All That Flash

All That FlashThe movie Flash Gordon, as conceived by cinemogul Dino de Laurentiis, is pure comic strip (see Bruce Williamson's review elsewhere in this issue). Many of the durable characters from Alex Raymond's classic strip, created in 1934 and still read by an estimated 40,000,000 people daily, appear in the movie version, a Christmas-season release from Universal. "Barbarella, which I did in 1965, was in some ways the first space movie," De Laurentiis told Playboy. "I've wante...