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From: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: cast of dracula
Date: 4 Sep 92 09:15:09 EST
Reply-To: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

A2>  please reply I missed it, and would like the amusement of you trying
A2>  to impress me with Keanu Reeves acting ability.  AN amoeba has more
A2>  screen presence and can procreate faster than the delay when Mr.
A2>  Reeves reads his lines.  If however Mr Reeves does begin to display

     Actually, Keanu Reeves seems to be taking steps to get away from
     his "Bill & Ted" image.  Besides appearing in last year's "Point
     Break" and "My Own Private Idaho," he's starring in another Gus Van
     Sant movie: an adaptation of the satirical novel "Even Cowgirls Get
     The Blues."  He's ALSO working with Kenneth Branagh on his next
     Shakespeare movie: "Much Ado About Nothing."  Busy man, no?
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From: cb366@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark B. Bendiksen)
Subject: Re: Dracula
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 15:57:15 GMT


Philip Stephens writes:

>braca2@cspyr1.cs.adfa.oz.au (BRAY CHRISTOPHER) writes:                       
                                                                              
>>Query: Lucy, played by Winona Ryder.                                    
                                                                             
>>I may sound dumb, but what other films has this lucky lass been in?
>>Intrigued, so I can see if she fits my image of lucy.
                                 
>She has been in:                       
                                                
>  Beetlejuice                   (the weird girl in black)
>  Edward Scissorhands           (love interest to Edward)
>  Heathers                      (played Veronica)
>  Night on Earth                (first taxi driver segment)
>  Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael  (thought she was Roxy's daughter)
                                                  
>to name those I have seen her in.  Her natural hair colour is dark, but she's
>been a blonde in Edward Scissorhands.  I'd say she'd make a good Lucy.
                                                               
>  Philip Stephens
>  Labtam Australia Pty Ltd
>  philip@labtam.labtam.oz.au

Also, don't forget _Mermaids_ with Cher and Bob Hoskins.
And here's an interesting one. Several months ago I caught
a rerun of the movie _Lucas_ starring Charlie Sheen from
the early 1980s. Winona Ryder has a supporting role and
she can't be more than 10 years old.


Mark B. Bendiksen
cb366@freenet.cwru.edu
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From: rcbi27@muvms3.bitnet (DBRUM)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Films with no females
Date: 1 Sep 92 18:31:06 GMT
Organization: Marshall University

Lawrence of Arabia.
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	as the artist claimed, simply neutral, abstract
	compositions devoid of external references and
	meanings?" ***********************************
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From: buccb@after.math.uiuc.edu (Carlos Dragonslayer Butler)
Subject: Re: Upcoming movies (Malcolm X)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 05:42:59 GMT

24315-rich writes
> 
> Malcolm X is an A-hole.

	This man is obviously on something. I suppose he likes
Columbus as a hero.

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From: reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Peter Reiher)
Subject: Re: Film with the least actors
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 17:04:19 GMT

In article <7209@lib.tmc.edu> garretso@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Leon T. Garretson) writes:
>In article <9yH7PB2w164w@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> dascoser.bbs@cybernet.cse.fau.edu writes:
>>Can anyone think of a film with less (Nature films, cartoons, 
>>documentarys and film of that sort don't count.
>>
>>Dascoser
>
>	Doesn't Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolff have only four characters?

Four characters, but other actors are seen (in the roadhouse sequence).
"Hell In the Pacific" has only two actors, I believe, and, as others
have pointed out, there are films with only a single actor in them.

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From: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.fan.dan_quayle
Subject: Re: Film with the least actors
Date: 29 Aug 92 00:20:52 GMT
Reply-To: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Organization: Columbia University

In article <1992Aug28.220310.29201@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> mbrockma@bank.ecn.purdue.edu (Matt Brockman) writes:
>Bambi Meets Godzilla. None.

Dan-O would perhaps insist that Bambi is real, so there would be
at least one actor.  Godzilla's foot may just be special effects.




