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From: richs@cogs.sussex.ac.uk (Richard Salter)
Subject: Highlander series in UK?
Organization: University of Sussex
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 14:07:12 GMT

Does anyone know if there are any plans to show this elusive series in
the UK? I only knew it existed from the discussion here. Is it any good?
Is it better than Highlander II (god I hope so).
Tah very much,

Happy Halibut II

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From: agae@palm.lle.rochester.edu (Andres C. Gaeris)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: Re: Poll: What books should be made into movies?
Date: 27 Jan 93 17:18:37 GMT
Reply-To: agae@palm.lle.rochester.edu (Andres C. Gaeris)
Organization: UofR Laboratory for Laser Energetics

In article <2628@blue.cis.pitt.edu>, pjhst10+@pitt.edu (Peter J Hill) writes:
> 
>  I want to conduct a poll.  What books do you think should be made into
> movies?  I would also like to know what books do you think should never
> be made into movies.  Send me e-mail to respond and I will give a summation
> of the results to this group.  Some of my ideas are:
> 
>        Make us into movies                    Keep us away from script writers
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>      Rama series                                Shanara Series
>    Robot Novels (I.Asimov)                    Hitchhikers guide 
>    Stainless Steel Rat books                  Nightfall (we were to late)
>    Neuromancer                                Tekwar
> 

My favorites would be:
The world of Thiers series (at least the first two books) -Phillip J. Farmer
The Robot novels - Isaac Asimov
Ringworld/Known Space/Man-Kzinti Wars (As a TV series) -Niven + others
Mote's in God's Eye -Niven/Pournelle
CoDominium books- Pournelle + others
Everything from John Varley

Really Big Opportunity Lost: Millenium -Ben Bova, it would have been a big
success if it would be filmed around the same time of the SDI/Star Wars
Reagan discourse and subsequent hype.


Andres C. Gaeris
Junior laser fusioneer

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From: dave@gergo.tamu.edu (Dave Martin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: Re: Jurasic Park casting
Date: 25 Jan 1993 20:31 CST
Organization: Geochemical & Environmental Research Group, Texas A&M University
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In article <1k1f5iINN6gq@titan.ucs.umass.edu>, a0s5108@titan.ucs.umass.edu (Neal and Mara Priestly) writes...
}Does anyone know who is cast for what parts in this film?  
} 
}I keep getting questions about it, but have no answers at hand.

Gee, I was going to ask that! :)

Actually, I am going under the presumption that there will be no big names
in this movie, only big animatrons. People who have read the book (I just
finished it myself) will go see the movie regardless -- about the only big
name that really matters anyway is Spielberg -- and those who have not will
go because of the dinos. I would actually prefer that there not be any major
actors involved, since there seems to be little need for it (besides, there
are a lot of great "little" names out there that we may miss out on because
a famous name was *given* a part, rather than earning it.

On the subject of JP, I found it interesting to rebrowse this month's National
Geographic article on Dinosaurs *after* having read JP -- the first time I
kinda skimmed past the picture of the paleontologist in the field (who is
credited with discovering many hadrosaur nests in Montana, as well as with
*naming* the maiasaur). The second time I was amazed at seeing the tipis in
the picture -- kinda made the book stand out as even more well-researched
than it had before. I would presume that Jack Horner is the basis for the
Alan Grant character -- at least somewhat. Maybe Horner will be playing
Grant in the movie... 

 - Dave Martin - Geochemical & Environmental Research Group, Texas A&M - 
 - DAVE@GERGA.TAMU.EDU - DBM@AOL.COM -- My views, my life, my right... -
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From: robert@aero.org (R. S. Statsinger)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies,alt.cult-movies,rec.music.gdead
Subject: Re: UNMADE GODZILLA FILMS
Date: 21 Jan 1993 20:00:53 GMT
Organization: Your Guess Is As Good As Mine...
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Keywords: Godzilla Japan Monster

In article <1993Jan21.182117.14072@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> Mark B. writes:
|
|COOL LIST, DAVID! 
|
|But what about "MY DINNER WITH GODZILLA" featuring the 
|big scaley guy squaring off with a gigantic Wallace Shawn? 
|

For the upcoming American Godzilla film, someone MUST get
through to Tri-Star and sell them on the idea of Godzilla
arising from the sea in Ventura County, and invading a Grateful
Dead concert at the Fairgrounds. Ten to one the movie-goers
would love it, and twenty to one that the band would love
it as well.

