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Gips died Oct. 16 in the Bronx of complications from a stroke, a spokesperson for WME<\/a> announced.<\/p>\n Gips, who worked as a copywriter, said the line for Alien<\/a> (1979) popped into her head while she was washing dishes, and all the other words that had been previously considered for the poster were summarily discarded.<\/p>\n \u201cIn addition to being a downright genius piece of great writing, the tagline is factually correct for the vacuum of space,\u201d Dave Addey<\/a> noted in his 2021 book, Typeset in the Future: Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies.<\/p>\n Her late husband, Philip Gips<\/a>, who had created artwork for Rosemary\u2019s Baby<\/a> (1968) and Downhill Racer<\/a> (1969), co-designed the Alien<\/a> poster, which features an egg cracking and emitting an eerie green glow as it hovers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Barbara Gips, who helped sell Ridley Scott\u2019s classic horror sci-fi thriller Alien to unsuspecting moviegoers with her now-legendary tagline \u201cIn space no one can hear you scream,\u201d has died. She was 89. Gips died Oct. 16 in the Bronx of complications from a stroke, a spokesperson for WME announced. Gips, who worked as a copywriter, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2111575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2111574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Barbara-Gips-Who-Wrote-the-Iconic-Tagline-for-\u2018Alien-Dies.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2111574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2111576,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111574\/revisions\/2111576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2111575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2111574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2111574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2111574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}