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Consider the case of Harvey Pekar.
Here's a guy who's got to be the
Worry is what he's doing at the
moment. Harvey Pekar has a lot to worry
Sometimes I find myself down to just one
or two dependable artists, so have to try I

crabbiest person east of the Mississippi. about he doesn't mind telling you and to recruit others, who often are unknown
(Yeah, he lives in Cleveland but is that all this taking up lots of valuable
talk is tome. 1 can't always have a story drawn
reallyan excuse?) At the same time, he time. And
you want to know exactly
if by the artist who would have been my
puts out the best damned comic book you what's worrying Harvey Pekar, pick up a first choice.
can buy if you can find it. If you can't, copy of American Splendor. It's all there HM: Where did you discover all the
you can order it from Harvey. Who, as in black and white: divorce, being broke, young talent that handles the bulk of the
you might recall, is a real grouch. dealing with jerks at work, trying to meet art on AS'} "Off the streets of
Why is Harvey so crabby, you ask? girls, trying to figure out what the fuck Cleveland?"
Because of assholes like you, asking life is all about. When you get right down HP: Some of them came from local art
dumb questions like that all the time. I to it, what isn't there to worry about these schools; others were introduced to me by
mean, can't you find anything better to do days? Not a whole hell of a lot. people who already were working on AS.
than bug other people? Especially people And so, Harvey Pekar worries. Now Considering my limited contacts and the
who are just trying to get by, working a would you please just let the guy alone so lousy money pay, I think I've been
!

nine-to-fiver, and then putting together he can get something done? And for fortunate to find so many fine illustrators.
this great mag, American Splendor, God's sake, buy his goddamn magazine Gary Dumm and Greg Budget!, Gerry
about the life and times and thoughts and befor attics all over Cleveland collapse. Shamray, Sue Cavey, Kevin Brown
problems of Harvey Pekar a magazine Mike Barson they've each got their own unique style.
which never sells worth a damn and is a HM: I must confess, I first picked up an
pain in the ass to get into final form, what issue of American Splendor strictly
with artists always being late with their HM: You've had a wagonload of artists because of the Crumb art on the cover
work, and the printers always fucking up, collaborate with you through nine issues and inside. He always seems to get the
and the distributors never ordering of American Splendor. How do you funniest stories to draw.
enough copies. . . . determine which artist should do which HP: Crumb is one of the greatest
Well, you'd be cranky, too. And that's story? cartoonists of our time, and I know he is

just Harvey's pbinl people can be a real HP: i try to work with the strengths of capable of finding the means to handle
pain in the ass, life can be a real pain in each illustrator, and in that way minimize just about any kind of story, i have been
the ass, and what the hell is he going to their weaknesses. I'm gradually learning thinking of him primarily for the more
do with 50,000 unsold copies of who can do what best,and why. However, humorous pieces, but you'll see a major
American Splendor stored in attics all keep in mind that for me, getting out an departure in his work in issue number
over Cleveland? issue is always the art of the possible. nine. There's a limit to how many pages

Blame on The Exorcist.

it pleasant 'little genre gets upgraded to a title. To be absolutely fair, there are a few
Ever since William Peter Blatty's nasty category. Category fiction gets its own good ideas buried in the midst of Blatty's
novel made several million dollars back in big racks in B. Daltons, airports, ridiculously overripe prose and one
the early Seventies, the publishing drugstores, and 7-11 's. And those racks scene good for a buzz on the old boo-
industry has been hip to the fact that have to be kept full. Thus, the creation of box but let's just hope that Blatty

there are lots of people out there in book-
buying land who will gladly fork over
their hard-earned sheckels for the
privilege of having the bejeezus scared
out of them.
mucho horror product. Most of which is, doesn't have to cook up an Exorcist ill ten
of course, quite horrible. years from now to pay the rent.
Take William Peter Blatty's Legion. Marginally better is James Herbert's
Please. Launched by its hardcover Shrine (Signet), which takes 458 pages to
publisher as if it were trie second coming tell a 158-page story. If wading through

Today, not a week goes by without one
or two of these creep-fests appearing in
bookstores by the bushel. Now that
Steven King has been accepted as the
Harold Robbins of horror, the publishing
bizcan just sit back and let umpteen
dozen other writers get sucked up
jet-stream. That's what happens
of Carrie, it turns out simply to be the
second coming of but that would be
. .
telling. Why not run out and buy the
paperback (Pocket Books) and ruin your
day on your own? Suffice it to say that
this book might'vc been subtitled The
in his Exorcist U, except that the movie by that
when d name already ruined the market for that
those 300 unnecessary pages doesn't
. bother you
and for $3.95, some people
might consider that getting their money's
worth then this overinflated account of
a young girl's possession (yes, again) by a
witch from the middle ages might please.
Not only is Herbert, a British writer,
tone-deaf when it comes to style, but he

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Crumb has the time to do for me, but I'm have to keep your costs down to rock- HM: It must have been a heck of a
happy with every piece he's done. bottom one printer for the covers, one correspondence.
HM: You can see that he really has an to shoot the negatives, one to print the HP: The thing that really set it off was
understanding of you and what you're interiors, and a bindery to put the whole when she asked me-

think it was in her
I

trying to accomplish. thing together. And it's up to me to see second "How can 1 tell if I'm a
letter

HP: Yeah, he does have a real good that everything gets done, and done right. member of the working class or not?"
understanding of my stories; in fact, he's I actually drive the covers over to the That provoked a long answer from me,
the only artist that comfortable
I feel bindery in a station wagon once they're and the rest just went from there.
working with over the phone and through printed
that's 10,000 covers. HM: And so you whisked her away to
the mail. All the other illustrators 1 use HM: Do vou ever wish that someone else Cleveland. Have you lived there all your

DID XTEJSLZOErSVS KV LIRE SEEMED

SO SZOUENLY. MV BELA'ISOTJSHJP WITH
MV GIRLFRIEND WAS JOORLY DEFINED,
MV BUDDY VISITS ME AND I DON'T HAN
IUK US TO DO ANYTHING CW SATUKDffi
night. i knew that he did mtod
Been left alone eot itd gotten mvsely
into a kjsmon ujhere if i pleased her
i abandoned him. i knew he'd let
ME OFF THE BOOK FOR 2T,Sl7T
HOW COULD I HAVE BEEN SO

Harvey Pekar as depicted in American Splendor #9 by Kevin Brown,

live in the Cleveland area. Crumb gave was handling the publishing end of life? By now, Cleveland has assumed the
me a great deal of help early in my career things, soyou could just concentrate on role of the second most-important
as a comic book writer. The first story 1 the writing? character in your stories.
ever published, "Crazy Ed," was HP: I would like for someone else to HP: All my life, yeah. I was born in the
illustrated by him and and printed in his publish AS. And I'd like to have it Mt. Pleasant section of Cleveland's east
book, The People's Comics in 1972. distributed better. It would be especially side at a time when it still had a large
Crumb also turned Willie Murphy on to nice not to lose money on it all the time; Jewish and Italian population, but was in
me, which led to Willie illustrating three then I could afford to pay my illustrators the process of becoming part of the black
ofmy stories for his Flamed Out Funnies more, which in turn would make it easier ghetto. The neighborhood I live in now
#1. to get work from them on time. But I've the Coventry section of Cleveland
HM: I probably read those stories and been aware for a long time that AS was Heights
has a great mixture of people
never realized who this "Harvey Pekar" never going to be that popular, and that I from different social classes and ethnic
dude was. I'd assumed thai AS was the was letting myself in for a heap of backgrounds. Everyone gets along
start. aggravation by publishing it myself. Even surprisingly well; it's terrific!
HP:. Yeah, I was in several mags before so, my life has been greatly enriched HM: What do you think AS offers that
AS got startedSnarf, Marvel's Comix since I began the book. mainstream comic books do not?
Book, and an issue of Bizarre Sex, in HM: You met your new wife through AS, HP: Most comic book fans prefer fantasy.
which I had the lead story, "How'd You didn'tyou? I'm a realistic writer: I try to push
Get into This Bizness. Ennyway?" it HP: Yeah, she was part-owner of a own lives, try to
people's faces into their
was about a gang bang. So, you could say comic-book store in Delaware that carried get them how much drama and
to realize
that my style was established by the time my book, and she had to write me to get heroism and even humor there is in the
AS began. an extra copy of number six when her life of the so-called average person.
HM: Writing a story is hard enough, but own copy accidentally was sold. We American Splendor does not offer
you took on the additional headaches of began corresponding, and after about a escapism, which is what I think most

the editor and publisher when you million letters, a zillion hours of long comic book fans are looking for.
decided to put out American Splendor by distance phone calls, and several plane (For a copy of American Splendor #0.
yourself. trips, we were married. She makes a brief send $2.75 to Harvey Pekar, Box 18471,
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book which is what happens when you meet her then. to $2.75.}

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places the horror high-point way too early Il seems ungenerous to. complain again, reupholstered his living room with human
in thebook, leaving lots of anticlimactic of a weak ending, but the rest of this skin. This book is having the hell

"big" scenes to star! you snoring. Shrine, book is so good that the hurried promoted out of it by the publisher, which
however, does not quality as a bad conclusion is a double shame. This tale means il's probably going to be a hit.
bookjust a mediocre one that should Whether Klein can come up with a
have gone on a diet. Herbert. second book of this quality remains to be
incidentally, has built his career on seen, but one can hope. He is one of the
horror, and has eight other novels to his few people in the genre who knows how
credit (including The Fog. filmed by John to write a decent sex scene.
Carpenter). If Shrine were filmed with all Which brings us to Ramsey
scenes intact, it would run aboul nine Campbell's The Face That Must Die
hours. 'Nuff said. (Scream/Press). Campbell has been
Speaking of films, the very hot around since 1964, when Arkham House
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro has been published the first of three short story
commissioned to novelize a screenplay for collections. We also know him from the
something called Nomads (Bantam). fine anthologies he has edited. New
Being shorter than Shrine doesn"! help Terrors and The Far Reaches of Fear and
this turkey
but it allows you to finish it he has not been too shy lo include one of
that much sooner and get on with your his own works in each collection. Which
life. The female protagonist, a doctor wl .
is all to the good, because Campbell is a
is deja-vuing a dead man's experiem writer-, perhaps the only member of the
"finds herself in a nightmare from which current group, who is certain to be
there is no escape." the cover copy tells celebrated fifty years from now. (You
us. escaped by tossing ii across the
i don't really ihinkanyone will be reading
room. Yarbro, who had a million-seller Cujo even five years from now, do you?)
with Dead and Buried a few years back, The Face That Must Die is a restored
would be doing herself a favor by not version of the earlier, expurgated novel; 1

cranking out novclizations of other don't know what the first version looked
people's lousy screenplays. like, but this one is apisser. Told from
To move from the abominable to the multiple points-of-view. Face's strongest
almost-good, there is Whitley Slreiber's moments come from our visits into the
Night Church (Pocket Books), which head of a guy who is totally, homicidally
offers the charming premise that a church looney-iunes. There's nothing
in Queens has been sublet to a cult of supernatural here; just plain, old-
devil worshippers. The premises in fashioned psychopathic horror. Some fine
Streiber's oilier horror novels Wolfen, characterizations, rendered economically,
The Hunger, Black Magic were also and a lovely sense of England circa 1972,
swell, but, like Stephen King, Streiber provide a counterpoint to the creepy stuff.

