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Either I posted about STARLOG very late last time or I'm doing it very early THIS time, because when I was at their offices today, I saw copies of #351 -- only ten days after I posted about #350! If the STARLOG guys get just a little bit quicker, they can start working for a weekly mag. Anyway, if anybody's interested, I've got two CHFB-friendly articles in there, an interview with Robert Vaughn (prompted by the DVD release of Season One of his current series HUSTLE -- but we talk about the Good Old Days also, natch) and also an article that STARLOG editor Dave McDonnell dreamed up and asked me to write: My assignment was to pretend that STARLOG existed in 1955 and I was writing for it, and I visited the set of FORBIDDEN PLANET. He had me call some of the actors and tell 'em what we were doing, and I asked them to say to me the things they'd have told a set visitor in 1955 -- and they all played along fabulously. So it's a fictitious set visit (and VERY clearly identified as such, needless to say), spruced up with actual 2006 quotes from Anne Francis, Warren Stevens, Richard Anderson, Robert Dix and James Drury, all "talking-up" the movie as they might have on the set. Bob Burns provided some great photos and even some concept art he says may never have been published before -- like the Id monster with the face of Walter Pidgeon! Brrrrr!

Also featured are interviews with a couple '70s chicks (stretching the CHFB parameters a bit), Elizabeth Sladen of DOCTOR WHO and Sarah Douglas from the Christopher Reeve SUPERMAN movies.

..... with SPIDER-MAN 3 cover features, if anybody's interested, my six-page interview with screenwriter Pat Fielder (THE MONSTER THAT CHALLENGED THE WORLD, THE VAMPIRE, RETURN OF DRACULA, THE FLAME BARRIER).