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From: zippy@cs.brandeis.edu (Patrick Tufts)
Subject: casting for neuromancer 
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 19:22:46 GMT

I'd pick Gary Oldman (Sid and Nancy, JFK) for the role of Case, Gary
Busey (Predator II) for Armitage, and ... hmm ... Sean Young for
Molly.

Newman would be a bad choice for Armitage - he's got the eyes for the
role, but he's not good looking in the generic brick sort of way that
the character should be.

--Pat
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From: colinm@max.carleton.ca (Colin McFadyen)
Subject: Re: "1492"
Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 18:46:27 GMT

In article <29040@nntp_server.ems.cdc.com> you@ems.cdc.com writes:
>In article <1992Oct10.151950.23231@cm.cf.ac.uk>, Andrew.Wilson@cm.cf.ac.uk (Andrew Wilson) writes:
>|> 
>|> >Depardieu is good in _1492_, but I didn't care for the way the character was
>|> >written, and a French Colombus was a little distracting.  (And he was
>|> >occasionaly hard to understand)  But as a big fan, I think you will be happy
>|> >with his performance.
>|> 
>|> Maybe we should have had an American Colombus?
>|> 
>
>We did Fredric March in "Christopher Columbus" (1949)

  
  I loved John Belushi's part in that movie.  He was terrific as the
war-torn pilot. ;-)




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From: reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Peter Reiher)
Subject: Re: Did Clint wear a toupe?
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 20:12:58 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.185601.6273@newshub.sdsu.edu> dunster@sdsu.edu (mark dunster) writes:
>Sorry if this is a FAQ: Comparing Clint Eastwood's earlier films,
>(The Spaghetti westerns, Dirty Harry, etc.) and his more recent
>ones (Pink Cadillac, etc.) it seems the *MASS* of hair, which he 
>had in the earlier ones, has receded to a barren desert!
>Considering how much hair he had a few years ago, this loss is 
>phenomenal. Does anyone know if he wore a toupe in his earlier 
>films? 

I have no idea, but there were about 25 years between the spaghetti
westerns and "Pink Cadillac", and Eastwood wasn't really young even
back then.  (I believe he was in his late thirties.)  Relatively few
men in their sixties still sport a mane.


--
		Peter Reiher
		reiher@wells.cs.ucla.edu
From: stranger@watserv.ucr.edu (Katherine T Lim)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: 1492: A REVIEW
Date: 10 Oct 92 23:11:06 GMT
Reply-To: stranger@watserv.ucr.edu


Being the big fan of Gerard Depardieu and Sigourney Weaver
that I am, I went to see the movie on its opening night.
Here are my thoughts.  Agree with it, contest it, or
whatever.

"1492" is _not_ really about Columbus' 'achievements.' 
The film was more biographical than anything.  It 
depicts his triumphs, despairs, and struggles.  

I feel that the movie was not edited too well.  At some
points, it is rather difficult to follow what the scene
is trying to convey.  (Maybe we'll get the director's
cut of this 10 years from now also.  I'm curious to see
that version!)  I guess I can only call the editing ok.
The movie flowed so very smoothly, I wasn't even aware
that I was in the theatre for 2.5 hours already.  

Although the movie was acted out extremely well, it didn't
reach the heights of drama that previews and ads conveyed.
The poster/newspaper ads for it conveys a triumphant moment.
It seems like (from the ads) that Columbus not only 
"dicovered" a new world, but a new universe.  In the movie,
there really aren't such grandiose scenes.  When Columbus
and his crew saw their first land, it sort of sends chills
up your spine.  This primarily eminated through Gerard's
brilliant performance.  Aside from that, nothing really is
as 'tingling.'  

The film was kind of a good history lesson.  It chronicles
Columbus' life very well.  And the movie is, I believe,
very humanistic.  Although it is clear that Columbus sailed
westward to exploit, the movie shows that he isn't all that
money-grubbing.  Columbus is a pretty fair man.  He's not
at all racist, as some would have it.  He appears really
kind and definitely determined.  But, like I said, I don't
feel that it reached the heights of drama.  It didn't make
me applaud at the end.  