never quite manages to come up with It's also worth noting thai Scream/Press
finishes worthy of his beginnings. (Think has published Face on very nice paper,
about the first half of The Shining. Then and added a bunch of full-page

think about the second half. Pity, wot?) illustrations, which have a bit of merit of
Still, Night Church moves along briskly their own. And Campbell's introduction
and, more importantly, actually offers to the book is a model of what such
Ceremonial author T.E.D. Klein.
some good chills along the way. My things should be.
favorite moment: a two-page description owes a good deal to LovecralVs Clhulhu Michael S. Barson
of what it feels like to die from bubonic- mythos, as well as the stories of Arthur
plague while interred in a coffin. Machen; but its real charm is having the

Even better is a first novel by T.E.D. ncrdiesi hero and the most originaland (Scream/Press: P.O. Box 8531 , Santa
Klein entitled The Ceremonies (Viking). nasty villain since Ed Gein Cruz, CA 95061)

Riders of the Sidhe Bantam) < lovable rogues and bumbling magicians
pronounced "shce" as in '"shee-r/!" is could send anyone into insulin shock,
Kenneth C. Flint's daring expose of the while Asprin's sparkling contemporary

BOOR ancient Celtic gods, villains, and heroes

as Men from Outer Space. It's Martians
I, Mythology 0, as a bunch of lovable

characters help a lad

save the world. You can
become
tell
a man and
everyone
dialogue could get him a job scriptwriting
for "Three's

people love this

frozen fishsticks.
Company." Cliches
range from the offensive
stuff.
here
to the dated.
People also eat
But
:

BA3K
apart because they ail talk differently and
have different-colored hair. No one in
fantasy novels ever has a personality
they settle for Character Trails.
The problem with most fantasy novels Middle America popular culture comes
is that their authors can t write. So you to Elfland in Robert Asprin's fourth
get bad fantasy and bad novels. Let's get Spiegel Catalog of fantasy fun from
our priorities straight, okay? First you Starblaze Funny-Looking Books. Hit or
learn to write, then you come up with Myth (get it??) proves that '"terminal
The Sleeping Dragon, by Joel
bad Rosenberg (Signet), at least has the
decency to be naive about its relentless
lovableness. You can lean back and watch
as stock characters from Any town Stale
U. are sent into their own Dungeons &
Dragons universe, where they get to work
out their personality problems. There's a
cripple, a Jew, a ... I just couldn't put it

some neat ideas. cuteness" is not just an expression: these down; it sped me along on greased

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non -conformists and poseurs have evolved fifty) after fighting in the trenches against speak. When his energies outgrew
(or devolved) into these stylishly alienated dominant culture for over two decades. Edinburgh, Haynes moved to London and
eighties, totally unaware of the influence Nonchalant and unpretentious, he looks started a Traverse Theater Company
that characters like American expatriate ten years younger than his age, and there, staging Joe Orion's Loot, Kenneth

Jim Haynes have had on contemporary
culture, and hence their lives. A pioneer
on the Edinburgh, London, Amsterdam,
and Paris art scenes for twenty-seven
years, he embodies the libertarian
concept of '"think global; act
Haynes had a creative hand
garde theater, underground
alternative newspapers, happenings
speaks in a soft drawl that is half- Anger and Andy Warhol film festivals,
Louisiana (where he was born), and and Yoko Ono's first in a long line of
half-indeterminate Western Europe. happenings.
""The belief behind everything I do is ""The style in the sixties was the most
that people should be brought together, revolutionary attitudinal statement
local."' and we have to create environments and
made as far as know since we've
I
in the avant- situations to bring them together." been on the planet, and that's 'do your
films, Haynes started in Edinburgh in 1959 by own thing: accept and respect everyone
and opening Britain's first paperback else's right to do theirs. .' I think that
. .

sexual politics that electrified the bookshop, stocking "obscene" books like I got caught up in, and maybe even
"Swinging Sixties." Lady Chatterley's Lover and the works of contributed, to certain philosophical
Testament to Haynes's karmic impact
Henry Miller who was then still banned rumblings that made life for me, and for

on our global hipoisiei intelligentsia/ in the U.S. People's enthusiasm for the others, excitingand fun." Ever in search
demi-monde is, his recently published readings held there, coupled with a desire of "social animation," 'he resigned from
autobiography. Thanks For Coining! "'to create platforms or mediums for the Traverse and founded the alternative
(Faber & Faber). Dedicated to over 3,000 kindred spirits to transmit information newspaper International Times (IT), just
of Haynes's friends and bedmates about what we had discovered to others" when that parafictiona! fantasy sixties
including Germaine Greer. John Lennon. spurred Haynes to form the Traverse reality burst into psychedelic London
David Bowie, Dick Gregory, Buckminster Theater Club, where he produced and bloom. Pink Floyd played and projected
Fuller and Xaviera Hollander the book's staged plays by Breeht. Beckett, and slides at /Ts launch party; The Soft

a compulsively readable flashback on a Pinter years before they were seen by Machine motorcycled around the stage at

life spent outside the conventional mainstream audiences. In 1962, Haynes the start of their set. Guests included Paul
boundaries of art, behavior and also co-organized the first International McCartney disguised as an Arab,

commerce. Writer's Conference at that renowned Michaelangelo Antonioni. and 2500

Haynes and met one evening during
1 gathering of the cultural tribes, the others. IT became the counter-cultural
his annual visit to N.Y.C. and discussed Edinburgh Festival. Among others, Bible, and was also a prototype for the
his past, present, and future projects; Haynes invited Norman Mailer, Mary now-ubiquitous listings magazine format.

BOOK BASH continued Reading any of the "Tomoe Go/en" of mind and spirit that Stephen

runners of predictable liberal Righuhink. novels is just like watching a kinky Donaldson doesn't even know exist.
Damiano and Damiano's Lute Japanese Samurai movie with badly- Titlku's unforgettable characters feature
(Bantam) are R.A.
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MacAvoy's paragraphs good you'd
are .so including awkwardly-inserted expository bolanist, a Royal Dragoon-turned-
like to forgive her chapters anything. The lumps, is so stilted that it's hard to Tibetan-monk, and a missionary's young
third and final volume of this fantasy of believe English is Jessica Amanda son who needs to learn tolerance (before
Renaissance Italy may just pay for all Salmonson's first language, swallowing he can Become a Man
not too much of
but the first two novels have a real pacing up any virtues Thousand Shrine Warrior that here, thank God).
problem. No sense of overall anticipation (Ace) and its mates may possess. The Perilous Gard is Elizabeth Mark
moves the action forward from one If Arthur W. Saha is right about The Pope's irresistibly blithe sortie into
nicely-written episode to the next. Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 9, (DAW) Elizabethan ballads, love, and honor. Her
People- real ones, at least wander then it was lean year. Saha is ot the old tough and sensible heroine has to rescue a
around, and things happen to them. But school that leans heavily to icky-cute, scxily self-destructiveyoung nobleman
the author's manipulating hand is light modern by soppy
stuff. Stories from the ancient race of people hiding
everywhere
there's none of the rolling sentimental manipulators Parke Godwin underground called "fairies." There's not
inevitability that marks a well-told tale. and Harlan Ellison occupy the starring an unoriginal note in this whole work
Art should imitate, not emulate, life. front and back positions. All the other plenty of ""adult" bumblers have
Damon Knight also has no apologies choices are good clean fun. except for trivialized this concept; Pope redeems it.

to make for the prose of The Man in the Michael Shea's "The Horror on the Ignore the pretty but inaccurate cover.
Tree (Berkley). The first 9/10ths of'the #33," which is an electrifying work of The weakest of the first four
novel are a riveting. Sturgeonesque story, imagination, wit. and erudition that MagicQuest offerings is Paul R. Fisher's
of a boy who grows to be a giant in 1950s makes everyone else there look as though The Ash Staff: it's Babes in Tolkeinland.
America. The people he meets, especially they deserve to be writing for three cents a nice, orthodox magic-sword-and-quest
in the carnival sideshow world, are a word. story with appealing young characters.
vividly drawn. In the last thirty pages it The Good News for the year (and. one The renowned Patricia McKillip's
turns out the guy is Jesus Christ and the hopes, for years to come) is Tempo's new early work. The Throne of the Erriil of
whole book goes to hell. There should be "MagicQuest" line of junior fantasy Sherrill, is bulked out with beautiful new

a special circle of inferno reserved For reprints. What makes a book "junior" is elaborate borders and illustrations by
people who simplify complex theological usually brevity and a protagonist under Judith Mitchell. McKillip compietists
philosophy to the level of hot-tub rhetoric, sixteen. This is no excuse to shun any shouldn't miss this light, lyrical fairy tale,
with a little corner just for novelists who of them. The incomparable Peter which has been out of print for too long.
preach Dickerson's Tulku deals in complexities Penthcsileia

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 IT's success notwithstanding, Haynes "It's okay to write about sex, to do it, fear of the unknown, and instead, sharing
itched to create a multi-media arts space, talk about it, whatever. And today, our lives fully with everyone I'm a . . .

"where people could perform whatever movies are shown in mainstream cinemas now person, always thinking about what
they wanted to, where they could try out that would have put people in prison for and where my energies should be placed
new ideas or even fail; where they could ten years during the sixties." now .
there's no such thing as going
. .

shake off, relax, and come together." He
chanced upon a derelict Covent Garden
warehouse, and with like-minded friends,
created the Arts Lab. A cinema-theater-
space-dance-studio, video-workshop,
restaurant, art-gallery, crash-pad etc. that
Haynes was lured away from backward, you know. Just go ahead and
Amsterdam in late 1969 do what you have to do!"
to assume a visiting professorship As the saying goes, "Better dead than
at the (what else?) new and mellow," and Haynes's manner bears
experimental branch of the University none of the earmarks of an ex-hippie on
of Paris. As to his curriculum and permanent spin-cycle. When ask where I

drew thousands of people to view each methods, he says, "1 teach Media and his head is at now, he ventures, "I'm a
other's projects, to rehearse for free, to Sexual Politics and try to inflict as little neo-romantic." Currently at work on a
participate in happenings, and to become damage as possible on my students ... in book which explores traditional romantic
friends with Jim Haynes. fourteen years. I haven't failed anyone!" ideals and their various philosophically/'
"It was like an enormous party night Besides teaching. Haynes spent the morally/behavioral !y elitist

after night," he says, and it sounds like seventies writing, publishing, and reverberations, Haynes is zeroing in or
one indeed, what with John and Yoko. distributing books, and, with fellow our society's prevailing greeting card-
Mama Cass, James Baldwin, and R.D. Citizen of the World Gary Davis, esquc mentality, wherein we search for
Laing hanging out. performing, and
eating dinner into the early morning.
Closed after two years due to financial
trouble, the demise of the Arts Lab freed
Haynes to pursue his great spiritual
project: sexual liberation. "My drug of
choice has always, only been sex," he
explains with a shrug. (A serene survivor
of sixties sensory overload, he drinks
neither coffee nor alcohol; does not
smoke or do drugs.) To continue his
campaign against sexual confusion and
guilt Haynes started Suck, "the first
European sexpaper," in 1969, along with
collaborators like feminist superstar
Germaine Greer. "We wanted to
enlighten people about sexuality in all

its aspects, to demystify it through

educational and amusing homosexual,
heterosexual, and pansexual articles and
graphics." Under the motto, "Suck turns
words into flesh," the paper printed a gay
guide to Europe, how-to's on giving ace
blow jobs, and articles like "Women
Jim Haynes dining al fresco.

