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From: jonke@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Stephen Jonke)
Newsgroups: rec.video.releases
Subject: Re: Special edition LD's
Date: 9 Sep 92 16:55:02 GMT
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

In article <BOV.92Sep8091357@essex.x.co.uk>, bov@x.co.uk (Andy Bovingdon) writes:
> 
> 
> ie I know Aliens is in widescreen and special edition widescreen

Not actually.  The only widescreen edition is the special edition, there
is no non-special widescreen edition.

Steve
From: lennon@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: rec.video.releases
Subject: Star Trek IV Director's cut
Date: 9 Sep 92 21:03:36 -0300
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Does anybody know the differences between the STIV:TVH directors cut and the
original release? What I want to know is that is the director's cut worth
buying?
From: scottg@amiganet.chi.il.us (Scott Gittlitz)
Newsgroups: rec.video.releases
Subject: Re: "BASIC INSTINCT" - Release INFO!!!
Date: 15 Sep 92 04:15:40 GMT
Organization: Amiga Network Information Systems


  The eight-inch disc is only available to retailers is is not for sale.  It
only contains the trailer for both "BASIC INSTINCT" and "UNIVERSAL SOLDIER" so
why would you want it, as a collectors item.

  If you really want one, I might be able to get one extra.
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From: dododge@wam.umd.edu (David O. Dodge)
Subject: Re: Special edition LD's
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 09:12:30 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.165502.13561@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov> jonke@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Stephen Jonke) writes:
>In article <BOV.92Sep8091357@essex.x.co.uk>, bov@x.co.uk (Andy Bovingdon) writes:
>> 
>> ie I know Aliens is in widescreen and special edition widescreen
>
>Not actually.  The only widescreen edition is the special edition, there
>is no non-special widescreen edition.

That only applies to the US. In the poster's country (UK) I believe they
have PAL VHS releases of both in widescreen.

                                            -Dave Dodge/dododge@wam.umd.edu
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From: jhc819@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (chung jason ho yong)
Subject: Re: GHOSTBUSTERS on laserdisc: Criterion & RCA/Columbia differences?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 03:05:25 GMT

If money were no object, I'd purchase every Criterion disc I could.  But, until
I make my first million, I'll just have to make do.

I'm kind of curious as to what the deleted scenes were though.  Anything good?

Anyways, I'm gonna take the plunge and tear open the shrink-wrap on the 
Ghostbusters I have.

Thanks to you and Bob for all the friendly info.

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From: pprun@augustit.uswc.uswest.com
Subject: Re: Blade Runner Director's Cut
Organization: US WEST Information Technologies
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 19:01:52 GMT


>This evening I was in a theatre run by General Cinema.  There was
>a 'coming attraction' poster for 'Blade Runner Director's Cut'
>[Standard BR poster - Dekker holding gun, Rachel holding cigarette,
>floating over towers of the city - except the words 'DIRECTOR'S CUT'
>appeared across the top].  I asked a ticket agent 'When?' and she
>said they don't have a release date yet.
>
>BTW this theatre was in Akron, Ohio.  If they're sending those posters
>out to the heartland, it must be real :-).


It starts in Denver this Friday, September 11.  Finally!


Pete
pprun@lookout.mnet.uswest.com
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From: rjn@FC.HP.COM (Bob Niland)
Subject: Re: Clint Eastwood LD info needed
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 18:59:17 GMT
Reply-To: rjn@FC.HP.COM
Organization: Hewlett-Packard/WSY Ft.Collins,CO,USA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1scd1 PL4

gihan@bmerh472.BNR.CA (Gihan Karunaratne) writes:
> if anyone has seen/purchased the following LDs could you please comment
> on picture and audio (digital/stereo/mono/surround) quality. Also are
> they available in LBX format I would really
> like to get these discs but am hesitant because the titles are fairly old.

> 1. FISTFUL OF DOLLARS              MGM/UA  ML101796, avoid CBS/Fox 4556-80
> 2. FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE          MGM/UA  ML102226, avoid CBS/Fox 4675-80
> 3. THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY    MGM/UA  ML101739, avoid CBS/Fox 4545-80

All the MGM LDs are CLV and widescreen (aspect ratios between 2.0 and 2.2:1)
and were recently transferred from better source elements (apparently from
the vaults of Technicolor in Rome).  The sound is digital mono and CX/analog
mono, as the films were mono.  #2 and #3 include trailers.  None are
chaptered.  All pressed by PVI.  All of these Leone films were composed for
and shot in 2.35:1 TechniScope (35mm 2-perf spherical), and blown up to 35mm
4-perf anamorphic prints.  The older CBS/Fox LDs are not only sloppily
cropped, they are from faded and damaged prints.

