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From: spencer@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (S. Spencer Sun)
Subject: Re: hoffa release date?
Reply-To: spencer@phoenix.princeton.edu (S. Spencer Sun)
Organization: Live Organ Transplants
Distribution: rec
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 17:21:45 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.1489.27176@channel1>, "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com> writes:
>MBB>Anybody know with Danny DeVito's Hoffa is to be released. After
>
>     It's set for a December release date.  For what it's worth, I've

The trailers say Christmas... it does look like it'll be a good movie.
Me, I'm waiting for 1492...

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From: cb366@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark B. Bendiksen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Apocalypse Now query
Date: 3 Sep 1992 18:38:17 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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>In article <1992Sep3.161051.290@dct.ac.uk>, mctsrj@dct.ac.uk writes:
>> Something has been puzzling me for a while.
>> Its a while since I have seen Apocalypse Now, but I seem to
>> remember that the narration was credited to someone other                 
>> than Martin Sheen, although the voice sounds exactly like
>> Sheen's?                                                     
>>                                
>> I s my recollection correct, and if so why didn't Sheen do
>> the narration?                       
>> Can anyone help?                              
>> Cheers                            
                                           
>I was fooled too, until I saw the credits.  STill hard to believe
>it wasn't him when I heard it again.  However, I read that he
>had a heart attack during filming, so they must have gotten someone
>to "do" his voice.                         
                
                                                               
>marc colten

No, no, no............

The narration was WRITTEN by someone else, but it was still
spoken by Sheen.

Sheen did suffer a heart attack during the filming, which
prevented him from being on the set for several weeks
(see the excellent _Hearts of Darkness_ documentary for
details). However, Sheen did return to finish the film
and certainly was in fine health when the time came to
do the looping (post-production when dialogue is
re-recorded for the film, and when the extra narration
was presumably added).


Mark B. Bendiksen
cb366@freenet.cwru.edu
-- 
"If we don't get some cool rules ourselves, pronto,
 We'll just be bogus, too."-- Dr. Jeff Spicolli
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From: mlh@eddy.austin.ibm.com (Mike Haskell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Most Embarassing Movie
Date: 31 Aug 92 21:55:28 GMT
Organization: IBM, Austin


 What is the most embarassing movie you have ever seen?  (What I mean by
 embarassing, is that you feel absolutely miniscule when the lights come
 up and you HAVE to walk out of the theater with every other bonehead
 who bought a ticket to this turkey).  Movies on video don't count as
 your stupidity is hidden by the walls of your house. :-)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Subject: Re: Most ridiculous sex scene (in a movie - not real life)
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 11:34:27 GMT

Changing "ridiculous" to "unintentionally (perhaps) humorous" I'd go with
the scene in which Lillian Gish (Elsie Stoneman) is thinking about Henry B.
Walthall (Ben Cameron) while caressing a bedpost in _Birth of a Nation_.

-- Herb Huston
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.tv.twin-peaks
From: jxxl@huxley.cs.nps.navy.mil (John Locke)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Upcoming movies (Malcolm X)
Date: 26 Aug 92 16:59:48 GMT
Reply-To: jxxl@cs.nps.navy.mil (John Locke)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA

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

> But I am very excited about X!!!  One of my favorite directors once again 
> teamed with one of my favorite actors.  We'll see how Spike can handle a 
> period piece.  :^)

I just read about the opening to "Malcolm X." I wish I hadn't. My advice,
if you are interested in seeing this film, is to avoid hearing anything
about it ahead of time. Let's just put it this way: it's a good thing it's
coming out *after* the election (Nov. 20).

John
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,rec.arts.sf.movies,soc.culture.polish
From: rnmg1200@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (A Lady and her Walrus)
Subject: Re: Aliens 3 and stuff
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: rec
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 19:01:17 GMT

In article <1992Aug30.130023.7168@daimi.aau.dk> knude@daimi.aau.dk (Per Knudsgaard) writes:
>dsc@gemini.tmc.edu (Doug S. Caprette Bldg. 28 W191 x3892) writes:
>   Something that puzzled me though, was Bishop II human or android? My initial
>thought was human - he looked more human this time - but when he was clubbed by 85,
>I think his ear was hanging "loose" and I could not see any blood. Did I imagine
>things? Did my eyes fool me?
>
According to an interview with Lance Henriksen (who played Bishop and 
Bishop II) in Starlog, Bishop II was indeed human.  Take it with as many
grains of salt as you will.

