HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Postlethwaite)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re:  Star Trek: The Next Generation
Date: 12 Apr 92 10:29:53 GMT
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland

In article <9204101826.AA03065@mudpuppy.gsfc.nasa.gov> xrcjd@CALVIN.GSFC.NASA.GOV (Charles J. Divine) writes:
>
>This could just be the kind of guy Stewart is.  Stewart was a noted 
>Shakespearean actor before he got involved with ST:TNG.  I suspect he 
>considers the part of Picard as a lucrative role with no real interest in
>SF, space, science or technology.  On the plus side, he is a remarkably
>fine actor and doesn't have to be a "true believer" to play the role of
>Picard well.  On the minus side -- if someone offers him a better (whatever
>that might be) role -- off he goes (contract provisions limiting, of course).

	Patrick Stewert as you say does have other interests. ST is not
his be all and end all. I would agree with you saying that he see's it
as a lucrative role (read Good, well payed job !). I think from watching
ST his great experience as an actor really shines through.

	We have just had over here the third series episode where Spock's
father Sarek appears. Patrick Stewart demonstrated his superious acting
ability especially in the scene where Sarek mind melded with him so Sarek
could draw an Picards strength, because Sarek have benxxxxxx Syndromw and
some aliens would only talk to him. The torment Patrick Stewart acted that
was going on it Sareks mind was riveting stuff.

	Patrick Stewart also appears on BBC2 in the UK on the Open University
in an acting/english lit module. Him and other actors show how a play is
developed and acted out. I personally am not very hot on English lit but
this stuff is really good..

	Another example of a proper actor playing a non-Shakespearian role
is Brian Blessed in BlackAdder I, as the King. He shines head and shoulders
above the rest aswell.

	Neil
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From: schouten@sp17.csrd.uiuc.edu (Dale Schouten)
Subject: Re: sleepwalkers
Organization: Center for Supercomputing R & D
Date: 15 Apr 92 12:06:44

In article <1992Apr15.123915.18532@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) writes:
> "Eerie, Indiana" had the whole town sleepwalking this week.  It made me
> wonder:  where did this TV and movie convention begin, where somnambulists
> hold their arms out horizontally in front of them?

I don't know for sure, but I think it goes back at least as far as
the 3 stooges (at least I seem to remember something similar from that
era)

Dale Schouten
schouten@uiuc.edu
From: winicur@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Zev Winicur)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Mann & Machine: opening
Date: 14 Apr 92 03:38:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: beagle.winicur.703222687
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder

jms@romana.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) writes:

>In article <1992Apr13.182726.21606@mips.mitek.com> earendil@newview.etsu.edu (Allen Garvin) writes:
>>I think I rather like the show, though it does get a little silly at times.
>>The opening music and stuff has cracked me up both times, with the spinning
>>female body and all.

>But the music has got to go!
>Not since the later seasons of "Hunter" have I heard a more obnoxious
>opening theme.  It takes away something from my enjoyment of this
>wonderful series.


I agree.  Mark Mothersbaugh should stick to Devo.  And the slow motion bits
at the end were way overdone.  Other than that...

They need an opening theme like the one from Alien Nation.


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From: jms@romana.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Mann & Machine: opening
Date: 13 Apr 92 23:46:48 GMT
Organization: BT Tymnet, San Jose, CA

In article <1992Apr13.182726.21606@mips.mitek.com> earendil@newview.etsu.edu (Allen Garvin) writes:
>I think I rather like the show, though it does get a little silly at times.
>The opening music and stuff has cracked me up both times, with the spinning
>female body and all.

But the music has got to go!
Not since the later seasons of "Hunter" have I heard a more obnoxious
opening theme.  It takes away something from my enjoyment of this
wonderful series.

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From: eah4@po.CWRU.Edu (Elizabeth A. Hlabse)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Quantum Leap / USA Today (SPOILERS!)
Date: 15 Apr 92 17:57:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: usenet.1992Apr15.175735.11831
Reply-To: eah4@po.CWRU.Edu (Elizabeth A. Hlabse)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)


Next time remember the spoiler warning and the ^L



In a previous article, IQTI400@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU ("Slow-Children@Play") says:

>USA Today; Wednesday, April 15, 1992:
>
>The season ender to NBC's Quantum Leap ends with a whopper -- Sam (Scott
>Bakula) leaps into the body of Thomas Magnum, a.k.a. Tom Selleck.  The
>show returns in September with a two-part opener /c Selleck.  If you
>don't get the connection, Quantum's creator and executive producer,
>Donald Bellisario, performed the same duties on Selleck's Magnum, P.I.

This I heard about over a month ago.  Don B. has been dangling this
in front of NBC like a carrot on a stick.  I'm glad that it's finally
really being done.  Oh, and he's leaping him into Tom Selleck, not 
Magnum.  Magnum's already been established as a fictional character
on QL.