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From: jorngh@dhhalden.no (JORN GUNNAR HALONEN)
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Organization: Ostfold College
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 14:01:30 GMT

>In article <1992Aug31.215528.29891@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> mlh@eddy.austin.
ibm.com (Mike Haskell) writes:>>
>> What is the most embarassing movie you have ever seen?  (What I mean by
>> embarassing, is that you feel absolutely miniscule when the lights come
>> up and you HAVE to walk out of the theater with every other bonehead
>> who bought a ticket to this turkey).  Movies on video don't count as
>> your stupidity is hidden by the walls of your house. :-)

Has anyone seen 'KISS Meets Phantom Of The Park' ? I mean, can a movie
sink any deeper ? I saw this film in my teens when I kinda liked the
groups music. GEEZ, I was ashamed when I left the theatre ...

(looking back, I think the movie was so pathetic that it was _almost_
 funny.)

Jorn ...
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From: reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Peter Reiher)
Subject: Re: Upcoming movies 
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 20:57:28 GMT

In article <25AUG199214295973@venus.lerc.nasa.gov> edsum02@venus.lerc.nasa.gov (Cassondra Pope) writes:
>In article <1992Aug18.143650.1@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>, bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole) writes...
>>But boy, there are some awsome looking films coming up!!!
>> 
>>_Last of the Mohicans_

This film has apparently opened (or, perhaps, is about to open) in France.
When it's opening was delayed in the U.S., the dates were also set back
in most other countries.  The French distributor convinced the studio,
however, that the arrangements in place in France already were perfect
and could not be duplicated, if the film was postponed.  Also, they made
a strong case that the French would find this film especially appealing.
(Apparently, Fenimore Cooper reads better in translation than in English,
so he is more popular in France than his native country.  Also, Daniel
Day-Lewis is a bigger name in France than the U.S.)  Anyone who's
currently in France seen it yet?  The article I read suggested it got
good reviews.

>>_Jurrasic Park_

This film just started shooting.  Someone already mentioned that 
Richard Attenborough is in it.  The other stars are Sam Neill, Laura
Dern, and Jeff Goldblum.  Spielberg, of course, directs.

In other Spielberg news, he's apparently going to produce (but probably
not direct) a live action Mr. Magoo film.  

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From: teexijd@ioe.ac.uk (IAN DAVENPORT)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Date: 2 Sep 92 14:06:41 GMT
Organization: Institute of Education, University of London

In <65083@cup.portal.com> Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) writes:

>>In article <65042@cup.portal.com> Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) writes:
>>>>
>>>> What is the most embarassing movie you have ever seen?  
>>>
>>>I felt something like this when I left the West L.A. art house theatre
>>>after having snoozed thru a Soviet semi-2001-ripoff called "Solaris"
>>>back in my college daze.  I can't remember ever having fallen asleep
>>>more times in a theatre than during the screening of this monstrosity.
>>>I guess I just wasn't "hip" enough to "get it" but to this day I think
>>>it was a monumental waste of my time and whatever I paid to see it.

Seconded. I only saw it on TV last year, but its plot was about enough to
justify a 20 minute _N_E_W_ Twilight Zone episode.

Ian J Davenport   MULLARD SPACE SCIENCE LABORATORY   ijd@uk.ac.ucl.mssl

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From: sws8n@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Stefan William Sittig)
Subject: Re: Film with the least actors
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:52:44 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.032820.1213@lugb.latrobe.edu.au> MATMNB@LURE.LATROBE.EDU.AU (BRAZIL,Marcus N) writes:
>In <Bto047.MAs@acsu.buffalo.edu> v118jxyk@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
>
>> In article <9yH7PB2w164w@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>, dascoser.bbs@cybernet.cse.fau.edu writes...
>> >I was just trying to think about which film had the least number of 
>> >actors. The smallest I could thing of is Breakfast Club which only has 
>> >(I'm going by charters description here)
>
>Some others:
>
>"My Dinner with Andre" - basically only two characters plus a waiter (who
>only has a word or two of dialogue) and some purely decorative patrons of the
>restaurant in the background...
>
>"Monster in a Box" - the new Spalding Gray film, containing only Spalding
>Gray (the same is apparently true of his previous film which I haven't seen
>"Swimming to Cambodia").
>
>...Marcus Brazil...