The Walrus

Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
From: ckt4x@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Curt Tsui)
Subject: Re: hartley movies?
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 22:20:47 GMT

CONNOLLY@UKCC.UKY.EDU  writes:
> Does anyone know where I can order tapes of Hal Hartley movies
> (Unbelievable Truth; Trust; etc. )?
> -j

I know that Blockbuster video was selling previously viewed
copies of Trust sometime ago.  I'm sure they can special order
both movies, though I think they'd be expensive.
--
                               - Curt Tsui -
      			     curt@Virginia.EDU
   "Happiness might very well be a glandular condition." - David Cronenberg 
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From: bagus@netcom.com (Mark E. Ruedy)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Date: 1 Sep 92 04:52:13 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

That would be "Space Balls", (I think thats the title).  The cast included
Rick Moranis, and others.  Didn't sound too bad, but *boy* was it shit!

My son wanted to go.  He was eight, so he had an excuse.  I tried to 
hide behind him on the way out, so no one would see me leave.

-mark 
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From: cooper@cos.com (Gary Cooper)
Subject: Re: Best War Movies?
Organization: Corporation for Open Systems
Distribution: world  
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 19:21:21 GMT

In <PAT.92Aug10154808@laho.kau.vtt.fi> pat@laho.kau.vtt.fi (Pasi Antero Tervonen) writes:


> I have seen you guys talking about war movies, but I haven't seen
>a word of movie: Full Metal Jacket. Isn't that war movie, or what?
>I think it's the best war movie ever made (IMHO). Ok, there might
>be betters, but I don't like war or war movies so I haven't seen many
>of them. But I liked FMJ.

FMJ *IS* a very good movie - but you don't have to "like" war to like
war movies.  I like them because I'm a student of military history, and
enjoy movies that portray that history.

BTW - has a finnish filmaker made a movie about the incredible finn
repulse of the russian invasion in WWII?  (I've been to some "battlefield"
memorials in northern Finland - they are basically a few holes in the 
ground with a plaque that says "The Finnish army stopped the Soviet army
here" - the amazing thing is that these "memorials" to where the finns
stopped the sovs are about 1/2 mile inside the Finnish border - when you
see the finnish men, though, you understand why:  I'm 6 feet tall and felt
like a midget in Finland!)

gary cooper (not the dead one)
From: peterme@ocf.berkeley.edu (Peter Merholz)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Hal Hartley's American Playhouse
Date: 1 Sep 1992 05:02:31 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: earthquake.berkeley.edu

I have heard that Hal Hartley made a film that was shown on American
Playhouse. Is it available for rent? Or is short films available for 
rent?

Does anyone know what he's been up to recently?
(It's so unfortunate that his movies are not distributed with respect
so that they could make money and he could make more movies...)

--Peter M.
From: bchurch@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Robert Church)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Best shots wanted
Date: 27 Aug 92 14:42:02 GMT
Organization: Ohio Univel of Art, Athens

In article <1992Aug24.071500.5851@msc.cornell.edu> maynard@tamar.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley) writes:

>Not so much one shot, but the continual shots of the bombers on their way
>to the USSR in _Dr. Strangelove_ gave me the willies over and over. There
>were some aspects of the movie that irritated me, but that part was
>superbly effective.

Especially with the accompanying music. I strongly suspect that Kubrick had the
original title and lyrics to that song in mind when he did this one. What most
of us know as "When Johny comes marching home" was originally "Johny we hardly
knew ye", wherein Johny doesn't end up marching anywhere.



-- 
*********************************************
*    bob church                             *
*    bchurch@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu           *
*    D-8195 NFS #27                         *
From: shrum@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Rick Shrum)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Film with the least actors
Date: 28 Aug 92 01:05:30 GMT
Organization: NASA Ames Res. Ctr, Calif.


