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From: swisher@cs.utexas.edu (Janet M. Swisher)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.northern-exp
Subject: Barry Corbin in Swan Lake
Date: 6 Nov 1992 14:45:51 -0600
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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I mentioned this a week or two ago, and it apparently hasn't been
discussed to death here, so here's the full story.

I saw a TV interview with Barry Corbin back last spring (I came in
late, so I don't know what show it was -- not ET, for sure).  The
interview focussed a lot on his long career in obscurity before he
"hit the big time" (he did a lot of summer stock and B westerns).  At
one point, the interviewer says to Barry, "I heard that you once
danced the part of the prince in Swan Lake.  Is that true?" and Barry
says, "Yep, I did that."

He grew up in West Texas, and he knew from a young age that he wanted
to be a performer -- acting, singing, dancing -- he didn't much care
as long as he was performing.  In West Texas there aren't many outlets
for such things, so he mostly did community theater and that sort of
thing.  At one point, he was working as a roughneck on an oil rig for
money, when he heard that there was a ballet company forming in
Lubbock.  There was an oil baron whose daughter wanted to dance
ballet, so the oil baron imported a ballet master from Lithuania and
started a dance company.  Barry figured this was a good way to get
some training, so he joined the company. He was one of the few male
dancers they had, so he ended up as the prince when they did Swan
Lake.  

Says Barry: I was probably the only guy in West Texas who was working
on an oil rig and dancing ballet at the same time.  You know, ballet
makes you really flexible and light on your feet, which is also good
if you're a fighter.  And when you're a male ballet dancer in West
Texas, you *are* a fighter!  <Low, gutteral voice> 'Yeah, I do ballet.'
POW! <Quick right jab>

He also said some stuff that I don't remember too clearly, about how
the ballet master had a heart condition, and every time he got up to
show the dancers some steps, his wife would have a fit because she was
afraid he'd have a heart attack.

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From: murray_t@wizard.colorado.edu
Subject: RE: November 9th's show
Organization: UMS
Date: 11 NOV 92 16:06:30 MST

I don't usually scrutinize the show with a magnifying glass, but...
Ed found the ring in the fish he caught.  Didn't he clean the fish
first?  Did you notice that he cut the tail section off first and
the ring came out of that slab of fish?  I don't even want to
speculate any further.


Hasta La Wasted
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From: ishizaki@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com (Audrey Ishizaki)
Subject: Re: Macs again (well, actors, really)
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 23:04:39 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Palo Alto,CA

In article <1992Nov5.215212.7122@mail.cornell.edu> The Internet Surfer <rs18@cornell.edu> writes:
>... Matthew was (I think) the rival bar operator
>Gary from NBC's Cheers.  (Gary's Old Towne Tavern).  

I, too recognized Matthew as Gary!  Made it a little hard for me to
like Matthew; kept thinking of him as having an insincere smile...

I don't recall anyone else mentioning it, but wasn't Amy (Chris'
mathematician girfriend) played by the woman who played Miss White/Mrs Hymer
from The Wonder Years?

audrey ishizaki
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From: mwmv@athena.cas.vanderbilt.edu (Michael Mogensen-Vermillion)
Subject: Re: Bubble Man Identity
Organization: Vanderbilt University Mathematics Department
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:18:00 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.182620.44641@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 2fuisoda@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>In his post of 11-11-92, Tuervaek@col.hp.com writes:
>
>> ". . . [I] find it incredulous that so many here look for such deep meaning,
>etc... in all of the episodes . . . I often stay away from this group as I feel
>it brings me down to[o] much by reading all the analytical comments . . ."
>
>It's unfortunate, though fine, that you feel this way.  Part of the magic of
>NEX is looking into the writing and finding the links between the sub-plots,
>character motivations, plot lines, anything.  To overlook these is to miss much
>of what goes on in this series.

RIGHT ON!

Mike, another overly-intellectualized cultural elite type

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From: pwjarman@cc.utah.edu (PARRY W. JARMAN)
Subject: Re: NX: Rush Limbaugh...  It's true!
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
Date: 13 Nov 1992 09:33 MST  

In article <1992Nov12.200530.25062@leland.Stanford.EDU>, Henry Nunes <hwnunes@leland.stanford.edu> writes...
{At 2:55 EST, Rush come out  of a commercial break with the  theme some of
{Northern Exposure...

