May 15, 2000
Issue 160
Vol. 6, No. 20

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THE CASSUTT FILES

 Television writer, producer and author Michael Cassutt sheds light on the mystery of why some TV shows succeed while others fail in "Why Good Shows Fail (First in an infinite series)."


INTERVIEW

 Battlefield Earth producer and star John Travolta and director Roger Christian talk about the challenges of translating L. Ron Hubbard's 1,000-page novel to the big screen, the film's sequels, Scientology and more.

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 The new Anakin Skywalker has finally been chosen, new characters are coming to Farscape, Forrest J. Ackerman wins his lawsuit, Fox wants more X-Files, James Doohan has a new daughter, and more.
ON SCREEN
 Ten years ago John Bennick destroyed the underground prison known as the Fortress. Now he's been recaptured. He's confident no prison can hold him, but how will he escape Fortress 2, in orbit around the Earth?
OFF THE SHELF
 David Gerrold's Jumping Off the Planet is a Heinlein-esque story of teen angst and interplanetary colonization, while in Elizabeth Hand's Black Light, a party at an old New England mansion becomes the setting for a strange ritual.
GAMES
 In X Beyond the Frontier, an experimental ship accidentally sends you across the galaxy. Luckily some aliens will repair the ship ... for a price. Too bad the only way to pay them back is to become an interstellar trader. Or a pirate.
CLASSICS
 We revisit one of the earliest and best alien invasion films, 1953's The War of the Worlds, which was inspired by both H.G. Wells' novel and Orson Welles' 1938 radio broadcast.
COOL STUFF
 X-Philes is a documentary that takes a candid look at the hopes, beliefs, dreams and antics of fans of The X-Files, and it looks at how the show's stars feel about them.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Every week Dueling Dialogue posts a picture from a genre movie and invites visitors to write a caption. The results are often hilarious and occasionally just plain gross.
LETTERS
 Our readers write in for and against Battlefield Earth, others debate whether SCI FI is getting better or worse, another investigates the obsession with guns in anime, and more.

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