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From: gharris@jade.tufts.edu (George W. Harris)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: whatever-happened-to endings
Date: 14 Sep 92 19:21:42 GMT
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA
Originator: gharris@jade.tufts.edu


	Young Doctors in Love had an ending of one sort.

	I recall the short doctor ending up being the head periatrician at
Disneyworld...
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From: ralph@isis.CSS.GOV (Ralph Webber)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Name this Movie
Date: 14 Sep 92 18:18:05 GMT
Organization: ENSCO, Inc., Melbourne, FL

>In article <1992Sep14.100859.29362@nuscc.nus.sg>, med50003@nusunix2.nus.sg (WANSAICHEONG KHIN-LIN) writes:
>|> The reference however in the earlier series of posts about this movie
>|> which detailed ralph macchio dueling the devil for the soul of an old
>|> blues musician did strike a bell though. I have seen this movie and I
>|> good guitar work (Joe Satriani played the devil's champion). The fun
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^

I thought that was Steve Vai, unless my memory is going.

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From: george@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (George Nassas)
Subject: Re: Most Embarrassing Movie
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 02:04:28 GMT

                              Lady Beware
From: mjb@gserv1.dl.ac.uk (M.J.T. Bell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: bob roberts
Date: 11 Sep 92 12:28:41 GMT
Reply-To: mjb@gserv1.dl.ac.uk
Organization: Daresbury Laboratory, UK

In article 31737@execnet, tom.betz@execnet.com (tom betz) writes:
> Just saw _Bob_Roberts_  -- I must say, I liked it, but I didn't enjoy it.
> 
> It can be painful for a nation to have a mirror held up to itself in that 
> manner.  I can see, though, why it was so well received at Cannes... most 
> Europeans already see Americans that way, it just reinforced their image 
> of us.
> 

Bob Roberts opens in the UK today. I am looking forward to seeing for two reasons,
I thought Tim Robbins was excellent in The Player and it will take the mickey out
of the US elections. In an interview Robbins agrees that america doesn't have a
rich a sense of satire as Europe and the Uk in particular. He was influenced a great
deal by watching Robert Altman during the making of The Player.

PS - I have no understanding of the US electoral system - What are the Primaries ?

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                                                       \ \/ ___ /
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    / but my friends just call me   /   +-----------------------------------+
   / m.bell@uk.ac.daresbury.gserv1 /   / What took you so long ? - JR      /
  +-------------------------------+   / Traffic was a Bitch ! - BW        /
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From: revpk@cellar.org (Brian 'Rev P-K' Siano)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Stanley Kubrick
Date: 4 Sep 92 23:20:39 GMT
Organization: The Cellar BBS and public access system


        Gang, I figure this is one place where I might find out.

        Everyone knows that Stanley Kubrick takes his time in preparing his 
films. 2001 took about four years, The Shining about five, Full Metal Jacket 
about six. So Kubrick's about due for a new release fairly soon now.

        The big question is; does anyone have any good, substantial 
information as to what Stanley Kubrick is up to these days? I know he's been 
supervising the transfers of his films to laser (and apparently having 
trouble with 'Dr. Strangelove,' as no original negative exists), but what 
about any new movies of his? Any word at all?


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From: kreme@nyx.cs.du.edu (Not A Random Name)
Subject: Re: Cast of Dracula
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 06:36:04 GMT

asr_2@dac.mdcbbs.com writes:

>> Jonathan Harker: Keanu Reeves
>>    (_Point Break_, _Dangerous Liaisons_)
>  They must have needed a moron, he will basically have to play himself.
>  After such a stellar cast selection did they really need to this, I 
>  can't recall his character, but I hope he is short lived.

Er... you've read the book?  You've read the book and you don't recall
who Jonathan Harker was?  I could be wrong, but wouldn't John be arguably
the primary supporting character (assuming you cast Dracula as star)?

He's the guy who introduces us to Dracula, as wel as being Mina's
betrothed.

>  Asim
>  ..looking forward to Dracula..and the woman who flamed me last time
>  please reply I missed it, and would like the amusement of you trying
>  to impress me with Keanu Reeves acting ability.  AN amoeba has more
>  screen presence and can procreate faster than the delay when Mr.
>  Reeves reads his lines.  If however Mr Reeves does begin to display
>  cognizance in this movie I will retract any insult I delivered to his
>  acting ability.  