I would think NX is too culturally elite for Rush....Though I know the man 
keeps up on the "trends"--

And NX has become trendy, alas alack. You are now "in" if you watch it.

Sayonara--
HCJ

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From: tad@ssc.com (Tad Cook)
Subject: Re: NEX makes the grade
Organization: very little
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 02:26:10 GMT

In article <1992Nov3.071629.19154@netcom.com> bilan@netcom.com (Steve Bilan) writes:
>
>Just turned on the late night tv (as opposed to the daytime tv) and
>noticed that NEX has made the grade and has already gone into
>syndication.  Only five years and it's in re-runs already!
>


WHERE has it gone into syndication?  Is there now a possibility that
I may be able to someone to tape the episode where Maurice fires
Chris and puts KBHR on an all-showtunes format?

>


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From: louise@cc.gatech.edu (Louise Penberthy)
Subject: Re: "Running of the Bulls" nude?  (was Re: question about the actors in real life)
Organization: The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:35:22 GMT

Henry Nunes (hwnunes@leland.stanford.edu) writes:
> In article <9211091741.AA01631@pravda.cc.gatech.edu> Louise
> Penberthy, louise@cc.gatech.edu writes:
> >According to the tape I have of the Dave Letterman show that Rob
> >Morrow was on, Morrow did convince all of the extras to run that
> >scene nude, without the skin-colored shorts that are usually
> >supplied.  He said he had to bribe all of the extras $30 before
> >they would do it.  But that version of the scene was censored.
> >Apparently their butts were visible.  In the end, the version of
> >the scene with them wearing the shorts, which were not visible at
> >all because of the snowbanks, made it into the episode.
> 
> 
> According to Joshua Brand and John Falsey, that Running of the Bulls
> episode was supposed to be longer, but due to some mistakes by the
> extras, that scene was cut short... and if you watch the end of that
> Spring Break episode, you know that Rob Morrow, who is at the end of
> the pack, stops running for some reason... interesting.

Yes, I saw that.  I suppose that Morrow thought he was
off-camera, or that the director had yelled "cut," or was just
plain lazy.  :-)

-- Louise Penberthy


Louise Penberthy                |  "A lot of people think 'a capella'
Dept of CSIS, Kennesaw State    |   means 'without clothes.'"
College, Marietta GA  30061     |        
louise@pravda.cc.gatech.edu     |        -- Barry Carl, bass, Rockapella
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From: sbooth@nyx.cs.du.edu (Simon Booth)
Subject: Re: Bubbleguy observation, another view...
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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 00:06:30 GMT


Here's an interesting twist on this discussion on allergies:  Most
people with allergies I've known have a big problem going outdoors
with all the pollen in the air and other stuff from plants.  Going out
in the country is a problem for them, but for my girlfriend it's 
opposite.  She's always having problems in the city, and her small
apartment concentrates alot of the things she's allergic to.  The
city air give her minor problems as well.  Howeverwhen she visits
her family in the country, it
is as if her allergies have dissapeared.  She even sounds better on the
phone.  The way she explained it to me is that in the city everything
she's allergic to is much more concentrated.  What's interesting is that
whatever plants are present don't seem to bother her.  In Texas we
have alot of cedar, and this is usually a nightmare for some, but
it's never bothered her.    
Sorry if this got off-topic, just thought it was something interesting to
add.  
One flaw in Mike's dome is that with the air being recirculated is
that if by some chance something got in there despite his safeguards,
getting rid of it without compromising the internal environment would
be difficult.
Pardon the nit-picking but I notice technical things like that.

