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From: mlj44080@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael Lee Jacobs)
Subject: Re: PEEVES at MOVIE THEATERS !
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:15:11 GMT

ac717@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeffry L. Johnson) writes:


>In a previous article, tvervaek@col.hp.com (Tom Vervaeke) says:

>>2. Poor sound, unfocused projector.

>Long gone are the days of a projectionist only having to deal with a single 
>screen. If you are lucky, the only duties of the projectionist is projection. 
>All too often, the projectionist is also the manager, or an usher, or a 
>concession person. It seems that all we have is film threaders. The shows are 
>automated to the point of starting automatically without human assistance. This 
>is progress! 8-) Right??!!  


Do not however make the mistake of thinking that a 'union projectionist'
makes a good one...My theatre has been cursed by the bloody union for
far too long.  Regularly we have shows put together backwards, buthcered
splices and a complete lack of attention to when the show is supposed to
start, and yet they still make about 3 times that of all the employees in
a given shift combined including the management.  Our competitors have
competant 'untrained' staff that manage to run rings around our idiots.


(no personal flame just the IATSE credits in the sig brought up old bile)


>-- 
>Jeffry L. Johnson                                    CWRU Film Society Alumnus
>Technologist, HLA Lab, Institute of Pathology, CWRU/Univ. Hosp. of Cleveland
>Projectionist, Centrum Theatre;      IATSE Local 160  Officer: Examining Board
>Freenet: ac717 (Internet: ac717@cleveland.freenet.edu)   CompuServe: 71117,527
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From: cosulliv@fraser.sfu.ca (Christina Marie O'Sullivan)
Subject: Re: CHAPLIN - bisexual??
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:42:13 GMT

jyc@leo.Stanford.EDU (Jon Corelis) writes:

>   So far as I remember, Kenneth Anger in Hollywood Babylon nowhere
>mentions that Chaplin was rumored to be gay or bisexual.  I think that
>this is conclusive evidence there were no such rumors, since it's
>inconceivable that if they existed Anger wouldn't have dug them up for
>that book.

>   I do recall though that it was rumored that Chaplin was hung like a
>horse.   

Yes, I kept waiting to see when that could come up (NO PUN INTENDED!!!) 
in the movie.

Christina O'Sullivan
From: bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Well known actors as punks
Date: 23 Jan 93 21:09:35 GMT
Organization: HHMI/Human Genetics, Univ of Pa.

In article <C1BJHC.71n@me.utoronto.ca>, steinman@me.utoronto.ca 
(David Steinman) writes:

>>>3.      Willem Defoe as a punk in _The Hunger_ harassing Susan Sarandon.
>>>
>>>4.      Matt Frewer (Max Headroom) as a punk that tries to bother _Supergirl_.
>>>
>>>5.      Bill Paxton (Aliens) lends some clothes to Arnie in _The Terminator_.
>>>
>>>6.      Daniel Day Lewis as a gay street punk in _My Beautiful Laundrette_.
>> 
>>7. Henry Winkler as a punk in "The Lords of Flatbush".
 
> Are we talking "punk" as in street criminal or "punk" as in slam dancing
> anarchist?  
We were talking about the petty street criminal type, as in the type Dirty
Harry used to blow away...or Charles Bronson.  *smile*  And we were also 
talking about famous actors in small roles before they made it "big".

> Jeff Goldblum as one of the (street) punks in the original "Death Wish"
This is one of the ones that started it off..someone deleted the first 2
and just included the list from 3 on.

> Emilio Estevez as the (anarchist) punk repo man in "Repo Man"
> Gary Oldman as (anarchist) punk Sid Vicious in "Sid and Nancy"
Roles are too large, and the wrong kind of punk to fit into this list.
Actually my Daniel Day Lewis example was a bad one too...

> If you haven't seen Oldman as Vicious, you're missing one of the
> greatest acting jobs of all time.
Agreed wholeheartedly.  Oldman is a brilliant actor.

Greg Bole                          "I always wanted to be an orphan.  I could 
bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu          have, if it wasn't for my parents."
                                         Gary Oldman in _Prick Up Your Ears_
From: 00tdspence@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: John Haymes Newton???  Tintin in ALIVE...
Date: 27 Jan 93 22:43:48 GMT
Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's



I am seeking information on an actor I saw in ALIVE.
His name is John Haymes Newton (or something like that)
and he played Tintin (The one of the three that made the final
push into the mountains but then returned to the plane while the other
two went on through the mountains.  He was generally wearing a shirt
with blue and white vertical stripes.  Has dark hair and eyes, appeared
fairly tall).
Ok, now that we know who I am talking about, can someone please tell
me WHERE I have seen him before???
A list of his screen and TV credits would be nice as would any personal
data about him.

Please respond directly via emial as I don't have regular access to the
net!  

