People: Aug. 2, 1982

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Petty problems always plague a movie crew on location, but when Australian Director Peter Weir was shooting The Year of Living Dangerously, about the fall of Indonesian Dictator Sukarno, he began to think the title of the movie seemed all too apt. On location in the Philippines, unpredictable extras and telephone service were matched by the all too predictable tropical heat. Worse yet, the company began getting death threats, apparently for some inadvertent offense to local Muslims. Weir's star, Sigourney Weaver, 32, was unruffled: "I grew up in New York City, and that prepares you for anything." But after a month of living dangerously, Weir cut short his filming by ten days and evacuated his troops back to Australia. After getting there, Weaver decided to take a sight-seeing break and visit the zoo, where a welcoming kangaroo snuffled up and posed no threat at all. —By Georgia Harbison