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The speaker is Dr Roy Michaels, Chief Scientist at the Clavius Base on the Moon. The audie nee has bee n carefully chose n, because it is too soon to tell the worlds populati on that they are not alone in the uni verse. On the scree n behi nd Dr Michaels is a photograph of a black object about three metres high, of regular shape and with straight edges. It was certainly made by an intelligent form of life, and it was found buried un der the surface of the Moon. If it is a message from another time, from a distant star, why has it been put there ? A possible an swer comes soon afterwards, whe n the first light of the sun touches the object. It the n sends out a powerful radio sig nal, aimed exactly at Satur n. As one of the scie ntists says,You hide a sun-powered object in dark ness— only if you want to know when it is brought out into the light. So, far out in space, there may be intelligent beings who now know that men and women have taken their first steps away from Earth 彗星美人 It is 1950, and Joseph L Mankiewiczs All About Eve has received 14 Academy Award nomin ati ons - more tha n any other film made before or in deed sin ce, un til James Camerons Titanic (1997) came along to sweep the board. Its aging lead Bette Davis, who was effectively attempting to make her comeback with the film after a recent raft of flops, was of course up for Best Actress - but so too was her much youn ger co-star Anne Baxter, who had let it be known to the Academy that she would not accept a nomination merely as Best Supporting Actress. The result was a split vote, with the award in the end going to Judy Holliday in the more forgettable Born Yesterday」t is a scenario that seems to have modeled itself on the film itself. All About Eve ope ns n ear its chrono logical end, with the announ ceme nt that Baxters character Eve Harrington has beate n her older men tor-turned-rival Margo Channing (Davis) to a dramatic award for Best Performance (which was the films original title). The hero of