How about SLEUTH?  Only 2 characters..Olivier and Caine!!
					STefan
..
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From: tdbear@tandon.com (Tom Barrett)
Subject: Re: Masturbation in SINGLE WHITE FEMALE
Organization: Tandon Corporation, Moorpark, CA
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 21:07:56 GMT

In article <1743egINNok2@agate.berkeley.edu> peterme@ocf.berkeley.edu (Peter D. Merholz) writes:
>It's unfair
>(considering how many people masturbate) and discouraging to those who
>might already feel guilty in pleasuring themselves. Jeers to SWF.

hehe... I can see it now: Millions of masturbators around the
world reading about this in the MAAD (a la GLAAD) newsletter and
then writting postcards in protest to the studio, director, and writer.


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From: fafhrd@jessica.stanford.edu
Subject: 4th annual tourney of animation
Organization: LSJU
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 23:04:11 GMT


	I just saw this the other night with a couple of friends, and
boy was I surprised.  Not pleasantly.  Most of the pieces were
amateurish, like my personal un-favorite, "Nippleless Nickelby."  This
thing looked like it was done on a Macintosh LC, and shot by holding a
camera up *really close* to the screen.  Our hero, Nippleless, goes
through the Rudolph syndrome (my friends won't play with me cuz I'm
different) until his buddies/tormentors fall into a pit, and can only
get out by climbing up good ol' Nippleless' huge schlong.  (Yeah, it's
not really a spoiler... if you were relying on the suspense of the
moment to enjoy this 4-5 min short, then I apologize).
	Anyway, there seemed to be this preponderance of "ways to use
animation to depict sexual situations in what would otherwise be a
graphic and tasteless display but is now really cute and amusing."  I
wasn't really amused... nor offended, actually; it just left me
sitting there thinking, "So what?"  There were a few gems scattered
throughout the film, including a *great* piece in which animated tin
cans were used to mock totalitarion governments and the institutions
and people that allow them to exist.  
	But all-in-all, there wasn't much to enjoy, IMHO.  This is in
marked contrast to other "Animation Festivals" I've attended... pieces
like "Balance" and "The Zoo" come to mind... there just didn't seem to
be much creative going on here, even in the tributes to Tex Avery.


*SO*, my question is: Has anyone else out there seen this particular
film? What did _you_ think of it?  Am I missing something, or what!?

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From: ahummel@ems.cdc.com (H. Austin Hummel)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: erotic movies
Date: 28 Aug 92 17:45:00 GMT
Reply-To: you@ems.cdc.com
Organization: Empros Systems International, a division of CDC

In article <1992Aug27.1489.27273@channel1>, eric.walker@channel1.com (eric walker) writes:
|> 
|>      It's a well-known fact that sex and mainstream movies really
|> don't mix well.  Hollywood would much rather show blood, guts, guns
|> and gore in their movies because this stuff isn't as "controversial"
|> as heavy sexual content.  As Robert Preston said in "Victor/Victoria:"
|> "You can kill them but you can't kiss them."
|>      I've been wanting to find a few good examples of genuine
|> eroticism in movies, but this genre seems to be non-existent. 
|>  ....
|>      Any suggestions?

Yes, one from Penthouse "Caligula" and another that might not
be on video "Can Hermonous Merkin forget ... and find true happiness"
Funny movie though today it might be only R rated was in 1971 XXX.
From: dug@athena.cs.uga.edu (Douglas Brown)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Dracula
Date: 28 Aug 92 15:16:10 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