			R.S.
From: adculha@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Andrew Culhane)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: Re: Terminator 3: Any word?
Date: 26 Jan 93 16:06:16 GMT
Organization: The Great Beyond

In article <1993Jan22.083804.16639@maths.tcd.ie> chandler@maths.tcd.ie (Ross Chandler) writes:
>
>Wrong!      
>Myles Dyson was working on "the cpu from the first terminator" to quote
>Big Arnie. The cpu is located in the T-800 model 101's head. This is
>where all its higher brain functions take place. Anyway I don't see any
>chips on its arm which is not a very logical place to put them to say
>the least.
>

Um ... no, that's not correct.  As of a few years ago, fellow grad
students of mine at the U. of Md. were working on just that ... neural
nets that would process data from robot 'fingers.'  The robot's hand
was the most logical place to put such a chip.  Where this research
has gone, I don't know, but the "not a very logical place" criticism
is not correct.

--- Andy Culhane
From: KitchenRN@SSD0.LAAFB.AF.MIL
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: Upcoming Movies, Part II
Date: 25 Jan 93 15:59:00 GMT


SF-themed movies scheduled (but not guaranteed) to be released in the Spring
of 1993.

American Cyborg
Boaz Davidson directs a futuristic fight to save humanity.  Joe Lara stars.

Body Snatchers [again!]
Abel Ferrara (the Bad Lieutenant) directs this remake of the 1956 sci-fi
classic.  With Gabrielle Anwar, Meg Tilly and Forest Whitaker.

Fire in the Sky
When five Arizona loggers witness the temporary abduction of one of their
own by a UFO, the townspeople angrily accuse them of staging a hoax.  D B
Sweeney and Robert Patrick (Terminator 2) star for director Robert Lieberman.
Mel Torme's son, Tracy, wrote the screenplay.

Friday the 13th: Jason Goes to Hell
(also called Jason Goes to Hell: the Final Friday)
Series originator Sean S Cunningham returns to produce the next segment of
this nearly annual slash fest.  Kane Hodder stars as Jason for director
Adam Marcus.

Josh and S.A.M.
The acronym is for "Strategically Altered Mutant," and that's what 12-year-
old Josh has persuaded his younger brother Sam he is.  The boys use this
fantasy on a cross-country odyssey that whisks them from the unhappiness of
their home.  Billy Weber directs.

Leolo
A daydreamer is convinced that he's an offspring of a sperm-laden tomato.
A Canadian comedy, in French from Jean-Claude Lauzon.

The Meteor Man
Robert Townsend writes, directs and stars as an unassuming teacher who
becomes the reluctant title character upon being struck by a magical emerald
meteorite.  The cast includes Bill Cosby, Marla Gibbs, Frank Gorshin, Robert
Guillaume, Sinbad and Luther Vandross.

The Pickle
Danny Aiello is film-maker Harry Stone, who attempts to offset a series of
flops by directing a youthful SF movie about a flying pickle.  Paul Mazursky
writes/directs, Dyan Cannon costars.

The Sandlot
Radio Flyer writer and original director David Mickey Evans co-writes and
directs a comedy that pits some kids who play baseball against a mystery
beyond the right field wall.  With Karen Allen and James Earl Jones.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
The third episode takes the quartet back to ancient Japan.  Paige Turco
and Elias Koteas return.  Stuart Gilleard directs.

Tobe Hooper's Nightmare
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre director has cast Robert Englund as a sexually
obsessed leader of a decadent cult tracking down a beautiful woman.

Warlock: The Armageddon
Julian Sands returns (but Richard E Grant doesn't) in this sequel in which
Satan's son tries to unleash daddy from the confines of Hell.  Anthony
Hickox directs.