Need Whorehouses." and "S & M producing in seven languages World and hope to find a life-mate an
Software." Published in Amsterdam but Passports. Challenging the world's idealized "better-half" who will fulfill all
immediately banned in the U.K., Suck immigration authorities, however, of our needs. "The book is an attack on

brought Scotland Yard to Haynes's door involved a certain degree of risk. When romanticism and what I call couple
and became instant cult literature on the the French police warned him that if he attitudes, because these habits limit us
Continent. continued he'd be deported, he had no from thinking, living, and loving as freely
Amsterdam set the scene for further choice but to stop. as we could. Romanticism is a villain,
celebration and demystif Scat ion of So what does this veteran counter- and yet almost no one questions it," he
sexuality. Haynes organized the world's cultural enzyme have to say to those of argues with a smile.
first erotica film fest there:The us, who in these callous, material- After all this talk about living in the
International Wet Dream Film Festival. oriented eighties sometimes yearn for a neo-romantic now, mention to Haynes
I

This infamous event sold out two years in revolutionary time and spirit we never that Buddha, when asked to sum up the
a row, cutting a swath for popular lived? experience of his life and thought, simply
acceptance of sexually explicit films that "Most of the people 1 knew then fell replied, "Now," It seems appropriate to
were not pornographic nor exploitative. it was possible to build Utopia in our try posing the same question to Haynes
One year, ticket holders were treated to a lifetime. And. at the end of the sixties, it before turning off the tape recorder, since
five hour North Sea cruise, complete with was revealed that it was not going to he obviously knows a thing or two about
chamber orchestra, "love room" filled happen. For some, disenchantment and the nature of experience.
with water beds and potted palms, and cynicism followed. But others many, A thirty-second pause follows, then
food for everyone, "it's a fact that sexua! many othersrealized we could each
that laughter, as he looks me straight in the
expression is no longer subject to the build it for ourselves. How? By living our eye and exclaims . . . "Wow!"
taboos it once was," Haynes stresses. ideals. By banishing fear of the other, Kyle Roderick

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producer Jonathan Taplin of Mean
Streets,The Last Waltz,, ami Under Fire
IALLTWOOD
"I really like being on this lot," says to the classic 1931 Frankenstein.
Concocted by director Tim Burton
{Vincent) and writer Lenny Ripps. it's the
well and living in an uncharted region of
Africa. Out
diminutive dinosaur
to get his mitts
is
on the
ruthless Patrick
lame. '"This is a studio lhat really story of a young boy (Oliver) who brings McGoohan, who's at his eye-rolling best

.supports filmmakers. They've had some his petdog. Sparky, back to life after its as a scientist with no sense of honor.
rough limes recently but. all in all, they untimely demise. Producer Taplin actually brought his
reallyknow what they're doing." "The important thing for us was to cast and crew, dinosaur family included,
The studio in question is Disney, where design the film so it wouldn't be kinky. to the Ivory Coast in Africa. "It wasn't
Taplin is launching two productions, both The boy wants to bring his dog hack easy," says Taplin. "but we knew it

of the science-fiction /fantasy genre. Baby because the dog is his heart. He gets the would be crazy from the outset. Most of
and My Science Project, via Disney's idea for the experiment in Paul Band's the peopledown there had never seen a
new Touchstone banner (responsible for science class when he sees his teacher film crew before, let alone a film crew

last year's Splash). making a frog twitch using juice from a which included full-sized dinosaurs. The
Probably no other film outfit in hattery. things that went wrong down there would
existence has influenced widescreen "He figures that, with enough make several black comedies. We got
wonder more than Disney, both in live he can reanimate his pet. So,
electricity, through it okay, though.
action and animation. A casual glance at one night, he sneaks out and digs up his "The logistics of moving some of our
their releases from the 1930s to the 1960s dog and proceeds to try to create life. His players were mind-boggling. Ron Tantin
looks like a fantasy's Greatest Hits experiment is funny, noi ghoulish. The and Isidoro Raponi made full scale
package Fan ittsia. Snow While and the little boy's name is Victor Frankenstein. mechanical models for the movie
Seven Dwarfs. Piiwcckio, 20,000 We don't play up lhat fact too much, (ranging in size from sevcnty-feet-long
Leagues Under the Sea. Darby O'Gill and though. He's a descendant o\' the original and twenly-five-leet-high to less than a
the Little People. The Absent -Minded clan hut he lives in the suburbs with his yard long). They look real and they're
Professor, and Mary Poppins. parents. His parents. Daniel and Shelley, great.
Following the death of guiding light are more than a little offbeat, however. "I mean, this is a fantasy but it's very
Walt Disney in 1966. the studio seemed "For the experiments, we got all the realistic looking, it's been a strange
to flounder a bit.For a while their films original Kenneth Strickfaden equipment experience for me because I've never
were rejected by their youthful from the First Frankenstein. We've done a fantasy before. approached I it as
audience
deemed "too juvenile" by the modified it slightly so it looks like the if it was a story that could actually

l.ipper-lhan-thou crowd who saw Bambi little boy put it all together from happen. As we got further and further
as a direct threat to the future of Fritz the household items. We have a toaster that into filming, the plot actually became a
Cat. Studio heads, in turn, did their blasts out megawatts of light (our Steven reality. Yet the movie has its roots very
damnedest to lure those defecting Spielberg shot), blenders with Jacob's firmly planted in the early Disney
Disneyiies back to the fold, watering ladders in them and a TV antenna that movies. It has the same feel as Dumbo.
down the studio's sense of artistic- shoots out sparks. with a heavy dose'of crazy adventure
integrity in the process, before losing all "When the boy raises his dog through thrown in.

direction during the late 1970s and early the attic roof during a thunderstorm, it's "I'm really happy with the way it

1980s with such wrong-headed wonders on an ironing board. It really looks like turned out." So much so lhat Taplin is

as The Black Hole. The Watcher in the the old Frankenstein movies. And Barret, launching a second film at the studio. My
Woods, and Iron. when he was in the middle o( these Science Project, written by The Last
Now. however, in spile of various scenes, really got weird. He started Starfighter's Jonathan Belucl. who will

financial squabbles, the Disney machine moving around in a stiff, jerky manner. make his directing debut as well.
seems back on the right track, deftly He looks like a mad scientist. He looks "Jonathan would kill me if 1 gave away
mixing out-and-out animated nostalgia like a scaled-down Colin Clive. When we the plot," says Taplin. "I guess I can tell

with a sense of adventuresome fantasy. were finished filming the lightning slorm you (hat it's about a time-space warp but
The last year and a half has seen the everyone on the set applauded.
stuff, radically different than most stories of
release of Never Cry Wolf and Splash as "In the movie, the experiments work. that type. It's the craziest thing I've ever
well as the fully animated short Mickey's He does bring his dog back lo life, done. John Stockwcll of Christine plays
Christmas Carol, productions designed to although the dog isn't quite right. He the lead. Dennis Hopper is a science
satisfy allDisney fan factions. looks like a stuffed animal with bad leacher who is a total sixties burn-out.
The year to come promises more of the stitching. "1 have to tell you." says Taplin, '"that
same; with films like Baby. My Science "There are two really exciting aspects I'm enjoying my stay here. I'd love to
Project. Oz, The Black Cauldron, and of this movie, for me. One. that we keep working at Disney if ihey keep on
Frankenweenie in various stages of thought of it in the first place. Two, that letting me make fun movies. My Science
completion. we're actually being allowed to make it!" Project will have effects that border on
"They're really taking a big chance Frankenweenie will be out ihis the surreal, and everyone on the lot is
with us," says producer Julie Hickson Christmas (on a double bill with totally up about that.
of her live-action short subject Pinocchio). Also on tap this holiday "There's an amazing mixture of
Frankenweenie. "Frankly this is a pretty season will be Baby, producer Jonathan creativity here. You have guys who have
strange little movie. The humor is pretty Taplin's first Disney adventure. Directed been on this lot forever, plus new
out there, but the studio is being totally by B.W.L. Norton {Cisco Pike) from a people a lot of whom came in with me

supportive." screenplay by Clifford and Ellen Green, who used to work at ILM and Apogee
Starring Shelley Duvall. Daniel Stern. it's the tale of a young American couple and all the different effects houses. It's a
Paul Battel, and Barret Oliver, (William Kali and Sean Young) who very nice mix."
Frankenweenie is an off-the-wall homage discover a baby brontosaurus alive and Special effects will also play a large