Another minus of the film is the incongruity of the accents.
Armand Assante, as Sanchez, does a good Spanish accent.  
Sigourney Weaver, who looked perfectly gorgeous and regal 
as the Queen Isabella, spoke more like an American than a
Spaniard.  As for the big star, well, you'd probably have
some difficulty in comprehending his speech in some areas.
In attempting to do a Spanish, or Italian, accent, it is 
somewhat hard to understand Gerard in some scenes because 
his French accent is still dominant.  I think that he would 
have been better off just speaking like a Frenchman.  Other
actors did their accents really well.  No problems with
that.  

Overall, I'd give the movie an A-/B+.  It had its great 
moments, and is really a good film overall.  But there
are some discrepancies, I think, that will not make 
"1492" an Oscar contender.

				The Stranger
From: clsable@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Carl Lewis Sable)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: SNL: Joe Pesci's Opening Monologue
Date: 16 Oct 92 21:31:37 GMT
Organization: Princeton University
Originator: news@nimaster

In article <mJ4LsB1w164w@cellar.org> revpk@cellar.org (Brian 'Rev P-K' Siano) writes:
>bandwen@eagle.larc (bando) writes:
>
>> I missed the beginning of SNL this week, so could someone please
>> tell me what exactly did Pesci say about Sinead O.'s outbust
>> last week.
>>   -thanks
>>         bando
>
>        Basically, while Pesci talked about mending the photograph, he also 
>talked, rather graphically, about grabbing her by her eyebrows and slapping 
>her around.
>
>        Now, tough guy or not, I wasn't too fond of the idea of the audience 
>applauding the idea of beating up a woman, just because she tore up a photo 
>of someone. 
>
I agree, and was mad at first, until I found out that this was all
parodying something else.  Recently, Sinead backed out at the last minute
of a show she was going to do at the Garden State Arts Center because
they play the National Anthem before each show and refused not to play
it before hers.  It was supposedly a pretty bad situation for the Arts
Center and for anyone who had bought tickets for that night.  The next
week, Frank Sinatra did a show there, and said that he would have slapped
Sinead around for what she had done.  Joe Pesci was just parodying this.

-Carl Sable
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From: morgana@infonode.ingr.com (Angela Morgan)
Subject: Re: Wicked, Bad, Scary Movies. (Recommendations anyone?)
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 03:43:19 GMT

brnt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Brent E. Dyer) writes:

>	I'm looking for some really frightening movies.  I don't want any of
>those sophomoric, gore movies that hollywood seems to think are scary, but they
>actually aren't.  I want some "I can't turn the light out until tomorrow
>morning because bad things might be coming for me" movies.  Email or Post,
>s'all the same to me

When I first saw _The Shining_ (w/ Jack Nicholson, Scatman Crothers, don't
recall the female lead's name) back when it was released (~1980?), I was
so scared and nervous afterwards that I came home, locked all the doors
in the house, left all the lights on, and sat up all night with firearm
close at hand because I was too scared and nervous to sleep.  I was also
rather nervous for a couple of days after that.

No other horror movie has ever affected me that way!  Definitely a
must-see.

--angela
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From: dianne@dianne.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Dianne Ferrans )
Subject: Re: best movie titles
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 20:46:04 GMT

In article <23.287AA.9@sansome.com>, gj@sansome.UUCP (Gerry Johnson) writes:
|> I want to know what people's favorite movie titles are. I mean those titles
|> that are so good you want to see the movie without even knowing what it's
|> about. Those titles that are like a line of poetry.

You're going to have to sub-divide this as in:

1.  Titles that are lyrical like poetry:

     The unbearable lightness of being
     Enchanted April
     Stranger In Paradise
     Something wicked this way comes (from shakespear!)

     Wayne's World    (sorry, just see if you were listening ;-> )

2.  B-movie titles which inspire the "Aw, I GOTTA see that"

    i.e.

    Canibalistic women in the avacado jungle of death
    The Girlfriend from Hell
    Sex Bimbos from Saturn..... (Is this actually a movie?)