My Dinner With Andre the Giant




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Subject: Re: great voices
From: ace@kryton.UUCP (Catherine Beckstead)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 11:36:41 PDT
Organization: Paradox Alley F&SF BBS 805-492-8789

dfk0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (David F. Keppel) writes:

> 
> 
> My favorite picks:
>                     John Facenda :THE voice of football (many years with
>                     NFL films) Nobody can take this guys place.
> 
>                     Patrick Stewart: This guy has an excellent, authoritative
>                     voice for documentaries; commercials. Good actor too.
> 
>                     Robert Stack ; voice hasn't changed a bit in all these
>                     years.
> 
>                     And the raspy variety:
> 
>                     John Huston, George C. Scott.

And speaking of the raspy voices...how about David Jansen?

And on females with great voices....one has to add Julie Andrews.

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From: st1lv@jane.uh.edu (McLeod, Stephen)
Subject: Re: Woody Allen / Mia Farrow
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 20:56:00 GMT

In article <1992Aug24.121108.29985@cci632.cci.com>, agc@cci632.cci.com (Anupama Chathampally - co-op) writes...
>In article <1992Aug21.151704.9890@ms.uky.edu> fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis) writes:
>>As for Allen's side on the issue of custody it is possible that
>>he views Mia Farrow's frequent trips to the adoption agencies
>>as a neurotic condition rather than as a noble sacrifice or an
>>act of love. [I know neither of them, obviously, nor do most of
>>the posters on this issue. I'm simply showing that there can
>>very easily be two sides to this issue.] If the child abuse charge
>>is simply an act of Farrow's anger then I don't think  the
>>custody case should be judged peremptorily.
>>-- 
>>Jeff Davis <davis@keats.ca.uky.edu> Write when you get the chance. 
> 
> 
>As far as adoption agencies are concerned they are pretty strict about who
>they let adopt children.  Not just anyone can walk in and leave with a child.
>They check the home environment and the ability of the adopter as a parent. If
>she were neurotic and not a good mother they would'nt let her adopt. 

She is a rich movie star.  The more I see in the news about this thing the more
I think she is pissed at hell at Woody and capable of doing anything to get
revenge on him.  The video of her interogating her 7 year old is certainly not
what her lawyers were describing it as at first.  The way they were talking
when I first saw them, I expected an edited video of woody and the 7 year old
together.
Woody was stupid to have started the one thing before breaking off the other and
as a result, he probably deserves some of the heat he is getting but I currently
doubt he molested the 7 year old and suspect Mia is a bit overboard right now.
Then again, I'm not part of the family and don't know any of them personally so
who really cares.
---
Stephen McLeod
The Eternal? Hairless Student
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From: zklf0b@gs144.uucp (Fergason)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Keywords: n
Date: 2 Sep 92 14:40:28 GMT
Organization: Amoco Production



Does anyone recall 'LaserBlast'?  boy find alien artifact, starts
blasting things.  I don't know how it ended, because I left.  And this
was a midnight movie at Aggiecon, where things like 'Attack of the
Killer tomatos' is a normal movie.

I thought 'Hardware' was pretty pointless.

Kelly
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
From: reinstat@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Reinstatler)
Subject: Re: REALLLLLLY bad embarassing movies
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 06:21:52 GMT

In article <168551068E.DOBENSON@ua1vm.ua.edu> DOBENSON@ua1vm.ua.edu (Joe Demon) writes:
> This movie does not qualify since I rented it from a video store; but this
>seems to be an apt thread to give out a warning.
> 
>_Alien Dead_, released on video, rated *R*, and starring David Carridine,       vyn Chin) writes:
>R rating has to be for *really bad* instead of for violence (none), nudity
>(none), bad language (none) or anything else that would have earned it an
>R rating. The movie sucks. Out loud. Don't rent it. Don't watch it. Don't
>be fooled by the cover or the rating.
>IT STINKS!!!!!
>            ^ ^                JOE DEMON                 ^ ^

I think the same can be said about _Highlander 2_
Fortunately for me, I rented Highlander and H2 on a two for one
night, so I was only half-embarrassed.
Bob

Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
From: beb@pt.com (Bruce Buck)
Subject: Re: ted turner et al
Organization: Performance Technologies, Incorporated
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 16:06:02 GMT

