HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ahummel@ems.cdc.com (H. Austin Hummel)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Sci-Fi Channel-- Anyone got it yet?
Date: 1 Oct 92 15:50:16 GMT
Reply-To: you@ems.cdc.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: Empros Systems International, a division of CDC

In article <66946@cup.portal.com>, Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) writes:
|> Since 1 Sept, Cinemax and The Movie Channel start screwing up
|> regularly, every evening around 10pm till they go into
|> scramble/descramble mode so badly they're unwatchable. This
|> never happens while Paragon's office is open. I call the next
|> day to complain and they hand me the "gee it looks fine here
|> in the office" crap. 
|> 
|> I'd love to tell Paragon to take a flying leap at the moon and get
|> myself a sat dish. ...

Cancel premimum channels, rent videos instead, no garbarge just what
you want. THats what I did.
From: anamr@cats.ucsc.edu (Ana M Rodriguez)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Sinead on SNL (was Re: Saturday Night Live's 18th Season)
Date: 6 Oct 1992 06:27:58 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu



I don't think they had an audience in there when she did that final piece.
 
If there were, someone might have just taken her out...
 
The show is producded in New York...


Pretty shocking to some...

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From: kmd@fico.uucp
Subject: Re: Homefront : [09/24/92]
Reply-To: kmd@fico.UUCP (kathi dietrick)     
Organization: The Fair, Isaac Companies, San Rafael, California
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 92 20:01:05 GMT

In article <5227@balrog.ctron.com> lawrence@olympus.ctron.com (Gary St. Lawrence) writes:
>Ginger threatened to quit her radio station switchboard operator's job if the
>owner (formerly Howard Sprague of Mayberry) didn't give her a shot at stardom.
>He buckled because of a bracelet given to her by Mr. Lemo, the Tomato King.
>Ginger wound up becoming the new national "Lemo Hot Tomato" he big chance.
>
>Jeff continues to search with his family through endless loaves of bread to
>find his first pro baseball card. Everyone in the city seems to find one except
>him. The Sloanes find one and throw it away.
>
>The french wife of (forget his name - the black kid) arrives and her native
>rudeness and pompousity alienates everyone, specifically his parents and 
>grandmother. Although his father gets along well with her.
>
>Linda becomes a copyeditor on the local newspaper after her mother sends
>a Union article she wrote about veteran's housing in for publication.
>
>Charlie's love for Gina is starting to bother him and he's jealous when Al
>tries to fix Gina up with a Jewish college English professor. Charlie and
>Gina bump into each other at a bus stop and make a "library" date, which
>bodes of their imminent affair/relationship.
>
>Hank is nowhere to be found.
Just what did happen to Hank? Did I miss something? So now Charley live
s with the Metcalfs?
>The Sloanes are now scheming to capitalize on the veterans' housing boom and
>are formulating a plan to build cheap housing so they can reap a profit. 
>Ruth is getting to be a real WASP bitch and the Sloanes' greed and contempt
>for everyone is becoming blatant.
>
>Next week: Ginger is threated to be fired if she marries Jeff (or anyone)
>because the Lemo Tomato Girl is supposed to be a sex symbol of America's 
>supermarkets.
>Charlie and Gina progress. Charlie's wife is nowhere to be found.
She was to be found!Who was watching the baby last week when Gina and
Charley went into their big clinch? Sometimes Homefront will not follow
through immediately on a story line but I think we haven't seen the
last of Caroline.
   
>Glad to see someone else likes this show -- probably one of the best on TV 
>right now. Let's keep the homefront alive!
My favorite-cant get enough-glad to know there are other fans out there!
From: cb366@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark B. Bendiksen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Mike Myers Article/EW
Date: 5 Oct 92 18:56:12 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


As promised in my last post, here's a brief article which
appeared in this week's _Entertainment Weekly_ regarding
Mike Myers' "disappearance".

Reprinted without permission.

When NBC's _Saturday Night Live_ opened its 18th season on
Sept. 26, the biggest surprise was what viewers didn't see:
Mike Myers, who is still filming his new comedy _So I Married
an Axe Murderer_ and is apparently in no rush to return. An
NBC spokesman says Myers was granted permission to complete the
movie, and "may take time off" after it's done, but will be back
on SNL "in calendar year 1992." A spokesman for Myers said the
actor, who has three years remaining on his contract, would
return to the show but didn't know when. Meanwhile, _Saturday
Night Live_ has taken note of his absence in a somewhat unusual
way: Myers' name and face have been dropped from the opening
credits.
                             --Mark Harris

As usual, spelling errors are mine, etc.                       