> 4. DIRTY HARRY           Stand by for WB 12483 in w/s.  Avoid WB 1019LV

DH is an anamorphic Panavision 35 film.  1019LV is cropped and unwatchable.
You may want to wait until 12483 is released and reviewed.  If it gets
pressed by WEA, it may have problems.

> 5. MAGNUM FORCE          Unknown 
> 6. THE ENFORCER          Unknown 

> 7. WHERE EAGLES DARE     MGM/UA ML100137 is w/s but I haven't seen it.

Regards,                                              Hewlett-Packard
Bob Niland      Internet: rjn@FC.HP.COM               3404 East Harmony Road
                CompuServe:  71044,2124               Ft Collins CO 80525-9599

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supplied without warranty of any kind.
From: lindgren@sics.se (Thomas Lindgren)
Newsgroups: rec.video.releases
Subject: Eraserhead.
Date: 8 Sep 92 16:03:01 GMT
Distribution: rec.video.releases
Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista


Thanks for the responses to my query on the availability of 
Eraserhead. The consensus is that it _is_ available in the
USA and also in Europe. In the latter case, Kurt Gjerde
provided the following address to try:

	Video City
	117 Notting Hill Gate
	London W11
	UK

He thought Eraserhead might be hard to get, but also that
other Lynch movies might be available. I'll check it out.

I can't recall any hard references to USA availability.

Thanks for email answers (you know who you are) and net replies!

	Regards,
		Thomas
--
Thomas Lindgren, UPMAIL, thomasl@csd.uu.se, lindgren@sics.se
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From: suite!tarbell@uunet.uu.net
Subject: Re: Blade Runner Director's Cut
Reply-To: suite!tarbell@uunet.uu.net
Organization: Suite Software, Anaheim CA.
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 17:23:45 GMT

A couple of years ago, a small theatre here in Westwood, California
screened the "Director's Cut" of Blade Runner, and I was fortunate
enough to get the time to go see it. They're showing it again next
week, also.

So, to quell the rumor mill:

- Yes, there still is a voice-over, but only one at the end. It's
  not the same one, either. The problem is, even with no voice-
  overs, you can still hear the original "now here's what's going
  on in case you're too dumb to get it" voice-overs in your mind!
  
- The stupid "happily-ever-after" ending was cut completely. The 
  movie ends at the point where Rachel and Deckard are escaping from 
  his apartment into the elevator, after the last unicorn scene.
  
- Yes, the music is different in places, the same in places. My
  impression was that it was more dynamic & louder than the
  original - I liked both.
  
- There were a few minor cuts & slightly different angles to
  scenes, but nothing truly substantial.
  
My overall impression of the Director's Cut was that it was less
condescending, and left more to the viewer to infer. Though, in
reality, there really isn't THAT much difference. Sort of like
a nice car that finally got polished.

Mark Tarbell
suite!tarbell@suite.uunet.uu.net
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From: daz@honey-pot.ee.mu.oz.au (Dazza Primm)
Subject: Man FRom Snowy River LBX Disc Query
Organization: Electrical and Electronic - University of Melbourne 
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 22:55:27 GMT

HI all,

I remember several months ago, that The Man From Snowy River was slatted
for release in LBX format. I was wondering if anyone had viewed this
disc, and if they had, could they give comments on it. 
I remember seeing it on TV last year, and said, this would be wonderful
in widescreen.

Cheers, Daz.


  Darren (Dazza) Primm, Dept EE Eng, Melb Uni, Parkville, 3052, Australia
 "There's no point in being grown up, if you can't be childish sometimes!"
   Internet: daz@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au  [dazza@ecr.mu.oz.au]  IRC: Family
From: glambert@pyramid.com (George Lambert)
Newsgroups: rec.video.releases
Subject: Spartacus from Criterion
Date: 9 Sep 92 22:36:04 GMT
Organization: Pyramid Technology

Criterion has released Spartacus as a three disk set.  Sides 4, 5, and 6 are
CAV, with 5&6 being devoted to oodles of interesting supplements.  The 
analog tracks are divided between (1)being a commentary on the movie and (2)
containing comments from the principal players (Saul Bass, Kirk Douglas,
Peter Ustinov [very funny], Howard Fast and a cast of thousands :-)).

