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"...my fav issue of Cinefantastique, which is the one with Hitchcock on the cover standing in the Psycho shower."
I have a cartoon in that one, David!
Oh yeah, do tell! What is it?
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"Oh yeah, do tell! What is it?"
Darth Vader hawking a buck from a little boy.
OOPS!!! WRONG HITCHCOCK COVER! MY DARTH VADER CARTOON IS IN THE ISSUE WITH THE RETROSPECTIVE ON "THE BIRDS"!
Sorry about that...
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"Oh yeah, do tell! What is it?"
Darth Vader hawking a buck from a little boy.
OOPS!!! WRONG HITCHCOCK COVER! MY DARTH VADER CARTOON IS IN THE ISSUE WITH THE RETROSPECTIVE ON "THE BIRDS"!
Sorry about that...
I don't have that issue anymore, but I do remember that cartoon. Blast from the past!
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Another sad memory...
Frederick ordered me to come up with a "MAD Magazine" style movie satire on Star Wars, to be featured on two full pages in that amazing double issue.
I wrote the thing, produced a comprehensive rough draft of the full two pages of artwork, and it was all set for me to do the finish when...the phone rang. Killed again. All that appears in that Star Wars issue is one finished panel on the bottom of page 61 that was cropped so tightly my signature was cut off.
I still have my two-page comprehensive rough. If only I had a scanner, I could show it here. Perhaps someday soon I'll be able to do that. I'm still quite proud of that damnable little project...
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Entire issues, too. Lots to look at there. Enjoy.
http://archive.org/details/starlogmagazine
Thanks for the post, Jim. I still recall the first issue I owned, which had the rocket from "Destination Moon" on the cover (and who here, that is people who grew up in the mid-seventies/early eighties, didn't have the "Star Wars" issue with the picture of the X-Wing battle on the cover and featuring Ralph McQuarie's pre-production art?)
As a kid, the closest I ever got to that X-Wing/T.I.E. Fighter issue was it's thumbnail picture that I always saw when looking at the back issues for sale page they had in every issue. I did have a lunchbox with that same photo on it, though. Elementary school days revisited. That was also around the time I slipped in a huge puddle in a rain-soaked field in gym class and had to get dry clothes from a lost and found in the school office, which was of a cartoon Mr. Spock shooting a red cobra or something literally on the nose with his phaser. lol Ah, the 1970s.
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Apr 3, 2013 - 8:37 PM
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Broughtfan
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Entire issues, too. Lots to look at there. Enjoy.
http://archive.org/details/starlogmagazine
Thanks for the post, Jim. I still recall the first issue I owned, which had the rocket from "Destination Moon" on the cover (and who here, that is people who grew up in the mid-seventies/early eighties, didn't have the "Star Wars" issue with the picture of the X-Wing battle on the cover and featuring Ralph McQuarie's pre-production art?)
As a kid, the closest I ever got to that X-Wing/T.I.E. Fighter issue was it's thumbnail picture that I always saw when looking at the back issues for sale page they had in every issue. I did have a lunchbox with that same photo on it, though. Elementary school days revisited. That was also around the time I slipped in a huge puddle in a rain-soaked field in gym class and had to get dry clothes from a lost and found in the school office, which was of a cartoon Mr. Spock shooting a red cobra or something literally on the nose with his phaser. lol Ah, the 1970s.
I still have that "Star Wars" issue. As for the Star Trek models, do you recall that period in the mid-seventies when AMT released the Galileo Seven, Romulan Ship, The Enterprise Bridge and the "Exploration Set?" There was also something called the UFO Mystery Ship, which is probably worth a fortune today on ebay (maybe, maybe not). Fun days those were (even if we only had four TV channels!)
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While I did not have a subscription, I do remember reading an interview with Jerry Goldsmith in Starlog shortly after Star Trek:TMP came out. Would love to revisit that interview.
There's no reason we couldn't compile an index to Starlog composer interviews right here in this thread.
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Thanks for those. Okay, lets get this started:
Issue
001 (Aug 1976) SPACE 1999 LP disambiguation item, page 7.
