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From: Yoshiaki_Ohshima@DB3.SPEECH.CS.CMU.EDU
Newsgroups: rec.arts.dance
Subject: Re: USABDA competition questions
Keywords: ballroom, mailing list
Date: 19 Aug 92 16:40:16 GMT
Reply-To: Yoshiaki_Ohshima@DB3.SPEECH.CS.CMU.EDU
Organization: None
Gatewayed-From: ballroom@athena.mit.edu


I'm no rule expert nor experienced amateur competitor, however...

Erik Mintz writes:
>>  Once I compete in syllabus at, say, silver level, I understand I can never 
>>switch down to bronze level. Is this also true of open work (ie, are 
>
>I have only recently started competing, so others may have more definitive
>information.  But from what I read in the rules attached to the entry form for
>the USABDA US Dance Sport championships, ENTERING a competition at one level
>does not prevent you from entering a lower level.   In fact, we saw a number
>of people compete in both Bronze and Silver/Gold at the same competition
>(also some people did both American and International style)

This sounds like a confusion. The question was whether amateur couples
are allowed to dance down at the lower levels than the one that was
once competed at in USABDA comps. The fact that on many occasions
they are allowed to compete at two consecutive levels is a different
story.


						--aki
From: hacrat@CATFISH.LCS.MIT.EDU (Nate Osgood)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.dance
Subject: The art of the Irish Jig
Date: 21 Aug 92 02:05:46 GMT
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science


Hi!  My brother is very deeply into ethnic dances, and was wondering
if there were any books/videos that might be available to illustrate
the art of the irish jig.  

any help greatly appreciated!

nate osgood
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From: tamres@erim.org (Louise Tamres)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.dance
Subject: Summer Dance Party - Univ. of Michigan
Keywords: ballroom, mailing list
Date: 13 Aug 92 12:35:49 GMT
Reply-To: tamres@erim.org (Louise Tamres)
Organization: None
Gatewayed-From: ballroom@athena.mit.edu


 


                The University of Michigan Ballroom Dance Club

                                  presents

                          A NIGHT OF BALLROOM SPLENDOR


                          featuring the sounds of the
                      **** Bird of Paradise Orchestra ****
                               led by Paul Keller



               Sunday, August 30th
               7:30 to 11 p.m.
              
               Michigan Union Ballroom
               530 S. State St., Ann Arbor

               Refreshments served

               $5 for members
               $10 for non-members


               For more info, e-mail to tamres@erim.org
From: boyd@rabi.uchicago.edu (Glenn Boyd)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.dance
Subject: Untitled mail message gatewayed from ballroom@athena.mit.edu
Keywords: ballroom, mailing list
Date: 17 Aug 92 18:34:11 GMT
Reply-To: Glenn Boyd <boyd@rabi.uchicago.edu>
Organization: None
Gatewayed-From: ballroom@athena.mit.edu


  I am preparing to enter my first USABDA competition and would like to know if
there are any standard references on rules and formats. 
  Once I compete in syllabus at, say, silver level, I understand I can never 
switch down to bronze level. Is this also true of open work (ie, are 
there repercussions to including gold steps in the routine)? My partner and
I have yet to decide on our routines (probably jive and quickstep), but are 
leaning towards open work because it seems less exacting but more creative.

   I have an ordinary tailled tux which I would like to use for dancing. Is
it easy to alter it so that the shoulders don't ride up when you are in
dance position? If anyone knows of tailors in the Chicago area who might 
have experience converting tuxedos for dancing, please let me know.

  Any suggestions or information would be much appreciated.


  Glenn Boyd
From: gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Bruce Lee's son?
Date: 21 Aug 92 15:32:23 GMT
Organization: AT&T

In article <1992Aug21.002541.21419@splunge.uucp> royce@splunge.uucp (Royce Howland) writes:
>Brandon also starred in a film called "Laser Mission", which I saw on
>video recently.  I don't know if it was ever actually released in
>theatres, but it was certainly one of the worst action movies I've ever
>seen.  But that wasn't his fault; the story just stunk.
>
Hard to believe a movie called "Laser Mission" could be bad.

