From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 19 Oct 2022 06:53:25 -0700 (PDT), Jack Bohn   
    wrote:   
      
   >"Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine" robots in the shapes of beautiful women   
   marry the rich and powerful as part of an evil plan of their creator.  It's   
   said that no AIP movie ever lost money; this one was such a success -- by   
   their standards -- that    
   they made a sequel, "Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs," which suggests the next   
   attack on world leaders skipped marriage and went straight to banging away.    
   Actually, IMDb says that the first was such a hit in Italy, that AIP arranged   
   for a co-production    
   with them, getting an Italian director (Mario Bava!  Of course, before he was   
   Mario Bava!), a pair of Italian comics, and a bevy of Italian beauties, and a   
   few scenes shot for the Italian version that made it also a sequel to one of   
   their "Goldfinger"    
   parodies.  The genius of James Nicholson and Samuel Z. Arkoff was in spending   
   as little of their own money as possible.  Why am I talking so much about the   
   movie?  Because the robots are of no technical interest.   
      
   I really liked them when they came out.   
      
   I caught one on late-night TV about 20 years later. I couldn't stand   
   it.   
      
   Tastes change. Sadly.   
      
   >"Making Mr. Right"  An android needs to be taught the social graces for PR   
   purposes for its builders.  It's an '80s romantic comedy, so what the people   
   do makes no sense, do I have a right to complain that the robots make no sense?   
   >   
   >Meanwhile, Monday, not part of this robot celebration, is "2001: A Space   
   Odyssey."  Ah, HAL.  The measured tones of Douglas Rain, introduced as one of   
   the crew, but with the caveat that it was programmed to have us feel that way,   
   and any moments we feel    
   we detect the actor not quite as robotic as he could be are balanced by scenes   
   where we catch the computer not being as human as it is trying to seem.   
      
   Since HAL can complete the mission on his own, the entire ship is a   
   robot.   
      
   Too bad it's insane.   
      
   >Later on that Monday is "Brainstorm," from Douglas Trumbull.  Well, it's got   
   a prototype for mind-machine interface, with, as someone pointed out, a grasp   
   of product design as it goes from a monstrosity of a helmet to a sleek   
   headset.  The robotic    
   production line goes crazy in one scene, as I remember, it is about as looney   
   as '50s computers going haywire, such as in "Desk Set."   
      
   I seem to recall the title, so I may have seen it.   
      
   Of the film itself, however, I seem to have no memory. At least at the   
   moment.   
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   development was the disintegration, under Christian   
   influence, of classical conceptions of the family and   
   of family right."   
      
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