Simon  (I enjoy all NX episodes!!  :-) )

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From: ramsey@spot.Colorado.EDU (Mad Poo Bandit)
Subject: Re: Barry Corbin in Swan Lake
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 06:04:43 GMT

In article <7NOV199211170405@zeus.tamu.edu> san7675@zeus.tamu.edu (STEPH) writes:
>>I saw a TV interview with Barry Corbin back last spring (I came in
>>late, so I don't know what show it was -- not ET, for sure).  The
>>interview focussed a lot on his long career in obscurity before he
>>"hit the big time" (he did a lot of summer stock and B westerns).  At
>
>I saw him on an episode of M*A*S*H - the one where the re-enlistment officer 
>(played by Corbin) tries to get Klinger to re-enlist.
>

Of course, he was the curmudgeonly general in War Games "Hell, I'd piss
on a spark plug...".  Who could forget that?
From: waynebro@juliet.caltech.edu (Broughton, Wayne Jeremy)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.northern-exp
Subject: "On Your Own"  review
Date: 10 Nov 1992 01:24 PST
Organization: California Institute of Technology
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: juliet.caltech.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

Hello folks.

Well, maybe I was a bit fast off the mark with my rave reviews on
Sunday.  I am beginning to get the impression not everyone thought
the episode was as wonderful as I did.  Too bad.

I liked the number of simultaneous plot lines in this one, and thought
every one of them was good.  The slightly surreal background provided
by the "blockheads" and "slinkies" was very funny and put a neat twist
on everything (the group Mummenschanz that played them is performing
at Caltech this coming spring!).  I liked Marilyn's continuing ability
to magically interpret Bob's vague gestures (even down to getting names
like Fritz, etc.), and I was very surprised when Bob talked!  The 
discussion on the "weight" of words was an interesting perspective for
me, and of course it was highlighted at the end with the rocks Joel
received via Marilyn.  I really felt sorry for Bob this time.  Won't
he ever learn?

"If birds talked, they couldn't fly."

Maurice's will was a nice change from his schemes to make his corner
of Alaska into a health spa (he's already tried that at least twice 
this season), but of course it was mostly backdrop to the Maggie/Mike
relationship.  Personally, I did not find Maggie's claims to being
happy single and not wanting a relationship very convincing.  Had
Maggie really been persuaded by Mike's (rather extreme and sensationalistic)
environmentalist concern, or was she simply trying to impress him by
becoming vegetarian, learning about "cow flatulence", etc.??  And when
Maggie explicitly told Mike they should keep things "platonic", why
did he suddenly feel bold enough to go for an unprotected walk?  Was 
this an example of what Joel had been describing last week?  That Mike's
"protective armor" was partly a psychological attempt to shut out the world,
and that when Maggie seemed to back off it alleviated his need for the 
protection?  Any comments or other (prob. much better) ideas?

Ed's problems and their resolution were diverting, to say the least.
His award-winning dream sequence was hilarious, as were his hallucinated
encounters with the Sicilian crowd.  Did anybody who knows Italian
(presumably) catch and/or understand what Ed said at the end of
his dream?  And I forget who reminds Ed of a poached fish with its
eyes bugged out.  Richard Burton?

My favourite line was:
"Are you hallucinating?"
"Oh yes, but not right now."

Wayne, who is not on the cusp of procreation, but is feeling hunky today. 
**********************************************************************

Wayne J. Broughton                 This is where I am from, currently,  
waynebro@juliet.caltech.edu        and I can't come from anywhere else. 
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech, Pasadena, CA  91125

Caltech has no idea what my opinions are;  
they think I'm working right now...
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From: normaw@hannah.corp.sgi.com (Norma Walling)
Subject: Re: question about the actors in real life
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 03:02:23 GMT

I remember reading about Janine Turner a few months back  . . .
she used to have long blond hair (probably bleached) and played
rolls on daytime soaps(sorry, don't know which ones . . .they 
are all the same to me).  She was engaged to Alec Baldwin and 
that broke off somehow.   She went back to brown hair and
cut it short because she was tired of not being taken seriously as
an actress/female/human.

