SETTING: A dank Hollywood laboratory, stocked with blinking consoles (from the old Star Trek set), ancient sparking machines (from the old Frankenstein movies) and, in the foreground, a chair in which some poor strapped-in wretch sits slumped. His head is covered with sensors and his eyelids are forced open by surgical clamps. You may remember this chair, the sensors, the clamps and the movie screen in front of the man, from the movie A Clockwork Orange.
The scientist standing beside the poor wretch, his face swathed in bandages, is Professor X. His identity is a secret. But he is the most powerful man in Hollywood. The professor takes the pulse of the unconscious audience member, satisfies himself that he is still alive and then turns to address the congregation of producers, directors and show biz power brokers sitting in the auditorium.
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