Christopher Walken in Brainstorm (Douglas Trumbull, 1983)

Cast: Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood, Louise Fletcher, Cliff Robertson, Jordan Christopher, Donald Hotton, Alan Fudge, Joe Dorsey, Bill Morey, Jason Lively, Georgianne Walken. Screenplay: Bruce Joel Rubin, Robert Stitzel, Philip Frank Messina. Cinematography: Richard Yuricich. Production design: John Vallone. Film editing: Freeman A. Davies, Edward Warschilka. Music: James Horner. 

Brainstorm is a sci-tech thriller based on a premise familiar to the genre: Brilliant scientists come up with a breakthrough and face the threat that it will be misused by nefarious forces. In older films, the nefarious forces tended to be foreign ones, Nazis or Commies. Today, however, they usually come from our own corporate-military-industrial complex. Working together, Dr. Michael Brace (Christopher Walken) and Dr. Lillian Reynolds (Louise Fletcher) have created a way to transmit the brainwaves of one person to another, stimulating not only the visual and audible sensations but also the bodily ones -- respiratory, muscular, etc. The transmissions can also be recorded and stored. It's virtual reality gone whole hog, especially after Brace's wife, Karen (Natalie Wood), an industrial designer, comes up with a snazzy little headset. Brace and Reynolds are hopeful for all sorts of peaceful uses of the technology, but to get funding for it, they have to agree with the head of the corporation for which they work, Alex Terson (Cliff Robertson), that it can be shown to investors. And you know who has the money to fund such a project. The inventors are dismayed at the prospect of misuse, but they put up with it until the real dangers of the invention show up. A researcher records himself having an orgasm and gives it to another man who plays it on a loop, sending himself into a coma from the experience. And then Reynolds herself, a chain smoker, has a heart attack and dies, but not before hauling herself to the device and recording the experience. Brace discovers the tape and almost dies playing it before he's able to disconnect. Finding that the company has kept the tape and has actually killed someone with it and is experimenting with other malign uses for the technology, Brace and Karen team up to find ways to stop it. It's a worthy premise, but Trumbull, a noted special effects director making his first (and only) feature in the director's chair, encountered a perfect storm of difficulties, the chief of which was Natalie Wood's death in 1981. Wood's major scenes in Brainstorm had already been filmed, but MGM, which was in financial difficulties, pulled the plug on the project. Fortunately, the production was insured by Lloyd's of London, which stepped in and allowed Trumbull to complete the movie. Wood's sister, Lana, doubled for her in the remaining scenes. Still, Brainstorm was not a critical or commercial success. There's a funny sequence in which Brace causes the robots on the assembly line to go haywire, and Fletcher's performance is great. Wood is fine, but Walken, a specialist in offbeat characters, seems miscast. The subplot, which involves the Braces using the technology to communicate their feelings to each other and repair their fraying marriage, is tedious and sentimental. And the concluding sequence, in which we find out what Reynolds saw when she was dying, is almost inevitably a letdown.   

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TRANSFORMERS LOST LIGHT TP VOL 03

James Roberts (A) Alex Milne, Brendan Cahill, Jack Lawrence, Sara Pitre-Durocher (CVR) Jack Lawrence

Crammed into a dead Decepticon astropod that’s 10 sizes too small, the displaced crew of the Lost Light faces their most serious threat yet: each other. No worries though, Rodimus can save the day! Or maybe they’ll all die… Plus, the Scavengers have never had it so good. The war is a receding memory, their patchy service records have been forgotten, and the five of them can roam the galaxy as they please. All’s well that ends well? Not quite. Collects issues #13-18.

ROM COLD FIRE HOT WAR TP

Chris Ryall, Christos Gage (A) David Messina, Ron Joseph, Paolo Villanelli (CVR) Loston Wallace

The evil Dire Wraiths have escaped to Earth but are hounded by a Knight of the Solstar Order, the one feared more than all others. He is Rom, the Wraith-slayer. Rom, the Spaceknight!

Having followed the Dire Wraiths across the galaxy to Earth, Rom finds they have infiltrated all levels of society, hiding in plain sight. Replacing many humans in key leadership positions, the Wraiths’ plan to dominate the planet-and everyone in it-is gaining momentum. But Rom finds resistance from the humans as well, who fear he is just another alien invader. He is joined in the battle by two other Solstar Knights… but are they here as friends or foes? •   Collects all 14 issues of the series, the 2017 Annual, and the Rom: Revolution one-shot.

