ops@ncsc (11/07/85)
From: Jessie Tharp <ops@ncsc> I'm looking for a movie. This is as much as I can remember about it. I think it was a Robert Altman movie and it stared Paul Newman. I think it was titled after a game played obsessively, and often fatally, in the movie. Ice had covered the earth, and all life was dying out. There were no more births. Enter Paul Newman and a young, pregnant girl. While journeying to the City Newman had fled years earlier, they are set upon by gameplayers and the girl is killed. He continues on to the City to seek revenge. While there, he becomes involved in a Game Session and, many betrayals and deaths later, emerges the Grand Master. He quits the City and heads back out into the snowy wastes, alone. Overhead, a solitary bird flies out of sight. I remember seeing a street sign in the City that made me think it was in South America somewhere. Sometimes I think I hallucinated the whole movie. Does it sound familiar to anyone out there? Jessie Tharp-Perkins (ops@ncsc) -------