Thanking you in advance for all your kind help...
Travis

00tdspence@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
-OR-
00tdspence@virgo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
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From: lazlo@triton.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: PEEVES at MOVIE THEATERS !
Date: 21 Jan 1993 19:08:17 GMT
Organization: Usenet Power Elite: Crush-The-Innocent-Newbies Strike Team
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a0s5108@titan.ucs.umass.edu (Neal and Mara Priestly) writes:

> Still waiting for the video guy to post the 'why video tape looks so
> much brighter' article.....  I didn't pay a whole lot of attention, 'cos
> vid ain't what I do for a living.

Video looks brighter because video's all-around lower resolution forces you
to pump up the level on a transfer to retain detail in low-light scenes.
You can avoid the problem with a careful transfer, but many transfers
aren't all that careful.

(This light-level problem is why you can see the traveling mattes around
the ships during FX sequences in the video releases of the "Star Wars"
movies.)

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From: edm@twisto.compaq.com (Ed McCreary)
Subject: Re: Well know film, well know actor (to be)
Organization: Compaq Computer Corp
	<hamster.02rj@xymox.apana.org.au>
	<16B5D68A8.GRAJEK@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu>
	<hal.90.727629710@radio.wkar.msu.edu>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:10:50 GMT

>>>>> On 21 Jan 93 15:21:50 GMT, hal@radio.wkar.msu.edu (Hal Prentice) said:
HP> NNTP-Posting-Host: prentice.wkar.msu.edu

HP> In article <16B5D68A8.GRAJEK@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu> GRAJEK@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Susan Grajek) writes:

HP> I seem to remember seeing a very young Richard Dreyfus as this sort of 
HP> backstage gofer in "Valley of the Dolls."  He knocks on Patty Duke's (?) 
HP> dressing room door to tell her she has to go on.  At least the scene went 
HP> something like that.  I haven't seen the film in years and hope to never 
HP> again.

Don't forget his wonderful appearance in _Hello Down There_.  Definitely
Oscar material, IMHO.
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From: anderson@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Chris Anderson)
Subject: Re: Are distributors stupid?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:43:00 GMT

In <!3l3n-h@rpi.edu> spinaa@rpi.edu (Matt Garretson) writes:

>upwards of $10k per location. The catch is, these small films are showing
>in only 1 out of 100 theaters, thus allowing the bigwigs to confirm their
>own suspicions that such films aren't profitable.

=-=-=-=-
Perhaps it's like theatre chains running the same movie for six months
at their single-screen facilities, until nobody comes.  It's my opinion
that they are trying to persuade their board of directors that nobody
wants to come to single screen theatres.  Want to bet that they show the
profit/loss figures to the board, but omit the fact that the film ran
forever?  As for "art" films, it makes no sense to me why a 10-plex (or
a 4-plex, for that matter) can't run a good non-mainstream film once in
a while.  It has been my experience that people will come and see good 
movies, provided they are aware that they are showing.  And if it doesn't
draw very many people, the other 3-9 films will pay the rent that week.
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From: gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart)
Subject: Re: The Crying Game
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:28:47 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.161701.5317@mloeff01.cpchq.cpc.gmeds.com> dah@cveng121.veheng.det writes:
>Someone please post a review of The Crying Game.
>Thanks in advance.
>-------------------------------------
>
>Two wrongs don't make a right.

But three lefts do.

>But a good right hook evens things out.

Sorry.

GMS
From: fugitt@tempus.Corp.Sun.COM (Lem Fugitt - Nihon Sun US Office)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: What's a AA rating?
Date: 22 Jan 1993 00:23:39 GMT
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In article 1jnba3INNglm@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca, twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong) writes:
<=>
<=>Simple question. What is a rating of AA for movies?
<=>ie. what does AA stand for?
<=>Thanx.
<=>
<=>Thomas.
<=>


Hmmm, could it be the rating for films like-

	The Lost Weekend
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From: FA.TJM@forsythe.stanford.edu (Thom McKean)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: re: buscemi = god
Date: 26 Jan 1993 14:25:24 -0800
Organization: Stanford University
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Michael Grimes writes:
>         Are you sure Buscemi was in Miller's Crossing? Are you confusing him
>with John Turturro ?
>

Buscemi has a very small speaking role as the fast talking Mink,
Bernie's partner.

>Anyway, Buscemi is a fine actor. No one has mentioned PARTING GLANCES, one of
>his first films. He should have had a supporting actor nomination for the
>Oscars, IMHO.
>
>  Parting GLances can be found in most video stores.  Has anyone else seen this
>film?

Greg Bole wonders:

>Name sounds familiar, but which characters did he play in the
>[below] films?

> Miller's Crossing
[see above.]
> Barton Fink
The hotel clerk.
> Resevoir Dogs
Mr. Pink, the man who wouldn't tip.

