Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!ima!ism70!steven From: steven@ism70.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Info on Starman Message-ID: <57@ism70.UUCP> Date: Sun, 2-Dec-84 01:34:41 EST Article-I.D.: ism70.57 Posted: Sun Dec 2 01:34:41 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 05:30:56 EST Lines: 26 Nf-ID: #R:uokvax:-390007900:ism70:13100056:000:1037 Nf-From: ism70!steven Nov 29 09:37:00 1984 Info from Lotusland: STARMAN Starring Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen. Also starring Charles Martin Smith and Richard Jaeckel. Directed by John Carpenter. Produced by Larry D. Franco. Music by Jack Nitzsche. From Columbia Pictures. (1984) Bridges plays an alien stranded on earth with only three days to get to his mothership. He must cross the U.S. to Meteorite Crater in Arizona. To make it, Bridges assumes the form of Karen Allen's dead husband. It has been widely reported that Columbia Pictures was incredibly stupid to have spent about a million dollars developing _E_._T_._ _t_h_e_ _E_x_t_r_a_t_e_r_r_e_s_t_r_i_a_l and then to have passed on the film because they thought it would only appeal to kids. What is not so widely known is that the _S_t_a_r_m_a_n property has been at Columbia since 1980. Columbia decided to do _S_t_a_r_m_a_n instead of _E_._T_. because they thought it would appeal to adults as well. Hollywood grapevine has it that the film is pretty good.