BACK TO THE FUTURE TALES FROM THE TIME TRAIN TP

Bob Gale, John Barber (A/CVR) Megan Levens

What does the future hold for the Brown family? Find out what happens to Doc, Clara, Jules, and Verne after the end of BTTF Part III! It’s 1893, and at last, Doc Brown fulfills his promise to Clara as he completes the project he’s been working on: the Time Train! But where in time and space will the Brown family go on their inaugural trip? And what could possibly go wrong if and when they get there?

JOHN BYRNE’S X-MEN ARTIFACT ED HC

Chris Claremont (A/CA) John Byrne

Advance solicited for July release! John Byrne’s run on the X-Men began with issue #108 and lasted until #143. The team of Claremont, Byrne, and Austin made the X-Men (which was already a hit series under Dave Cockrum) soar to the top of the charts in comics sales. They introduced Alpha Flight, and the created the near mythical storylines “The Dark Phoenix Saga” and “Days of Future Past.” These and the rest of their stories remained burned into the memories of collective fandom to this day and have been the basis for several X-Men films. This Artifact Edition will include more than 100 pages of X-Men covers, splashes and pages from Byrne’s X-Men run, all have been meticulously scanned from the original art and reproduced to the exacting Artist’s Edition standards that have won IDW Publishing five highly coveted Eisner Awards (to date)!

MY LITTLE PONY PONYVILLE MYSTERIES #4

Christina Rice (A/CVR A) Agnes Garbowska (CVR B) Philip Murphy

The Cutie Mark Crusaders are trying to solve the case of the missing spa water! But what happens when all signs point to a member of a Crusader’s own family being the culprit?

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #8

Ian Flynn (A/CVR A) Evan Stanley (CVR B) Gigi Dutreix

Hush! You hear that? It sounds like Sonic’s racing off to another adventure and he’s not alone! But who is this “Guardian Angel” and why does everybody talk about her in a Whisper?

STAR TREK TNG TERRA INCOGNITA #2

Scott Tipton, David Tipton (A/CVR A) Tony Shasteen (CVR B) Photo

When a routine diplomatic mission takes a catastrophic turn, Counselor Deanna Troi is the only thing that stands between the Federation and the prospect of galactic war! From the creative forces behind Star Trek: The Next Generation-Mirror Broken and Star Trek: Discovery-The Light of Kahless!

STAR WARS A NEW HOPE GN

Alessandro Ferrari (A) Various (CVR) Eric Jones

Capturing the galaxy-spanning action of A New Hope, experience Episode IV as a beautiful graphic novel combining the epic wonder of Star Wars with streamlined, young-reader friendly designs. This all-ages graphic novel is a must-read for longtime fans and a great introduction for newcomers!

TMNT BEBOP ROCKSTEADY HIT THE ROAD #3

Ben Bates, Dustin Weaver (A) Dustin Weaver (CVR A) Nick Pitarra (CVR B) Ryan Browne

Time-travelling menace Savanti Romero returns to enlist Bebop and Rocksteady again… but he’s brought a whole heap of trouble back with him from the 79th dimension!

TMNT URBAN LEGENDS #4

Gary Carlson (A/CVR A & B) Frank Fosco (CVR B) Erik Larsen)

This is it! Fans demanded it and IDW Publishing listened! The entire TMNT Volume 3, reproduced for the first time ever in full four-color glory! As all-out war wages between his brothers and the forces of Warlord Komodo, the most mechanically minded of the Turtles returns-as a living machine! And you’ll never believe whose side he’s on!

WALT DISNEY SHOWCASE #6 PHANTOM BLOT

Tito Faraci, Joe Torcivia (A/CVR A) Giorgio Cavazzano (CVR B) Andrea Freccero

The sinister Blot and Pegleg Pete are robbing Mouseton blind-and with Mickey Mouse out of the picture, it’s up to Detective Casey and his wild-card “bad cop” partner, Brick Boulder, to take the menace down… or join the hit list!

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“The music business is rougher than the movie business. In film you get noticed in a small role, even in a movie that bombs. But in records you better have that hit or else it’s ‘See you later.'” Amy Madigan.