Digital tracks are devoted to the movie soundtrack, so you're somewhat hosed
if you're planning on purchasing this for an older, non-digital player.

The transfer is done from a 65mm positive, and looks excellent.  Of course,
it's letterboxed (@2:1).  List price is $124.95, and well worth it, but many
of you will be shopping for discounts, so consider it an even better bargain
if you get a deal.

Strongly Recommended.

George Lambert
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From: porges@beretta.camb.inmet.com (Don Porges)
Subject: Re: Newly-announced LDs (Warner Bros. Cartoons!  At Last!)
Keywords: LDs
Organization: Intermetrics Inc.
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 17:39:14 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.063313.18734@tc.fluke.COM> moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) writes:
>
>In other news, Robert Altman will be releasing THE PLAYER (and something
>called THE SECRET HONOR) to Criterion, with commentary and supplements.
>
This is a filmed one-man play from the early 1980's, and the one man plays
Richard Nixon as he rants about everyone who did him in.  Sitting here
right now, I'm not positive that Altman directed this; if not, he was the
producer.  (The title comes from "Nixon"'s Freudian slip at one point in
the play, when he tries to mention the end of the Declaration of Independence:
"...we pledge our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")  (I think the
actual title is simply SECRET HONOR.)
-- 
					-- Don Porges
					porges@inmet.camb.inmet.com
					..uunet!inmet!porges
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From: rjn@FC.HP.COM (Bob Niland)
Subject: Re: Let's Get Paranoid!
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 19:05:47 GMT
Reply-To: rjn@FC.HP.COM
Organization: Hewlett-Packard/WSY Ft.Collins,CO,USA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1scd1 PL4

Mike_Quigley@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley) writes:
: I recently received a fax from a friend of an article taken from "Laser News"
: which gives a glowing report about the new Warner Brothers LD pressing plant,
: which, as we all know, has produced a disturbing number of defective disks. 

The problems are apparently serious enough that several recent titles
scheduled for WEA production were actually made at PVI.  I haven't bought any
of the titles listed in the base article, but I had expected the recent W/S
"LadyHawke" (WB# 12370) to be a WEA item - and it was PVI.

So at WEA's customers are aware that there are limits to what we LD
consumers will accept in the way of cross-talk, video noise, warps and
outright failure to play, all of which have been reported on WEA media.

Regards,                                              Hewlett-Packard
Bob Niland      Internet: rjn@FC.HP.COM               3404 East Harmony Road
                CompuServe:  71044,2124               Ft Collins CO 80525-9599

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From: mkr@fid.morgan.com (Mike Rosenberg)
Subject: Re: laserdisc of Beauty and the Beast (NOT)
Organization: Morgan Stanley & Co., New York, NY
 
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 11:48:49 GMT

suit yourself...since i talked to the disney marketing person in charge of
this release, i think my facts are correct. perhaps the late '93 release will
also include the extras...but the oct 30 disc will be the "work in progress".
image also confirms this. if for some reason, disney and image have conspired
to mislead me, and i am wrong, i will be very happy. good luck!

mike rosenberg
mkr@fid.morgan.com

78@mindlink.bc.ca> Mike_Quigley@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley) writes:
>According to my friendly laser disk dealer, this message is full of errors.
>Beauty and the Beast will be released WITH the "making of" stuff included. The
>CAV version will be 4 sides, and since the movie is less than 90 minutes, there
>is plenty of room for all the extra goodies.


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From: davidv@davidv.sco.COM (David Vangerov)
Subject: Criterion/Voyager in trouble? (was Re: Spartacus!)
Organization: Apathetic Surf Club (we don't surf and we don't care)
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 22:48:14 GMT
Keywords: laserdisc, spartacus

In article <1992Sep12.022250.22479@cos.com>, cooper@cos.com (Gary Cooper) writes:
|> 
|> Well - the rumors of the imminent demise of Voyager made me put
|> $124 of my remaining funds into the purchase of the new Criterion

you wouldn't want to expand on this rumor would you? i've heard a bit
about Barabara Streisand and Voyager fighting, but nothing concrete.
and what's weird is that i just picked up the latest Voyager/Criterion
catalog, and it has Prince of Tides in there, and they seem to be pushing
the special edition they put together of it...

apparently the orginal pressing of Prince of Tides (non-criterion edition)
had several scenes missing from it. not sure if it was just the LD version,
or VHS as well...

so is Voyager going under as a result from this? or unrelated economic
or market conditions?