    (The B-movies list would go on ad nausium, I imagine)
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From: reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Peter Reiher)
Subject: Re: Robocop 3 ?
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 17:22:45 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.144204.16603@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com> mccreary@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com (Ed McCreary) writes:
>In article <Bw26sL.48u@gabriel.keele.ac.uk> u0f98@seq1.keele.ac.uk (DJ Robinson) writes:
>>From article <1687F2C9D.MHART00@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>, by mason:
>>> I heard a rumor recently that Robocop 3 was finished and "in the
>>> can."  True or false?  I've always enjoyed action movies with little
>>> or no plot ...
>>
>>The word is the film is complete but since it is made by Orion who have
>>now gone bust, there is no money to release and promote the film.

This is basically correct.  Orion has around 11 completed films that they
will not be able to release until their bankruptcy is settled.  "Robocop
3" is one of them, the "Car 54 Where are You" film is another.  I can
get you a complete list of the titles, if you care.  Within the month,
the vote on Orion's reorganization will be complete.  Assuming it goes
through, the films will start trickling out, through Sony's studios
(Columbia and TriStar), I believe.

>>The same company made Silence of the Lambs and while Anthony Hopkins,
>>Jodie Foster and Jonathan Demme all want to make the sequel they have to
>>wait until someone else buys the rights to make the film.
>
>If memory servers, DEG or whatever Dino's new company is, hold's the
>right to the Hannibal Lector character.  Universal wants them, but
>DEG is holding out for a better price.  As a result, Universal is holding
>back the release of _Army of Darkness_ (really Evil Dead III).  As an
>aside, all of the major player in SOL have said that they would like
>to make another movie together, probably "The Good Doctor" when it
>get's released.

The suit between De Laurentiis and Universal was settled, I believe.
A sequel to "Silence of the Lambs" is waiting on Thomas Harris to complete
the novel it will be based on.

--
		Peter Reiher
		reiher@wells.cs.ucla.edu

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From: kimp@nuge101.its.rpi.edu (Phil Kim)
Subject: Re: Hero SUCKED
Reply-To: kimp@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 22:02:07 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.181431.20885@cs.ucla.edu>, reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Peter Reiher) writes:
|> In article <BvrHGo.3vG@acsu.buffalo.edu> mec@acsu.buffalo.edu (Marie E. Copertino) writes:
|> >
|> >
|> >		This was the worst movie I've seen in a lonnnnng time.
|> >I can't believe Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis and Al Pacino had *anything*
|> >to do with this movie.
|> 
|> You should find it unbelievable that Al Pacino had anything to do with
|> "Hero", since he didn't.  Chances are that you are thinking of the part
|> played by Andy Garcia.  My opinion of the film is not anything like your's.
|> I thought it one of the best films of the year, so far.
|> 
|> --
|> 		Peter Reiher
|> 		reiher@wells.cs.ucla.edu
|> 
Well, I wouldn't go THAT far.  This "two-thumbs-down (by Siskel & Ebert)" movie was called "the biggest disappointment."  This is not the worst movie I've seen in a long time, but it certainly is a BAD movie.  I would rate it 3 (out of 10).
From: ncramer@bbn.com (Nichael Cramer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: * Movie Goofs list Candidates
Date: 9 Oct 92 18:06:04 GMT
Reply-To: ncramer@labs-n.bbn.com (Nichael Cramer)
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com


dpl@aber.ac.uk (David Philip Langstaff) writes:
|meg5184@hertz.njt.edu (Starman) writes:
| ># Mary Poppins
| >-During the song "A Spoonful of Sugar" Mary extends her arm out the  
| > window and a red-breasted Roobin flies onto it, and takes part
| > in the song.  That bird is a North American bird, and does not
| > live in England.
| Last time I looked there was one hopping around in my garden, it  
| comes & watches whenever I do any gardening.

You're both right.  The problem is that you are talking about two different
species of birds.

Starman is right in that the bird he is calling a Robin (it is actually a
kind of thrush) is native to North America.  It is, however, different from
the red-breasted Robin that comes and sits in David's garden.

Who was it who said that American and England are a two countries,
separated by a common language?