After studying piano at the Chicago Conservatory and philosophy at Milwaukee’s Marquette University, young Amy Madigan toured the country for a decade with rock bands performing in bars and clubs. In the early 1970s, she was featured in Playboy Magazine wearing only jelly, to promote her music band, “Jelly.” She also played keyboard, percussions, and vocals behind Steve Goodman on tour throughout the late ’70s, and for a time, she was the add singer of the group ”Big Daddy.”

Madigan, who performed in school plays and talent shows as a child, began preparing for an acting career in the late 1970s. She sharpen her skills with Lee Strasberg and made her TV bow as a guest in a February 1981 episode of ABC mystery series ”Hart to Hart.” She followed it up with appearances in an episode of NBC cop drama “CHiPs” also as in the made-for-television movies “Crazy Times” (1981), “Victims” (1982) and “The Ambush Murders” (1982).

“Love Child” (1982), director Larry Peerce’s extraordinarily touching true story-based film, is Madigan’s feature acting debut in which she starred opposite Beau Bridges. Her performance as Terry Jean Moore, the determined, independent and young woman convicted of robbery gets to be expecting while behind bars and struggles to keep her child with her, drew positive reviews and earned her a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year in a Motion Envision – Female.

After marrying co-star Ed Harris during the Texas shoot of writer/director Robert Benton’s Oscar-winning period drama film “Places in the Heart” (1984), in which the pair played a acouple having affair, Madigan won Best Actress award at the Sitges – Catalonian International Film Festival for her turn as a tomboyish looking ex-soldier named McCoy in Walter Hill’s “Streets of Fire” (1984), an unusual mix of musical, action, drama and comedy with ingredients both retro-1950s and 1980s which also stars Michael Pare, Diane Lane and Willem Dafoe.

Madigan won a CableACE award for her performance opposite Carol Burnett on HBO TV movie directed by Robert Altman, “The Laundromat” (1985), and hit the big time in the following year when she was nominated for both Oscar and Golden Globe for her supporting role as Sunny, the embittered daughter of Gene Hackman’s lead character, in Bud Yorkin’s 1985 romantic drama film ”Twice in a Lifetime.” Meanwhile, she was credited as a song performer (“He Made a Woman Out of Me” and “If I Lose”) in Walter Hill’s blues movie, “Crossroads” (1986).

The late of the 1980s saw Madigan being nominated an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female for her role opposite Keanu Reeves and Fred Ward in writer/director Ron Nyswaner’s independent drama/comedy, ”The Prince of Pennsylvania” (1988), and playing Kevin Costner’s wife in Phil Alden Robinson’s Oscar-nominated film adaptation of the novel “Shoeless” Joe by W. P. Kinsella, “Field of Dreams” (1989). She was also nominated for an Emmy and a Golden Globe for her performance as Sarah Weddington, the lawyer who wants to legalize abortion on NBC movie ”Roe vs. Wade” (1989; opposite Holly Hunter).

In the 1990s, Madigan won a CableACE award for Actress in a Movie or Miniseries for her turn as AIDS victim Roxy Ventola in the true story-based TV movie, “And Then There Was One” (1994), and was nominated an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female for her performance opposite William Hurt and Sean Penn in Erin Dignam’s independent drama/thriller, ”Loved” (1997). And after co-starring with Adam Arkin and David Strathairn in Philip Frank Messina’s independent/ ensemble comedy “With Friends Like These…” (1998), she was nominated a Golden Satellite Award (for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television) for her turn as the wife of Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann (played by Bill Paxton) in the Vietnam war drama TV movie based on Neil Sheehan’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, ”A Bright Shining Lie” (1998).

Entering the refreshing millennium, Madigan portrayed Peggy Guggenheim in the Oscar-winning biopic of the famous abstract expressionist painter, “Pollock,” which was directed by and starring real-life husband Ed Harris. She then was cast in the HBO film version of MoisĂ©s Kaufman’s play, “The Laramie Project” (2002), which tells the story of the aftermath of the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming, and was nominated a Golden Satellite Award (for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television) for her role as the strong woman and bar owner in Showtime original movie ”Just a Dream” (2002), helmed by Danny Glover.

From 2003 to 2005, Madigan starred in the HBO drama series ”CarnivĂ le,” as Iris Crowe, the sister of sinister preacher Brother Justin Crowe (played by Clancy Brown), which earned her a nomination at the Golden Satellite Awards, for Best Performance by an Actress in a Series, Drama category. Meanwhile, she co-starred as a book editor who promised struggling twentysomething actress (played by Zooey Deschanel) $100,000, in Adam Rapp’s indie film “Winter Passing” (2005).