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: sallylb@netcom.com (Sally Smith)
Subject: Re: QL query (and Re: Personal to Vidiot) 
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 05:02:38 GMT

In article <1992Oct02.195358.327@bmerh85.bnr.ca> mhammond@bnr.ca writes:

Not really spoilers, but just in case...


>Presumably, that means that although he's
>leaped into the body of a double amputee, he can still walk.
>My question is, if he tried to walk (or stand for that matter), what would
>people around him see? 

Oh, hey, That Would Be Telling...

(she says, grinning maniacally and waving her copy of the script)

Trust me, when you see the answer to this question, you're gonna LOVE it!

Sally
-- 
Sally Smith (510)790-0608  sallylb@netcom.com (I was sally@tardis.tymnet.com)
I'm unemployed--these opinions *must* be mine!
"Don't investigate this too closely." -- Don Bellisario, re: "Quantum Leap"

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From: mppg9231@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael Peercy)
Subject: Re: Cable Re-Regulation
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 07:00:18 GMT

pauls@tellabs.com (Paul Silver) writes:

| This would make sense if there was a competitor to which to go.
| However, when one wishes to have the ability to watch cable TV,
| one has little choice other than to pay the high rates and complain.

| A good analogy would be electricity.  I hate the high rates charged by
| Commonwealth Edison, but I do not have the luxury of "voting with my
| feet".  Unless I wish to live in the 18th century...

Yes, a good analogy is electricity.  If electricity hadn't been
regulated long ago, right now you could choose your electric company
day by day or hour by hour with a little switch on your electric meter.
The instantaneous power you are using could be measured, and that much
power gated onto your local power line from your favorite electric
company at a substation.  Thus each electic company, power plant, or
cooperative of overproductive homeowned generators would bring their
grid to the substation, and you select which one's power you want.

But, because of regulation, we have power companies who don't give a
damn, we have state and local utility commissions who don't give a
damn, and we have citizens' utility boards who come very close to not
giving a damn.

An excellent analogy indeed, if you'd like to see broadcasting, cable,
and any other home-consumed entertainment medium homogenized and
shackled.

Mike Peercy
peercy@crhc.uiuc.edu
From: joe.siegler@satalink.com (Joe Siegler) 
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: _Herman's Head_ new intro
Date: 1 Oct 92 12:31:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434
Reply-To: joe.siegler@satalink.com (Joe Siegler) 

To: craigb@ot.austin.ibm.com

CB|Any opinions on the new intro sequence for _Herman's Head_? Am
  |not sure if I like it better or not; definitely preferred the
  |original theme music.

It doesn't convey effectively the concept of the people inside 
Herman's Head.  The old show did, but, IMHO, there's no way of really 
doing it short of saying "Hey, these people are inside Herman's Head".
I initally thought this way about the music, but it's grown on me.
I do like the opening credits a lot, other than the reason mentioned 
above.   They don't seem to fit the show, though.  There is a fuzzy 
look to the credits that give it an almost ephemeral feel, that 
doesn't quite go with the show, IMHO.

CB|Still, so far the new episodes have been just as much fun as
  |ever. Will be a sad day in my household if/when it goes downhill.

Agreed.  It's one of my favorite shows.   Two of my favorite lines so 
far this year are both from Louise..

1) "So you're the lesbian!"
2) "Do you think I sound like Lisa Simpson?"
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From: matthews_k@cubldr.colorado.edu
Subject: Re: QL - Questions and Comments
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1992 19:46:17 GMT

In article <1992Sep23.205420.22465@sei.cmu.edu>, caj@sei.cmu.edu (Carol Jarosz) writes:
> 
  Many deletions....
> 
> Does Dean ever do promotional interviews?  Has he done any promo stuff?  I
> would love to see him!  He's just as important as Scott.(IMHO)
> 
> 				   '''
> 	      		          (o o)
>  ------------------------------oOO-(_)-OOo----------------------------------
> |     Carol A. Jarosz				caj@sei.cmu.edu             |
> |     Software Engineering Institute            (412) 268-6317              |
> |     Carnegie Mellon University                                            |
> |     Pittsburgh, PA  15213                                                 | 
>  --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Carol:

I don't know about promotional interviews, but I saw Dean Stockwell at Star Con 
Denver last year.  I was quite impressed by him.  He was very honest, 
especially about his "checkered past" and problems he had.  Told a lot about
his life, past alcohol & drug abuse, mental problems, and about how he cleaned
up his act.  Was very passionate about the environment, and spoke a lot about
his wife and kid (daughter, I think).  One of the more interesting guests I've
seen in 15 years of con-going!  

