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“We’re going to blow ourselves to kingdom come,” the ‘Star Trek’ franchise director warns, 40 years after his ABC TV movie terrified viewers when it depicted a fictional nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.Nicholas Meyer, director of ABC’s groundbreaking 1983 TV movie The Day After, is set to executive produce Paul Jay’s How to Stop a Nuclear War feature documentary, based on the book Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by the late Daniel Ellsberg. The Day After, which aired Nov. 20, 1983 on ABC, vividly depicted a fictional full-scale nuclear war between the U.S....

I remember watching this as a kid, everyone was freaking out. Had an almost War of The Worlds radio broadcast feel to it. Before Nicholas Meyer's made-for-television film The Day After had its official airing on November 20, 1983, then-President Ronald Reagan and his Joint Chiefs of Staff were given screening copies. In his diary, Reagan recorded his reaction to seeing Meyer's graphic depiction of a nuclear holocaust that devastates a small Kansas town, writing: "It's very effective and left me greatly depressed. So far they [ABC] haven't sold any of the 25 spot ads scheduled and I can see...

The press was banned from the after-party for Roland Emmerich's "The Day After Tomorrow" last night — a bad sign, and a sure sign that the movie was no good. Even this reporter, who gets his paycheck from the same company which made the film, 20th Century Fox, was unceremoniously booted from the Museum of Natural History as everyone else who'd endured the two-hour-plus ordeal filed by for the free food and cocktails. A publicist for Fox — who bragged about my expulsion later to paparazzi — actually said to me, "It sounds like you're going to blackmail us. If...

RALLY AGAINST MOVEON.org SUPPORT PRESIDENT BUSH! WE MUST SHOW THEM WE WON'T STAND FOR THEIR LIES!! WHEN: Monday, May 24, 4pm - 6:30pm WHERE: Universalist Church, 160 Central Park West at 76th Street Our friends at moveon.org are at it again. They didn't learn from their January debacle when they hosted Al Gore giving a speech on global warming on the coldest day of the year. Now they are back with Al Gore and Robert Kennedy Jr. on Monday, May 24 at a "town hall" event organized to attack President Bush for not adopting their extremist environmental agenda. Their plan...

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