She also scored meatier parts on phase, notably in “A Streetcar Named Desire” on Broadway with Alec Baldwin and Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard’s “A Lie of the Mind” and David Rabe’s “In the Boom Boom Room.” She won a Drama Logue Award for starring the Los Angeles Theater Center production of “Stevie Wants To Play The Blues.”

Madigan recently appeared in two episodes of CBS crime drama “Criminal Minds” and played Beatrice ‘Bea’ McCready, the distraught aunt of Madeline O’Brien’s Amanda, in Ben Affleck’s directional debut, “Gone Baby Gone” (2007), a crime drama based on the novel of the same title by Dennis Lehane. It stars Casey Affleck and Michelle Monaghan, as well as husband Ed Harris.

Currently, Madigan is working on her upcoming film project, “The Last Full Measure,” a war drama by writer/director Todd Robinson in which she will share the screen with Bruce Willis, John Cusack, Morgan Freeman, Robert Duvall, Andy Garcia and Laurence Fishburne.

Besides being an actress, Madigan is also a political activist. She has aided on the national board of NARAL Pro-Choice America, a pro-choice/girls’s rights organization.

Name Amy Madigan Height 5' 5½" Naionality American Date of Birth 11 September 1950 Place of Birth Chicago, Illinois, USA Famous for

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PARSIPPANY — The Parsippany Hills High School Class of 2018 graduated on Thursday, June 21. 273 students received their diplomas after the Conferment of the Degrees by Principal Michael F. DiSanto. The diploma’s were presented to the Board of Education.

196 students, or 72% will be attending four year College or University, 50 students or 18% will be attending two year colleges, 3 students or 1.5% will be attending career education, 7 students or 2% will be continuing education, 8 students for 2.5% will be employed, 5 students or 2% will be taking a gap year and 4 students, or 1.5% will be joining the military.

The Class of 2018 Officers were Jacqueline Pascale, President; Maya Patel, Vice President; Yuti Shah, Secretary and Krunali Shah, Treasurer.

PHHS Band

Mayor Micheal Soriano walking in with members of the Board of Education

PHHS Teachers marching in graduation

PHHS Graduates marching in graduation

PHHS Graduates marching in

PHHS Graduates marching in

PHHS Graduates marching in

The message is very clear where this student will be attending in the fall

The message is very clear where this student will be attending in the fall

PHHS Graduation

PHHS Graduates receiving their diploma

PHHS Graduates receiving their diploma

PHHS Graduates receiving their diploma

PHHS Graduates receiving their diploma

PHHS Graduates receiving their diploma

PHHS Graduates receiving their diploma

PHHS Graduates receiving their diploma

PHHS Graduates receiving their diploma

PHHS Graduates receiving their diploma

PHHS Graduates receiving their diploma

PHHS Graduates receiving their diploma

PHHS Graduates receiving their diploma

PHHS Graduates receiving their diploma

PHHS Graduates receiving their diploma

PHHS Graduates receiving their diploma

PHHS Graduates receiving their diploma

PHHS Graduates receiving their diploma

Proud PHHS Graduates

Tara Antonucci with Bonnie Sturm

Board Member Frank Neglia and 2018 Graduate Nicholas Verducci

Judy Hernandez with her husband, Paul F Giovanelli, at the PHHS Graduation

Mrs. Brosnan with

Retiring Educator Carol Ordway with a teacher

Dr. Ahmed Kandil and Mamdouh Hassan

Graduate Adam Giovanelli and Dr. Ahmed Kandil

Sanjay Kao, Priya Shah, Victoria Mathew, Megha Mansuria, Maheem Hasan and Avani Goswami