And how much of Keanu Reeves have you seen?  Personally, I think River
Phoenix would have been a better choice, but Keanu Reeves is not a BAD
actor... Phoenix is just better (and simial looks and bearing).  Reeves
was pretty entertaining in "I Love You to Death" (based on a TRUE story!)

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From: jreece@sousa.intel.com (John Reece)
Subject: Re: Of Mice and Men
Keywords: movies, steinbeck, censure
Reply-To: jreece@sousa.intel.com
Organization: Intel - Information Technologies
Distribution: rec
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 18:16:50 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.191725.26527@b23a.b23a.ingr.com>, alfa@b23a.b23a.ingr.com (Laura Pina) writes:

> But in the previews, I noticed that the old, semi-handicapped gentleman --
> the one with the old dog (I have no memory for detail; can't think of character's name) -- is white.  Wasn't he black in the book?  So what IS THE DEAL?
> I mean, if the movie is an attempt to fight censorship then why does it 
> propagate racism???
 
> Can someone help me understand?



It's probably just an example of color-blind casting.  Equality is
transitive, after all.


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From: guest@iat.holonet.net (HoloNet Guest Services)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: HONEYMOON IN VEGAS -- Quick Impressions
Date: 11 Sep 92 03:51:08 GMT
Organization: HoloNet (BBS: 510-704-1058)

Agreed with the Quick Imp. on H in V; Yes seeing Ms Parker cland in skin
tight clothes all over the movie was exploitation, but I do not thin
anyone in the theatre left without a good laugh !
From: smmat@ukc.ac.uk (S.M.M.Al-Taher)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: 3 Men and a Baby - Ghost Boy ?
Date: 13 Sep 92 23:09:14 GMT
Reply-To: smmat@ukc.ac.uk (S.M.M.Al-Taher)
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.

In article <1992Sep12.165957.5514@DIALix.oz.au> ajd@DIALix.oz.au (Anthony Doig) writes:
>We have just watched this movie.  Does anybody know anything about the
>"ghost boy" that appears in the window, behind some curtains, as Ted
>Danson, his "mum" and the baby are moving passed ?  There is a shotgun
>in the same position as they move passed the other way (but this happens
>a couple of minutes before).  It looks really weird.
>
>I've heard a couple of unbelievable stories, but I was wondering if anybody
>knew anything about it.

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4) WHAT'S THIS TALK ABOUT A GHOST IN THREE MEN AND A BABY?
There is a rumor that if you watch TMATB very closely you will see a
ghost in it.  The scene in question is the one where Ted Danson's
character meets his mom in his apartment.  If you look near the window
you can see an image resembling a small boy.  This is supposedly the
ghost of a boy who was killed in the house where the movie was filmed.

First of all, the movie was not filmed in a house, but on a Toronto
soundstage.  So the whole premise is hokey to begin with.  But here is
more evidence provided by: brian@b11.ingr.com (Brian Enright)):

> I then rewound and ran it through super slow mo.  When they pass the
> window on their way in, you can't see the boy but it looks like there
> is a bed post sticking up.  When they pass the window again it looks
> like a two-dimensional cut-out but not of Ted Danson.  It's a little
> boy with a baseball cap, a white tee-shirt and a blue unbuttoned
> button-down shirt in my opinion.  Hmmmm.  I had to investigate.
> 
> After further investigation of other scenes in the movie I found there
> were no bed posts on the bed.  Then I hit the clue that gave it away.
> This particular scene is almost at the end of the movie.  In this
> scene Ted Danson walks to a window where there is a cut-out of him in
> a black top hat and a black tuxedo with a white shirt.  If you
> examine this cut out closely and go back to the scene in question,
> you will notice that they are the same cut out.  You can see that the
> boy *is* Ted Danson and he is wearing a top hat and even his shoulders
> hidden behind the curtain are noticeably not a little boy's but a man
> in a tuxedo.  
> 
> I hate to burst any bubbles but it *definitely is* a cut-out of Ted
> Danson in a *tuxedo*..  

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From: jordan@cs.tulane.edu (Misti Jordan)
Subject: Re: Sneakers--not a review (sort of)
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-28828]: sinbad
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 04:52:09 GMT


In article <BuCCIz.GB5@rice.edu>, mcbride@owlnet.rice.edu (Doug McBride) writes:
>
> > (But where else will a mention of Gauss bring down the house?
>
> > I wonder if they intentionally previewed this movie at lots of engineering
> > schools?  We do lots of sneak previews at MIT (we're showing the Woody
> > Allen film next week), so it's difficult to know whether a movie was
> > specifically targeted to our type of school.
>
> They're previewing it here at Rice tomorrow night, so you may be
> right.  I'll let you know about the Gauss line...