That's all the gossip I know!
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From: guppy@wixer.cactus.org (Jennifer Mery)
Subject: Re: Wait a minute!!
Organization: Real/Time Communications
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 22:21:25 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.212319.18899@wixer.cactus.org> guppy@wixer.cactus.org (Jennifer Mery) writes:
>apart. Even in the museum setting, they're falling apart, and with the
                   ^the Smithsonian!

jam
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From: swisher@cs.utexas.edu (Janet M. Swisher)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.northern-exp
Subject: Maggie's "depth" as a character (was Re: The geek)
Date: 12 Nov 1992 10:43:48 -0600
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
Distribution: na
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In article <1992Nov10.193025.24800@coopsol.com> gordons@coopsol.com
(Gordon Storga) writes:

>I don't care for the Bubble Boy.  It appears to me to be a cheap ploy to
>attract the tree-huggers while supplying a character more anal than Joel.

I think he's more likely alienate the tree-huggers, since the
enviro-babble he spouts is absolutely incoherent.  The writers could
have used him to make some valid environmental points, but instead
they just string together buzzwords for him to say.

>It has also served to lower my opinion of the Maggie character.  Her
>propensity for school-girl crushes and flightiness (no pun intended) is
>grossly exagerated by this new character.  When I first saw the show I
>thought Joel was incredibly shallow (bested only by Shelley who has
>made 'shallow' into an art-form).  Now I find that Joel has developed
>into a fairly deep person while Maggie has regressed into a very
>shallow person.  Don't get me wrong, a shallow character is fine as a
>member of the cast.  Shelley and Chris fulfill that role well, but then
>I don't expect any better from them.  But Maggie had shown some depth
>and rational thought in previous seasons and now she has regressed.

I disagree.  I think Maggie's attraction to Mike is a step forward in
her emotional development.  He's *nothing* like the macho guys she has
historically fallen for.  I think her bidding goodbye to her old loves
in the season opener signified that she is ready to move on to more
deep relationships.  She no longer has to have a guy who's a "real
man" and be kinda macho herself.  She can care about someone who's
vulnerable, and she can be nurturing.  Now, this being her first shot
at this, she's kinda gone overboard and swung from one stereotype to
another, and she's still trying to kid herself about what she wants
("fulfilled ... platonic ..." Ha!).  But I think she'll come out of
this experience better able to relate to Joel on a real level.

BTW, with all the excitement over the trebuchet, people seem to have
missed the bit with Maggie's mother urging her to let go of the past
and not get stuck in ruts.  I saw the housefire her mother
(accidentally) started as a symbolic rebirth, which indicated that the
writers were setting Maggie up for some significant transformation.  I
think that's what we're seeing now.
-- 
Don't take life so serious ... it ain't *no how* permanent. -- Porkypine. 
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From: hwnunes@naranja-next.Stanford.EDU (Henry Walter Nunes)
Subject: Re: Macs again
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 09:55:56 GMT

In article <1d7l5rINNfe5@bigboote.WPI.EDU> firenza@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Timothy  
Mark Collins) writes:
>   Just to beat the dog some more, Matthew's computer was an Apple
> Powerbook of some type.  Your could just make out the Apple logo on it.

Considering that it had an external disk drive and that it is bigger than  
a Duo, and that the Duos were not around when that episode was filmed  
(about 5-6 weeks ago), one has to conclude that it was a PB 100.
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From: smithrs@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (SMITH  RANDALL SCOTT)
Subject: Re: NX theme on the Simpsons!?!?
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 16:29:56 GMT

In article <13NOV92.01075057@vax.clarku.edu> mcohen@vax.clarku.edu writes:
>Ok, there I was, watching the Simpsons with one eye and reading usenet with 
>the other.  A neighbor complained to Homer about the Simpsons' garbage 
>attracting wild animals.  Homer looks towards his garbage - and there's a 
>moose with head in the can.  What music played???  Unless I was massively 
>hallucinating, it was the NX theme!  Only lasted for a few seconds, but it got 
>me rolling.
>
>Just thought you'd all want to know.  Better put my other eye back on the TV.
>
Actually, the music sounded more like a sick and twisted elevator version
of the NX theme...

Still, gave me a good guffaw, too.