Kellie Matthews-Simmons
internet::matthews_k@cubldr.colorado.edu

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From: dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams)
Subject: Re: _Herman's Head_ new intro
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 09:45:07 GMT

joe.siegler@satalink.com (Joe Siegler) writes:

 >DA|I got the impression that it was made to better showcase the cast.
 >  |Unlike the old one, everybody gets both their name and face on the
 >  |screen and the same time.
 >if you can pick up the Rime FOX_TV conference,
Unfortunatley the only Rime system I knew of when down a few months ago,
and they also never had that particular group...  :-(

 >who is a script editor for Herman's Head who fills us in on all this stuff.
Nice.  Maybe you could pass some news along over on TV sometimes.

 >He said pretty much the same thing, that it was done to 
 >showcase the actors with their names. 
I be a good guesser then...<heh>

 >The only thing I don't like about the new credits is that it doesn't 
 >effectively portray the concept of who those "4 people" are and why 
 >they're in this horribly decorated room.
Yea, I guess not. 

 >DA|I felt the original credits did that about as well as you can.
 >Agreed.   The original credits did this very well, but of course, they 
 >came right out and said it.  These don't.

They are also a little on the "flashy" side.  The original credits seemed 
to fit the show a lot better...  I do like the various new scenes though,
and it is also nice for the people to get their names up there more clearly.

 >DA| I like it a lot as well.
 >In fact, I think I like as much as MWC, but for different reasons.

It is certainly a very "likable" show.
From: lawrence@ctron.com (Gary St. Lawrence)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Schoolhouse Rock
Date: 1 Oct 92 13:33:21 GMT
Reply-To: lawrence@olympus.ctron.com (Gary St. Lawrence)
Organization: Cabletron Systems INc.

Personally, my favorite were the "Constitution Rock" shorts. Thanks
to them, to this day, I remember the Preamble to the Constitution
by singing that song in my head.

Also that's how I learned how a bill becomes a law, how elections a
and the electoral college works (or does it) and what the 
Bill of Rights is and what it guarantees.

"We the people, in order to form a more perfect union, establish
justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common 
defense, promote general welfare, and secure the blessings of
liberty for ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish
this Constitution for the United State of America."

					The Living Patriot,
					Saint.
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From: lazlo@triton.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble)
Subject: Re: Simpson's Season Premiere Question
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 92 04:45:11 GMT
Organization: Mr. Lazlo's Temple Of The Mighty Rude-Boy Skank

Bucky.Whaley@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bucky Whaley) writes:

>> Who sang the song South of The Boarder at the end of the show.  I
>> thought it might have  been Harry Connick Jr.  I don't know. 
>
> Jeez, I just assumed I was hearing Sinatra. 

If I had a nickel for every person I've heard mistake Frank Sinatra for
Harry Connick Jr., I'd have enough money to buy a gun and hunt them all
down and kill them.

(Of course, it'd be a lot easier for people not familiar with Frank to
tell them apart if Connick would just stop swiping everything from his
phrasing to his attitude to his clothes from Sinatra . . . ) 

--
Lazlo (lazlo@triton.unm.edu)
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From: walkerjo@cgsvax.claremont.edu
Subject: SNL:season premiere:comments
Organization: The Claremont Graduate School
Date: 27 Sep 92 22:05:37 PST