Rick Kitchen
kitchenrn@ssd0.laafb.af.mil

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From: chandler@maths.tcd.ie (Ross Chandler)
Subject: Re: Upcoming Movies, Part III
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:58:27 GMT

KitchenRN@SSD0.LAAFB.AF.MIL writes:

>The Last Action Hero
>Arnold Schwartzenegger reunites with Predator director John McTiernan in
>this action-fantasy.  Austin O'Brien plays a young movie fan who joins his
>favorite movie hero (Arnold) on screen.  F Murray Abraham, Anthony Quinn
>and Mercedes Ruehl also star.

What does the phrase "joins... on screen" mean?

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From: 01fortec@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies,alt.cult-movies,rec.music.gdead
Subject: Re: UNMADE GODZILLA FILMS
Date: 25 Jan 93 09:22:51 -0400
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <1jmvdlINNosl@news.aero.org>, robert@aero.org (R. S. Statsinger) writes:
> In article <1993Jan21.182117.14072@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> Mark B. writes:
> |
> |COOL LIST, DAVID! 
> |
> |But what about "MY DINNER WITH GODZILLA" featuring the 
> |big scaley guy squaring off with a gigantic Wallace Shawn? 
> |
> 
> For the upcoming American Godzilla film, someone MUST get
> through to Tri-Star and sell them on the idea of Godzilla
> arising from the sea in Ventura County, and invading a Grateful
> Dead concert at the Fairgrounds. Ten to one the movie-goers
> would love it, and twenty to one that the band would love
> it as well.
> 
> 			R.S.
> 
> 

This may not count, but a long time ago (about 8 years I guess), there was
a skit put on by either "Saturday Night Live" or "SCTV",called "Kramer vs.
Kramer vs. Godzilla". I have no idea how you'd get a copy of it.

Joe
01fortec@ac.dal.ca

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From: noe@cs.uiuc.edu (Roger Noe)
Subject: Re: Jurassic Park casting
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept of Comp Sci, Urbana, IL
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 06:15:41 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.114949.1@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole) writes:
>Could someone please post the names of all the other major characters?
>I'd like to match them up with the actors who will play them and include
>them in a mini-FAQ for Jurassic Park.

Here's what I have, all based on what I've seen on the net:

Sam Neill		Alan Grant (paleontologist)
Laura Dern		Ellie Sattler (paleobotanist)
Richard Attenborough	John Hammond (wealthy old dinosaur nut)
Jeff Goldblum		Ian Malcolm (chaos mathematician)
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From: gc3@jcnpc.cmhnet.org (George Cifrancis)
Subject: Re: The Abyss
Organization: Homebrew Virtual Reality Labs
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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:59:59 GMT

aes@hercules.acpub.duke.edu wrote:
: Does anybody know when James Cameron will release the version
: of The Abyss with the 20 extra minutes of footage on the end?
: I know he's working on it, since, besides having said that he
: was planning on doing it ever since the original came out,
: I read an interview with Michael Biehn in Movieline, and it
: mentioned that he was re-recording dialogue for this new version.
:
I think within a few months and I think it has more than 20 minutes, more like
40 minutes or never before seen footage according to an ad in the new 
IMAGE updates magazine. Which includes newly completed FX footage that wasn't
ready for the theatrical release (like the tidal wave sequence).

George Cifrancis III
gc3@jcnpc.cmhnet.org
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From: vaughanj@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Jake Vaughan)
Subject: Regarding recent post for ILM job
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 00:51:31 GMT

I remember seeing a post where someone had mentioned an add for job 
applications for Industrial Light & Magic.  I wonder if the person who
posted that add could e-mail me more information regarding that.

Thanks.

