I might have read a copy of Starlog a quarter of a century ago…
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but certainly not in recent memory.</p>
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The news that it's ceasing print publication and trying to make it as a
web-only publication really doesn't impact me at all. But
<a href="http://newsfromme.com/">Mark Evanier</a> linked to
<a href="http://leegoldberg.typepad.com/a_writers_life/2009/04/starlog-goes-under.html">a
post from Lee Goldberg</a> about the magazine that includes an amusing
anecdote about covering the premeire of "The Living Daylights" while
writing for the magazine:</p>
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bq.. All the journalists were invited by the studio to the premiere,
which Prince Charles and Lady Diana were attending as well. We had to
wear tuxedos and were driven to the event in limos. There were huge
crowds being held back behind barracades in front of the Odeon Theatre
as we pulled up. I got out of the limo just as a short young lady was
emerging from the limo in front of me, so we walked in together. People
were going nuts, taking pictures of us and waving. I leaned over and
whispered to her: "Makes you wish you were famous, doesn't it?"</p>
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Michael Alan Dorman