At Tulane as well...

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From: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: why are the british p
Date: 15 Sep 92 05:58:33 EST
Reply-To: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

NP>Do American's really have such a inadequete view of the world or is it
NP>just the TV geek people, after all the net.people seem pretty 'normal'
NP>to us here.

     There are very few characters of any nationality in the movies who
     are NOT stereotyped.  Are you saying that you Brits don't REALLY
     act the way we see you act in the reruns of "Monty Python's Flying
     Circus" or in their movies?  :)

NP>After all, we in the UK know all Americans are crack-crazed, cop killing,
NP>TV channel hopping, fat burger-chomping, rap loving, Mall hanging out
NP>type of people. All Australian's are XXXX obsessed  Neighbours watching
NP>morons etc ............. :-) !!!! We believe the TV God !!

     I rest my case.  :)
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From: bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Film with the least actors
Date: 9 Sep 92 02:57:31 GMT
Organization: HHMI/Human Genetics, Univ of Pa.

In article <1992Sep8.173151.15638@idacom.hp.com>, kenl@idacom.hp.com 
(Ken Loo) writes:

> How about My Dinner with Andre?  Two actors, Andre and his dinner guest.

Sorta like _Sleuth_?  Or was I thinking of _Swiming to Cambodia_?
Or maybe it was _Lawrence of Arabia_...or was it _The Hunt for Red October_?

Hmmmmmmmmmm....

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From: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Pretty Woman (was Re: Most Maddening Movie)
Date: 6 Sep 92 18:00:21 GMT
Reply-To: bd%fluent@dartmouth.EDU
Organization: Fluent Inc., Lebanon NH


lewis@linac.fnal.gov (June Cummins Lewis) writes:

>For me, the most maddening movie was the same as the most
>embarrassing--Pretty Woman.  It just made sick that so many people
>lapped up the story as if it were realistic and possible.  I don't
>mind escapist fluff, but when a film pretends to have
>verisimilitude, which this one totally lacked, it goads me to no end.

I must have missed something.  When did anyone pretend this
fairy tale was "realistic and possible"?

And when did the movie pretend to have "verisimilitude"?  I didn't
think it portrayed itself as anything but a fantasy.

June, did you fall prey to the studio's hype, or your own?
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From: ed@wente.llnl.gov (Ed Suranyi)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Supporting Actor/Actress Awards
Date: 7 Sep 92 17:08:50 GMT
Organization: UC Davis Dept of Applied Science at LLNL

In article <23131@sybase.sybase.com> wdw@sybase.com (Wayne Wong) writes:
>The recent thread about Oscar winners reminded me of an old
>bit of Oscar folklore -- namely, that there is a "curse" on
>Best Supporting Actor/Actress winners that dooms them to 
>professional failure/obscurity forever afterward, especially
>when they win the award realitvely early in their careers.

>I wonder if it's true in general. For instance:
>Louise Fletcher

Louise Fletcher won Best Actress, not Best Supporting Actress, for
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."  So in some cases the "curse", such
as it is, applies to lead roles as well.

Actually, there seems to me to be a logical reason why this problem
affects so many supporting roles.  Many of these awards have been won
by obscure actors and actresses who fit the part of a secondary character
perfectly, and make the audience notice him or her.  Often it's the only
really good role this person will have.

There are certainly exceptions, of course.  In addition to the ones
you mentioned, there are Geena Davis, Rita Moreno (who actually went
on to continued fame in fields other than acting, like singing and
dancing), etc.

Ed
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From: leeper@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (mark.r.leeper)
Subject: Book Me, Dano!
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 02:22:04 GMT

As several people have pointed out, the island in HONEYMOON IN VEGAS
was Kauai, not Maui.  My apologies to the people of Kauai.  If it isn't
one disaster, it's another, huh?