Jake Vaughan

vaughanj@sage.cc.purdue.edu
From: crunch@hogbbs.scol.pa.us (Travis Prebble)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Darth Vadar
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 00:54:49 EST
Organization: The Heart of Gold BBS, Lemont PA

joshuali@aludra.usc.edu (Joshua Ling) writes:

> In article <1993Jan20.221231.12944@unocal.com> stsslxs@st.unocal.com (Luis Sa
> >I heard that DARTH is an anagram for DARK LORD OF HOTH. Can anyone else 
> >                                     ^^^            ^^
> >confirm/dispute this? 
> 
> ??????????????????????????????????????????
> I think that I may quit reading this newsgroup......
> 
> ..I can't take it anymore.....
> 
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Don't give up yet.  Odd questions exist and we must confront them... Use 
the Force if you must, but persevere! ;)

Anyway, wasn't Vader also known as Dark Lord of the Sith?  Something like 
that...


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Subject: AT-ATs, Snow Speeders, Harpoons, etc.
From: husty@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Steve Husty)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:54:27 GMT
Organization: Concurrent Engineering Research Center

	I originally started this thread as a suggestion for epic-type land
	battles in SW movies.  There were some excellent replies. THANX. 
	Somewhere, this AT-AT thing started, and that's cool I guess.  However
	I would like to shed some light on the subject.  First, I believe the
	Rebels may have fought the AT-ATs before.  (PROOF) The commander of 
	the Rebel defence force: (Looking through macro-binoculars) Imperial 
	walkers at x kilometers (not sure of exact distance).  So, he knew 
	what they were from appearance.  Secondly, they Rebels probably never
	attacked AT-ATs with walkers. (PROOF) Luke during attack: That armor
	is too thick for blasters.  Had Luke or the other pilots known this, 
	they would not have tried such a foolish tactic.  This was of course a
	mistake on Luke's part, because it was the shields surrounding the
 	AT-AT, not the armor.  Look closely on the movie, the energy of the 
	shots dissapate before getting to the metallic hulk of the walker.  
	There are no visible traces of the shot either.  Thirdly, the "idea"
	of using the harpoon and tow cable was exactly that - an idea. (PROOF)
	After attempting to shoot the AT-AT, Luke says TRY using your harpoon
	and tow cable.  Thus, Luke thought it might work.  It did.  Lastly,
	The AT-AT did not have a "weak point" at the neck.  The walker probably
	lost its shield generator after it tripped.  (PROOF) After the walker
	trips, a speeder flies by, strafing it with blaster fire.  The walker,
	at several points, absorbs the blaster energy, ie, causing to explode.


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From: sfd@soda.berkeley.edu (Scott Drellishak)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Harpoons (and At-Ats)
Date: 21 Jan 1993 19:35:48 GMT
Organization: Metaphor Computer Systems
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In article <1993Jan21.114553.2763@vax1.mankato.msus.edu> wookiee@vax1.mankato.msus.edu writes:
)In article <C17L89.50t@mach1.wlu.ca>, lars4752@mach1.wlu.ca (Bradley Larsen u) writes:
)> The Rebel Alliance must have run into the AT-AT's before.  Recall from the
)> movie when the trench officer uses his binoculars??? to spot the oncoming
)> Walkerrs? His reply to the base is something like "We spotted Imperial
)> walkers." 
)
)I don't see that as any proof that the rebel have run into them before

I agree.

), just
)another character stating the obvious, like the 'Look sir, droids!'
)Stormtrooper in ANH.  Think about it a minute.  You are on an uninhabited
)planet, someone in your cause has just blown up an (assumed, but correctly so)
)Imperial probe droid, Star Destroyers have come out of light speed in the
)system, you are waiting for some kind of ground assault from the Impy's and you
)see 4 (have we decided if there was a fifth yet?) giant metal WALKING armoured
)vehicles coming towards your base... What would you have called them?  Imperial
)because they are obviously from the empire, and walkers because they walk. 
)nothing more to that statement then that.

...but this is silly.  I don't think we're intended to believe that
the Rebel was making up a new name on the spot.  Just because I've
never encountered a Harrier jump jet, that doesn't mean I can recognize
one when I see it.