N
From: Laurie Mann
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Enchanted April and Michael Kitchen
Date: 8 Oct 92 17:52:33 GMT
Reply-To: lmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com

My husband and I saw Enchanted April last night.  It was a lovely little movie,  
highly recommended it you like reflective movies without murders and gratuitous  
sex.

An actor named Michael Kitchen has a small but pivotal part as an oboeist.
He's an English actor, 40-something, and I'm sure I've seen him in 
something else recently but I can't remember what.  Does his name ring a bell  
for anyone?

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From: ahsiung@bbn.com (Anita Hsiung)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Gerard Depardieu
Date: 12 Oct 92 17:52:10 GMT
Reply-To: ahsiung@labs-n.bbn.com (Anita Hsiung)
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

Frank R.A.J. Maloney writes:
>Matt Garretson writes:
>[deletion]
>>I'll have to cath up on his older stuff. I hate the way everyone in the US
>>pronounces his last name "Depardoo".
>
>We should maybe emulate the French solicitude to pronounce foreign
>names correctly and who have such great regard for that great
>philosophe Americain, Bahn-zha-ma(n) Fwahk-la(n).

I think we should all be able to pronounce foreign names with an
American pronunciation if we want.  After all, we call Munchen
"Munich", Hong Kong is not pronounced "hyong gong" with the proper
intonations, and Paris is not commonly called "Paree" here in the
States!

If "Depardoo" or "Depardoe" is the way an American pronounces that
spelling, why not?  When we go to France and want to spek to him, then
we will make sure we have the proper pronunciation.

	-- Anita --

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From: 910252m@dragon.acadiau.ca (Dwayne MacKinnon)
Subject: Re: Under Siege
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 03:19:10 GMT

rdd@cactus.org (Robert Dorsett) writes:


>I don't recall Seagal ever engaging in those (but I tuned out of his last
>couple of movies).  Short and brutally violent, with mucho broken bones,
>that's Seagal...

>I thoroughly enjoyed "Under Siege"...

I also thoroghly enjoyed Under Siege. It was a pretty good movie. I did get a   major kick out of Erika Eleniak answering the phone, so to speak.

DMK
Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada.
From: jcoates@ncrsmg.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Jim D Coates)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: the absolute worst movie of all time, so bad it's bad
Date: 7 Oct 92 13:22:04 GMT
Organization: NCR Systemedia Group Headquarters, Dayton (Miamisburg), Ohio

<2OCT199220125227@nsinic.gsfc.nasa.gov> <11001@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
<1992Oct4.041649.5330@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
Reply-To: jcoates@ncrsmg.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Jim D Coates)
Followup-To: 
Distribution: 
Organization: NCR Systemedia Group Headquarters, Dayton (Miamisburg), Ohio
Keywords: 

In article <1992Oct4.041649.5330@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> jogle@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Jim
Ogle (Ks. Jim)) writes:
>In article <mumble> pepke@ds1.scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke) writes:
>
>>In article <grumble> lev@nsinic.gsfc.nasa.gov (Brian S. Lev) writes:
>
>>>that I consider worse than "Battle Beyond the Stars" -- which I saw eons
>>>ago in the theater, and which a friend of mine and I still refer to 
>>>"Garbage Beyond the Stars."
>>
>>But where else can you see John-boy Walton flying around the universe inside
>>a big scrotum, hmmmmm?
>
>Never pictured the ship as a scrotum myself...it always looked like a
>set of hooters to me (even more so on the movie poster - amazing the
>things you'll remember when its something vaguely sexual and you were
>in your teens at the time!)
>

Am I the only one who thought it was obvious that the ship was modeled after
a uterus and ovaries?