part in Oz. the studio's sequel to the
classic 1939 Wizard of Oz. Originally
entitled Return to Oz with co-writer (with
Gill Dennis) Walter Murch making his
directorial debut and Gary Kurtz
producing, the movie ran into initial
snags because of an escalating budget..
Disney was ready to pull out of the
project when compromise was reached.
a For animation fans, there is The Black
Kurtz was out and Paul Maslansky (Police
Academy) was brought in to produce. This
new power set-up rattled Murch,
however, and the movie began to fall
behind schedule. Ominous rumblings
concerning Mulch's abilities to helm the
project arose. Like the cavalry coming to
the rescue, however, a coven of Murch 's
old cronies led by George Lucas and
Francis Coppola- -descended on the
Film's London set. Lending both artistic
and moral support, they gave Murch a
down the Yellow
gentle, positive shove
Brick Road, and now the path to
completion seems production-oriented
and pothole-free.
Based on several of author Frank L.
Baum's Oz stories, this new film has
Dorothy leaving Kansas for Oz in order to
save her old cronies, the Scarecrow, the
Cowardly Lion, and the Tin Man from
Nome King.
the clutches of the evil
Neither a musical nor a remake, this
Christmas 1985 release will feature
newcomer Fairuza Balk as Dorothy. Nicol
The youngest mad
Williamson as both the Nome King of Oz
and Kansas resident Dr. Worley, Piper
Laurie as Aunt Em, Jean Marsh as both
Princess Mombi (a witch with a
collection of thirty heads which she
models as she sees fit) and oppressive
Nurse Wilson, Emma Ridley as Ozma (a
tinyOz native). Michael Sudkin and Peter
Elliot as Tik Tok the helpful robot. Brian
Henson bringing Jack Pumpkinhead to
.
Deep Roy as The Tin Man, John
life, hues), over thirty-four miles of film stock
Alexander as The Cowardly Lion, Justin and 115,200 animated frames of film.
Case as The Scarecrow, and Mac Wilson Shot in Dolby Stereo, The Black
giving Billina, the talking head, a blabby Cauldron, according to producer Joe
sense of purpose. Handling the various Hale, will have twice the animation as the
effects are veterans of such movies as The usual animated feature "because due to
Great Muppet Caper, Closed Mondays, the 70mm format the screen size is twice
Live and Let Die. Superman, and 2001 as big."
In addition to the announced films,
Cauldron, Disney's twenty-fifth full- there seems enough projects on the
to be
length animated feature, and one that has back burner keep things buzzing for a
to
been in production for over a decade. while. John Candy, who just about walked
Budgeted at twenty-three million dollars, away with comedic honors in Splash, has
the fantasy-epicis based on a series of been signed to a three-picture producing
five books penned by Lloyd Alexander and development deal. Candy's deal calls
having their rootsin Welsh mythology. for him to develop and executive produce
The Black Cauldron will trace the feature screenplays as starring vehicles
heroic adventures of a young assistant for himself.
pig-keeper named Taran (the voice of And following the completion of
Grant Bardsley) in his attempts to prevent Frankenweenie producer Julie Hickson
,
the evil Horned King (John Hurt) from and director Burton would like to delve
getting his menacing mitts on the black into feature work. "There are some
cauldron, a dark and mysterious thingic amazing craftsmen on this lot and. for the
that would allow the conniving King to past few years, they haven't gotten too
raise an army of deathless warriors. much of a chance to show off their work.
En route to the final battle. Taran is They've had a ball on this short. We'd
aided by his mentor Dallben (Freddie love to work with them again."
Jones), a mysterious Princess Eilonwy Perhaps it's producer Jonathan Taplin
{Susan Sheridan), a furry namedcritter who sums up the new feeling on the lot
Gurgi (John Byner), and Hen Wen, a pig when he says. "The mood here at Disney
with the ability to see into the future. is one of great potential and anxious
The movie promises to be one of the excitement. You feel that there is a new
most detailed examples of screen chance to do wonderful things here. There
animation in quite a while. For the past is also the sense of tradition, of doing
scientist in the Frankenstein lineage (Barret Oliver) heads for the lab.
decade, it has employed more than two quality stuff that helps keep you on the
hundred full-time workers, including straight and narrow yet there's this
sixty-eight animators and assistant sense of adventure that allows you to do
animators, and will be thefirst Disney things that are really crazy."
animated movie since 1959's Sleeping Uncle Walt, the kind of guy who could
Beauty to be produced in widescreen leap from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow to
70mm formal. The Swiss Family Robinson to The Shaggy
By the time of its completion it will Dog without batting an eye. would no
have used 2,519,200 drawings, four doubt approve.
hundred gallons of paint ( 1 , 165 different Ed Naha
 Move over yogurt, frozen yogurt, and Hoboken housewife who gets amnesia and
yogurt shake. The latest food craze goes wild in Desperately Seeking Susan.
sweeping the nation is The Stuff, an Bear in mind that Seidelman considers
organic fad from the center of the Earth. reading personal ads a favorite pastime
But wait, a secret agent and a Chocolate . And Sting, it seems, is fixed on a
. .

Chip mogul learn the truth about the film career. With Dune barely in release
Stuff, and it will share a place in history and The Bride in the can, he's already
with Extra Strength Tylenol. A social shooting Plenty opposite Meryl Streep
parody in the form of The Blob, The Stuff herself. We're trying to picture it.
is written, produced, and directed by Streep's really slumming it; Tracey
Larry Cohen of It's Alive and Q. The Ultman, of "They Don't Know About
cast, including Michael Moriarty (also in Us" fame, also has a part. Kurt Russell
Q) and Garrett Morris ("Saturday Night and Cher were nothing Speaking of . . .

Live"), didn't like the Stuff that Cohen Sting,two more Frankenstein pictures are
concocted for the attack scenes: purees of expected on the heels of The Bride,
everything from mashed potato flakes to including an updated version of the
fire extinguisher foam. Cohen's fussy original by Roger Corman David . . .

crew, in fact, dove into the Hudson to Bowie has composed (he score to John
escape its odorat one point and they Schlesinger's Falcon and the Snowman
demanded rubber underwear to keep it off (the Timothy Hutton/Sean Penn movie)
their skin. Other special effects were . . . Under Fire director Roger
designed by Steve Beill {Ghoslbusters) Spottiswoode's next film will be a thriller
and Rick Stratton ("V," Thriller, and called FX, the story of a Hollywood
StarTrek. T). Larry Cohen will tell us the special effects technician who is hired to
whole story in an upcoming interview MM fake an assassination, but is framed for a
. . . Godzilla's career is taking off again! real-lifemurder. Spottiswoode is talking
In his homeland, Godzilla is shooting at to Kurl Russell and Robin Williams to
Toho Studios, where he battles with both co-star . . . James Bond director Guy
the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. fleets, thus Hamilton will bring the first film version
leading the world to the brink of World of The Destroyer series into production
War III. What a part! Meanwhile, back in this November. If all goes well, a long-

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his Godzilla remake with stop-motion
Miner is filming running film series will result about the
New York cop cum ultimate assassin . . .

animation Sybil Danning has been

. . . And Patrick Macnee has joined Roger
cast along with Christopher Lee in The Moore, Grace Jones, Tanya Roberts, and
Howling II, which, we hear, isn't exactly a Christopher Walken in the James Bond

sequel. Danning plays the Queen of the From a View to a Kill.

Transylvanian werewolves, while Lee is Steven Maloff and Ed Naha
out to de-fang the full moon plan for
world domination. Danning says she's
thrilled to be "the world's first blonde
werewolf.". David Lynch's next
. .

movie. Blue Velvet, will be about a

teenage boy and a human ear he finds in

the street. When the cops don't tell the

kid what's coming off (aside from ears),
he decides to play detective and find out
what kind of cut-ups are responsible for
this slice-of-life situation; You meet the
Gettys in the strangest ways. Lynch's
Ronnie Rocket is expected soon after . . .

There's talk of Psycho HI for next year.

Sounds like a crazy brand of dog food
... Is there life after MTV? John Cougar
will follow Prince in the plunge from
vinyl to video to celluloid with something
called Cage Rider. Prince, in fact, had

made it clear that if you want him, he

wantsto direct. And then there's
Madonna (the most inappropriately
named artist of our time). White she's
still hot with her "Borderline" single and
PatrickMacnee and Roger Moore debate the merits of
video, she's currently being directed by Simonize vs. JUrtle Wax between takes on the set of
Susan Seidelman (Smithereens) as a From a View to a Kill.

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by Dan Yakir

a recent rerun on intonation melodious. His eyes are forever

After Italian
t. television of Nights o/Cabiria, busy taking in his surroundings, perhaps
Federieo Fellini was stopped in the street the core of a future cinematic
by a woman who wanted to know why the extravagance. There is a modesty about
maestro "didn't make pictures like that him that one is likely to find in someone
anymore." What this anonymous admirer who knows his worth.
was asking for was the small, intimate These are not the best of times for
dramas that won the filmmaker His recent And the Ship Sails
Fellini. On
international acclaim in the 1950s films was not a financial success in his
like La Strada and / Vitelloni, where an homeland (or elsewhere) and cynics
enchanting gallery of optimistic losers interpreted his decision to make a
entertained big dreams but never commercial for Campari his first ever
managed to emerge out of a dreary and a video clip with Boy George, as
existence. Nobody epitomized these evidence of despair. Not so. Boy George,
characters and sentiments better than after all, seems like many of Fellini's
Fellini's wife, Giulietta Masina, as both archetypal protagonists of recent years
Cabiria, the exploited prostitute with a and there is not a trace of grimness in the
heart of gold, and Gelsomina, the sad maestro's manner.
clown of La Strada. One of the world's greatest authors has
Over the years, after creating certainlycome a long way from his native
masterpieces such as La Dolce Vita and Rimini, where, oppressed by the rigid
the openly autobiographical 8'/:, Fellini's bourgeois mentality of his wealthy
pictures some claimed became parents, he found solace in escaping to
increasingly hallucinatory: the characters the local circus. It was there and in
lost their humanity and their dreams puppet shows that he cultivated an
turned into nightmares. The grotesque imaginary life that started with making
and the overstated, replaced the warmth himself up in front of the mirror and
of quivering humanity. Fellini, some said, culminated in some of the seventh art's
no longer liked people. most stunning achievements.
The sixty- four-year-old filmmaker, Fellini has acknowledged the influence
jovially peering through his dark-framed of Roberto Rossellini, the father of Italian
glasses, hardly seems like the Neo-Realism, for whom he wrote scripts,
misanthrope he is accused of being. and Chaplin. He also served as journalist
Cornered as he is in the lobby of the and illustrator of local magazines, the
Grand Hotel in Milan, where he is busy fumetti, through which he paid tribute to
casting for his new film. Ginger and Fred, the comic books he devoured in his
he yields to the questions of his youth. He later made a living as a
interviewer, aided by his secretary caricaturist around restaurants in Rome.
Fiammetta Profili, who translates. Once the It is there that his visual imagination
maestro gels going, he switches to started to blossom.
English. He is clearly delighted speaking Dan Yakir
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HM: How do you find inspiration in our and classify. I don't see it that way. I just that I don't recognize the grotesque. To
mediocre times'? Or, perhaps, you don't do what I have to do. me they're all beautiful. You mention La
think we are surrounded by mediocrity? HM: Critics also have termed your Saraghina. In Rimini, near the college for
FF: It's a barbaric era. People say it's an characters grotesque and exaggerated. priests, there was a big prostitute like

era of transition, but this is true about How do you react to such accusations? that, who used to expose herself. When I

every period. Certainly we have no more FF: To answer this, must see my films, I show something like that, it's usually

myths left: the Christian myth doesn't which never do. People say that I'm a
I through the eyes of a boy, and sometimes
seem to be able to help humanity bit too much, that I exaggerate. Maybe I exaggerate just to show the astonishment

anymore. So, we're waiting for a new they're right. But even if it's true, it's not or fear or ecstasy of that boy. Also, if I

myth. But which one? It's very interesting intentional. I'm delighted when I come use a big or fat woman, it's because I'm
to live at a time like this. But, having said across an expressive face, however telling a storyabout an Italian boy who is
this, I believe we must accept the time we bizarre. I am, after all, a caricaturist and hungry for women. Just because the

live in. I feel that my mission in life, my I have to accept the limitation it imposes Catholic church has described women as
vocation, is to be a witness, and if your on me. A creative person has something something to be ignored, Italians of a
life consists of a testimony, you have to childish about him: he both loves to be certain generation developed an appetite
accept what you witness. Sure, you can be surprised and wants to surprise the for them not just for food. So the big
nostalgic about the past and how great it audience. So, I choose whatever is too big women indicate their big appetite.
was and lament the erosion of values, but HM: How do you feel about the relations
there's no point to it. From a generational between the sexes today, when a certain
point of view, I'm aware that there's a role reversal seems to be at work?