GMS
From: boris@math9.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de (Boris Hemkemeier)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: *GREAT MOVIE ACTORS*
Date: 16 Aug 92 15:10:35 GMT
	<1992Aug13.083039.15419@uni-paderborn.de>
Organization: Department of Mathematics, University of Bielefeld, Germany

In article <1992Aug13.083039.15419@uni-paderborn.de> hackes@uni-paderborn.de (Markus Brakweh) writes:
   : A little less old:
   : 
   : Clint Eastwood
   : Gene Hackman
   : Morgan Freeman
   : Richard Harris
   You have forgotten the very best of all: Dustin Hoffman

Anyone who heard of a guy Robert De Niro? He has a restaurant in NY
and appears sometimes in movies.

--
			  "Say no to bugs!"
Boris Hemkemeier	boris@math10.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,rec.arts.tv
From: ala@fico.uucp
Subject: Re: Freshman Dorm - Less Than Zero?
Reply-To: ala@fico.UUCP (Adryenn Ashley)
Organization: The Fair, Isaac Companies, San Rafael, California
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 16:39:57 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.211915.17767@sco.COM> maureenw@sco.COM (Maureen Wilkes) writes:
>
>Could someone please tell me what show we're discussing?  "Freshman Dorm"?
>What station is that on? (No, let me guess, it's gotta be Fox...)
>Is it a 90210/Melrose Place rip-off?  Who's in it?  This isn't really
>a movie topic, so I'll salvage this post by adding:

Freshman Dorm is pretty good so far.  And I LOVE the way Lu Lu handles
"Florence" (can't remember her name).  I think I will have to invest in
another VCR so I can tape 90210 and Freshman Dorm!

>"Less Than Zero" was in the Critic's Choice display at my local video
>outlet.  I'd assumed it was vacuous teenage tripe about roughing it in
>daddy's Beverly Hills mansion, but now I'm wondering........was it
>critically acclaimed?  Was it more than just another fast cars/fast babes
>teen flick?

"Less Than Zero" is one of the most powerfully moving movies I have ever
seen.  I suppose a big factor is that I was living in Beverly Hills at the
time.  If you ever wondered what it is like to do cocaine, see this movie.
I can almost guarentee you will never touch the stuff afterwards!!  (It was
THAT good).

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From: fwilliam@lab5.smcm.edu (Frank Williams)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Terminator - The last time
Date: 17 Aug 92 11:49:12 GMT

In article <L0gLPB1w165w@jybox.jyu.fi> jts@jybox.jyu.fi (Juha Sissonen)  
writes:
> 
> 
> 
>      After reading all these articles about Terminator and Terminator II
>  I'm totally confuced. Is there going to be T3  ? If so, when is the  
first
>  night ? I've understood that 'the second coming' of T2 is a LaserDisk  
version.
>  Am I right ?
> 
> I don't know about T2 coming on LaserDisk.  About T3:  There is no  
official news on this.  If you read my article on T3 it was simply a story  
idea about what I would like to see if they ever did one.  I did read in  
the latest issue of Starlog however the Arnold is not ruling out a T3.  

Frank Williams

Fwilliam@oyster@smcm
> 
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
From: boyajian@ruby.enet.dec.com (Two days and a wake-up...)
Subject: Re: The Potion with the Poison...
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Distribution: rec
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 08:04:37 GMT

In article <10191@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk>, selliott@cs.strath.ac.uk (Stuart Elliott IE91) writes...

} The line in question comes from a Danny Kay film. I think it was a
} remake of the Bing Crosby film "A Conneticut Yankee at King Arthur's
} Court".

Nope, THE COURT JESTER (as you probably have read here already).

} There was a second line to this, something like:-

} "The potion that is free [from poison] is in the vessel with the pessel"

It's been too long since I've watched this film, but if memory serves
(and if it doesn't, it'll be right in line with the whole shtick :-)),
the refrain goes:

	"The pellet with the poison is in the vessel with the pestle.
	The flagon with the dragon has the brew that is true."

-- 

	"She's my radiation baby.
	 She's my teenage fallout girl."