-- 
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From: rjn@FC.HP.COM (Bob Niland)
Newsgroups: rec.video.releases
Subject: Re: Special edition LD's
Date: 8 Sep 92 15:45:30 GMT
Reply-To: rjn@FC.HP.COM
Distribution: rec.video.releases
Organization: Hewlett-Packard/WSY Ft.Collins,CO,USA
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> bov@x.co.uk (Andy Bovingdon) writes:
> I am new to LD so my collection is small (2). Also being in the UK doesnt
> help, my player plays NTSC and there are a few reasonable supplies. But
> I never know whether the film I want is only avaliable in pan and scan or
> whether a widescreen edition or better an extended special edition exists.

The "Laser Video File" catalog, available for US$5 from most US mail-order
houses, does list most of the US domestic NTSC LDs available in multiple
versions.  The current issue is Vol 4 #1.  The mail-order firm "Laser
Island" has a reasonable current translated Japanese NTSC LD catalog.

You can get a current electronic listing of Criterion Collection/Voyager
titles from me.

Regards,                                              Hewlett-Packard
Bob Niland      Internet: rjn@FC.HP.COM               3404 East Harmony Road
                CompuServe:  71044,2124               Ft Collins CO 80525-9599

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supplied without warranty of any kind.
From: long-morrow@cs.yale.edu (H. Morrow Long)
Newsgroups: rec.video.releases
Subject: Re: LBX Forbidden Planet on TNT
Date: 14 Sep 1992 12:59:25 -0400
Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: sparky.cf.cs.yale.edu


In article <1992Sep13.074226.12288@wam.umd.edu>, dododge@wam.umd.edu (David O. Dodge) writes:
|> In article <1992Sep12.203500.4416@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov> jonke@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Stephen Jonke) writes:
|> >In article <1992Sep12.161024.9167@bilver.uucp>, bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) writes:
|> >> 
|> >> AMC and TNT are the only ones I have noticed doing this so far.
|> 
|> I seem to recall seeing several letterboxed (and subtitled) films on "Bravo!"
|> when I was on vacation, but we don't get that around here so I don't know
|> how often this occurs.
|> 
|> >What I find annoying is that none of the PBS stations around me broadcast
|> >films (when the do) in letterbox.
|> 
|> The only exception I can think of is when WETA 26 broadcast 2001 in
|> letterbox many months (maybe a year) ago.
|> 
|>                                                 -Dave Dodge@wam.umd.edu

We get Boston UHF CH 38 ( WBSK??) here on our cable system ( Storer ).
It is an independent (is it a superstation such as WGH Chicago and
WTBS Atlanta?) that often shows letterboxed movies (the Deer
Hunter was shown recently).  Unfortunately it is often blanked out
when it is supposed to be showing the prime time movie ( the 'Movie
Loft') due to 'SYNDEX' rules ( a local TV station has exclusive
syndication rights in Connecticut).

I taped 'Forbidden Planet' off TNT.  Good thing I used a T-130 and
had the program tape those few extra minutes.  The movie didn't end
on the hour and went for several minutes after the hour (5? 10?).

					- Morrow
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From: chrisp@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Chris Pelkie)
Subject: Re: LBX Forbidden Planet on TNT
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 12:06:50 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.052630.5099@uhura.neoucom.edu>, wlrc@uhura.neoucom.edu (William R. Cruce) writes:
|> Tonight (9-11 wee am) TNT was broadcasting FORBIDDEN PLANET and 
|> 
|> ++IT WAS LETTERBOXED++    The ratio was 2.22:1 exactly the same as
|> my Criterion laserdisc of this.
|> 
|> I've seen LBX films on AMC, but this is the first time I've seen one
|> on TNT.
|> 
|> BTW it was followed by THE INVISIBLE BOY (which co-starred Robby the Robot
|> from FORBIDDEN PLANET).  Starting at midnight Friday 9-11 they are doing
|> old sci-fi films all night long.  Check your local listings.
|> 
|> -- 
|>                  "So many windows, So little time"
|> 
|> Bill Cruce, N.E. Ohio Univ. Coll. of Medicine, Box 95, Rootstown, OH 44272
|> VOICE: 216-325-2511,  FAX: 216-325-0522,  INTERNET: wlrc@uhura.neoucom.edu

Actually, they (TNT) have done a couple LBX broadcasts, as has AMC, but
what is really annoying is that unless you catch their on-air ads, you'd never
know from the TV listings (in our local paper). Plus, at least one widescreen film (I think 7 Brides)
has been shown both cropped and LBX'ed on the same channel (different times, of course)
so you really have to pay attention. And now they have their "summer edition" ads
(the ones with the worthless padding by "celebs" who may have once watched the
film they are showing), apparently LBX'ed although the films aren't. Grumble, grumble.

