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June 27, 2005
Issue 427
Vol. 11, No. 26

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INTERVIEWS

 Nicole Kidman and Shirley MacLaine team up to work movie magic in Bewitched, while director George A. Romero returns to the Land of the Dead to battle zombies with Simon Baker and John Leguizamo.


LAB NOTES

 Now that the saga of Darth Vader has finally been finished, scientist Wil McCarthy offers a course in "Sith Psychology 101."

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Steven Spielberg takes on terrorism in War of the Worlds, Richard Dean Anderson visits Springfield on The Simpsons, Selma Blair gets lost in The Fog, and much more.
ON SCREEN
 Dennis Hopper tries to trump the flesh-eaters in Land of the Dead, Will Ferrell finds himself a nosy leading lady in Bewitched, and Lindsay Lohan can't drive 55 in Herbie: Fully Loaded.
OFF THE SHELF
 L. Timmel Duchamp wipes out Earth's electronics with an electromagnetic pulse in Alanya to Alanya, while Steve Aylett spoofs the history of science fiction in Lint.
GAMES
 Robert A. Heinlein's Hugo Award-winning novel and Paul Verhoeven's subsequent film both provided the inpiration for the tabletop battle to the death of Starship Troopers.
ANIME
 Pacifica Cassul is destined to destroy the world when she turns 16—which doesn't make her very popular in Scrapped Princess.
SOUND SPACE
 Nothing is off-limits for Warp 11, the hard-rockin' Star Trek tribute band from Sacramento, on their latest CD, Boldly Go Down On Me.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Literary snobs should fear the SF Bookcase, a populist community that reviews everything from SF's most-revered classics to the latest Star Wars tie-in.
LETTERS
 Readers recommend Crichton's latest, wonder what Wells and Welles would make of War of the Worlds, defend George Lucas, and more.

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