This time we take a fond look back at Issue 161 of the fun(and pun)-filled Famous Monsters, as they covered the new Star Trek: The Motion Picture. This was published in March, 1980 and I bought it on the newstand while living in Savannah, GA at the time. I was 22, going on 16. (I have always been younger in heart than my actual age.)
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In case you're curious about the unusual use of the word "sevagram" in the article above, I looked it up for you. I learned something new about a word I have never read in use before. See, kids could learn from reading FM!
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Bonus: below, one of the early publicity photos taken before regular production. They got a lot of mileage out of that transparent chart, as a number of both Shatner and Nimoy photos were made using it. It kind of reminds me of the transparent display screens seen in Abram's '09 Trek movie, except static.
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The captain calculates the amount of Vitalis needed to control flyaway hair during action scenes.
Bonus: Below, a vision of loveliness that could go under the wikipedia entry of the word "goddess." Nichelle from her pre-Trek days. No wonder Roddenberry went for her!
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2 comments:
I have very fond memories of the handful of issues of Famous Monsters I was able to get when i was a kid - even if most of them (very late '70s and early '80s) were well past the magazines heyday, which I have always surmised were the mid to late 1960s. By the time of the late '70s sci-fi boom, I think the weight of genre pop journalism had already shifted to Starlog and Fangoria (with Cinefantastique having the real meat-and-potatoes articles). None of which diminishes my appreciation for Uncle Forry and the eye-popping art of Mr. Basil Gogos!
Jay,
I know what you mean, I missed the painted covers of FM when they switched to photo covers. I guess they had to, to compete with the other mags that featured movie photos, but the "old" issues of FM are the ones I feel most nostalgic about.
The first issue of FM I ever bought was #97, then I skipped to #100, then issues #103 to 107... which I CUT UP FOR MY SCRAPBOOK!!!
After that I started saving them intact, but when I think about those I could still have, but cut up, I could kick myself. I plan on ordering those issues online soon, just to have them again.
-Fred
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