>Other big leaps next year include Sam stepping into the bodies of Lee
>Harvey Oswald and Silence of the Lambs' Hannibal Lecter.
>
Isn't leaping Sam into a major historical person against the rules
that Don set up.  Yes, I know, it's his show and he can do what he
likes.  Let me guess, he's jumping on the conspiracy bandwagon.  I
have a friend who's going to be very upset about this.  She was going
to write this for a zine (and prove the conspiracy story because Sam
would NEVER shoot JFK).

Silence of the Lambs has already been done.  The episode is
called _Dreams_ and is being rerun tonight (4/15).
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From: ghost@ra.nrl.navy.mil (G. Host)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Mann & Machine: Second Episode *SPOILER*
Date: 15 Apr 92 11:21:58 GMT
Reply-To: ghost@ra.nrl.navy.mil (G. Host)
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC


> Article <3ar702h.cbvC00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> From: jsp@uts.amdahl.com (James Preston)

> ghost@ra.nrl.navy.mil (G. Host) writes:

>> BTW they gave clues to the year of the show, it was mentioned
>> that the original suspect graduated in '12 or so so I figure it
>> is 2025 - 2040 give or take a few centuries.

> Hmmm, I didn't think it was that far in the future.  In the first episode,
> didn't Mann's friend talk about getting his lawn in '93?

No they stopped using for the ball park in '93

And that the last bag of seed was sold *commericially* in '95

Note: this is probably a reference to future water problems is
California.  I like how they drop clues to the future rather
than going it to us straight.

Another clue was given in the recent episode when they said that almost
65% ? of couples were matched through a service for compatability
reasons.  (Need to watch tape again)  I get the impression that it is
not so simple to have a child in this time period but you have to apply
for a permit.
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From: intertxt@network.ucsd.edu (Jason Snell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.tv
Subject: When the new YIJ shows will run
Date: 12 Apr 92 22:39:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: network.sae7qINN67c
Organization: University of California, San Diego
NNTP-Posting-Host: network.ucsd.edu

In article <1992Apr12.213528.17327@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
>cole@lea.csc.ncsu.edu (Robert Cole) writes:
>
>>After tonight's episode, there was a voice-over saying that the show
>>would return later this year with all new episodes.
>
>But does anybody know _when_ these all-new episodes will be run?
>

This is a clever conceit by ABC. The new episodes will be run this
summer if they decide to cancel the show. If they decide to renew it,
they will hold those shows until the fall, because it will take Lucasfilm a
long time to prepare more shows-- if they showed the new episodes now AND
renewed the show, there wouldn't be a new episode ready for season 2 until at
least December. So ABC is hedging its bets.

-jason

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From: T_ADAMS@unhh.unh.edu (Tiffany   Adams)
Subject: More to add to the wish list...
Organization: University of New Hampshire
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 16:50:28 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.12

Here's my $.02. . .


Land of the Lost.......Bring back the original!!!!!!!!!
Star Blazers
The Tomorrow People
Children of the Stones......From Nickelodeon "The Third Eye" fame.
More Sid and Marty Kroft.....Yay!!!


-  Tiffany
   tap@unh.edu
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From: zerobeat@intacc.uucp (Ferenc Szabo)
Subject: Re: Stop writing YIJ and write Star Wars (was Re: ABC Axes Indy!)
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 07:32:07 GMT
Organization: Inter/Access Artists' Centre Toronto

In article <1992Mar31.214619.15813@cs.ubc.ca> gibson@crisium.geop.ubc.ca (Brad Gibson) writes:
>In article <DLW.92Mar31133446@falcon.bcm.tmc.edu> dlw@falcon.bcm.tmc.edu (David Louis Williams) writes:
>>In article <1807@ra.nrl.navy.mil> ghost@ra.nrl.navy.mil (G. Host) writes:
>>
>>I'm tired of a producer who is so successful he thinks he can string the
>>public along.  He starts off telling us he has these nine stories he wants
>>to film and then releases episodes 4, 5 and 6.  Then decides he's not
>>interested/is now interested/is now not interested in doing the remaining
>>episodes.  Either change the titles to 1-3 and declare that's it or finish
>>it.  Don't leave it an unfinished project.  If he would just follow through
>>I'd be more than happy to let him go on to other projects and even support
>>him.  Right now I think he has been taken over by the Dark Side. :-)
>>David Williams
>
>   Every time I think I've been subjected to the most inane posting yet, some
>   moron comes along to top them all.  I'm not even sure where to start
>   criticizing your ridiculous posting ... I think my favourite line would have
>   to be "... I'd be more than happy to let him go on to other projects and
>   even support him.".  I'm sure George will sleep better knowing what he has
>   to do to keep Mr. Williams satisfied ... I know I will.
>   Brother ... with attitudes like this I sometimes wonder why Lucas even
>   bothers trying to produce anything at all.  Anyways ... congrats to David to
>   moving to the front of the class of idiot posters.
>   Brad

I decided to leave the above comment & counter-flame intact.  Reminds me
of those who harrased Nimoy after Spock died in STII. 

