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Saturday Matinee: Terminal City Ricochet

From Alternative Tentacles:
Welcome to Terminal City-one of only five livable places left on Earth.
Telegenic Mayor Ross Glimore (Peter Breck, The Big Valley, Shock Corridor), is king of all media, and rules as a virtual dictator. To maintain his grip on power he must stage an election, and for that he needs fresh fear. Enter Alex Stevens (Mark Bennett), a fed-up, cynical newspaper delivery boy who happens to witness Glimore run over one of his own supporters in his car, and leave the scene of the accident.
Glimore and his Rove-wellian henchman Bruce Coddle (Jello Biafra) hatch a plot to brand Alex “the #1 terrorist threat” (based on his connection to rock’n’roll music which, along with meat, is banned) to cow Terminal City into submission and steal another tabloid election.
Alex flees underground, where he stumbles into a resistance movement led in part by his newfound friend Beatrice (Lisa Brown), and a fugitive brain-damaged goalie from the Glimore-owned hockey team, unforgettably portrayed by two-time Genie Award® winner Germaine Houde (Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Les bons Débarras 1980, Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Un Zoo la Nuit 1987).
Alex finds himself caught up in a plot to bring Glimore down, with the not-so-secret police (D.O.A.’s Joe Keithley and pro-wrestling legend Gene Kiniski) hot on the trail.
Two for Tuesday
Artist H.R. Giger Dead at 74
Spokespeople from the Giger Museum have just announced that the Swiss surrealist artist H.R. Giger passed away yesterday of injuries sustained from a fall. His work could be considered prophetic for its explorations of the relationship between organic life and technology, a vision he called “biomechanical”. He was best known for his influential design work for the “Alien” movies. Prior to that he collaborated with cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky on a proposed film adaptation of Dune that was unfortunately never made.
Giger is also known amongst certain free speech activists and punk rock fans for his involvement in the trial of Jello Biafra (the lead singer of the Dead Kennedys), who was prosecuted for distributing copies of the supposedly obscene Giger painting “Landscape XX” with the album “Frankenchrist”. Though Biafra won the case, the legal battle nearly bankrupted his label Alternative Tentacles. Giger’s work has also been featured in Omni magazine and inspired the interior design of bars located in Tokyo, New York and Switzerland. Interviews with Giger are featured in the documentary “Jodorowsky’s Dune” which is currently playing in theaters. Rest in peace H.R. Giger.