In article <philip.714978859@labtam> philip@labtam.labtam.oz.au (Philip Stephens) writes:
>braca2@cspyr1.cs.adfa.oz.au (BRAY CHRISTOPHER) writes:
>
>>Query: Lucy, played by Winona Ryder.
>
>>I may sound dumb, but what other films has this lucky lass been in?
>>Intrigued, so I can see if she fits my image of lucy.
>
>She has been in:
>
>  Beetlejuice			(the weird girl in black)
>  Edward Scissorhands 		(love interest to Edward)
>  Heathers			(played Veronica)
>  Night on Earth		(first taxi driver segment)
>  Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael	(thought she was Roxy's daughter)
>
Let's not forget some of the others:

   Lucas			(Her *first* role, geeky girl in
				 love with Corey Haim)
   Square Dance			(In love with slightly retarded
				 Rob Lowe)
   Mermaids			(Cher's daughter, neat flick)


I think there may be one or two more, but my mind is blank right now.

dug *the winona freak*

>to name those I have seen her in.  Her natural hair colour is dark, but she's
>been a blonde in Edward Scissorhands.  I'd say she'd make a good Lucy.
>
>  Philip Stephens
>  Labtam Australia Pty Ltd
>  philip@labtam.labtam.oz.au
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From: rehak@breeze.rap.ucar.edu (Nancy Rehak)
Subject: Re: Film with the least actors
Organization: NCAR / RAP
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 22:28:11 GMT

In article <9yH7PB2w164w@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> dascoser.bbs@cybernet.cse.fau.edu writes:
>I was just trying to think about which film had the least number of 
>actors. The smallest I could thing of is Breakfast Club which only has 
>(I'm going by charters description here)
>
				<part list deleted>
>
>A total of twelve actors in all, five of which aren't seen again after 
>the first few minutes of the film and have minimal to no lines.
>Can anyone think of a film with less (Nature films, cartoons, 
>documentarys and film of that sort don't count.
>
>Dascoser


Try Hitchcock's "Lifeboat".  I don't remember exactly how many were in the
boat, but I think it was around 8.  And those are the only people in the
movie.

Nancy Rehak
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From: DOBENSON@ua1vm.ua.edu (Joe Demon)
Subject: REALLLLLLY bad embarassing movies
Organization: The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 23:40:07 GMT

 This movie does not qualify since I rented it from a video store; but this
seems to be an apt thread to give out a warning.
 
_Alien Dead_, released on video, rated *R*, and starring David Carridine,       vyn Chin) writes:
R rating has to be for *really bad* instead of for violence (none), nudity
(none), bad language (none) or anything else that would have earned it an
R rating. The movie sucks. Out loud. Don't rent it. Don't watch it. Don't
be fooled by the cover or the rating.
IT STINKS!!!!!
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From: kate@cactus.org (Katherine M. Catmull)
Subject: Re: "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me"
Organization: Capital Area Central Texas UNIX Society, Austin, Tx
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 22:11:15 GMT


I liked this movie, and I doubt that you have to be a diehard
PEAKS fan to like it. A very eerie and surreal story of father-
daughter incest, basically.

Father-daughter incest as a child's nightmare.

I liked the first chunk, too, but I think the movie as a whole
would have worked a little better without it.

Kate


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From: le01167@portal.lasc.lockheed.com (Ron Nadel (x2025))
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Woody Allen / Mia Farrow
Date: 25 Aug 92 20:55:49 GMT
Distribution: usa
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News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Aug24.121108.29985@cci632.cci.com>, agc@cci632.cci.com (Anupama Chathampally - co-op) writes...

>As far as adoption agencies are concerned they are pretty strict about who
>they let adopt children.  Not just anyone can walk in and leave with a child.
>They check the home environment and the ability of the adopter as a parent. If
>she were neurotic and not a good mother they would'nt let her adopt. 
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

OK, I think we have a winner for the Naive Statement or Thought of the Year 
Award.

Ron 8^}
From: walsha@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined - Albert Camus.)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (minor spoilers)
Date: 31 Aug 92 16:04:07 EST

In article <1992Aug31.155146.3386@rtsg.mot.com>, iott@rtsg.mot.com (Joel K. Iott) writes:
> And some questions, which have more spoiler possiblity:
> 
> What is the symbolism of the White Horse that Mrs. Palmer sees in her visions?

i was reminded of the white horse in that great recent classic
MONA LISA, with Bob Hoskins. Purity lost? 
 