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, "The Mill", Maynard, MA)

    boyajian@ruby.enet.dec.com
From: mm42@prism.gatech.EDU (Mark Mitchell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Val Lewton horror movies
Date: 13 Aug 92 16:18:41 GMT
Organization: Ramblin' Wrecks from Georgia Tech

yousten@atlantis.CS.ORST.EDU  writes:

} I'm interested in hearing opinions of Val Lewton movies, general or
} specific.  I've just recently seen a couple (CAT PEOPLE and BEDLAM)
} and rather liked them, am wondering if I should make a grand effort
} to get them all.

If you liked those two, you should certainly keep going.
 
} In particular, _Halliwell's Film Guide_ says that THE BODY SNATCHER
} was his best.  Agree?

Call me crazy, but THE SEVENTH VICTIM is my favorite.

-- 
Mark Mitchell           Georgia Tech            mm42@prism.gatech.edu
        "... and we tell ourselves that what we found 
                   was what we meant to find."
From: zeleny@husc9.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Unforgivable  ***SPOILERS***
Date: 16 Aug 92 18:03:38 GMT
Organization: The Phallogocentric Cabal.

In article <1992Aug16.061108.15329@eecs.nwu.edu> 
kaufman@eecs.nwu.edu (Michael L. Kaufman) writes:

>zeleny@husc9.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:

MZ:
>>Clint Eastwood's political views have been a matter of public record
>>for quite some time now; among other things it may be noted that they
>>are quite compatible with the above claim by Mr Cramer.

MLK:
>While we are noting things, we might want to also note that while Clint 
>Eastwood does not give many interviews, one things he consistently insists
>is that his films are not the slightest bit political.

Of course, unlike Socrates, Mr Eastwood must be assumed to be the best
interpreter of his own work.

>Michael
>
>-- 
>Michael Kaufman | I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on
> kaufman        | fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in
>  @eecs.nwu.edu | the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be
>                | lost in time - like tears in rain. Time to die.     Roy Batty 

cordially,
mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
"Un de mes plus grands plaisirs est de jurer Dieu quand je bande."
From: i14@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Martin Los)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: 2 questions
Date: 17 Aug 92 12:23:30 GMT
Organization: Nikhef-H, Amsterdam (the Netherlands).

Hi,

Can somebody answer these questions:

1. What is the name of the movie in which Bette Midler plays
   an Actress/Singer? I thought it was 'Beaches' or something ...
   Who plays the other female role?

2. What is the name of the movie in which Michael J. Fox plays
   a doctor stuck soemwhere in a small village? And what is the
   real name of the gorgeous actress he falls in love with?

Take Care,

ML
From: epp@mala.bc.ca (Lorne Epp)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Fir^h^hright Night (was re: Dracula)
Date: 20 Aug 92 19:12:15 -0700
Organization: Malaspina College

In article <1719lqINNb0g@network.ucsd.edu>, mmaxwell@ucsd.edu writes:
> 
> BTW, what is a good sourcebook for vampire legends?  And what movies come 
> closest to following those?  
> 

There is a good book called "The Vampire: His Kith and Kin".  Sorry,
I can't remember the author or publisher.  It describes vampire
legends from all over the world, including Eastern Europe.

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Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
From: boyajian@ruby.enet.dec.com (The Man from Another Place)
Subject: Re: Best War Movies?
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 09:21:30 GMT

In article <BstMqM.MHr@acsu.buffalo.edu>, pscchris@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Christopher Holoman) writes...

} Patton:  [...]  You really need to see it on the big screen to appreciate
} several of the wide shots.

Oh, I dunno. My letterboxed laserdisc suits me just fine for that purpose.

-- 

	"She's my radiation baby.
	 She's my teenage fallout girl."

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, "The Mill", Maynard, MA)

    boyajian@ruby.enet.dec.com
From: rlwilliams@gallua.gallaudet.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: list of alan rudolph films?
Date: 17 Aug 92 22:58:05 GMT
Organization: Gallaudet University

there was some talk about Alan Rudolph a while back. Would anyone be so 
kind as to list his films?   One is his mold but I'm not sure if he did it 
was Ruben, Ruben with tom conti and kelly mcgillis.  One of my little known 
favorites...

rlwilliams@gallua
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
From: jverho80@ursa.calvin.edu (Jeffrey Verhoef)
Subject: Re: BatMan Returns really shocked me
Organization: Calvin College
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 23:22:06 GMT

I'm going to be wishy-washy and take the middle road.  Yes, the movie
wasn't the greatest, but it wasn't forgettable either.