So:  the fact that the Rebel recognized the walker doesn't prove they'd
encountered them before -- but he's not just making up a name!
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From: Simon.N.Smith@cm.cf.ac.uk (Simon N Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Darth's outfit
Keywords: darth wardrobe stripes
Date: 27 Jan 93 15:04:10 GMT
Organization: University of Wales College of Cardiff, Cardiff, WALES, UK.

I'm about to paint a Vader miniture (from the West End Games series), so I've
been looking closely at how he was dressed.  My main observation is that his
breastplate appears to have vertical stripes on it; the problem is that I
can't decide whether the stripes are a very dark grey, or just a matt black
(the other stripes are gloss black, like a lot of his armour!).  What is
everyone's opinion on this?

Sy

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From: accsah@vaxa.hofstra.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Harpoons (and At-Ats)
Date: 23 Jan 93 14:17:28 EST

In article <C17L89.50t@mach1.wlu.ca>, lars4752@mach1.wlu.ca (Bradley Larsen u) writes:
> The Rebel Alliance must have run into the AT-AT's before.  Recall from the
> movie when the trench officer uses his binoculars??? to spot the oncoming
> Walkerrs? His reply to the base is something like "We spotted Imperial
> walkers." 

They could have also simple been briefed on Imperial equipment, or seen 
them on planets, that had Imperial bases.



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From: nnhill@david.wheaton.edu (Nathan N Hill)
Subject: Re: Hyperspace
Organization: Wheaton College, IL
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 19:59:28 GMT

In article <1joul6INNeli@oak8.doc.ic.ac.uk> kw@doc.ic.ac.uk (K. Wong) writes:
>In article <1993Jan14.085525.21274@leland.Stanford.EDU> karlmarx@leland.Stanford.EDU (Karl Wilhelm Brown) writes:
>>[Stuff on H-space theory deleted]
>
>	That's what I thought. So that means that the craft could be 
>travelling at a ridiculously slow speed, (55 mph?) and still end up "going
>faster than light" in real space? And does H-space have to be black? Could
>it be purple or something? And just what is likely to be in H-space? Any
>possibilty of creatures, derilict ships, maybe even planets? Now...
>	Obviously, stuff in the 3-D world is 3-D, and stuff in the 2-D
>world is 2-D, etc. That would mean that stuff in the H-space world (dimension)
>would have to be a sort of "H-Space-D" So is that how a H-space drive works?
>By converting your ship, people, space-junk round a field into something more
>than 3-D so that you can flit round in H-space? Just some miscellanous 
>blatherings.
>
>==============================================================================
>" There's nothing dumber in the world than a man with an erection. "
>				- Borric, Prince of the Blood.
>
>Hadoken! -Ken

H-space is white, or rather, large blotches of white on darkness, as seen in
"Star Wars" (ANH) and "Return of the Jedi." In RotJ it appears to have more of
a bluish tinge. 

As for how Hyperspace works, the movies don't explain, and neither do the
novels. Suffice to say, whatever makes sense to you is peachy. The RPG has
some ideas, but these are just game ideas, not a canonical description.

					local Star Wars guru
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From: dkemper@oolong.hacks.arizona.edu (David Kemper)
Subject: Re: Silly Rumour
Organization: University of Administrative Incompetence
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:53:19 GMT
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In article <IfMLCci00iV3E1Xm4q@andrew.cmu.edu>, "Jason P. Plank" <jp66+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes...
>The "silly rumour" is true.  Although I have never been able to point
>out the tennis racket in the Imperial garbage in the ESB or the Potato
                ^^^^^^
>in the Asteriod field in the same movie, I did read in an interview with
>the people at Industrial Light and Magic (this interview was in the
>Official Star Wars Fan Club newsletter) that the above mentioned were
>filmed in with the rest of the special effects as an inside joke.

This is one way "silly rumours" get started.  If you had correctly
read/remembered the interivew, you would have said tennis SHOE instead of
RACKET [sic].

I can't wait till a year from now, people will be posting and asking about
the "missing scenes" containing the potato field and the tennis game.

--Gallandro

    "Take it easy, kid.  It's only a movie."   --Ham Salad, "Hardware Wars"