In article <80743@bcsaic.boeing.com> vanover@bcsaic.boeing.com (Jann VanOver) writes:
>In article <eyaoPB13w165w@jybox.jyu.fi> otto@jybox.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) writes:
>>"eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com> writes:
>>
>>>      And I second your motion on this one.  Turner may have committed a
>>>      blasphemy by colorizing black-and-white movies - and many black-and-
>>>      white cartoons, too!  The versions of the Max Fleischer "Popeye"
>>>      toons that play on TNT and TBS are absolutely HIDEOUS! - but on the
>>>      other hand he deserves a lengthy round of applause for his
>>>      restorations of classic movies.
>>
>>That's funny, I'd always thought that line-art type cartoons would
>>be the only place where colorization (if properly done) would work.
>>So what did they do wrong ?
>
>  Yes, Please!  I am a "Hater of Colorization", but I had been watching
>and enjoying the Fleischer Popeyes on TNT and didn't even realize they
>WERE colorized until I tried to look one of them up in my animation
>reference book.  The book said they were B&W. 

The colorizing job is awful.  There are clearly frames missing so that the
action can be disjointed.  Furthermore, the Fleischer Studios' B&W cartoons
are the worst things to colorize.  The subtle black and white and gray tones
completely vanish into different shades of blue.  This is the best argument
against "turning down the color knob" - the result of monochrome colorization
is not the same as the original black and white. 

Compare these colorized Popeyes with the actual color "Popeye the Sailor Meets
Sindbad the Sailor" or Ali Baba or Aladdin.  Then see what real color animation
is.
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.tv.twin-peaks
From: Cliff Chaput <chaput@ils.nwu.edu>
Subject: Re: Twin Peaks:Fire Walk With Me (possible spoliers)
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A6C928F10602649B@mac1155.ils.nwu.edu>
X-Xxdate: Tue, 1 Sep 92 20:04:33 GMT
Organization: Institute of Learning Sciences, Northwestern University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 19:02:14 GMT

In article <Btt4wy.Hwt@well.sf.ca.us> Robert Chao, rchao@well.sf.ca.us
writes:
>I saw Twin Peaks:Fire Walk With Me grudgingly, just because a friend
wanted
>to go. I felt David Lynch had gotten carried away with himself lately, as
>I didn't like Wild At Heart or the pilot for the second season of TP.
>I LOVED THIS FILM.
>I HAVE NO IDEA WHY.

I just have to say, for the record, that I had been an avid TP fan, and I 
absolutely *hated* this movie.  It was embarassingly bad.  Yuck.

Not that this movie didn't have its moments.  It certainly did.  The 
opening credits and opening scene (the extraction from the television, 
etc.) make a definite statement.  And Cooper's FBI office dream sequence, 
with the videocameras and Bowie, are remarkably spooky and dream-like.

But, looking back, that's what the whole movie seemed like to me, a bad 
dream, which would be a appropriate backdrop for a TP story, but there
was 
no story.  Just a handful of facts, half of them there to tie into the 
series.  No explanation or character development.  And the dialog!  
"Gobble, gobble, gobble"?!  Give me a break.

Well, just my $0.02.

Cliff Chaput                   | "The scribes on all the people shove
Institute of Learning Sciences |  and bawl alliegence to the state.
Northwestern University        |  But those who love the greater love
chaput@ils.nwu.edu             |  lay down thier lives; they do not hate"
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
From: rnmg1200@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (A Lady and her Walrus)
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 10:44:03 GMT

In article <BtyDo7.71n@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> gfritz@sage.cc.purdue.edu ("Happy Fun Ball") writes:
>In article <5041@news.duke.edu> esa@acpub.duke.edu (EMILY ANGERER) writes:
>>Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, although Cool World came pretty close.  I paid
>>full price for both.  Yuck.
>>
>>-Emily
>
>Well since you brought up _this_ one...  I think any of the Earnest movies
>easily rank under Pee-Wee.  I must admit that every time I think about that
>scene where Earnest has that turtle stuck to his nose (from Earnest Goes to
>Camp) I get a severe case of the chuckles.  Earnest Saves Christmas was (go
>figure) terrible, followed closely by Earnest Goes To Jail.