Well, I have to agree with what I've been hearing a lot of lately: SNL
has got to either make some BIG changes or make way for something better.
The opening Woody Allen skit wasn't bad; whoever was doing Woody (Dana
Carvey?) had him down cold.  The monologue was lame, but then it always
is.  The dog cologne commercial was hilarious.  After that, things took
a sharp downward turn.  It was so bad that now, not even 24 hours later,
I can barely remember a thing about it that amused me.  Here are the
three things worth seeing on last night's SNL: the commercial parody;
Opera Man; and Deep Thoughts.  For my money, when the funniest thing on
your show is Jack Handey's ten second Steven Wright impersonations, it's
time to hire some new writers.
(Actually, one skit--Clinton's press conference--was both mildly amusing
AND made a point).
The annoying things on this show are just getting out of hand.  Number one
on my list of "gotta go" is G. E. Smith.  This guy has taken what used to
be one of the best house bands in TV and turned it into a vehicle for his
personal showboating.  He's a decent guitarist, but I'm just getting sick
of watching him show off before every commercial.  Fire him and let that
band rock!

Also, they've got to do something about Weekend Update.  Kevin Nealon is
trying to land somewhere between Dennis Miller and Chevy Chase and landing
on his ass every single week.  The funniest things on WU since Miller left
have been Opera Man--which is, at best, slightly above average--and Jesse
Jackson reading Dr. Suess, a moment of sublime surrealism that ranks with the
best SNL has ever been.  My personal inclination would be to let each cast
member anchor for a week until somebody clicks--perhaps Chris Rock or Adam
Sangler (Victoria Jackson would have been good--they never really let her
go as far as she could have).

In fact, this seems to be a hallmark of the show lately: talented cast members
wasted.  Chris Rock is a prime example: his Nat X bits are often very good,
but most weeks he is reduced to doing recycled bits of his stand-up act on
Weekend Update.  Mike Myers (was he even in this show?) has been allowed to
run with Wayne's World to the tune of several million dollars; few other cast
members have been given such a chance.

I hate to say it, but I think the best thing the show can do right now is
get rid of Lorne Michaels.  Whatever his past credentials, he has run this
show into the ground over the past few years; last year's Michael Jordan
episode is the only one I can think of that bears repeated viewing.  There
are several very talented people acting in this show; I think what's needed
is a change backstage.

Sorry to babble on so, but I've loved SNL for a long time; I hate to see it
sink slowly like this.  Either change things, or put the show out of its
misery.

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From: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Subject: Re: SNL BAD?????
Reply-To: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 00:11:25 GMT

In article <92278.153859MJL122@psuvm.psu.edu> Michael J. Ludwig <MJL122@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>I thought the 10/3/92 SNL was better than most.  Don't have the stomach for
>political satire?  The humor assumed a certain level of awareness of how
>politics is practiced in the U.S.  If you didn't like SNL last night, don't
>go see _Bob Roberts_, you won't get it.  The "Founding Fathers" skit was
>quite clever.  Thecontinual riding of Perot was both funny and true -- gimme
>a break, "My volunteers asked me to run."???  Believe that, and I'll tell
>you another one.  Whetheror not one agrees with Sinead's politics, I applaud
>her for her stand.  Organized religion has been the cause of more death and
>destruction than I care to contemplate (The Crusades????).  This show was
>more true to Akroyd and Chase's tradition of poking fun at the political
>scene.  Well, as they say, everyone has an opinion.  One can always change
>the channel.

But you may ask if the political humor is done well.  I don't think it
was.  Carvey's Perot is generally hilarious, but putting that in that
Larry King skit was, well, horrendous.  Predictably after the first
time he phoned in also.  Founding Fathers had a neat idea, but bungled
it.  The only funny line was the "a negro wench...oh, did I say the
wrong thing."  Actually, the last song from the _Bob Roberts_ skit
(the monkey one) was good.  Besides that, the show had this
slapped-together feeling.  I thought it was a bad sign that the usual
post-monologue commericial was less than sharp, to say the least.

--
"Sounds interesting....  Sounds interesting...."
				-- Homer Simpson
From: dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: WANTED:  Game Show Episodes/Music
Date: 4 Oct 92 04:43:29 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Harvey Mudd College

In article <69870@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt6139a@prism.gatech.EDU (Brian Clinton Dominy) writes:
> I have only recently began to read from this newsgroup, and I was
> disappointed to see how game shows have pretty much been left
> out totally.  I think that the game show genre is one of the most
> exciting (and certainly the oldest) in television, and I'm sure
> that there are many, many game show fans around; some of them
> probably don't even realize it.