Randall Smith
smithrs@ucsu.colorado.edu
From: wegeng.henr801c@xerox.com
Newsgroups: alt.tv.northern-exp
Subject: Re: "On Your Own"  review
Date: 11 Nov 92 17:46:35 GMT
Organization: Xerox
Originator: wegeng@ogre

In article <1992Nov10.224557.29516@news.acns.nwu.edu> mhw@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Mike Murphy) writes:
>I thought the whole point was that Maggie turning domestic was such a jarring
>switch,.  We, the audience, KNOW that's not what she's like, and so do Maurice
>and Ruthanne, who expressed their astonimshment that Maggie was cooking.  

The look on Maurice's face when Maggie was talking about cooking was PRICELESS!

But it was also clear (to me, at least) that Maurice didn't have a clue about
why she was cooking (or wearing a dress, or...).

/Don
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From: louise@cc.gatech.edu (Louise Penberthy)
Subject: Curse my local affiliate! (was Re: NEX makes the grade)
Organization: The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 21:22:46 GMT

Patty Winter (winter@Apple.COM ) writes:
> Bless CBS for showing it! When it wasn't rerun this past summer, I
> hoped it would be just before the election. When I saw the promos
> for this week's regular time slot and realized we were getting a new
> episode, I gave up. But then...! In the middle of the regular show
> there was a promo for the special after the late news. Yay! It's a
> lovely episode.

When I read this newsgroup Tuesday, I had no idea what people
were referring to when they were talking about the special
presentation Monday night.  I didn't recall seeing a promo for
it.  But last night I was watching my tape of the "bubble man"
episode, and I caught something.  In the commercial break just
before the scene where Matthew is avidly watching the stock
market report in the Brick, there are three frames between two
commercials.  These three frames show Holling, wearing a shirt
and tie (!), sitting at a table on which is a large jar and a
card with his name.  It looks to be a scene in the town hall.
Does anyone recognize these frames as being from the "Democracy
in America" episode?  If so, then I figure the local affiliate
screwed up and put their own stuff over the promo for the special
showing.  After those three frames there was a promo for the
local 11:00 news.  I don't know much about the mechanics of
newsfeeds and local preemptions.  I hope someone can fill me in.

So, because I didn't see the promo, I missed the episode.  :-(
Who should I complain to?  I was especially disappointed because
I didn't see it originally.

-- Louise Penberthy


Louise Penberthy                |  "A lot of people think 'a capella'
Dept of CSIS, Kennesaw State    |   means 'without clothes.'"
College, Marietta GA  30061     |        
louise@pravda.cc.gatech.edu     |        -- Barry Carl, bass, Rockapella
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From: rnoyes@nyx.cs.du.edu (Rob Noyes)
Subject: Musical Question
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 02:49:15 GMT


well, I'm posting to thousands of machines throughought the entire world,
costing the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars (and probably putting
the National Deficit up a few as well), but I have an extremely burning
question to ask.

  In an epsiode last year, at the end of the episode they played one of
the most intriguing songs that it has ever been my pleasure to listen to.
It had something to do with the lyrics "There are no cows in Africa...
silly cows" or something. I'd REALLY love to know what that song was,
because it has stuck in my head ever since. If not the song title and who
sung it, I'd love to know the exact lyrics so I can tell it to people and
then enlighten THEM (or at least get it stuck into their heads so they can
have as much fun as I have.)

Thanks,

---* Rob *--
From: bryce_jasmer@next.com (Bryce Jasmer)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.northern-exp
Subject: Zip Code on Ed's Shirt
Date: 10 Nov 92 20:38:19 GMT

I noticed on Ed's t-shirt last night some sort of postage mark and the zip  
code 99664. I wondered if it was a real place so I dug out a zip code book  
and found that it is a zip code of Anchorage Alaska in the "Seward"  
neighborhood, whatever that is.

I was hoping for something a little more exciting. Oh well.

Bryce Jasmer
From: bryce_jasmer@next.com (Bryce Jasmer)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.northern-exp
Subject: The Simpsons 11/12/92
Date: 13 Nov 92 21:30:16 GMT

Did anyone catch The Simpsons last night (11/12/92)? There was a scene where  
Homer Simpson left the trash can open and a moose was getting in the can. He  
danced around trying to scare of the mouse while the background music played  
something *very* similar to the NEXP theme song music. I was dying laughing.

Bryce