certain regret about things past, but I FF: Man has always been unsure of
personally try to live with the confidence women. A woman for a man is the part
that the future will assimilate the past. that he doesn't know about himself so
The past will transform itself into the he's always afraid of her. He feels weak
future, so it will be relived, not in regret,
"I fear old age, and vulnerable with her, because she may
but as part and parcel of the future. cause him to lose his identity. Just by
madness, decline
HM: Does this have
looking into an interior reality rather than
an exterior one? Are the dreams and
fantasies of which such a reality consists,
to do with your

I fear not being

projecting the part of himself that he
doesn't
of himself.
know on

destroyed, devoured
woman, he loses
a
So he knows he can be
. that's a natural
a lot

able to make love

. .

the basis of your inspiration? law. He also probably remembers the

FF: don't dwell too much on what it is
I
very ancient matriarchal society in which

that inspires me. have to be in touch I ten times a day. man was nothing and women thought
with my delusions, my discomforts and they became pregnant just because the
my fears; they provide me with the wind blew some seed into their vagina.
material I work with. I make a bundle of Or the ocean. Or the moon. A thousand
all these, along with my disasters, my years passed before man and woman had
voids and chasms and try to observe them a relationship and discovered the orgasm.
with sanity,in a conciliatory manner. . . .
Suddenly someone started thinking,
HM: What are you afraid of? or too small or simply unfamiliar. I try to "Wait a minute, why does it take nine
FF: I'm afraid of solitude, of the gap express the feeling of surprise the way I months? Which kind of wind is it? Which
between action and testimony it's a myself felt it. The world of Picasso could ocean started it all nine months ago?" In
reflectionon my existence: to act without be described as strange and monstrous, those matriarchal societies, if men were
being swept away by the action, so as to but not for him. too don't see myI to assert themselves, they had to put on
be able to bear witness at the same time. I characters as strange. I simply try to go false tits, wigs and dress like women.

fear losing my spontaneity, precisely beyond appearances, to unveil what lies They didn't exist at all worse than rats.
because of this testimony, because of this behind what we call, "normality." Maybe When the queen decided to take a
habit of constantly analyzing and I overdo it. People ask me, "Mr. Fellini, companion, he would last a year, after
commenting. I fear old age, madness, where do you find such strange which he was killed, cut to pieces like an
decline I fear not being able to make characters?" So I respond, "That's what I animal, and eaten.
love ten times a day. . . . see when I look in the mirror everyday HM: What society was that?
HM: Do you make films because solitude ... a monstrous face indeed!" I'm not FF: Now. It's today. . . . And then, for
ranks high among your fears? cruel. It's not true what some critics say, centuries, man took advantage of women
FF: Making films for me is not just a that I hate humanity. For me, curiosity to take revenge for what he had suffered
creative outlet, but an existential and amusement are proof of my affection for thousands of years. Now women want
expression. I also write and paint in for what depict. When I choose a
I to be considered as persons, not as mere
isolation, in an ascetic manner. Perhaps certain face and have it made up in a projections, and their attempt to escape
my character is too hard, too severe . . . certain way, it's not because I want to the image man has confined them to
but cinema is a miracle, because you can ridicule, but because I want to convey in frightens man. But finally he understands
live life just as you tell it. It's very an immediate manner something which that he won't be free until women are
stimulating. For my temperament and isn't psychological. My characters never free as well. I tried to show all that in
sensibility, this correlation between daily undergo psychological development. My City of Women.
life and the life I create on screen is films are a bit more innocent than that HM: Do you see yourself as a romantic?
fantastic. Creative people live in a very and the characters have to be themselves FF: I don't thinkI have a romantic view

vague territory, where what we call as soon as they appear. So the need to be of the world, because I don't recognize a
reality and fantasy are disjointed, where expressive is immediate. particular view of the world. I probably
one interferes with the other. They're both HM: You show beauty of women like have a romantic conception of the artist
one and the same thing. Claudia Cardinale and Anita Ekberg and art, but in life, no. I like to probe
HM: Your early films could be described alongside the grotesque; for example, a behind appearances and discover what's
as social realism while the later ones are huge woman like Saraghina in 8'/i. Isn't really there, like a naughty boy. In this I
more hallucinatory. there a dichotomy here after all? recognize the skeptic, who tries not to
FF: You could call hallucination a deeper FF: Beauty is not limited to its classical believe too much in facades, who tries to
reality. Critics have a need to categorize sense. It can be everywhere. I must admit unmask falsehood. I think that's the most

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important thing: I have no ideology, but if depend on information culled from reach the truth. If you're as true to
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of it, I'd say that the beauty of art is in its does a Boston lawyer wear? Maybe I'm helped, and you'll come closer to the
trying to unmask falsehood. To educate. just tyring to look for pretexts, the real truth. But I don't claim to know all the
To plant in people's minds the suspicion reason being that I'm too old and lazy, secrets.

that reality is something more complex: to but I think it's more sincere to say that I HM: How does a project of yours come
give them the pleasure of suspicion, not can't talk about life just as I see it. I need into being?
just the burden of doubt. To make them a period of reflection. I could do a wholly FF: The real ideas come to me when I

not too protected by taboos, concepts, impressionistic report seen from a sign a contract and get an advance which
ideologies. Life is more complex than newspaper man's eye, but it would mean 1 don't want to give back; it's when I'm
that. If, in my pictures, I have to absolutely nothing. obliged to make a picture. I'm kidding,
recognize a motif a thread that runs HM: Do you feel transformed when naturally. I don't want to appear brutal,
through I'd say this is the only one. you're on the set or are you always the like Groucho Marx, but I'm the kind of
HM: Does this mean that you avoid same? creator who needs to have an authority: a
judgment? FF: I'm always the same confused man grand duke, a Pope, an emperor, a
FF: That's not really possible. We are . there's no difference. When
. . work, I producer, a bank to push me. These
slaves of our culture, prisoners of our I'm perhaps healthier because the very vulgar conditions put me on the right
emotions we always have a subjective pressure to do, to escape, to be alive is to track. It's then that I start thinking about
point of view. Subjectivity means that me an added neurotic energy. Neurotic what I can, and want to, do.

we've had a certain education, that we health. When I'm in-between pictures, HM: Tell me about Ginger and Fred.
read certain books, that we cultivated I'm a bit weaker. But I'm always in the FF: It's a little story about two two-bit
certain emotions: all these mysterious and same situation of not knowing what I'm dancers in a variety show who imitate
contradictory things that serve as the doing. Rogers and Astaire and therefore are
basis for our judgment. Even when you HM: How does such confusion evolve named after them. It started as a film for
pretend to be only a witness, you can't into a unified, focused vision? television about sixwomen to be made by
ignore be open and not
all this. I try to FF: It's a very difficult question to six directors: Antonioni, Zeffirelli, Rosi,
schematic, but always terms of what's in answer. I don't want to appear too Lizzani, Magni and myself. When Italian
commensurate with my background. mystical or too mysterious, but there's a TV started co-productions with the
HM: Is that partly why you don't make part in me
that sometimes comes out at Americans, was asked to do my segment
I

films in other countries? Because you're the lastmoment. The more confused 1 as a movie,and Antonioni was asked the
so very Italian? am, the more I'm ready for this new same about his. It's going to be seventy-
FF: Yes. When I go to a foreign country, tenant that inhabits my imagination to minutes-long, like Orchestra Rehearsal.
everything is a mystery to me. I see take possession of me. Which makes It's made for TV, but will be shown in

images, colors, lines, but they don't add everything fall into place. The more I feel theaters first. That is, ifany remain in

up to anything. I could make a picture lost, the more I believe I can be helped by Italy. They've just closed 2, 17 of them 1

about New York, but in Cinecitta, not in this unknown source of knowledge. It's here, and there are now many cities, like
America. I'd have to remember what I magic. Perhaps it's a bit superstitious, this Perugia (the equivalent of Boston) which
saw in New York and what emotions it had three or four theaters, but now have
triggered in me and try to recreate them nothing. In Italy, we have over 200
with the same colors and lights. I was so privateTV stations. You could watch 200
presumptuous as to say several times to pictureson 200 TV sets at the same time,
American producers that I wanted to all that's wrong. The
but that's not
make such a film about America in Italy, movies have suffered not only because of
where I would be protected by an ". . . I need to the direct competition of TV, but TV has
atmosphere in which I could move created a different relationship between
without being conditioned or mortified by
laws I don't know and a language I can't
have an authority: audiences and images: they can switch
off. You watch TV in a small room, in
it

speak. where you can has

There's always a reductive attitude a grand duke, a the light,
cancelled all
talk.
the ritualistic attention
It

toward movies. You never ask writers why movies used to command. The fact that
they don't write in other languages. The Pope, an emperor you can change channels by your remote
equivocal birth of movies was indeed control every thirty seconds has created
technical camera,
the the lens, the to push me.
. . . an impatient audience and a very arrogant
lights and then you develop the film but and superficial one. Everything it finds
that's a mechanical point of view. If I annoying, it eliminates. Add to that the
want to try to express our interview, I fact that TV is available twenty-four-
can't just put a camera in front of us. I'll hours a day, and that images are used
have to recreate the feeling of the electronically: they're doubled and
meeting: what I feel about you being an squeezed onto the small screen . . . this
American, and the fact that Fiammetta is trust in the unknown. Of course, what I caleidoscopic use has destroyed the
trying to create a bridge between us by mean by saying that I don't know what image. We are no longer used to being
translating, and the decor of this hotel I'm doing is that it comes after I have seduced by a pure image. We have no
lobby, the color of the sofa. . . . Just to tried everything. Having made all the interest in following a storyfrom an
think the camera can take it all in is possible efforts, I look at a hundred faces author's point of view. Since this is what
reductive. to choose one that would inhabit a dark I'm trying to do, I must admit feel I

People ask me, "'Why do you recreate corner on the screen: that kind of effort. frustrated. The man with the remote
Venice in a studio instead of using the HM: You're saying that this knowledge control has become director and exhibitor.
real one?" I'm always a bit surprised by goes beyond reason. The audience has gained power at the
such questions. I have to recreate it, FF: That's right. You get lost in the expense of movies, so the cinema has
because I have to put myself in it. rational system. If you work with faith become a tainted old lady teetering away.
HM: The decor becomes expressive of and you know your limits and at the I would like very much to please the
your vision. . . . same time you have modesty, humility, audience, but I have to be faithfui to the
FF: Of course. In America, I'd have to and also arrogance, like a man you can picture.