Joshua Esperanza, Mr. Andy Nicholes and Nicolas Conti

Ellen Chen and Jenelle Ponnor

Rakshay Kanthadai and Matthew Kwan

Mr. Andy Nicholes and Stephanie Pascale

The Verducci Family

Janna Kathleen Belfiore, Nicolas Verducci and Nicolette Rose Kelly

Flanigan Family

Jared Stock, Mr. Andy Nicholes and Daniel Gardner

The 2018 Graduating Class

Kaitlin Abad Mazen Salah Abdulla Mikayla Marie Acree Alexander Kyle Adams Brian Nicholas Agostinho Colin Georges Aguesseau Edwin Aguirre-Rosas Dua Ahmad Ramzan C. Ahmad Zyad F. Ali Estephani Alvarado Liam Seamus Andersen Tara Rita Antonacci Julio Cesar Arenas-Toro Camilo Andres Arias John Asian Ryan Charles Astor* Alexander C. Azzizzo Emily Y. Baldarrago Lance G. Bancairen Francesca Marie Bard* Gabrielle M. Barrese Juan J. Bedoya Padrick Aengns Beggs Janna Kathleen Belfiore Taylor Alexa Bellardino* Donald John Bendzak Vinesh Bhalara Raj M. Bhatt Yash K. Bhawsar Vincent R. Bianchi Matthew A. Borecki Alyssa Catherine Borino* Nicholas Caccavale Hayden James Callan Julia M. Campbell Juliet Nicole Campbell Justin Lee Carpentieri Erika Castillo Luis Emilio Castillo* Miggy Yrell Celestino Matthew Chan Eric Johnson Chang Karan Pratap Singh Chauhan* Amayrani G. Chavelas Ellen Binhong Chen Karen Chen* Yonghao Chen Tia Rita Cherbaka Tanvi Chopra lshani Chowatia * Michelle Gloria Ciccarelli Stephania Clavijo * Nicholas Robert Conti Alyssa D. Courtney Nicole K. Courtney Gavyn William Crellin Brianna Lynn Crowley * Stephanie M. Cuervo Brittney Diana D’Mello Tyler V. Da Silva Bria S. Davis Corinne Renee Davis Juhi R. Desai Kavan S. Desai Rudra Devang Desai Eunice Dogbe Wilson D. Done Dylan Richard Dunn Joshua Evans Esperanza Steven Feng Kelly Grace Flanagan Jenna Nicole Gabriele Abigal Anna Garcia Benjamin Ryan Garcia Daniel Peter Garcia Daniel James Gardner Michael D. Gaudio Adam Paul Giovanelli* Avani Goswami* Shrusti Goswami* Katherine J. Grant* Victoria Marie Guarino* Kristine Guevara Justin Gurth* Ahmed Ebrahim Habib Maheem Hasan * Mamdouh Aly Hassan Samantha Hayek Kimberly Aveana Henriquez Aidan Elise Higginbotham Alexis Liana Higginbotham Erik Franklin Holmstrom Raynard Alain Horvath Yi-Hsuan Hsu Alphonse Lawrence Huss Amanda Stephanie lancu Kaitlyn Ann Jackson Vrinda Jain * Jena G. Jan Justin Anthony Jasiecki Katherine S. Jovel Enrique ltzam Juarez Duran Tara Krishnadas Kakkaramadam* Rakshay S. Kanthadai* Sanjay J. Kao* Hemil H. Kapadia Balkiran Kaur* Alison Rose Keane Nicolette Rose Kelly Koria Marie King* Matthew Kwan* Gabrielle Antonio La Rosa Richard Kevin Laforteza* Shauna Marie Lally Toan Le Amber Louise Lee Matthew Alexander Leggett Taylor Brianni Leonard Ching Laam Lin Thomas Mack Mark Frederick Maddox Kyla Isabel Magparangalan Adrian Majcher