>Greg Bole                        "We're talking about a religious
>bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu      experience here.  I might say 'doth'
>                                  or 'thou' or alot of things."
>                                    Steve Martin in _Grand Canyon_

Thom

You know, Dag and Claire smile a lot, as do many people I know.  But
I have always wondered if there is something either mechanical or
malignant to their smiles, for the way they keep their outer lips
propped up seems a bit, not false, but _protective_.
                                     douglas coupland
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From: GRAJEK@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Susan Grajek)
Subject: Re: Well know film, well know actor (to be)
Organization: Yale University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 07:26:16 EST

In article <hamster.02rj@xymox.apana.org.au>
hamster@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) writes:
 
>
>In article <1jf4vqINNmdh@phakt.usc.edu> jameskau@phakt.usc.edu (James Kaufman) writes:
>
>> >A (minor) hobby of mine is to 'collect' well know films that featured a famous actor/actress before they became famous. Examples:
>> >
>> >Could some better informed souls out there help me with this list of
>> >actors/actresses - films ?
>> >
>> >Bengt KLEBERG		bk@analytikerna.se
 
 Richard Gere was the pychopath who killed Diane Keaton in "Looking for Mr.
   Goodbar."  In fact, that role has always made it impossible for me to
   be able to take him seriously as a good guy in other films he's done.
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From: reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Peter Reiher)
Subject: Re: Rumor: _American Psycho_
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 19:06:40 GMT

In article <BD.93Jan23080541@bd.UUCP> bd%fluent@dartmouth.EDU writes:
>>True.  A better example would be "Basic Instinct."  Remember
>>that the book got dropped by it's first publisher for much
>>the same reason.  And the studios are probably wary of 
>>New York "writers" by now, anyway...
>
>Sounds like bs to me.  All the fuss and bother with
>LAST TEMPTATION and BASIC INSTINCT are probably the 
>only reason why they ade any money.
>
>If the studio can guarantee a lot of publicity
>just by filming a book, I am sure someone will
>do it.
>
>Free publicity is the best publicity.

I think that "Basic Instinct" would have been a big hit without the
fuss from various groups.  It was a skillful (though not artistic) combination
of some of the elements that tend to be most popular with audiences - sex,
violence, the approved kinds of nudity, suspense, attractive stars.  If
it was only curiosity about the publicity that drew the audiences in, it
would have made much less money than it did.

By the way, the case of "Basic Instinct" and the case of "American Psycho"
are somewhat different.  Hollywood is more receptive to pressure from some
groups than from others.  Basically, most of the people making decisions in
Hollywood consider themselves liberals, but not extreme liberals.  Thus,
pressure from religious fundamentalists or lesbian groups is less likely
to phase them than massively bad publicity from, say, the National Organization
of Women, who surely would have something negative to say about a film 
version of "American Psycho".  Making a film of "American Psycho" would
upset people who most Hollywood producers view as political and social
allies, so they would be reluctant to do it without some mighty good
inducements.  (Like the belief that it would be a guaranteed hit, which
doesn't seem too likely.  The book didn't sell all that well, did it?)

-- 
		Peter Reiher
		reiher@wells.cs.ucla.edu
From: douga@yang.earlham.edu (Doug Atkinson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Actress Question
Date: 21 Jan 93 15:41:45 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: The Lion of Serrea

In article <C16Dxs.B5L@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter) writes:
> cass@netcom.com (Diana Tenery-Fisher) writes:
> 
>>bates@spica.ucsb.edu (Andrew M. Bates) writes:
> 
> 
>>>    I have a bet going with my roommate: after seeing a rerun of "Quantum
>>>Leap," I noticed that the woman playing the trapeze artist was the same
>>>woman who played the exchange student in "Summer School."  The question
>>>is: is this the same woman who was Michael Caine's partner in "Blame It On
>>>Rio"?  
> 
>>>    Could someone please clear this up for us?  And if possible, could you
>>>supply the name (or names) of the actress (or actresses) in question?
> 
>> 
>>The woman in SUMMER SCHOOL wasn't the same one from BLAME IT ON RIO. (That
>>was Demi Moore) The girl in SUMMER SCHOOL was also in BIGTOP PEEWEE and
>>RAINMAN. She is italian, but her name escapes me. 
> 
> The actress from "Rain Man" and "Big Top Pee-Wee" escapes me, too, but it's
> definitely not Fabiana Udenio, the actress from "Summer School."
> 
> 
		Valerina Golino.  My video guide also lists her for 
"Detective School Dropouts," "Hot Shots," "The Indian Runner," "Torrents 
of Spring," and "The Year of the Gun."
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From: patk@sr.hp.com (Patrick Kearney)
Subject: Weird Movies
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:24:13 GMT
Organization: HP Sonoma County (SRSD/MWTD/MID)
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Somebody recently -- perhaps in the continuing "Weird Films"
thread -- mentioned "The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T", a rather good
fantasy produced but not, I fancy, directed by Stanley Kramer.
I've seen this several times, once in a peculiar black & white
version at a children's matinee at the Barbican Centre, London.