> Is the Number 6 on the pole next to the "mystery trailer" supposed to mean
> something? (Lynch shows it several times)

666?
 
> What is the significance of the ring that Teresa Banks/Laura Palmer wears? 
> Does this show up in the TV series anywhere? 

could it be the seal on Laura's destruction? Would it be over the top
to suggest a link with the ring in Lord of the Rings?

I think the key line of the movie was Leo's line about having a good
attitude. I don't think it was a depressing movie - just Laura's journey
to destruction, but balanced by the very last scene.

    ando.
From: poulson@cs.widener.edu (Joshua R. Poulson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Upcoming movies (Malcolm X)
Date: 27 Aug 92 16:41:17 GMT
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In article <1992Aug27.134626.28122@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> jor1@hera.uucp (24315-rich) writes:
>Malcolm X is an A-hole.

You're free to express an opinion, but please try to be correct. You
probably meant "Malcolm X WAS an a-hole."
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From: AH.PBL@forsythe.stanford.edu (Mark)
Subject: Re: Best shots wanted
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 23:48:09 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.211150.23046@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>,
dsc@gemini.tmc.edu (Doug S. Caprette Bldg. 28 W191 x3892) writes:
>In article <1992Aug27.134155.24115@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> cb366@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark B. Bendiksen) writes:
>>
>>Spoiler to _Blowout_ below:
>>
>>The exciting yet chilling climax sequence to _Blowout_ with
>>Jack Terry (John Travolta) desparately searching for Sally
>>Bedina (Nancy Allen) in the middle of a Liberty Day
>>celebration in Philadelphia. He's got her wired and can hear her
>>through an earplug, though he can't see her. To his horror,
>>he hears her being strangled by the psychotic villain, Burke,
>>played by John Lithgow. One of the best finale sequences ever
>>by Brian De Palma.      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  That's not really saying very much, is it?

>Ah, but it was not the finale, it was the climax.
>
>The anticlimax, when the travolta character is playing back the screams he
>recorded, was a fantastic finish to the movie.

  *Any* finish would have been fantastic since it put
  an end to the film.

  Like *all* of De Palma's films, it was a rip-off of
  something better.  In this case, see "Blowup" from
  the mid '60s.  The main character was a photographer
  instead of a sound-effects engineer.  He was also
  interesting, unlike Travolta's character.

  A wonderful parody of De Palma (the master of theft)
  was done a few years back.  It was a trailer for a
  film called "The Clams", where killer-clams attack
  people, a-la "The Birds".  It was sort of a parody
  of the way De Palma stole from, uh, I mean "payed
  homage to" Hitchcock in "Dressed to Kill".  The trailer
  even had a blonde woman in it who looked an awful lot
  like Nancy Allen.  The film was rated "R", for Rip-off.
From: boyajian@ruby.enet.dec.com (Two days and a wake-up...)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Casablanca and the Oscars
Date: 3 Sep 92 20:39:10 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

In article <wood.715527698@jfred>, wood@siemens.com. (Jim Wood) writes...

} hist1261@waikato.ac.nz writes:

}} why did "Casablanca" compete for the 1943 Oscars (and eventually win
}} the Best Picture Award for 1943) when it was first released in November
}} 1942?

} I believe it didn't premiere in Los Angeles until early 1943, which iss
} the official eligibility requirement.

No, that's not the reason. At that time, the period of eligibility for
the Oscars was December 1st through November 30th. While CASABLANCA
had its previews in November 1942, it wasn't actually released until
December 1942. By the eligibility rules, it was considered a 1943 film.

Incidentally, that year also happened to be the "cusp", as the Oscar
year changed to the calendar year, so for the 1943 Oscars, the period
actually went from December 1, 1942 through December 31, 1943.

-- 

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    boyajian@ruby.enet.dec.com (until Friday, September 4, 1992)

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