			Mark Leeper
			...att!mtgzy!leeper
			(201)957-5619
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From: gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart)
Subject: Re: An annoying thing about Blade Runner
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 15:33:35 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.215709.15312@seas.gwu.edu> geigel@seas.gwu.edu (Joseph Geigel) writes:
>
>Now don't get me wrong, I think that Blade Runner is one of the
>best science fiction movies ever made...however, there is this one
>annoying point brought up on a panel at the World Science Fiction
>convention this past Labor Day weekend that sort of bothers me.
>
>The movie is a story of this cop who has to kill these replicants
>who are all going to die in a week anyway.  Decker could have just
>sat in a Dunkin Donuts for a week until the replicant's life span
>ran out.  (Then, I suppose, we wouldn't have much of a movie, would we?).
>
>Think about it.
>

Well, I would say this is used as an example of "policy" of the
government.  Stupid, but "policy".  And their policy would be
"no replicants on Earth, period".  Further, if replicants were really
uncontrollable and fatalistic, knowing how short their lives were,
think how much damage they could cause in a week.  Besides, their
lifespans are in the order of years.  A new replicant could spend
a significant amount of time screwing with humans on earth.  And
replicants, if given that option of living on earth in their
remaining weeks, might quite often opt for that rather than being
slaves on other worlds or in space, regadless of how short that
time might seem to humans.  Besides which, the policy against having
replicants on earth is portrayed as unreasonable.  At least the
idea of having a slave race is.  So having an unreasonable policy
being invoked is, in my opinion, consistent with the message of
the movie.

GMS
From: jxxl@huxley.cs.nps.navy.mil (John Locke)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: The Film with the fewest (> 0) actors
Date: 9 Sep 92 17:31:34 GMT
Reply-To: jxxl@cs.nps.navy.mil (John Locke)
Organization: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA

bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole) writes:

# > Swimming to Cambodia and Monster in a Box.  Both are Spaulding Gray
# > monologues.  The first might be disqualified because it has a clip
# > from The Killing Fields, but I believe Monster has one and only one actor.
# 
# And how many does _My Dinner With Andre_ have?
# 
# (I'm beginning to think that the people posting to this thread don't really
# read this newsgroup...)

Doesn't Lawrence of Arabia have greater than zero actors? We still haven't
plumbed the depths of this infinitely fascinating topic.

John
From: voros@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Joe Voros)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Drowning by Numbers
Date: 14 Sep 92 11:22:01 +1000
Organization: Physics Department, Monash University, Australia.

eric@npri6.npri.com (Eric Williams) writes:
> (BTW, does anyone know how to decode A ZED AND TWO NOUGHTS?)

You mean Z O O?  Zoo?  The whole film revolves around events in a Zoo. 
And, later, when Death is being spoken about, you see the interesting
reversal OOZ --- to which we will all return.

-- 
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Department of Physics, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia.

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From: il@bambam.u.washington.edu (Il Hwan Oh)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Blade Runner Director's Cut (SPOILERS)
Date: 15 Sep 92 03:57:23 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Tacoma

hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai) writes:

>> _BR_ is full of these little errors.
>
>Some more errors, some of which may be deliberate.

>* The serial number that the old asian lady reads off the snake skin is not
>the same as the one on the screen.

I've heard this before, but it just isn't true.  The first part of what
she reads isn't visible, but the last part is on the screen.  I think
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From: davem@uvmark.uucp (Dave Meeks)
Subject: Re: Anyone seen Hellraiser III?
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 14:01:10 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Vmark Software, Inc.

In article <1992Sep14.194848.26859@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> cobarruvias@asd2.jsc.nasa.gov writes:
>So....how was it? 

IMHO, it sucked raw eggs.  I loved the Hellraiser series, but this one bit it
on all ends, except for gore factor.  The acting was horrendous, even worse
than, say, a Friday the 13th movie.  The plot was so hokey it was insulting.
Actually, let me take that back.  The "plot", if taken strictly from the idea,
was actually pretty decent, however, the execution was so absolutely horrible
that it would be hard to describe.  The female star of the show seemed to
be following a string, being pulled through seens, with little or no emotion
or realistic responses to anything happening.  If you want spoilers, I can
give them to you (as this movie was plenty spoiled)


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From: gbradley@uks197.Berkeley.EDU (Gary Bradley)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Stanley Kubrick
Date: 14 Sep 92 17:35:31 GMT
Reply-To: gbradley@uks197.Berkeley.EDU (Gary Bradley)

revpk@cellar.org (Brian 'Rev P-K' Siano) writes...


>         Everyone knows that Stanley Kubrick takes his time in preparing his 
> films. 2001 took about four years, The Shining about five, Full Metal Jacket 
> about six. So Kubrick's about due for a new release fairly soon now.

   Hmmmm. you very subtley omitted "A Clockwork Orange" which should fit
between 2001 and The Shining. What happened?

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