Ah...but I bet you probably never saw Jim Varney's (Ernest) greatest work,
his triumphant masterpiece.....DR. OTTO AND THE RIDDLE OF THE GLOOM BEAM!

The Walrus
From: ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: Re: "Stirred not shaken" or "Shaken not stirred" ?
Date: 26 Aug 92 22:41:50 GMT
Organization: Purdue University

In article <1992Aug25.164827.20053@uts.uni-c.dk> uniel@uts.uni-c.dk (Erik  
Lawaetz) writes:
> Malcolm Austin wrote: 

> "In one film someone, trying to impress Bond with his intimate
>  knowledge of
>  Bond's preferences, hands Bond a martini which he (or she?) proudly
>  announces was "stirred, not shaken".  Bond, ever the gentleman, lets  
the
>  gaffe slide.

It was in "You Only Live Twice." I think the man's name was Henderson.
He handed Bond a martini, and then as an afterthought, he commented, "Oh,  
that's stirred, not shaken. That IS right, isn't it?"

Bond replied, "Perfect."

--
Dave Seaman
ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu
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From: michael@paul.bu.edu (Michael Chaplin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Date: 2 Sep 92 21:29:50 GMT
	<1992Aug31.215528.29891@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
	<Btx7Es.5I9@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Sep2.144028.12817@hou.amoco.com>
Followup-To: rec.arts.movies
Organization: Boston University
In-reply-to: zklf0b@gs144.uucp's message of 2 Sep 92 14:40:28 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.144028.12817@hou.amoco.com> zklf0b@gs144.uucp (Fergason) writes:


  =Does anyone recall 'LaserBlast'?  boy find alien artifact, starts
  =blasting things.  I don't know how it ended, because I left.  And this
  =was a midnight movie at Aggiecon, where things like 'Attack of the
  =Killer tomatos' is a normal movie.

Wasn't that the one where the artifact is worn around his neck,
it burrows into his body, and he begins to slowly transform
into some sort of mutant with a HUGE laser rifle?
If so, you didn't miss much.

Chaplin.

--
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
From: sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 15:36:55 GMT

donnell@squid.micro.umn.edu (Your Heinous) writes:

>In article <1992Sep2.093200.10512@waikato.ac.nz> hist1261@waikato.ac.nz writes:
>>In article <1992Sep1.155303.12466@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>, bjbartlett@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (The Bart-Man) writes:
>>> In article <1992Aug31.215528.29891@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>, mlh@eddy.austin.ibm.com (Mike Haskell) writes:
>>>>  What is the most embarassing movie you have ever seen?  (What I mean by
>>>>  embarassing, is that you feel absolutely miniscule when the lights come
>>>>  up and you HAVE to walk out of the theater with every other bonehead
>>>>  who bought a ticket to this turkey).  Movies on video don't count as
>>>>  your stupidity is hidden by the walls of your house. :-)
>>> 
>>>   "Top Secret"!
>>> 
>>> -Bart
>>> 
>>
>>I protest!  One of the great comedies of the 1980's!
>>
>>Richard.
>>

>I concur! Just what we needed, a surfing, Nazi, Rock and roll romantic comedy,
>or something. I loved it, and I just watched it for the 6th time last week!
>ah well!


I take it you've seen "Surf Nazis Must Die" as well?


                                      --Steve Stelter
                                        sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu



"Who rules the waves?"     "THE SURFERS!"
"Who rules the surfers?"   "SURF NAZIS!"
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
From: gckchin@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Kelvyn Chin)
Subject: Re: Akira Kurosawa Films on Video?
Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 02:31:30 GMT

wbarnes@sura.net (Bill Barnes) writes:
: 
: No, he didn't.  You might be mixed up because Toshiro Mifune (sp?) plays
: Musashi, I believe, and he appeared in several Kurosawa movies over the
: years (Yojimbo, Sanjuro, and Seven Samurai are three off the top of my
: head).  I don't know who did the Samurai trilogy...
:

It was _Hiroshi Inagaki_, with Toshiro Mifune as Musashi and Koji Tsuruta
as his archenemy Sasaki Kojiro. 

kelvyn

ps: Didn't like RHAPSODY IN AUGUST. Too simplistic and whimsical for
   Kurosawa. -- 
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