Brandon Malnarick Heather Mann Megha Mansuria* Vishal Mansuria Angelo Charles Martin Gaven Martung Joseph Louis Mastalia Victoria Elizabeth Mathew Suraj A. Maurya Lauren Rose McLaughlin* Alicia Ann Messina Nirmohi H. Mistry Alicia Marie Mitchell* Peter S. Mitrakos Ananta Moharana Mireilly Fajardo Montoya Brandon Moy Aleese Mukhamedjanova Aytana Muschajew Arjun Michael Nagendran* Sharen Nair Elizabeth Naumov Saketh V. Nibhanupudi Sebastian P. Nichols Shane P. O’Connor Danica Shane Alvarez Olaes Sherilyn Nicole Ostlin Gaetano Pace Ashley Nicole Page Jenna M. Palatini Swaraj Pandya Ravi Parekh* Sweta S. Parekh Andrew Park Jamaal Tyreece Parker Lydia Rose Parker Harsha! Parmar Andrew Pascale Jacqueline Marie Pascale* Sarah Pascale Stephanie Pamela Pascale Jeffrey Philip Paszko Akshay T. Patel Anjali Patel Deep S. Patel Krutarth J. Patel Kush B. Patel Mahik Patel Maya Kamal Patel* Mohit D. Patel Parth D. Patel Preya A. Patel* Rushil Nirav Patel Shashvat Patel Shivani T. Patel* Siddhanth Y. Patel Vritti Bhavesh Patel Zeal Patel Rucha Santosh Patil* Dabasha Paul Kevin R. Perez June Eileen Martin Perigo Jack Daniel Picado* Arijit M. Pingle Cindy Nicole Piza Janelle Ponnor* Jason W. Poon Gianni Posas Krishna J. Prajapati* Christina Proietto Emily Grace Ptashinski Steven Edward Puchalski Geet Bhavik Purohit Oscar Andres Ramirez­-Loaiza Zaina Rathore Mairead Patricia Reo Nora M. Rigolosi Nicolas Rios Jeric Michael Robleza Joshua Matthew Robleza Andrea Kayla Rodriguez Paloma Rodriguez Ruby D. Rodriguez Jillian Mary Rogers* Randall Rosado Amanda R. Rovner Salvatore Zeppi Rubinetti Meliton Rulloda Isabel Sanchez Michael J. Sanford Nicholas Allen Sanford Olivia A. Santore Joshua Santos Zoe Saric Krunali Sundee Shah* Priya Saurabh Shah* Saloni Dipak Shah Sneh Shah* Yuti M. Shah* Jeremy K. Silber Jacob B. Simmons Jordan Kennedy Simpson Gagandeep Singh Prerana Singh Jarred P. Smith Jason Smith Sarika S. Soni Kaitlyn Mary Stearns* Emma Esther Steere Jared Raymond Stock Colleen Marie Sturges David Samuel Sudit Alexis J. Sundquist Brandon Sung* Kyle Sung* Hsin Tai Tammy Tang* Kirsten Rene Taylor Vincent Michael Thiessen Jeremy G. Thomas* Nyah A. Thornton Megan Ryan Tolosi Alan Tomy Crystal Van Tran* Lawrence S. Ullman, Jr.* Juliana T. Urbis* Diana Elizabeth Vargas Brittani E. Vecchia* Ashil Vekaria* Maulik Vekaria Keerthana Venkatesh Nicholas Patrick Verducci* Hannah Ververs* Nikole Abigail Viegas Benjamin Gannon Walek William Harrison Waller Justin C. Wan Albert Wang Adam D. Warner Harrison Tyler Weaver Timothy C. Weinacker Charlene M. White Victoria Witerska Karoline Xiong Yash Yadav Rishi Yagappan Samuel Shi Yu Yang* William Yang* Yuanting Yang Ian Liu Yeh Sarah Zigman Alexa Jean Ziler Eleni Zeis