002 (Nov 1976) "Music of the Spheres" article about sci-fi soundtrack albums.
002 (Nov 1976) RCA Records full page ad for SPACE 1999 LP (on back cover).
003 (Jan 1977) Columbia Records full page ad for INSIDE STAR TREK LP (inside front cover).
031 (Feb 1980) Miklos Roszsa - Interview-and-profile article.
037 (Aug 1980) John Williams - The Empire Strikes Back.
038 (Sep 1980) Music of Future and Fantasy Films, Part I.
039 (Oct 1980) Music of Future and Fantasy Films, Part II.
040 (Nov 1980) Music of Future and Fantasy Films, Part III.
040 (Nov 1980) John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith, p72.
049 (Aug 1981) The Music of COSMOS, p16 (brief item, soundtrack to Carl Sagan series).
051 (Oct 1981) Jerry Goldsmith - Interview-and-profile article.
055 (Feb 1982) The Avengers soundtrack, p18.
063 (Oct 1982) James Horner - The Wrath of Khan.
094 (May 1985) John Barry: Scoring James Bond, p68.
103 (Feb 1986) Elmer Bernstein - Scoring Fantasy Films (interview, career overview).
107 (Jun 1986) Alexander Courage - Interview-and-profile article.
199 (Feb 1994) John Barry: License to Score, p41.
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Chris,
I had no idea we had Fred Clarke and Cinefantastique in common. Let us film music fans never forget that Fred gave my Hans J. Salter interview the deluxe treatment, making it the lavishly illustrated, (wraparound!) cover story of its issue. Obviously, that's my own personal favorite issue of CFQ, that and my announced but mysteriously never published oral history on the making of STAR TREK-THE MOTION PICTURE.
Sadly, I think that the magazine had already started to fall short of Fred's vision long before he passed away. The last time I was in touch with the quirky, quixotic Mr. Clarke, it was clear that the magazine business was no longer what it had been, and that Fred no longer felt free to lavish the same care he used to be able to bring to his pet projects. My understanding of Fred is that he suffered from a bipolar disorder, which is what eventually led to his tragic downfall.
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"I had no idea we had Fred Clarke and Cinefantastique in common. Let us film music fans never forget that Fred gave my Hans J. Salter interview the deluxe treatment, making it the lavishly illustrated, (wraparound!) cover story of its issue. Obviously, that's my own personal favorite issue of CFQ, that and my announced but mysteriously never published oral history on the making of STAR TREK-THE MOTION PICTURE."
Oh, Preston!
I AM OVERWHELMED!
I didn't know you when I was reading your work all those years ago. That Hans J. Salter issue was one of the greatest documents in the history of film music!
I don't know how closely you've been following this thread, but I mentioned earlier that I lost my entire, complete collection of CFQ a long time ago, and that Salter issue was among my losses.
I'm headed to eBay right now to buy one. Now that I know you wrote it, I MUST read it again!
I began a new thread about CFQ so we wouldn't be hogging any more space from this Starlog thread. Maybe you, neo & I can move our discussion there, so as not to annoy Mr. Phelps and the Starlog fans here.
Like neo, I want to know more about that Trek article you were working on!
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Thanks so much, Mr. Phelps.
You are indeed a gracious host!
Fellas, take your shoes off and stay a while...
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Thanks, Jim. I was just going to reassure Chris with words to the effect of, "F*** him if he can't take a joke," but now you've made that gesture unnecessary.
Hope you get a good deal at Ebay, Chris. Thanks to an Ebay auction a few years ago, I'm now the proud but bittersweet owner of Bill Stine's original painting for the Salter wraparound cover. Bittersweet, because Bill was taken from us so young. I always loved the cover, but seeing the detail in the actual brushstrokes has given me even more appreciation of Bill's talent.
As I've mentioned from time to time at FSM, my Salter interview has been reprinted (minus all the photos and artwork) in Tom Weaver's MacFarland book, I TALKED WITH A ZOMBIE.
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