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 reprehensible is their pretending to be the
way an adolescent male should be. Give
me an honest video, flashy or not, than
mindless, sexist, headbanging any day.
(Naturally, I agree but you've got to
remember that videos are advertising, not
and any means to insinuate the
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Glenn Dressier
Kankakee, IL

Dear Metalurgists:
While Liberatore and Tamburini are
dreaming up new adventures for Ranxerox
and Lubna, why don't you people run
some S. Clay Wilson material? That
Dear HM: maggots on my face, twitching in a should keep us satisfied in the
Before you guys get a deluge of mail corridor, screaming in an elevator, beating sex 'n' violence department for a while. A
on your special video awards issue someone up and falling off a building. few other suggestions: end "Tex Arcana"
(September), I'd like to put in my twenty I'm glad Yes finally put these subtle (because the suspense is killing me!),
cents worth on what I think are some of emotions in such an appealing way. more music (albums reviews, interviews,
the most exploitative, pointless, and just Most pompous video: Manfred Mann's and get rid of "Salammbo
etc.), II."
plain lame videos of the past year. My "Runner." What's supposed to be a Keep it coming, guys!
credentials aren't as good as //A/'s, but as dramatic tribute to the summer Olympics, D. Medina
a steady video viewer (about two to three comes off stilted and boring. Brooklyn, NY
hours a night), I'd just like to get my Video most exploitive of women:
kicks in now. I don't want to kick too Trying to pick only one is hard. I'd say Dear MM:
hard, just in the right places. the worst is ZZ Top's "Legs" simply 1950. Television is introduced. People
Dance video with the worst dancing: because it's so obvious. Just look sharp are engrossed and will watch anything

David Bowie's "Let's Dance." Bowie, galsand the world will fall all over you. broadcast, because there's been nothing
(Too bad The like it before. As time progresses, people
who can dance, doesn't; those that do, it's the truth. interesting
can't. What is the point? question is, are they reinforcing a cultural demand better shows. Along come "Star

Funniest video (intentional): Weird Al stereotype or just reflecting it? Is) Trek," "Roots," "The Day After."
Yankovich's "Eat It," hands down. Some Video exploiting sexual perversion: 1977. Along comes HM. People are
of Madness's videos are amusing, but Again, you can't pick just one. There's
engrossed- there has never been
don't make you laugh quite as hard. Cameo's "She's So Strange," Prince's anything like it before. As time
Funniest video (unintentional): A tie "Little Red Corvette," Bowie's "China progresses, people demand better. How
between Pat Benatar's "Love is a Girl," The Stones's "She's So Hot," about it?
Battlefield" and Jefferson Starship's Michael Jackson's "Thriller," anything True, you've printed some great stories

"One Way Out." That video by Heart with Boy George (Why? Just because of and artwork, but you've had more than
comes close, but I forget what the song is. the way he dresses? That's ridiculous. your fair share of "Gilligan's Islands."
Most exploitive video: John Lennon's Is), and I'd say about 88% of videos by Why run 95% foreign art? (Simply,
"Living on Borrowed Time." Nice song, heavy metal groups. (/ think you're because we like it better than most of the
though. lumping exploitation of pure sex with American stuff offered us, and because
Loudest video (visually): Duran sexual perversion. There is a difference. HM is an international magazine. Is)
Duran's "Reflex." The colors are loud, Is) Though I've never seen it, I've heard Just because an artist is French, it doesn't

the editing is too fast, concert footage cut that Frankie Goes to Hollywood's mean he's great. Good artwork is ruined
with film footage until you can't tell "Relax" video (the original, banned one) by lousy stories, and the French seem to

which is which, and where is that water is worse. The lead singers, who do admit be crummy writers. (They're also less

coming from? The screen? Huh? tobeing gay, (Horrors! Is) go into a gay captivated by the boring cliches of
Loudest video (overall): Police's bar filled with leather, kinky S&M, traditional American comics. Is)
"Synchronicity II." busy set, highA transvestites,and other negative Try not to run so many continued
winds, guitar feedback, and Sting stereotypes. (Sounds like a typical episode stories
this is HM, not "The Days of

SHOUTING the song. Not very pleasant. of "Ranxerox" to me. But seriously, I've Our Lives." Too many issues are 85%
Ugliest group in video: Kiss in "Lick It seen the clip in question, and it's pretty continued. Try more complete stories,

Up." God, these guys are ugly without inoffensive. It's also well photographed like "June 2050," which is the best item

makeup. (No kidding but smart enough and edited, and pretty fucking hilarious. you run every issue. (You lose. "June
to realize those grim mugs wouldn't make As with ZZ Top, it's a question of
2050' has been cancelled. Is)
'

them nearly as much moolah as the reinforcing negative stereotypes or simply Finally, someone should invite Lou

painted masks. Is) portraying them. Those sorts of places do Stathis over for a Jim Jones-style Kool-

Performer making biggest fool of exist, and they form a major part of the Aid party, for putting his comments
himself: The Cars' Ric Ocasek, in underground gay scene and if Frankie through the middle of Chain Mail. Isn't

"Magic." Squinting in the sun, he poses Goes to Hollywood want to shoot a home there enough room at the bottom of each
and moves ridiculously with a bunch of movie of one of their nightly golden letter, Lou? It's irritating.
extras in silly costumes while walking on showers, I think they should be allowed to. Gary Davis
water. Right. (He doesn't look nearly Just as long as they wash their hands Montesano, WA
as dumb as Billy Idol does, with his afterwards. Is) But I think videos that
crowbarred sneer and adolescent pose are safe and unquestionably dishonest are Sure there's enough room, but by now
of macho defiance. Is) worse. Motley Crue's "Too Young to Fall most everyone' s forgotten what
Most obnoxious video: Yes's "Owner in Love" is an adolescent male fantasy specifically in the letter is being
of a Lonely Heart." Whenever I feel sad and covers much the same territory as responded to. Right? Uh, now what
and a little lonely, I feel like putting "Relax." What makes Motley Crue so was the question? Is

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#2/MAV '77: Russian astronauts, #15/JUNE '78: Corben introduces #28/JULY '79: Bode's "Zooks" #41/AUGUST '80: Druillet returns
"Conquering Armies," the ultimate Shahrazad. Sturgeon's classic "More premieres, Corben's "Sindbad" with "Salammbo" while Moebius
rock festival, and more. Than Human" isillustrated, more concludes. Morrow and Moebius concludes "Shore Leave" (and is in-
"Barbarella," and the origins of continue, Mike Hinge debuts. terviewed). Bilal continues "Prog-
#3/JUNE '77: Macedo's "Rock- "Heilman." ress!"
blitz," highly praised "Shells," be- #29/AUGUST '79: Caza steals show
ginning of Davis's "World Apart," #16/JULY A
happy ending for
'78: with "New Ark City," plus May- #42/SEPTEMBER '80: "The
Moebius, Corben, Bode, more. "Barbarella," a sad ending for erik, Suydam, "Galactic Geo- Alchemist Supreme" concludes
"1996," resumption of Druillet's graphic," Bode, more. while Bilal's "Progress!" picks up
#4/JULY '77: Lots of Moebius: 'Ar- more "Heilman," "Orion,"
"Gail," steam. Ernie Colon, Paul Kirchner,
zach," "The Long Tomorrow"; con- "More Than Human," and Cor- #30/SEPT EMBER '79: "Elric," Leo Duranona contribute nifty
clusion of "Sunpot." ben's 'Arabian Nights." "Buck Rogers," a lizard named shorts, while "Rock Opera" gets
"Elvis," and "Little Red V-3," stranger.
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gins, "The Long Tomorrow" con- tor 17," Ellison's illustrated "Glass #49/APRIL '81: Corben's "Blood-
cludes, and "World Apart" and Goblin," debut of McKie's "So #31/OCTOBER '79: A Halloween star,"Gimenez's "Good-bye, Sol-
"Den" continue. Beautiful and So Dangerous." tribute to H. P. Lovecraft, with Harry North's "Stories from
dier!,"
Moebius, Breccia, Druillet, Suy- London," and an interview with
#6/SEPTEMBER '77: Roger Ze- #20/NOVEMBER '78: Twenty dam, others. Julio Ribera.
lazny has a short story, and Moe- pages of the Delany/Chaykin "Em-
bius, a space opera; plus more pire," more "Sindbad," "Extermi- #32/NOVEMBER '79: Corben's #50/MAY '81: Premiers of Chay-
"World Apart," "Den," and "Po- nator," Major Grubert, "Heil- "Rowlf," Bode's "Zooks," Brun- kin's "Cody Starbuck" and Bilal's
lonius." man" 's final rebirth, more. ner's "Elric," Chay kin's "Ths Stars "The Immortals' Fete!" Plus: Suy-
My Destination," Moebius, and dam's "The Toll Bridge" and Wil-
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S. immortality.
Theodore Sturgeon, Moebius's
"AirtightGarage," "Den" and "Po- #33/DECEMBER 79: A Christ- #5I/JUNE '81: The 1st part of the
lonius" back again. mas package from Caza, Corben, Richard Corben interview, Jim
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Ellison fiction, 9 color pages by "Gnomes" and "Giants." winds up. Plus: Caza, Chaykin,
Moebius and Rimbaud, conclusions Crepax, and Workman!
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#35/FEBRUARY '80: An eerie
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"Egg of the World," Jeff Jones, Se-
Corben's "The Beast of Wolfton"
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"Fortune's Fool," by Chaykin
begins,McKie experiments with the
let, of Leo and Diane Dillon beauti-
Air Pump, and we join Matt Ho-
and Wein, plus full-color Corben, fully.
warth on a crazed acid trip.
Macedo, Claveloux, and Moebius.
#58/JANUARY '82: Our "Happy
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center spread by Nino, plus Moe-
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pakou" in living color, final install- Incal Light." Wein and Chaykin's

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"Barbarella," "Urm," and "Den."
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#I4/MAY '78: "Urm the
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Nino tips his hat.
'79: Trina debuts
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McKie and Corben.
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Geographic," "Starcrown," Cor-
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crown" II, and Ellison's late show.
ment of Moebius's "Airtight
Garage," plus Caza, Bilal, Ho-
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and more!
#38/MAY '80: Does the Supreme
Alchemist exist? Will Axle ever find
out? Will "Champakou" reach the
Doll of Jade? Will Joe strike out
with the alien Marilyn, too?
#39/JUNE '80: "Champakou"
meets his fate, while "Captain
Sternh" saves the day. And it's the
Flying Wallendas vs. Earth!
"Gideon Faust" gets going again.
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"Mercenary," "Den," "Rock Op-
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#61/APRIL '82: 5th anniversary is-
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What with Claveloux, Druillet,
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. Time" appears, and Captain
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Enchantme
by Doris Vallejo
Illustrated by Boris Vallejo
Dragonprince
"Have you had many lovers'?" the feet into a ravine to retrieve the Prin- be a dragon. For all I know, he's an en-
Dragon asked in a casual tone the Prin- cess's golden apple. She had been heart- chanted prince.
cess had come to recognize as a warning. broken when it fell down there; had in To her delight the Dragon turned out to
He was stretched out in front of his cave, fact briefly considered flinging herself have a pretty accomplished erotic tech-
absentmindedly singeing the grass around after it. What she did instead was to col- nique. She particularly enjoyed certain ef-
some ants. As they scuttled away, he lapse sobbing at the edge of the ravine. fects he could produce with his fiery
singed the grass in their wake. The Prin- And then the Dragon appeared. breath, making it ripple up and down her
cess would have asked him to stop had He offered to get the apple for her if body like small, electric, singing waves.
she noticed. At the moment she was too she would make love with him afterwards. "You are evading my question." the
busy massaging the iridescent green hide Naturally she was taken aback. It was Dragon said.
of his back. It gave her pleasure to do this outrageous. And from a dragon no less. She smiled at him. How well he knew
because she knew he liked it. But, recovering from her outrage, she her.It was almost as though he could read