-Jim
From: ahummel@ems.cdc.com (H. Austin Hummel)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: * Movie Goofs list Candidates
Date: 13 Oct 92 13:24:06 GMT
Reply-To: you@ems.cdc.com
Organization: Empros Systems International, a division of CDC

# Pretty Woman

Watched it again the other day, and while at the Polo Match
Gere's shirt changes from a wide point collar to long point collar (not
a close up) back to wide point. I did stop action and single step
and it sure looks like it did to me. Any Verification?
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From: k206027@smog.DKRZ-Hamburg.DE (ce)
Subject: Re: the absolute worst movie of all time, so bad it's bad
Organization: Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH, Hamburg
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 08:46:51 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.193959.726@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com> mccreary@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com (Ed McCreary) writes:
>In article <11001@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> pepke@ds1.scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke) writes:
>>In article <2OCT199220125227@nsinic.gsfc.nasa.gov> lev@nsinic.gsfc.nasa.gov (Brian S. Lev) writes:
>>>that I consider worse than "Battle Beyond the Stars" -- which I saw eons
>>>ago in the theater, and which a friend of mine and I still refer to 
>>>"Garbage Beyond the Stars."
>>
>>But where else can you see John-boy Walton flying around the universe inside
>>a big scrotum, hmmmmm?
>>
>
>I always thought it was big copy  of the female reproductive system.
>You've got your uterus, your ovaries...
>
I thought they were giant breasts with attached ovaries. If you look at
a copy of the movie poster the ship distinctly has nipples! I suppose
one would be disappointed if you went to this film expecting "Star Wars"
but my wife and I saw it during an all-night SF film-fest and thoroughly
enjoyed it for what it was.

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From: u0f98@seq1.keele.ac.uk (DJ Robinson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Robocop 3 ?
Date: 13 Oct 92 12:02:43 GMT
Organization: Keele University, England

From article <1687F2C9D.MHART00@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>, by mason:
> I heard a rumor recently that Robocop 3 was finished and "in the
> can."  True or false?  I've always enjoyed action movies with little
> or no plot ...
>  
> "Life IS pain.  Anyone who tells you differently is selling something."
> -- mason

The word is the film is complete but since it is made by Orion who have
now gone bust, there is no money to release and promote the film.
The same company made Silence of the Lambs and while Anthony Hopkins,
Jodie Foster and Jonathan Demme all want to make the sequel they have to
wait until someone else buys the rights to make the film.
	Dominator
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From: flagg@blind-lemon.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Cunningham)
Subject: Re: Question. Three Men and a Baby??
Organization: UNLV
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 18:51:01 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.234740.29986@lugb.latrobe.edu.au>  
ECSC9016731T@LUST.LATROBE.EDU.AU (Michael Wilson) writes:
 "Sorry if this has been brought up before but...........
 "A friend of mine just pointed out something strange in a scene from "Three  
men
 "and a baby". In the scene where Jack's (Ted Danson) mother meets her new 
 "grandaughter, there seems to be a small boy behind the curtains off to the  
left
 "of the screen.

	I seem to recall quite a controversy on the boy, seems rumor has it  
that he was a ghost and no one knew where he came from.  Don't remember if they  
knew who's ghost but I do remember the rumors...  Any help from the peanut gal?
--

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From: russur@convex.com (Russ Urquhart)
Subject: Re: Hero and Meet John Doe
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 19:31:50 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

You may want to refer to either this months of last months Vogue magazine
where they have an interview with Frears. In the interview he states that Hero
is inspired/homage to Capra and also to Meet John doe (I think). 

"Meet John Doe" is one of my favorite movies, and the first movie where I fell
in love with Barbara Stanwcky(sp?).

It holds up very well, and I am making friend of mine watch it BEFORE we see
Hero.


FYI


Russ
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From: brea9430@mach1.wlu.ca (breadner kenneth cecil joseph u)
Subject: Stephen Tobolowsky
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 17:10:36 GMT

Thanks to all those who answered my query about the actor who played Mitch
in Single White Female. It IS Stephen Tobolowsky, he DOES play in HERO, and
he is also in SNEAKERS, as several of you have mentioned.

This begs another question, or an interesting comment. At our local
five-plex, the movies on tap are:

Mr. Baseball
Mr. Saturday Night 
Hero
Single White Female
Sneakers

And this one actor is in three of the five. Bet that doesn't happen often.

-- 
Ken Breadner	brea9430@mach1.wlu.ca (the BREADbox)  ...
Wilfrid Laurier Day Care Centre--oops, University, Waterloo, Ontario
These are my opinions, and all my professors think they are wrong.
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