| Close Encounter - Roswell High's
mind-reading alien Katherine Heigl paid FHM a visit in her sauciest photoshoot
yet. 
If our congenial one-eyed friend Mr Television is telling the truth - and we've never
had reason to doubt his hypnotic, chanting pantomime - one thing is becoming clear: the
aliens of our galaxy are getting younger. This is a new development: we'd always been told
only the most senior of alien lifeforms would invade Fortress Earth. Just as we'd defeated
the centuries-old tripods of War Of The Worlds, the pensioner-like ripply forehead of
Davros, master of the Daleks, wheeled into view. Then - almost to keep us on our toes -
they metamorphosed from the ponderous middle-agers of Blake's 7 to the busty intergalatic
trollops waiting for Captain Kirk to explain what "kissing" was. And now, just
as The X-Files sees plucky FBI G-men Mulder and Scully tackling adolescent rednecks with
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ten-year-olds, along comes hit new
Yank sci-fi series Roswell High. Here - in what must surely be television's final step
before "Alien Babies: The Animated Series" - the aliens take the form of a group
of American teenagers at a small-town high school. Of course, if our puny human way of
life is being threatened, it helps that our conquerors will be as trouser-threateningly
stunning as Katherine Heigl. We should be grateful that, like the feisty Isabel Evans who
she plays, she only has the power to look into other people's minds. "Not as cool as
bursting out of John Hurt's stomach, I admit", says the 21-year-old, "but you
take what you can get in the alien world."
If you're not one of the select few to have Sky, Roswell High might have passed you by.
In which case you'll perhaps know her better from her film career - which is where FHM
began its chat.... |