"None like you," she said. "None as thought: Why not? After being de-
all, her heart. "I'm sorry," she said. "I just
strong and brave." sired is a compliment regardless of the how the others can matter
don't see
The Dragon had made a flamboyant circumstances. In addition, he can't be now."
display of his courage at their first meet- any worse than some of the noblemen "Because 1 want to know all about
ing, diving several hundred treacherous I've had. And besides, he may not really you," was the answer. "It excites me to

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hear about the others; appeals to (he voy-
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paused, as if gathering the necessary
strength to continue. "1 suppose that,
having a dragons typical insecurities, I

want to know how ] measure up against

real men."
'"Well ..." the Princess began uneas-
ily, not loo happy about complying with
his request but nevertheless saying to her-
self:'Oh, what the hell, how can it hurt?'
"There was Rolando, who was im- I

mensely attracted to though we had noth-

ing at all in common. Can you imagine,
he once said 10 me: What's the point of
looking at the stars when they are so far
away and there's plenty to look at right
 "

here on Earth." nected," the Dragon said, "however ab- witches had been burned at the stake
"Obviously a man infatuated with me- struse that connection may seem." whereas now they were being courted and
diocrity," the Dragon said. "My father believes in God, the power fussed about to an almost imbecilic de-
"He was a palace guard," the Princess of wealth, and the inferiority of women. gree.) in practice their code of do's and
continued, "and married to boot. So the It doesn't make him an easy man to get don'ts was disappointingly conservative.
relationship had its limitations built in close to, at least not for me." She could well imagine their reaction to

right from the start. Not only did we al- The Dragon agreed that the King had her bringing along a dragon as a dinner
ways have to meet when he wanted to and distinct shortcomings as a father although guest. "Well . .
." she hedged. "I know
never when I did, but there was the guilt. he will later call the Princess goddamn my parents are both quite busy these next
Always the guilt. As if his infidelity was manipulative with her wimpy ways and few weeks and

somehow my fault." will, moreover, express the opinion that "What is Dragon said. "Don't
it?" the
"An emotional cripple," the Dragon the King kept her at arms length out of an tell me I'm good enough for a roll in the
said, dismissing Rolando in half a sen- admirably developed sense of self-preser- grass, but not as an escort to the ball."
tence. "Was he the only one?" vation. The Princess assured him that this was
"There was Justini. He not only found "My problems with the Queen were of not, most certainly not, the case. But se-
it interesting to look at the stars, he could an entirely different sort," the Princess cretly she berated herself. I'm the one
name them and the constellations they said. "To begin with, she's a witch." who is really a dragon, she thought, for
were in, where they could be found in the "You mean the kind that rides on putting a nice face on what is, in truth,

sky and so on. But he would think noth- broomsticks?" The Dragon's green ears hypocrisy.
ing of making love and getting up as soon suddenly became very pointy. The Dragon, sensing his advantage,

as he was finished to study his astronomi- "She wouldn't be caught dead on a pressed his case in a pained, brave voice.
cal charts." broomstick," the Princess laughed. "But He understood how she might find it
"Anymore?" the Dragon ingenuously you should see the assortment of frog toes awkward to be seen with him. She
asked with no hint that, when it suited and lizard eyes and other motley goodies needn't explain. They were not, after all,
him, he would use these stories against she has for mixing magic potions." your conventional couple. He just thought
her, would call her a pushover, a worth- "There's nothing motley about lizard being close as they were and understand-
less cunt, and a whore in heat. eyes," the Dragon observed dryly. ing each other as well as they did would
"Yes, of course there were others; al- "Oh, she can do wonderful things with have neutralized, to some extent, their
ways the wrong ones," the Princess said. them," the Princess said. "I've seen her external differences. So, it turned out that
"I wanted so very much to be loved. For throw pieces of broken glass into her he was wrong. He didn't blame her for
years dreamed of the prince who would
I cauldron and take out real diamonds." that; for his error in judgment. He was

come to me from somewhere far away. I "Can she tell the future?" the Dragon only sorry because such a meeting might
used to talk about him, about what he wanted to know. Upon hearing that she have changed so many things for the bet-
would look like and be like. I used to could, he sighed wistfully. ter.

have imaginary conversations with him."
"You are beautiful," the
He rolled on his side and drew her to
him. "You are beautiful," he repeated
huskily, pinning her against the grass
"Often enough I've wished that she "I'm truly a beast," the Princess said.
Dragon said. couldn't," the Princess said. "For one "You are a beauty." the Dragon an-
thing, she's maddeningly conceited about nounced magnanimously.
it. And, for another, kindness and tact are "You are dear and funny and wise."
not her strong points. She positively de- "1 had only hoped that the Queen, hav-

with his powerful forepaws. In less than
two hours he would
looking, a shade too large
and, what was worse, disgustingly pale.
was a great shame, he would coldly
her, that she lacked green pigmentation.
lights in grim futures. Or else she tells the ing the talents she has ..." Here he
call her ordinary future in riddles so you don't know any- paused to lend the following words
in the hips, more when she's finished than you did at drama. "You see. I wasn't always a
It the start." dragon. I was born a prince. An evil
tell "If you're too dull to unravel riddles, witch cast a spell on me changing me into
that is." The Dragon's long red tongue this shape when I was quite young. I have

No doubt this was because she had spent suddenly unfurled to trap a scarlet and tried not to become bitter. It is, after all,
so much time above ground as opposed to blue butterfly in midflight. In an instant one of the things that can happen in life.
in the revitalizing darkness of caves. the butterfly had disappeared into his But growing up as a dragon, growing up
Framed against a magnificent sweep of mouth. The Princess pretended not to friendless, distrusted, everyone always
tree-covered hills and the blue sky, his have seen. Whether he'd done it to shock expecting the worst from you, is difficult.

great bulk seemed small and vulnerable. her or because, imprisoned within a drag- Since you are an only child and know
"You are beautiful, too," she breathed, on s body, he had no choice, she was not about loneliness, perhaps you can appreci-
quite meaning it. sure. It seemed best, therefore, to look ate this to some degree. Children are
"Don't ever leave me," he murmured. the other way. cruel, as you may know, and I can tell

And
so they dreamed each other. Their "I once asked her what the prince of you. contrary to the old saying, sticks and
dreams were enchanted. They became my dreams would look like, and this was stones didn't come near breaking my
marvelous miraculous creatures, part bird, her idea of a clever answer." The Prin- bones but the names I was called did hurt
part fish, part human. They could fly cess sat up very straight to display the me.
clear to the sky. They could flash, silver monster that had been tattooed on her "1 developed a fear of people. And I

finned, through the deepest oceans. They midriff. "It didn't tickle in the least when spent more and more time in my cave,
could promise each other eternal love. she did it, I can tell you." sneaking out only when I was sure no one
"Yours is a classic case of insufficient The Dragon was quite taken with the was around. I used to dream of the time
parental affection," the Dragon said. colorful tattoo, which, despite the inti- when would have my revenge by turning
I

"Am I right or am I right?" They had macy of their relationship, he hadn't no- into a prince and becoming the envy of
gone for a swim in the lagoon near his ticed before. He praised the artwork and all those who hated me."
cave and were sunning themselves on a decided, after studying it a bit, that it "I'm just afraid for you. that's all."

rock. bore a certain resemblance to him. "A re- the Princess said. "I wouldn't want some
The Princess thought this over care- markable woman, your mother," he said. boor to make upsetting remarks."
fully. "They did love me. They do love "I want to meet her." "I'm not afraid." The Dragon saw im-
me. I never doubted it in my head, you This proposal made the Princess decid- minent victory.
know. The difficulty has been, at times, edly apprehensive. Though her parents "You're so much stronger than am." I

believing it in my heart." professed a sufficiency of liberal ideas "It's not a matter of strength but the

"The head and the heart are con- (And why shouldn't they? In the past triumph of hope. You see, do have great I

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hope that the queen will break the spell another thing that rankled: the Dragon's of his eye.
thatkeeps me a dragon. We could be so inveterate nastiness. After their brief pe- At firstshe didn't believe he was seri-
happy together then." riods of intimacy and happiness, he ac- ous. When she saw that he was, she asked
Moved by this speech, which coincided tually seemed to flee into rancor. tenderly if he was feeling all right. He ac-

with her own dearest hopes, the Princess Of course, she realized, this was all tually snapped at her with his great gap-
ignored her misgivings and arranged for due to his insecurity. Who. having once ing mouth. After that she half expected
the Dragon to come to dinner at the pal- been a prince, wouldn't become insecure him to start foaming at the mouth, to suf-
ace. The evening was a disaster. at one day finding himself to be a down and beat his
fer a convulsion, to fall
It started in a civilized 1'ashion with dragon? It was only natural. It was. per- head against the ground or present some
cocktails and polite, if strained, conversa- haps, also natural that he was jealous of other evidence of having gone fatally
tion. The Dragon was eager to ingratiate her past lovers. But his relentless carping mad. But he spoke coolly and disdainfully.
himself. He was also nervous. He drank on the subject, his disparaging criticisms He knew what he had seen. Her own
four martinis in succession. The olives were hard to take. He berated her for not dragon had caused the damage. If she
made him burp and greenish-gray smoke having scaly skin and being unable to chose not to believe him. that was her af-
shot from his nostrils each time. He chat- belch flames: for not managing to breathe fair. He refused to shoulder the responsi-
tered incessantly and with increasing under water or see in the dark: for being bility for her shortcomings her para-
tempo on a variety of subjects calculated too cowardly to have fetched her own ap- noia, her lack of good faith, her ill