I had the chance to watch the film twice before opening night (the morning
before and the night before the offical opening).  The first time I walked
out of the theater afterwards, I didn't know what to think for the first
1/2 hour.  We all just walked around in a daze trying to figure out what it
all meant.  I concluded that there was more motivation in the characters (maybe
with the exception of Batman), there were too many special effects, and the
ending could've been better.

I believe the script was a little weak, and therefore the special effects
were used to beef it up.  Sure, you need some to capture attention, but that
many?  I felt overloaded after the Penguin's lair blew up.  However, the
actors and actresses did a superb job with what they had to work with.

How does it compare to the original?  I enjoyed watching the original better,
simply because it was one-on-one, Batman vs. Joker.  I suppose the general 
thought was at least two, if not three, culprits were needed to surpass
Nicholson's performance.  Neither really delved into Batman's motivation...
I would've liked to see the same kind of detail used to describe the Peguin's
motivation used to get into Bruce Wayne's past.  We all know that Wayne 
took became Batman to fight crime after his parents were murdered...but I still
would like to see more (if there is anything more).

Final verdict?  Not as good as the first, but very close.
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    ////\\\\     Jeff Verhoef                 -----"KHAN!!!"  (echo echo echo)
   ////  \\\\    Calvin College                    "KHAN!!!"  (echo echo echo)
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From: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: carolco's troubles (w
Date: 17 Aug 92 10:24:34 EST
Reply-To: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

PR>In spite of all this, I was also pretty surprised that they got themselves
PR>so deeply into trouble, considering all the money they'd made before.
PR>Apparently, the lack of depth in financing and the fact that their film
PR>library is small (and, hence, cannot be sold for much) makes it unlikely
PR>that they will survive.

     Small indeed.  Carolco is still negotiating with the Spelling
     Entertainment group (despite collapsed talks in the past) to sell the
     TV rights to their film library for about $60 million.  If one
     compares it with the $1 BILLION Ted Turner shelled out for the
     entire MGM film stock...

     Carolco is in, as the phrase goes, "deep doo-doo."
---
  SLMR 2.1a  Every little thing she does is magic!
--
Channel 1 (R)   Cambridge, MA

Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
From: cooper@cos.com (Gary Cooper)
Subject: Re: ** ULTIMATE MOVIE BABES ** Who?
Organization: Corporation for Open Systems
Distribution: usa 
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 16:17:44 GMT

In <1992Aug7.173626.1@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole) writes:

>> I put Vivien Leigh on one side and Gene Kelly on the other, with Grace  
>> Kelly and Gary Cooper right inside, and everybody else somewhere between.
>I know Gary will be happy to be near Grace Kelly...isn't that right Coop?

Me and Grace?  Anytime, anywhere - <woof!>
-- 
Gary Cooper (not the dead one)
	Don't bother flaming or writing, I just quit my job and will only
be here for another day or two.  Sure - what the hell - I speak for the
corporation for open systems - sue me!
From: patterjd@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Jeffrey D Patterson)
Subject: Re: "Buffy" soundtrack question...
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 15:55:45 GMT


In article <2zdy#2j@rpi.edu> monitn@aix02.ecs.rpi.edu (Nicholas Monitto)  
writes:
> Does anyone know the song that's used in the commercials for the movie?  
I
> saw the movie (loved it!) and have heard the song a few times on the  
radio,
> but can't remember what it is. All I know is that one line of the chorus  
is
> "What the world needs now is another folk singer like I need a hole in  
my
> head." If someone could e-mail or post the answer, I'd really appreciate  
it!
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Nick (monitn@rpi.edu)


That is Teen Angst by Cracker, a band made up of former memebers of Camper  
Van Beethoven
From: rod@cats.ucsc.edu (Rodrick Su)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,rec.video.releases
Subject: Re: REBECCA
Date: 13 Aug 92 05:28:04 GMT
Organization: Tigana Restoration Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu


In article <1992Aug13.051905.11195@eecs.nwu.edu> kaufman@eecs.nwu.edu (Michael L. Kaufman) writes:
>This is a great film (Hitchcock's best IMHO) and the disc only makes the 
>experience better. Leff has tons of information about the film. Both the
>Criterion CAV laserdisc and the film are highly recomended.
>
>Michael

	There is one slight problem with the above statement.  The film
is not so much a Hitchcock film as it is a Selznick production.  I
remember Hitchcock, a notorious control freak on his set, conceeded that
Selznick basically have the run of the show. 

-- 
[ Rodrick Su           ]-----------------------------------------------------] 
[----------------------[ A bomb lives only as it is falling.		     ] 
[ rod@cats.ucsc.edu    ]------------------------[ ``Use of Weapons''         ] 
[ rod@ucscb.ucsc.edu   ]------------------------[   Iain M. Banks            ]
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
From: boyajian@ruby.enet.dec.com (Two days and a wake-up...)
Subject: Re: Highlander (was Re: What makes a movie good)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 08:01:46 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.173803.5001@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>, cwelsh@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Craig Welsh  8823239) writes...

} Therefore, it makes perfect sense to Ridley Scott to cast Connery as
} an Egyptian playing a Spainard.

Well, it might well make sense to Ridley Scott, but I don't suppose we'll
ever know for sure.

The question, though, is does it make sense to Russell Mulcahy, who was
the actual director of HIGHLANDER?

-- 

	"She's my radiation baby.
	 She's my teenage fallout girl."

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, "The Mill", Maynard, MA)

    boyajian@ruby.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
From: hafner@ifi.unizh.ch (Michel Hafner)
Subject: Re: With cuts restored:  The Frankenstein Academy of Film.
Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 10:16:09 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.150123.1211@cs.ucla.edu> reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Peter Reiher) writes:
>And one that's still on the slab, waiting for a really big lightning
>bolt that almost certainly will never come -
>
>"Greed" - Eric von Stroheim's silent masterpiece.  Originally many,
>many, many hours long, cut down to around 2 hours.  At two hours, 
>film scholars regularly choose it as one of the finest films ever
>made.  All opinion from those who saw the original cut said that it
>was immersurably better than the cut version, but unreleasable because
>it was much too long.  The general feeling is that the cut footage no
>longer exists, but, if it does and someone turns it up . . .
>
>And one that's on the slab, but needing a smaller, less improbable
>lightning bolt -
>
>"The Gold Rush" - the version most of us have seen is much shorter
>than the original version.  There's good reason to believe that
>the cut footage exists, but I haven't heard whether the full length
>version is going to become generally available.

Three I would like to see restored:
1. Cleopatra: This movie is widely regarded as a "turkey". One of the most ex-
   pensive movies of all time ( maybe number 2 behind Bondarchuk's "War and Pi-
   ece" ) and with an original running time of ~243 minutes it is a weird di-
   nosaur, oscillating between being awesome and ridiculous, poignant and
   banal. It's director Joseph Mankiewicz ( who directed such classics as
   "All About Eve" and "Julius Caesar (1953)" ) claims it was ruined by the
   editing that was forced upon him by 20th Century Fox ( who was near
   bankruptcy ). The movie was planned as two movies a 3 hours, so there are
   2 hours missing from the longest version known so far, supposedly mostly
   intimate scenes that helped character development. I would like to see this
   6 hour version. And on 70mm, please!
2. Freud: This movie by John Huston was severly cut to remove scenes that were
   regarded as "obscene" for the early 60s ( homosexuality... ). Nowadays even
   the restored version would be pretty tame, but unfortunately, so far nobody 
   cared to put it together. ( Hey, Angelica, forget Jack for a moment and get
   things starting.... )
3. Nuovo Cinema Paradiso: This movie was originally about an hour longer. The
   long version was only shown in Italy ( unsuccessfully ) and then edited down
   to the international version which was a huge success. Although the 3 hour
   version may be overlong I would like to see it.
								M.H.