I imagine both networks are testing the waters and waiting for the flack to
fly in from all the 13" weenies, so those of us who care should write glowing
praises to AMC and TNT to continue this practice: I'm democratic, show it both
ways, but advertise it properly. I don't have addresses handy:
anyone else have them?

Of course, Bravo has the good taste to frequently show LBX, although they dropped the
ball badly on Tati's Playtime, a film in which he specifically filled the widescreen with gags,
many lost off the edge of this broadcast.

I keep meaning to write to AMC to ask that at least they could mention a widescreen
broadcast in their own monthly magazine! (They don't currently).
-- 
Chris Pelkie
Scientific Visualization Producer
Cornell Theory Center
Ithaca, NY 14853-3801
chrisp@tc.cornell.edu
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From: tomer@emav29.webo.dg.com (David Tomer)
Subject: LD rental in Rochester, NY
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 19:10:12 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Data General Corp., Westborough, MA
Keywords: LD rent Rochester
Followup-To: rec.video.releases

Helpful netters,

    I'll be moving to Rochester, NY soon, and I'm looking for places I
can rent LD's.  Anywhere in Monroe county would be close enough.  So can
anyone clue me in on some outlets?
    (LD purchase is no real problem, I'll go to Lechmere or deal with
Sight & Sound by mail.)

    Thanks in advance; replies by email or post are OK, I read this
group daily.  I'll post a summary if there's interest.

-- 
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From: wlrc@uhura.neoucom.edu (William R. Cruce)
Newsgroups: rec.video.releases
Subject: LBX Forbidden Planet on TNT
Date: 11 Sep 92 05:26:30 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine

Tonight (9-11 wee am) TNT was broadcasting FORBIDDEN PLANET and 

++IT WAS LETTERBOXED++    The ratio was 2.22:1 exactly the same as
my Criterion laserdisc of this.

I've seen LBX films on AMC, but this is the first time I've seen one
on TNT.

BTW it was followed by THE INVISIBLE BOY (which co-starred Robby the Robot
from FORBIDDEN PLANET).  Starting at midnight Friday 9-11 they are doing
old sci-fi films all night long.  Check your local listings.

-- 
                 "So many windows, So little time"

Bill Cruce, N.E. Ohio Univ. Coll. of Medicine, Box 95, Rootstown, OH 44272
VOICE: 216-325-2511,  FAX: 216-325-0522,  INTERNET: wlrc@uhura.neoucom.edu
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From: jonke@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Stephen Jonke)
Newsgroups: rec.video.releases,rec.arts.movies
Subject: Blade Runner Director's Cut info???
Date: 6 Sep 92 15:22:14 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Does anyone have concrete information of this directors cut?  Is it going to
be sans voice overs, is it going to have the deleted unicorn scene (mentioned
in Criterion's CAV laserdisc supplements),  Etc.

Steve
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From: wlrc@uhura.neoucom.edu (William R. Cruce)
Subject: Blade Runner Director's Cut
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1992 05:00:11 GMT

This evening I was in a theatre run by General Cinema.  There was
a 'coming attraction' poster for 'Blade Runner Director's Cut'
[Standard BR poster - Dekker holding gun, Rachel holding cigarette,
floating over towers of the city - except the words 'DIRECTOR'S CUT'
appeared across the top].  I asked a ticket agent 'When?' and she
said they don't have a release date yet.

BTW this theatre was in Akron, Ohio.  If they're sending those posters
out to the heartland, it must be real :-).

-- 
                 "So many windows, So little time"

Bill Cruce, N.E. Ohio Univ. Coll. of Medicine, Box 95, Rootstown, OH 44272
VOICE: 216-325-2511,  FAX: 216-325-0522,  INTERNET: wlrc@uhura.neoucom.edu