to fascinate his hosts: the decrease in ple out of the ravine; too sexually inhib- humor, and so on. He scowled. He spoke
swampland during the dry season and the ited to enjoy his fiery breath when it got through a light, barely moving mouth.
concomitant decrease in the edible insect really hot. His thick iridescent tail, which she so ad-
population: the longevity of dragons (six- She recognized all this as simply being mired, thumped the ground with impa-
hundred years) and how this might well an unfortunate expression of his love for tience.
be attributed to the six-year incubation her. Yet it burdened her heavily in the She turned and ran into the woods. The
period of the dragon embryo. long run. She knew it would probably go treesand hanging vines flew past her like
When he began to suspect he was los- on for years. Still, she could hardly ex- phantoms. like mist, not quite real. In a
ing their attention, he switched to a reper- pect to save him. hardly expect to help delirium she ran from him, cursing him,
toire of lewd jokes and then to an embar- him change back into a prince if she did calling him crazy, calling herself crazy to
rassingly inept series of animal not persevere. And there were good pe- have stayed with him as long as she had.
imitations. Clearly, he had no tolerance riods. The Dragon composed lovely po- She might have raced on clear to the pal-
for the combination of martinis and the etry for her. She was his muse, he told ace except that she ran out of breath.
wine he guzzled with his oysters on the her. Thiswhat he recited by way of an
is When she slowed down, the trees, the
half shell. For his bird of paradise imita- apology one afternoon when they hadn't vines, the path she followed became solid
tion he spread his front legs out wide (to been speaking since morning: and real again. She smelled smoke and
represent the bird spreading its wings) came to a full stop. Let him burn himself
and knocked over the huge crystal wine I awake to a crisp. Let him burn the whole forest
decanter. The wine splashed all over the my eyes full of dreaming down for all I care, I won't go back, she
white tablecloth, as well as on the Prin- brim with tears said to herself even as she turned around.
cess's new satin gown. Generally pre- to findyou real. The fire he'd started wasn't particularly
pared for catastrophes of all sorts, she big. Only about half an acre of dry grass
simply began to blot it with a napkin. He. Emptiness went. It just smoked badly. Even after the

however, leaped wildly from his chair, that steered my heart across deserts fire was out, soot smudged the sky for
causing it to fall over backwards with a to you hours.
resounding crash. The echo of that crash has faded like time "I'm doomed." he moaned when she
seemed to go on forever. into the sand. found him. "I've destroyed the most won-
The Queen took her daughter aside and derful thing in my life: your love for me. I

asked her what the devil she wanted with "If your love can't turn me back into a have no right to it anymore. What do I.
such a weirdo. prince, no one's can," he said when he the most miserable creature in the uni-
"You've seen him at his worst," the finished. verse, have to offer you. after all? A life-
Princes said. "It's unfair to judge him by Loving him was like plunging into the time of living with an outcast? Of living
that. He can really be very charming. Be- deep, deep sea at the bottom of which a as an outcast? You were right to leave.
sides, he loves me." treasure might lie. Loving him was The noblest thing 1 ever did was to drive
"In my book, he's a creep," the Queen quenching a lifelong thirst. Oh, she loved you away. My deepest wish is for your
replied. him from the molten core of herself clear happiness. I am lost, wholly lost. I see
The King who basically had not ex- out to her fingertips. He was ail she had that now. Not even you can save me. The
pected too much, was nevertheless puz- ever lost and stood to find again. best thing for you to do is go."
zled by his daughter's choice in a swain. "If I loseyou will lose my mind," he
I Naturally she stayed. They did not live
"Where in the world did you unearth cried to her in a voice like summer rain, happily ever after nor did they live en-
him?" he wanted to know. Upon hearing full of the promises of jeweled rainbows. tirely unhappy. Their pattern was one of
the story of the golden apple, how the Yet joy is fragile, a delicate silver fights, reconciliations, and periods of
Dragon had risked his life, the condition shadow, shattered as readily as fine glass. truce. They grew accustomed to it. Mys-
he'd posed, but how he really loved her, He had singed off all her pubic hair terious fires were spotted in the forest
he said: "To be honest with you. I don't with his breath (quite deliberately, she from time to time. The townspeople grew
much care for having a dragon as a son- suspected) so that her sex was suddenly accustomed to that.
in-law. So in case you happen to be think- bare and smooth as a peach. "Kinkily The Dragon remained a Dragon.
ing in that direction, you can do an about provocative-looking," he observed before Though his claim to have been a prince
face. On the other hand. I'll grant you he realized how angry she was about it. was wishful invention: his tale of the
that an agreement is an agreement and, if Subsequently he denied having anything wicked witch and her spell was brazen
you made it. you have to stick to it. I'm to do with the "accident," which he came fabrication.
behind you all the way on that." to blame on her own dragon tattoo. This
There it was: approval and disapproval was the age of magic and miracles, wasn't
all rolled up into one. Even if she lived as it? Well, the tattoo had miraculously, if From the upcoming book, Enchant-
long as dragons did she would never be only for an instant, come to life. He had ment (Ballantine Books) due out this
unequivocally in the right. But there was distinctly seen it happen out of the corner month.
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the bus PAULKIRCHNER

COMING:
Interview with Supergirl director Jeannot Szwarc
The return of Alice in Wonderland: the phenomena continues.
Gallery: A look at Philip Jose Farmer's The Grand Adventure.

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 .

Svnopsis
OUR 5T0RV takes place sometime during the last quarter of the last century,
somewhere out west, n or near the small town of hangman's corners
i
^- . , ;

Under circumstances too

HERP absurd, &ha5tly and compli- '
AND
cated to describe, herpand
SWEAZ
SwEAZ,TWO UNDERSIZED &^jj
BEINGS FROM ANOTHERTIME __- " fft
and space -demons, actually ,^~ / ;

- were conjured up and then '^" .};.

abandoned in uangman's corners.,

) Accused of indecent exposure
and jailed by a group of
bluen05ed bigots, herp and
jt Sweat escaped and embarked j

pupon an event-filled odyssey

in search of Tex Arcana and, :

more particularly, his companion,

the magic and mystical woman
in White who, they believe, has
the power to return them to wherever it isthat they come prom ,

Meanwhile, the local sheriff, a simple good-hearted soul who feels responsible
FOR THE CIRCUMSTANCES AND WELL-BEING OF THE TWO SMALL STRANGERS, HAS RIDDEN OUT INTO^.
THE WILDERNESS TO FIND THEM BEFORE THEY COME To -SOME SORT OF HARM ACCOMPANYING '<%&' ,

THE SHERIFF IS A DISPARATE ASSEMBLY OF VARIOUSLY- MOTIVATED VOLUNTEERS ONE OF THESE, AN S| .

>'

ODDLY INDIVIDUALISTIC CHARACTER NAMED BUFFALO WADE, ACTUALLY ENCOUNTERED HERP ANdSWEAZ // .

AS THEY WERE INVESTIGATING A BIZARRE AND GRISLY CORPSE B>UT THIS WAS PRIORTO HISMEETING
.

UP WITH THE SHERIFF AND THE SEARCH PARTY SO, HAVING NO IDEA WHO, OR INDEED, WHAT P.ERPAND %.
5WEAZ WERE, FIRED UPON THEM FOWUNATELY WADE MISSED ANDTHETWO WERE UNHARMED
. ,
} .

MOW, IT IS AT THIS POINT THAT THE TWO PRINCIPLE DIRECTIONS OF OUR STORY INTERSECT,
BECAUSE THE ABOVEMENTIONED GRISLY CORPSE \S ONE OF A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE VICTIMS OF AN
ABOMINABLY V LE SPECTOR CALLED HERR KLEID WHO S ABLE TO SAIN A
I I

PHYSICAL SUBSTANCE BY THE POSSESSION AND OCCU-

PATION OF CLOTH FABRIC* THIS-GOBLIN, IS WHAT HE
IS- ACCOMPANIES AND EXERTS SOME STRANGE
HOLD UPON NuNZIO PAGANO, VIOLINIST EXTRA-
ORDINAIRE AND SELF-STYLED TOAST OF EUROPE ,

WHO HAS COME TO HANGMAN'S CORNERS TO PERFORM

A "ONE NIGHT STANO" AT THE NOOSE AND GlBBET
SALOOM. KlEID AND PAGANO HAVE TAKEN ROOMS
at the staid boarding house of the eminently
respectable widow burns.
It is here that Kleid
finds his next two victims,
THE COMELY PalOMaSuE,
1
WHO WAS RESCUED FROM A
HIDEOUS DEATH BY THE A
INTERVENTION OP Pa&ANO , Afl
and the revolting Widow Black t_^x
WHO WAS NOT RESCUED AND WHOSE ITS
HIDEOUS DEATH SPAWNED ACURIOUS MYSTERY A?i
WHEN IT WAS DISCOVERED, DURING A PRELIMINARY \
'
POST-MORTEM EXAMINATION,THAT THE LONG-TIME RESIDENT OF HANGMAN'S
CORNERS WAS IN POINT OF FACT, A MAN BuT, WHO?
, .

AS WE REJOIN OUR STORY, THE WIDOW BURNS IS DISCUSSING

ASPECTS OF THE MYSTERY WITH DOC MASON, THE TOWN PHYSICIAN
AND MEDICAL EXAMINER

* DOC MASON
VM5&RRV. \'M UNARLE.TO RESIST MENTIONING AND THE WIDOW BURNS
THHPUN-- HE ACTUALLY MATERtM-IZES !\ :*.i

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 .
Good Evening, Deputy, .BenjaminST ^ /vJeu^tyour^
"
t - -
"
iiMK I EXPECT YOU'RE HERE~\
about poor Mildred,

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, Ben, here, ain't been raid, y see. The explanation is
[0l.'JAKEHAVER3rRMN'5 HAVIN'EV'RY simple. mr.kleidhas
f
KIND OF A FIT, FIG&ERIN'AS HO\N TO' !
not paid vol) because
IKID'S BEEN CHEATED AN NOW THEY'RE
1

I he 15 ill he has been

.

C.ONN A LOSE TH' FARM

. confined to his bed
ever since hearrived.
i've yet to lay eves
on the gentleman

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 MEANWHILE, A SHORT DAY'5 RIDE WEST... ^^j. :
";

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 .

Wrong asain.Sheriff. Our small heroes

are miles away, in another world, "tkmng
to figure out what the hsuls going on

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Rock Opera II: The Rise and Fall of Rocky Starzborne

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 Naturally, the strain of touring and the sudden acquisition of vast wealth, had

it's effect on the boys except for Rocky Starzborne,, While Jon squandered billions
on medical research to find diseases for new drugs, 0DO

c ,e

And Drongo roamed the galaxy collecting rings from surrounding planets. Gorge and Pal
bought, sold and bankrupted entire star-systems in a real-life version of Cosmonopoly.

Meanwhile, Rocky lived in a

seedy space-port restroom,
pondering such questions

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But then, disaster struck. ^--"^>-^

jWolfman Jakka,the band's mentor,

|was found dead, floating in his
dining room after an unsuccessful!]
Iattempt to free-baste with Coke.
1It was a newly sober group which
Imet at his funeral.

At another time, his friends

might have scoffed at this
simple wisdom--but this was
the 60 s
' . .

Hey wow, I see what

,

Rooky's saying the

Universe is all too
much!
A
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 Later that week, the band called a press conference to get out the new mystical
yearnings which were to result in their first critical flop:

to be continued

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