Well as an adjunct topic, something that we really need is a list
of how to become a contestant on the various game shows curently
running (phone numbers, eligibility rules, etc.) I'll compile the
answers if anyone cares to send them. I already have info on The
Love Connection and Supermarket Sweep.

-dh
From: mpython@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu (... and the flying circus)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: SNL: October 3, Really Bad.
Date: 6 Oct 92 06:03:26 GMT
	<acmksb.718183624@gsusgi1.gsu.edu> <BvL8LE.JKB@nic.umass.edu>
Organization: Worcester Discordian Society, Cabal of the Unemployed
In-reply-to: EDIAS@deimos.ucc.umass.edu's message of 4 Oct 92 08:22:26 GMT

>>>>> On 4 Oct 92 08:22:26 GMT, EDIAS@deimos.ucc.umass.edu (EMILIANO A DIAS) said:
EDIAS> uIn <acmksb.718183624@gsusgi1.gsu.edu> acmksb@gsusgi2.gsu.edu
EDIAS> writes:
EDIAS> I though Sinead O'Connor was really awful.  The first song she
EDIAS> did was over orchestrated and pretentious and the second was
EDIAS> sounded like it was made up on the spot.

I recognized the beginning of the second song as a cover of some
reggae tune... *not sure which or by whom*.. I didn't get to hear the
rest of the song, 'cause my friends muted it... don't think I missed
much

We also figured out that they must've payed soo much for the
orchestra, They must've written the sketches..

to borrow a phrase from a much-funnier sketch show

"IT WALLOWED IN LAMENESS!!!"

						jer

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From: jru@Comtech.com (Jimmy R. Upton)
Subject: Re: QL: When Venus Smiled--possible censoring or alteration?
Organization: Comtech Labs Inc, Palo Alto
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 18:49:37 GMT

In article <22100609420350@vms2.macc.wisc.edu> DBBARBER@MACC.WISC.EDU (Deborah B. Barber) writes:
>Hello Leapers, R.A.T. folk,
> 
>In watching this episode on tape, there is a scene where Shields and Bakula
>are kissing, and she makes a feeble protest on the order of "but I'm saving
>myself for my husband....."  Bakula's voice says something like "you're
>saving yourself for your husband Nikos." however, his lips don't match those
>words.  Is this just a glitch in my video, or was there a belatedly-patched
>in dialog change?
> 
>Just curious.
> 
>Deb Barber
>dbbarber@macc.wisc.edu
>standard disclaimer here
> 

My wife and I noted the same thing.  We turned down the volume and replayed
it a few times.  We decided he said "Dave" instead of "Nikos" which was her 
husband-to-be's name.  We came up with two possiblities: (1) It was slip of
the lip and they did not catch it until editing and patched it then.     
(2) The script was actually written that way (that is with Sam saying her
husband-to-be's name).  This would mean that the original intent was to
have both of them "protesting" but going through with it any way.  That would
change the flavor of the scene, I think.  Then later on they decided to 
"purify" the scene and have them admit that the situation had changed and
that now he will be her husband.

How about it Sally, can you get us the inside scoop - inquiring minds want
to know!

Jimmy
jru@Comtech.com

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From: cass@netcom.com (Diana Tenery-Fisher)
Subject: Re: _Sledgehammer!_ fan club address?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 02:29:13 GMT

pautler@ils.nwu.edu (David Pautler) writes:

>My gun-happy brother (currently serving his country by jumping out of
>airplanes) would love an autographed photo of the lead actor
>from _Sledgehammer!_ (David Collum?).  Does anyone have an address
>for his agent or a fan club?
 
Hmm.. David Rasche went to school with my drama professor at school and
apparently they are still friends although they havent spoke in the last
year. I will see if I can find any info about where to contact him. FYI-
he is now on the NBC show NURSES on Saturday nights. 

-diana


>	-dp-
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From: lucien@watson.ibm.com (Lucien Van Elsen)
Subject: Simpsons: Ayn Rand
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 12:31:27 GMT
Distribution: usa
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J Watson Research Center

I sure never expected to see references to Objectivism on the Simpsons- but
with "Ayn Rand's Daycare" with a big "A = A" poster on the wall, it sure
seems like someone there wanted to make it pretty blatant.  Wasn't exactly a
friendly portrayal, either..

	-Lucien