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[QUOTE]Originally posted by kmart: [QB] I really wish somebody else had done that stuff. Yeah, I don't know WHAT the deal was with STAR TREK THE MAG. I corresponded with that Nemecek guy who did (still does?) the TREK COMMUNICATOR and he said ST THE MAG people kept to themselves and did pretty much everything in-house all by themselves, without freelance input, but I think that kind of inbred approach hurt them, because they'd have all sorts of errors in there and nobody around who was objective to point the stuff out. A guy I know from some bbs stuff did a super detailed interview with Richard Taylor about Abel and TMP and the guy who hosted this interview wound up getting the thing into ST THE MAG, but I don't think anybody even got paid for it! I've read a couple places that the UK Trek mag (ST FILES maybe?) was a source for a lot of ST THE MAG's stuff as well, but don't know for sure -- I only know that my inquiries there went unanswered, same as ST TheMag. As for the CINEFEX history ... I wrote about three dozen articles. That includes their retrospective on the original SW that ran in 96, plus their trek coverage for TUC, GEN, FC and INS. As far as other flicks, lemme remember ... ALWAYS, CAST A DEADLY SPELL, DEATH BECOMES HER, CONTACT, EVENT HORIZON, GODZILLA, DEEP IMPACT, WHAT DREAMS MAY COME, VIRUS, FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON, TRUMAN SHOW, MATRIX, WILD WILD WEST, a huge hunk of the PHANTOM MENACE issue (plus a whole tech-heavy piece about ILM's R&D on that show which only got published a few years later in the Japanese edition of the magazine), MY FAVORITE MARTIAN, X-MEN, FIGHT CLUB, STUART LITTLE, WING COMMANDER, RED PLANET, MISSION TO MARS, END OF DAYS, and I'm sure I'm missing a few others. I did most of the BATTLEFIELD EARTH article interviews before I managed to get off of that to do THE CELL and CHICKEN RUN. I was working on a huge version of the 2001 article (about 50,000 words), but that got tossed when I left and they put it together themselves, complete with errors (they mention MOTORIZED landing gear on the ARIES when it was a mechanical rig -- I think it was a penny counterbalancing on a stick, and when it got moved, the ship descended and let the gear go -- and they also got the YEAR wrong for when THE DAWN OF MAN sequence was shot!), which is a bummer. They had long intensive interviews from the 70s and 80s with Wally Veevers and Ivor Powell and Zorin Perisic and Les Novros that they didn't even use, interviews with great stuff nobody knows, and I can't figure out why they didn't use this stuff. The people are mostly dead now, so CINEFEX really blew it on how they handled that. The publisher there seemed to like that Piers Bizony guy who wrote the FILMING THE FUTURE book on 2001, so it could be he got Bizony to proofread the article ... that's the only way I can see the goofs in it slipping by. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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