover Klaus Maria Brandauer as the enigmatic Dante. Barley and Blair seem to fall in love for reasons never very clear. This has to be a what's-the-attraction love pairing to rival the one in _H_a_v_a_n_a. Fred Schepisi has taken a script that would move moderately well at thirty minutes and stretched it to a hundred and twenty-three. One way that he has stretched it is to show you the scenery of Russia, mostly Moscow and Leningrad. This plays off the new post-glasnost interest in the Soviet Union; however, it seems unlikely this film will greatly contribute to Soviet tourism. While many of the buildings are of majestic design, the film only underscored the drabness of Russia. That drabness is further emphasized by filming Russia with perpetually overcast skies. The film also unsells tourism by underscoring how much the economy has degraded under glasnost. As Katya complains, "Glasnost gives everyone the right to complain and accuse, but it doesn't make shoes." Curiously, Katya manages to be able to get plenty of eye make- up, as Michelle Pfeiffer's characters always do. What is curious about the uninteresting background is that the screenplay is by Tom Stoppard, who made Shanghai mystical and fascinating in his screenplay for _E_m_p_i_r_e _o_f _t_h_e _S_u_n. Here, however, he tries to show us not a physical landscape but the figurative landscape of the world of espionage and counter-espionage. LeCarre can make that landscape interesting, but it does not come through in Stoppard's screenplay. I like Stoppard and LeCarre, but I hope they realize they are no good for each other. I rate their result a 0 on the -4 to +4 scale. THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT ALMOST BLANK Dec 27 14:07 1990 MT VOID 1990 Index Page 1 90/10/05 Advertisements (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/12/14 Advertisements (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/11/02 AGVIQ (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/10/12 Alcoholic Beverages (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/01/19 ALTERNATE HEROES (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/08/24 American Culture (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/03/02 ANGEL STATION (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/01/12 Ants (Comment BY M. R. Leeper) 90/07/27 ARACHNOPHOBIA (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/11/02 Arguments (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/09/21 AUTHOR'S CHOICE MONTHLY 8 (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/11/09 AVALON (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/05/18 AYESHA: RETURN OF "SHE" (Book review by M. R. Leeper) 90/05/18 BEAR (Book review by M. R. Leeper) 90/09/14 Bibles, Electronic (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/12/21 Bibles, Electronic (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/07/13 BLACK ALICE (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/05/25 BLACK SNOW DAYS (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/04/20 BLACK SNOW DAYS (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/01/12 BOAT OF A MILLION YEARS (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/05/18 BOAT OF A MILLION YEARS (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/04/20 Book Blurbs (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/03/09 Boskone 27 (Part 1) (Con report by E. C. Leeper) 90/03/16 Boskone 27 (Part 2) (Con report by E. C. Leeper) 90/03/23 Boskone 27 (Part 3) (Con report by E. C. Leeper) 90/04/27 BRIDE OF THE SLIME MONSTER (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/01/12 BUYING TIME (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/08/24 BY DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT (Film review by D. L. Skran) 90/03/02 Cable in March (Film reviews by M. R. Leeper) 90/02/09 CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ (Comment by E. C. Leeper) 90/02/09 Charmed Life (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/05/04 CINEMA PARADISO (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/03/30 CITY, NOT LONG AFTER (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/12/07 Colorization (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/07/06 Commercials (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/07/13 Commercials (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/09/28 ConFiction (Part 1) (Con report by E. C. Leeper) 90/10/05 ConFiction (Part 2) (Con report by E. C. Leeper) 90/10/12 ConFiction (Part 3) (Con report by E. C. Leeper) 90/03/02 CONTACT AND COMMUNE (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/04/27 COOK THE THIEF HIS WIFE & HER LOVER (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/03/16 Copyrights (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/01/05 CYBERBOOKS (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/11/30 DANCES WITH WOLVES (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/05/18 DANCING AT THE END OF THE WORLD (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/09/14 DARKMAN (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/01/12 DAWN'S UNCERTAIN LIGHT (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/05/25 DEADSPEAK (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/01/12 DEMONS AT RAINBOW BRIDGE (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/07/13 DIE HARD 2 (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/01/19 Digital Tape Recorders (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/01/12 DIVIDED ALLEGIANCE (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/05/25 DREAD BRASS SHADOWS (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/05/25 DREAMS OF STEEL (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/01/26 DRIVING MISS DAISY (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/04/27 Earth Day (Comment by M. R. Leeper) Dec 27 14:07 1990 MT VOID 1990 Index Page 2 90/12/21 EDWARD SCISSORHANDS (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/05/25 ELYSIA (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/04/20 ENDANGERED SPECIES (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/03/02 ENEMIES (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/03/30 EVERYBODY'S FAVORITE DUCK (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/05/25 EXPEDITER (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/04/27 FALL OF HYPERION (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/01/05 FAMILY BUSINESS (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/06/08 FANTASTIC WORLD WAR II (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/05/25 FAREWELL HORIZONTAL (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/11/16 FIRE'S STONE (Book review by F. R. Leisti) 90/08/24 FIVE (Film review by D. L. Skran) 90/08/17 FLATLINERS (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/08/31 Food (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/05/25 FORTRESS OF THE PEARL (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/11/02 FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/01/19 FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/06/01 Franklin Institute (Comment by E. C. Leeper) 90/04/20 FREEDOM BEACH (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/08/10 FRESHMAN (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/05/11 FULL SPECTRUM 2 (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/06/29 Funding (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/09/07 Future Technology (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/07/20 GHOST (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/01/19 GLORY (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/05/04 GODS MUST BE CRAZY II (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/09/28 GOODFELLAS (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/03/09 Great Attractor (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/03/09 GRUMBLES FROM THE GRAVE (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/07/06 GYPSIES (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/03/23 HANDMAID'S TALE (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/03/23 HANDMAID'S TALE (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/07/06 Harryhausen, Ray (Filmography by M. R. Leeper) 90/12/28 HAVANA (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/12/14 HEATHERN (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/03/02 Height (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/11/16 HENRY & JUNE (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/02/02 HENRY V (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/07/06 HIDDEN PLACE (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/01/19 HOLIDAYS IN HELL (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/08/03 Hot Peppers (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/03/30 Hugo Nominees (1990) 90/07/27 Hugo Nominees (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/03/09 HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/03/16 HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER (Film review by R. L. Mitchell) 90/05/25 HYPERION (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/04/27 HYPERION (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/05/25 IN ANOTHER COUNTRY (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/05/25 Insanity (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/02/16 Insomnia (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/11/09 JACOB'S LADDER (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/01/12 JASON COSMO (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/05/11 KALEIDOSCOPE (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/01/05 Kirinyaga Stories (Comment by K. Tipton) 90/01/12 Kirinyaga Stories (Comment by K. Tipton) 90/03/02 LABYRINTH (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/01/12 LAST LEGENDS OF EARTH (Book review by D. L. Skran) Dec 27 14:07 1990 MT VOID 1990 Index Page 3 90/04/13 Lawyers (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/04/06 Lawyers (Comments by M. R. Leeper) 90/05/04 Library Acquisitions 90/04/06 Library Acquisitions (List) 90/06/15 Library Acquisitions (List) 90/06/29 Library Acquisitions (List) 90/05/11 LIGHTNING (Book review by M. R. Leeper) 90/05/04 Longbows (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/06/08 LONGTIME COMPANION (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/12/07 MADNESS SEASON (Book review by F. R. Leisti) 90/05/25 MAHABHARATA (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/05/25 MANFAC (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/07/06 MEMORY WIRE (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/11/16 MEMPHIS BELLE (1942) (Film comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/11/16 MEMPHIS BELLE (1990) (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/12/28 MERMAIDS (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/09/21 METROPOLITAN (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/02/02 MISERABLES (Book review by M. R. Leeper) 90/12/14 MISERY (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/03/16 MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/01/12 MUMMY (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/01/26 MUSIC BOX (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/02/02 MY LEFT FOOT (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/05/18 NATURAL HISTORY (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/02/23 Nebula Award Nominees 90/05/04 Nebula Award Winners 90/03/02 NECROSCOPE (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/04/06 NEW DIRECTIONS (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/01/26 News (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/07/27 1990 ANNUAL WORLD'S BEST SF (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/07/20 NO ENEMY BUT TIME (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/05/25 NORTHWORLD (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/11/02 NORTHWORLD (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/04/20 NUNS ON THE RUN (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/01/12 OATH OF GOLD (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/11/23 Official (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/09/07 OXYGEN BARONS (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/10/26 PACIFIC HEIGHTS (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/06/01 PATHFINDER (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/08/10 Peanut Butter (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/03/30 PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/03/16 PHASES OF GRAVITY (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/12/07 POINTS OF DEPARTURE (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/09/21 POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/01/12 PRENTICE ALVIN (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/08/03 PRESUMED INNOCENT (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/07/20 Prisons (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/01/12 PROCYON'S PROMISE (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/03/23 PROMISES TO KEEP (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/05/11 PUGNACIOUS PEACEMAKER (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/04/27 PUNJAT'S RUBY (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/12/14 PURSUIT OF MIRACLES (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/05/04 Q & A (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/03/16 QUEST FOR APOLLO (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/07/27 QUICK CHANGE (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/11/02 RAMA II (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/03/23 Ratings (Comment by M. R. Leeper) Dec 27 14:07 1990 MT VOID 1990 Index Page 4 90/11/02 REACH (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/04/20 Readercon 3 (Part 1) (Con report by E. C. Leeper) 90/04/27 Readercon 3 (Part 2) (Con report by E. C. Leeper) 90/05/04 Readercon 3 (Part 3) (Con report by E. C. Leeper) 90/07/27 REDSHIFT RENDEZVOUS (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/11/09 REVERSAL OF FORTUNE (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/11/02 RITNYM'S DAUGHTER (Book review by F. R. Leisti) 90/01/19 ROGER & ME (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/12/28 RUSSIA HOUSE (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/10/19 Seafood (Part 1) (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/10/26 Seafood (Part 2) (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/09/21 SECRET ASCENSION (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/04/27 SLAVES OF THE VOLCANO GOD (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/09/28 Societies (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/03/02 SOURCE (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/08/17 Spiders (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/05/11 Sports (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/05/18 Sports (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/06/01 Sports (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/06/08 Sports (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/03/30 Spring Break (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/08/03 STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (TV review by D. L. Skran) 90/08/10 STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (TV review by D. L. Skran) 90/07/06 STEAM BIRD (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/04/13 STRANGE INVASION (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/05/18 STRANGE TOYS (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/02/16 SUM VII (Book review by M. R. Leeper) 90/05/25 SUNG IN BLOOD (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/11/02 SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL WIZARD (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/08/24 SURVIVOR (Film review by D. L. Skran) 90/01/12 TEA WITH THE BLACK DRAGON (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/07/13 TERRAPLANE (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/11/02 THE SWORDBEARER (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/08/24 THIS IS NOT A TEST (Film review by D. L. Skran) 90/05/11 THOSE WHO HUNT THE NIGHT (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/12/14 TIMELEY AFFAIR (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/05/25 TOOL OF THE TRADE (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/02/02 Top Ten Films of 1989 (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/06/08 TOTAL RECALL (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/05/04 22ND INTERNATIONAL TOURNEE OF ANIMATION (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/05/11 TWILIGHT EYES (Book review by M. R. Leeper) 90/06/15 UNCONQUERED COUNTRY (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/03/02 VAMPHRYI! (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/12/28 VINCENT (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/05/25 VINTAGE SEASON (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/05/11 WATCHERS (Book review by M. R. Leeper) 90/05/11 WHEELS OF IF (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/08/24 WHEN THE WINDS BLOW (Film review by D. L. Skran) 90/05/11 WIDE AWAKE AT 3:00 AM (Book review by M. R. Leeper) 90/05/25 WILD CARDS VI: ACE IN THE HOLE (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/11/02 WILD CARDS: DEAD MAN'S HAND (Book review by D. L. Skran) 90/11/09 Winners and Losers (Comment by M. R. Leeper) 90/09/14 WITCHES (Film review by M. R. Leeper) 90/11/09 Wollheim, Donald (Obituary) 90/01/05 WORLD BEYOND THE HILL (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/01/12 WRITER'S HOME COMPANION (Book review by E. C. Leeper) 90/05/25 WRITERS OF THE FUTURE (Book review by C. Harris)