  "How could you do this to US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????????"

In the latest issue of Cinefantastique (Alien 3 on the cover) there is
an article with George Lucas.  I only glanced at it so far but the 
most glaring observation is that Lucas is no longer interested
in producing any more Star Wars movies at all.     

After TESB, I waited desperately for the next movie.  After ROTJ I
couldn't have cared less.  I don't think Lucas could get away with
doing such a sucky movie in the mid 90's.  

Hell........it's called the DARK side.
                            ^^^^

f e r e n c


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From: sdt8s@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Stephen Daniel Tilson)
Subject: WHAT WAS THAT??!!
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 01:59:22 GMT

Last night (Sunday, April 5) I was watching TV at a friend's
house and there was this really horrible SF-type show on. At
first we thought it was Mann and Machine, but then we realized
it was too late for that. 

Basically, this thing was one long rip-off of Blade Runner,
right down to the talking advertisements, the swirling
spotlights, and the omnipresent fans creating strobe effects
with the lights. Even the guns used by the main character (some
sort of cop, I believe) were almost direct copies of Deckard's
laser in BR. (That is, his handgun was--other futuristic
weaponry included M-16 rifles and pump-action shotguns). But to
give you the full impact, I'm going to have to divulge
something about the "plot."





















The cop was chasing down a ring of gun runners. To help him in
his endeavor, he had an elderly Black man and a toy robot
dinosaur. Before he tackled the bad guys head-on in a climactic
(or anti-climactic) shootout that would have made Joel Silver
proud, he was advised by his human companion to "concentrate!
Concentrate on the thing your son loved most!" (His son had
been killed at some earlier point, presumably by these
self-same baddies.) This he does, and a hundred-foot tall robot
dinosaur materializes and takes out all the bad guys while some
really cheesy music plays in the background. When the thud and
blunder is over, the dinosaur vanishes.

My question is: WHAT WAS THIS TRAVESTY? Someone please tell me,
so I'll be able to avoid it if it ever rears its ugly head
again. E-mail is preferred.

Thanks,
Steve
--
You will survive...surviving by exposing yourself to the hazards...taking 
the risk successfully until no enemies are left: and then you will become
your own enemy, that the proud battle may go on: all others conquered,
there will remain only yourself to be conquered...(Carlos Fuentes)
From: s892024@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. Muirden [GA])
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Blake'7
Date: 3 Apr 92 10:16:39 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre, Melbourne Australia.


S.R.Summers@massey.ac.nz (S.R Summers) writes:

>Hi everyoneout there in Netland.

>I've been looking thru' these newsgroups and if I haven't chosen the right 
>one to pose my question to then please accept my humble apologies now.  
>Whatever happened to good old Blake's 7?  I loved that  show almost more than 
>Star Trek (Original show only!!) and yet there is very little heard of it now.
>Did people not like it? 

>Thanks in advance

>Rachel

right group! *grin*

Blake's 7 *finished* I mean it ended, not cancelled (well..) but ended
(the last episode Avon shot Blake) and that was it.. as to what happened
to it being screened.. well it was only shown here once in Australia
- maybe the BBC isn't allowing repeats for a set period, or noone has
bothered to rebuy the rights to the show...

oh yes, I loved the show! *grin*

I have several tapes of it....

-richard

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From: jimj@cleanplate.EBay.Sun.COM (James D. Jones)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: >Re: Victor Buono
Date: 14 Apr 92 20:21:50 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: cleanplate.ebay.sun.com

I posted this before, but it didn't make it.

Buono was in several movies that I know of: 

Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1963?)
Who's Minding the Mint ('67) -- pretty good comedy crime movie
Good Night, My Love (early '70s) excellent offbeat TV movie directed by
   Peter Hyams
The Mad Butcher (about '72) -- horror comedy about a'30s-era Viennese 
  butcher (Buono) who goes 'round the bend and turns his nagging wife into
  sausage, which he sells at rock-bottom prices (business quickly improves).
  I've only seen this one on video, and it came out of the $9 bin.

He apparently did a live comedy act in the 60s or early '70s.  At any rate,
he put out a recorded-live comedy album called "Heavy" in about that era.

I'm sure that there's more.

