WHAT EVER! #5 IN THE WORKS: BLACK HOLE MEETS TREK

Main Enterprises' What Ever! #5 is at long last in development and will cater to Disney's The Black Hole and classic Star Trek, with a combination of in-depth articles and outstanding artwork. (As one can see below, Tim Faurote's grandiose, team-up image epitomizes the issue's meteoritic intent.)

The Black Hole's primary competition in Dec '79 was, in fact, Star Trek--the Motion Picture. I'll be contributing an article on the latter, which is once more set to grace cinemas in grand, 4K UHD restoration.

Star Trek--TMP was a blockbuster in its time, but like Black Hole, controversial. The Trek revival took a more cerebral approach to tell its tale, and languid existentialism doesn't always please.

Nevertheless, I plan to do justice to the Enterprise-vs-V'ger exploit, even if I'm finding it quite an undertaking, considering all the available information on the movie's production and legacy.

Check Bizarrechats for further info on this audacious Black Hole/Star Trek tribute. What Ever! #5 is destined to be an out-of-this-world winner on all cosmic counts. 

FAREWELL, YVETTE MIMIEUX...

You delighted us as Weena in George Pal's grand adaptation of H.G. Well's The Time Machine...

...and charmed us equally in the imagi-movies, The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (also for Pal); Death Takes a Holiday '71; Devil Dog: Hound of Hell; The Neptune Factor; and Disney's The Black Hole.

Beyond the fantasy realm, you injected comparable appeal into Dark of the Sun (with Time Machine costar, Rod Taylor); Four Horseman of the Apocalypse; Light in Piazza; Toys in the Attic; Where the Boys Are '60; Journey Into Fear '75; Platinum High School; Diamond Head; Looking for Love; Joy in the Morning; Picasso Summer; Lady Boss; Hit Lady; Jackson County Jail; The Delta Factor; Porriage: The Desperate Hours; and Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception. 

You were an angelic beauty of pinup stature and an actress of significant range. The world now shines less without you, Ms. Mimieux, but Heaven beams all the brighter. 

SO LONG, ROBERT FORSTER...

You were greatly underrated and yet (to those who acknowledged your greatness) a giant among actors.  

Your work proved expansive and diverse: "Alligator"; "Olympus Has Fallen"; "London Has Fallen"; "Supernova"; "Avalanche"; "The Delta Force"; "Medium Cool"; "Rear Window '98"; "Psycho '98"; "Uncle Sam"; "Satan's Princess"; "Maniac Cop III";  "Fire Wall"; "Mulholland Drive"; "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle"; "Like Mike"; "Hunt for the BTK Killer"; "Acts of Vengeance"; "The Lady in Red"; "Reflections of the Golden Eye"; "Journey Through Rosebud" "Jack and Jill vs the World"; "Grand Theft Parsons"; "Human Nature"; "The Bannen Way"; "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past"; "Thick as Thieves"; "Hotel Noir"; "The Descendants"; "Coffee, Kill Boss"; "Too Late"; "Middle Men"; "Jackie Brown"; "Twin Peaks: the Return"; "Last Man Standing" (w/ Tim Allen); and the hot-off-the-press "El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie". 

For kids of the '70s/'80s, however, it was your role as Captain Dan Holland in Disney's epic space opera, "The Black Hole" that means the most. As such, you were cool and resourceful in light of the absorbing darkness: an inspiration to one and all. 

May you now perform upon the ethereal stage, Mr. Forster, where you can once again show the best of the best how uplifting a quality performance can be.