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syncratic style may seem most at home
on the written page, his works have been
transmuted into every other possible
medium: radio, television (quite feebly,
on Night Gallery), comic books (by
Marvel, Warren, and the underground
Skull Comix), and just lately into the
legitimate theatre, with an operatic adaptation of The Case of Charles Dexter
Ward being done, by England's National
Theatre, the people who brought you
the nine-hour-long Iliuminatus! play.
And of course, there are the films.
Let us consider the man behind them for
a moment. When H. P. Lovecraft died in
1937, he was only 47 years old. As much
as we associate him with the past -- with
the pulps that have become part of our
history, with his longings for even earlier
times -- it is an odd thing to contemplate,
but if it were not for his fatal illness, it
would not have been at all strange for
Lovecraft to have lived on another thirty
or forty years . . . right through the turbulent, decadent (or so he would say)
'60s.
One can only wonder: what would
these films have been like . . . with original Lovecraft scripts, with his hand on
the special effects. But failing that, we
have a fair selection of others' adaptations of his work.
Special Features
Command Performances: on occasion, a much-in-demand film is missed by
congoers, whether because of time considerations, other programming items, or
the all-important partying. To take some
of the pressure from this problem, when
not specifically forbidden by our contract
with the film library involved we will be
running repeats of some of the film programming items as command performances. Posted by both of the updated schedules outside the film room and by the
registration table will be a .pad of paper
and a ballot box. Just write the title(s) of
the film(s) you'd like to see repeated and
the night (if any one in particular) that
would be best for you, and we'll rerun as
many films as are demanded at the end of
the scheduled film programming. The
balloting will be polled daily, and repeats
will be listed on each day's schedule
update.
The Exact Difference: To demonstrate how a work can be changed between print and screen, we are closing
this series with a special demonstration.
A panel of orators will do readings from
stfnal novels-that have been remade as
motion pictures, each selection immediately followed by the same scene as it
appeared in the movies. This promises to
be one of the unique events of the cor
vention.
The Fannish Top Ten: Early th
year, we polled a multitude of fans an
compiled the fannish all-time top te:
favorite films. Unfortunately, due t
budgetary considerations numbers on
and three, Cabaret and Fantasia, wer
unobtainable; 2001, the number-twi
spot, is still up in the air. But we wi]
have the other seven, intersperse
throughout the program. Look for then
on the updated film schedule. They are
in order of voting: Phantom of the Pan
dise, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Dar
Star, the Wizard of Oz, Rocky Horro
Picture Show, King Kong, and Case
b lane a.
Film Premieres: Two films wi]
have -their first public showings at Iggy
The first is Avco Embassy's release o
Watership Down, an animated adaptatioi
of Richard Adams' bestselling fantas
novel. The second, we say with a straigh
face, is Vampire Hookers, a little numbe
starring Keith Carradine. Arrangement
for the showing of Watership Down an
still very much up in the air, though tht
Symphony Hall has been discussed as
possible site. And Vampire Hookers wil
be interpolated somewhere in the regula
programming. Check schedules and an
nouncements for both.
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FOUR SIGMA SOCIETY
The Four Sigma Society is an association of persons with tested intelligence four or more standard deviation units above the mean of the
general population. On the widely-known Stanford-Binet scale, this
corresponds to an I.Q. of 164 or higher. Approximately one person in
thirty thousand meets this standard.
Entrance to the society is by means of the Langdon Adult Intelligence
Test, an examination designed to differentiate at very high intelligence
levels. The LATT is a test of power of attention, not of speed or special
knowledge, and is unsupervised and untimed.
The Four Sigma Society does not accept scores on any standard test.
A few existing tests have enough ceiling theoretically, but they do not
discriminate adequately at the four sigma level of the adult population.
Purposes of the society include fellowship and communication among
intellectual peers, the identification of intellectually challenging questions
and cooperative efforts toward an understanding of man and the universe,
systematic sharing of the task of monitoring new information in all fields of
study, insight into and cooperation in dealing with the special problems
attendant upon extreme intelligence, and the identification and fostering of
the intellectual and personal development of highly gifted children.
Additionally, the monthly journal and other resources of the society
are available to individual members for the promotion of projects and
ideas of interest to them and for the furtherance of their individual aims.
Interested persons may obtain the LATT by writing to the society at
P.O. Box 795, Berkeley, Calif. 94701, enclosing a check or money order for
$5, payable to the Four Sigma Society. No other form of application is
necessary.
Everyone attempting the test will be mailed a score report listing his
raw score and the I.Q. and percentile scores derived therefrom.
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The 2nd Annual Darkover
Grand Council Meeting will
be held in mid July, 1979,
with MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY
as Guest of Honor. For
further information contact:
ARMIDA COUNCIL
1647 56 Street
Brooklyn, NY 11204
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