Jim Jones	
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From: earendil@newview.etsu.edu (Allen Garvin)
Subject: Re: QL: Famous people
Reply-To: earendil@newview.etsu.edu (Allen Garvin)
Organization: East Texas State University, Commerce, TX
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 16:40:27 GMT



I haven't watched the show much the last few months, but I do remember
two rock'n roll encounters (both of which annoyed me):
    Buddy Holly - Just a kid in horn-rimmed glasses that was called Buddy
     all thoughout the show, until in the end he was playing a song about
     calling pigs - "Piggy Su-ie" and Sam suggested he change it to 
     "Peggy Sue" and then leaped out.
    Chubby Checker - He walked in to the station where Sam was DJ-ing and
     said he had a new record, "The Twist", which Sam played and so I 
     suppose started the twist craze. In reality, of course, Chubby had
     made a carbon-copy of Hank Ballard's B-side and sold it to Atlantic,
     which promoted it into the kind of hit in way King records could 
     never have done. 
    This horrible revisionism really annoyed me, perhaps unreasonably, but
    the writers could have been more realistic.

    Anyway, I'm not a QL fan, especially not of late, where the show preaches
    to us about every conceivable social problem: Sam learns about Date Rape,
    Sam learns about Homophobia (what annoyed me about this one was the way
    Al changed his mind at the end. He obviously had strong feelings about it,
    and it would have been much more interesting for him to keep thinking it
    was wrong for homosexuals to enter the army. The conflict would have made
    Al more interesting), etc.

    I saw the premier episode three years ago, and what I liked best about
    it was Sam's character, kinda like the way I liked McGyver. Preachiness
    drove me away from there, too.

             -Earendil the Long-Winded [sorry 8-)]
From: fishbone@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Greg Fishbone)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Mann & Machine
Date: 8 Apr 92 19:12:41 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Yeah, and what's the deal with that theme music?  The lyrics were something
like:

   Maaaaaann...
   And Machine...
   Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!
   Mann and Machine!
   Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!

No exaggeration.  Did they spend so much on the effects that they couldn't
afford real musicians?





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From: DAB@MATH.AMS.COM (Alison Buckser)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Lt. Yar and the Romulans
Date: 17 Apr 92 19:36:39 GMT


I was wondering if someone could explain why Lt. Yar is a Romulan. She
was my favorite character (albeit a completely wasted one) during Star
Trek tng's first year. What is the explanation for her reappearance? I
have obviously missed some important shows. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
From: jogle@nrao.edu (Jim Ogle (Ks. Jim))
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: new sf shows
Date: 15 Apr 92 23:14:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: zia.1992Apr15.231430.8440
Reply-To: jogle@nrao.edu
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory

In article 1495@dosgate, dale.clayton@canrem.com (dale clayton) writes:
>-> "The Doors" a sci-fi adventure about a doctor and a young woman who
>-> travel through "doors" to parallel universes.  From ABC for next
>-> season.
>
> It sounds like a rip-off of Doctor Who.

It does?  Dr. Who travels through time and space, not parallel universes
(unless something has changed drastically since I saw it last).

---
Kansas Jim (Jim Ogle, Torg guru)
jogle@nrao.edu (NRAO-VLBA, Socorro New Mexico)
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From: djredick@bluemoon.rn.com (Darrin J. Redick)
Subject: Re: QL: Famous people
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 23:24:10 EDT

21329KAD@MSU (Kim Dyer) writes:

> >I've been wondering how many famous people Sam runs
> >into these days.  Certainly less than Young Indy!  I've only seen four:
> >   Stephen King
> >   Rudy Valle (someone told me this one)
> >   Donald Trump
> >   another I can't remember.
> 
> I don't recall either Trump or Rudy Valle ... although I recall
> characters obviously based HEAVILY on them.

You obviously didn't see "It's A Wonderful Leap", then.  It had a VERY
good bumping into of Donald Trump.

djredick@bluemoon.rn.com

 This is from
     djredick@bluemoon.rn.com
who doesn't have their own obnoxious signature yet
From: v075q5fr@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott J Gorcey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: " V "
Date: 15 Apr 92 02:27:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Apr14.183015.1595@merrimack.edu>, burkems@merrimack.edu writes...

>Are there any fans of the T.V. show and mini-series V?

     I'm a huge fan of Kenneth Johnson's first mini-series (the
     four hour one).  "V - The Final Battle" was a disgusting
     outgrowth of what Kenneth intended when he signed on to do
     a sequel mini-series.
     NBC thought people wanted to see humans v. lizards and loads
     of blue laser bolts.  They were wrong.  We (at least, "I")
     wanted to see another mini-series that was a finely tuned
     homage to fighters of oppression whose parallel to real
     events (the first miniseries to WWII, the second would have
     the French Revolution, according to Kenneth, who could still
     write it as a novel...) made it all the more eerie.
     Humans v. Aliens and spaceships and laser blasts were only
     the dressing of what Kenneth was trying to say.
     The second miniseries retained the dressing and threw away
     the meat.
     The TV series didn't even successfully retain the dressing.  

                ^She's My Cousin But Doesn't She^
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