Note: * denotes students are members of the National Honor Society Chapter.

273 students graduate from Parsippany Hills High School PARSIPPANY — The Parsippany Hills High School Class of 2018 graduated on Thursday, June 21. 273 students received their diplomas after the Conferment of the Degrees by Principal Michael F.

Brainstorm (Douglas Trumbull, 1983).

Douglas Trumbull | Brainstorm

Hollywood diva NATALIE WOOD died at the very early age of 43 in circumstances that were never clarified. While the cause of her death was initially considered to be "accidental drowning", it was -30 years later- reassigned to "drowning and other undetermined factors". Over the last three decades, whodunit rumors have abounded but, if there's one undisputed victim of the actress' disappearance, it's the film she was working on at the time: BRAINSTORM. Shot in 1981, tinkered in 1982, released in 1983, BRAINSTORM was the long in gestation second film directed by VFX genius DOUGLAS TRUMBULL (his directorial debut, SILENT RUNNING (1972), was recently covered in this column). Based on an innovative 1977 treatment, THE GEORGE DUNLAP TAPE by BRUCE JOEL RUBIN in which a team of scientists invent a "hat" able to record the senses, emotions of a living subject and relive them at will, BRAINSTORM was heavily rewritten by scribes PHILIP FRANK MESSINA, ROBERT STITZEL and, then, heavily re-interpretated by the actors themselves. During a pre-production two week table rehearsal preceding the filming, a process qualified by TRUMBULL as "heavy group therapy" but decried as "utter chaos" by screenwriter ROBERT STITZEL, the director encouraged his actors to improvise their own dialogues (CHRISTOPHER WALKEN kept insisting on changes before a single frame of film was shot); this was a shift in power that would loom over production and overwhelm a second time filmmaker. Shooting BRAINSTORM was a difficult matter: TRUMBULL was unable to impart his brilliance and often lost control of his actors because of lack of communication (WALKEN improvised most of his dialogues in what would become his semi-parodic style; almost directing his own scenes), production also fell behind schedule due to inflated egos and tension erupting on set (power struggle in direction had WALKEN act as an unofficial acting coach to an insecure NATALIE WOOD who would take her marks from her fellow actor) and, with a director more focused on visuals than storytelling (the final act in which the evil corporation is wrecked upon is neither compelling, nor credible), the disparity between the caliber of the actors becomes even more prominent. Where CHRIS WALKEN, LOUISE FLETCHER (Nurse Ratched from 1975's FLYING OVER A CUCKOO'S NEST), CLIFF ROBERTSON, JOE DORSEY (character actor who delivered an effective old school general in JOHN BADHAM's WARGAMES the same year) shine, every other performer (including NATALIE WOOD) seems distanced by the competition; creating a double acting standard. "When she died," said Trumbull, "all the sets were locked and frozen on all the stages. No one could get in or out without special permission while all the negotiations took place." Not only did MGM shut down BRAINSTORM in 1981 to collect insurance payment as the studio was hitting financial trouble at the time (the film insurer, Lloyd's of London, eventually worked out a deal with Leo the Lion and injected a little more than 6 million dollars to finish the picture; becoming a profit participant), it also took a reworking of the script and the use of a body double (replacing NATALIE WOOD) to conclude the live action staging. At the time of the actress' death, BRAINSTORM still had three weeks of principal photography to go and, while the star only had two minor scenes left to shoot, some of the coverage (establishing shots, reverse angles) had yet to be captured requiring the use of the aforementioned stand in. JAMES HORNER's score for BRAINSTORM is, not only among the composer's best works, it's also among his most self-influential. Considering his young age at the time (29), it is mindblowing that he came up with so many classic scores early on in his career (1982-1983 produced trademark HORNER scores such as 48 HRS., STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN, GORKY PARK and KRULL). While the use of the "danger motif" (borrowed from RACHMANINOV's SYMPHONY N.1 and re-introduced in HORNER's 1980's BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS; used verbatim over the years by the composer) will be grating to the ears, the other aspects of the score are first rate. The heart attack scene is nothing less than visceral (ironically built around the "danger motif" itself) and the afterworld choral line is so effective that it ended up being emulated by ALAN SILVESTRI for THE ABYSS (1989). Its countdown motif (recycled from STAR TREK II) does wonders and there's a bit of aleatoric approach blended with PENDERECKI styling, something rarely heard in the composer's repertoire, which is quite refreshing. While HORNER already started to demonstrate his self-plagiarism, BRAINSTORM had the chance of happening early on in the musician's career and, when synched to picture, it ranks among one of the most effective (and psychologically functional) scores the artist ever wrote. As seen in theaters in 1983, BRAINSTORM is a distant relative of the film it intended to be. Nowhere to be found is the Showscan process (high-speed 70MM motion-picture photography and projection technique developed by TRUMBULL) which the production was supposed to establish but rather an interesting mix of regular 35MM footage (for the real word scenes) and immersive Super Panavision 70 (for the virtual reality sequences); the narrative flow of the original screenplay was also modified to fit with the ultimate unavailability of its main star. In a way, BRAINSTORM -like the DONNER CUT of SUPERMAN II- is a salvaged film and, when it works (high concept, special effects, music score, lead acting), does wonders and, when it does not (final act, acting discrepancy, pedestrian direction), feels out of place. Very much in advance on its time, it would take more than a decade for a similar premise to be revisited in an audience friendly manner (the JAMES CAMERON produced STRANGE DAYS (1995) and the Cyberpunk infused MATRIX TRILOGY (1999-2003) come to mind). However, BRAINSTORM's original ideas, noble ambitions (integrity vs. misuse), high production values and the uphill battle fought by the filmmakers who struggled so hard to finish the picture make it a revered piece of movie history. It might be a misfire, it sure is a fascinating one. [Brainstorm Trailer & Discussion]