There's another strange Kramer-produced film that seems almost
unknown these days. It's called "Pressure Point" and is based
on one of Robert Lindner's psychiatric case histories. The plot
centres on a young American Nazi, played by Bobby Darrin, who is
imprisoned for some crime and undergoes therapy to straighten
him out. In the original case history, the psychiatrist who
treats him is a Jew, but for some reason best known to the
producers and/or scriptwriter he becomes black in the form of
Sydney Poitier in the film version. 

Some disturbing images occur during the therapy sessions,
including a sequence where Bobby Darrin, shrunk to minuscule
proportions, is flushed down the bathroom sink by his father.

The film is shot in grainy, almost newsreel black and white
style, and directed, I think, by Hubert Cornfield who seems
to have done little else except a version of Burton Wohl's
"A Cold Wind in August" and a bunch of hack TV work.

Anyone else seen "Pressure Point"?
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From: cn@otter.hpl.hp.com (Colin Needham)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Harrison Ford Films
Date: 28 Jan 93 08:51:18 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.

In article <3gN3XB1w165w@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>, quantum@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (Blake Matthews) writes:
>Does anybody know or have a complete list of the movies Harrison Ford has 
>been in?  Please E-Mail me with info. Thanks. Quantum.

Harrison Ford's filmography sent via e-mail, but as usual to save duplicated 
responses I'm posting it here too. From the r.a.movies actors list (available 
via anonymous ftp from boulder.colorado.edu in pub/tv+movies/lists):

Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966)
Luv (1967)
Time for Killing, A (1967)
Journey to Shiloh (1968)
Getting Straight (1970)
Intruders, The (1970) (TV)
Zabriskie Point (1970)
American Graffiti (1973)
Conversation, The (1974)
James Michener's Dynasty (1976) (TV)
Heroes (1977)
Possessed, The (1977) (TV)
Star Wars (1977)
Force 10 from Navarone (1978)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Frisco Kid, The (1979)
Hanover Street (1979)
More American Graffiti (1979)
Empire Strikes Back, The (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Blade Runner (1982)
Return of the Jedi (1983)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Witness (1985) (AAN)
Mosquito Coast, The (1986) (GGN)
Frantic (1988)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Working Girl (1989)
Presumed Innocent (1990)
Regarding Henry (1991)
Behind the Scenes: A Portrait of Pierre Guffroy (1992)
Patriot Games (1992)
"Leave It to Beaver" (????)

Cheers,

Col

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From: dips@cad.gatech.edu (Deeptendu Majumder)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: What is that movie about Apollo Missions ?
Date: 21 Jan 1993 01:09:59 -0500
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, CAE/CAD Lab
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As the subject says I am looking for the name of the movie on
Apollo missions and uses Brian Eno's music. And I would also
like to know if it is available in video tape format. After
hearing the soundtrack album, long ago, I had wanted to see the
movie.  But eventually I forgot about it. The other night, at a
local movie theatre, I heard somebody talking about the movie. So
I figured I will make an effort to locate the movie. 

many thanks
d.
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Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:30:59 CST
From: <U28698@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Georges Melies' A TRIP TO THE MOON

For TRIP TO THE MOON, check the local film library of the local University.  Si
nce it's such an 'important' flick, I'm sure they'd have it.
From: lazlo@triton.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: CHAPLIN - bisexual??
Date: 23 Jan 1993 18:45:41 GMT
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mec@acsu.buffalo.edu (Marie E. Copertino) writes:

> After DF JR. closed his car door and drove away, Charlie added, "Sweet
> Prince".  Does anyone konw if this is an allusion to romantic feelings
> Charlie may have had for his friend?

Didn't Fairbanks play Hamlet on stage at one point?  I thought the line
was, at least in part, an allusion to this fact.  It's certainly an
allusion to his impending death from his heart condition.

It was Fairbanks, Sr., by the way.

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From: citrin@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Wayne Citrin)
Subject: Re: What's a AA rating?
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:39:35 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.191757.13059@Virginia.EDU> cew2w@Virginia.EDU ("Chris Wrike") writes:
>hhtra@usho72.hou281.chevron.com  writes:
>> In article <1jnba3INNglm@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>, twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong) writes:
>> |> What is a rating of AA for movies?  What does AA stand for?
>
>
>	The MPAA does not copyright any rating of AA.  AA
>probably stands for something like "All Ages" or "All Audances(?)".
>You may have seen a movie marked "AA" in a home video guide or
>in some sort of TV listing.

Did you guys notice that the original post was from Canada?  Perhaps the rating
he's asking about is a Canadian rating.

Wayne

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