From: jammer@eskimo.com (Lyle Harwood)
Subject: Re: How We Rung In The New Year
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
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Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 11:43:36 GMT

aaron@atlantis.uucp wrote:
: "Well, I took Mary Merrytail's advice and stopped worrying about what
would be
: the 'right' way to celebrate the New Year and just did it.
: 
: "Nicole and I did a really neat jigsaw puzzle she got me for
Christmas--an
: artwork called 'Critters' by Ray L. McGinnis, with another artwork on
the
: back of the puzzle.  Only 529 pieces, so it only took us a couple of
hours, but
: it was worth it.
: 
: "Then we went out and rented a few movies.  Then we watched them.
: 
: "The first one was 'Harvey', with Jimmy Stewart.  This is my first
Jimmy
: Stewart movie--yes, I've never seen 'It's A Wonderful Life'--and I
enjoyed it
: immensely.  I highly recommend it as an incredibly heartwarming movie
for any
: sentimental occasion.
: 
: "The second was 'The Empire Strikes Back'.  We recently realized it
had been a
: while since we'd seen the Star Wars movies, so we rented 'Star Wars' a
couple
: of months ago and now got the sequel.  This one didn't age as well,
somehow...
: 
: "We took a dinner break in between the above two, by the way...but
after TESB
: was finished, we checked the movie channel and discovered that 'The
Naked Gun
: 2 1/2' was just starting, so we watched that one again.  Then we
watched 'The
: Maltese Falcon', another first for both of us.  Somewhere around the
time that
: Mr. Cairo and Miss O'Shaughnessy were both in Spade's apartment,
midnight
: struck and we celebrated with a kiss.  Then we watched the rest of the
movie.
: I can see what all the fuss was about...
: 
: "Finally, this evening I watched Pump Up The Volume, the last of the
movies we
: rented yesterday.  I took this one mostly on a whim, and it was an
okay watch.
: It would've been better if I was an angst-ridden teenager, but it
still wasn't
: that bad, even though my wife left about twenty minutes into it.  Oh,
well.
: 
: "While I'm on the subject of movies, I highly recommend 'A Few Good
Men'.  I've
: never given Tom Cruise much credit for acting ability, but he does a
damn fine
: job in this one.  Nicholson is also excellent as usual.  James
Marshall(from
: Twin Peaks)does a creditable job as a Marine who isn't all that
bright, mainly
: because he's not trying to act above his intellectual level...and not
trying to
: be James Dean anymore either."
: 
: -- 
: ---Alfvaen(Still looking for "October's Baby")
: "Just like the falling rainbow, just like the stars in the sky        
          Life should never feel small."  ---Black
: Current Album--Black:Wonderful Life
: Current Read--Tesseracts4

Jammer speaks up.
"If we're gonna talk about movies, then I have to mention The
Unforgiven.
If more movies were made like that, I think there'd be less violence...
I really do. If you knew that squeezing a trigger would make you sick 
to your stomach, if you could see, in glorious technicolor what a 
sucking chest wound REALLY looked like, you would hold gunfighters in
far lower esteem than you have been taught to...
and I'm afraid that you HAVE been taught.
I love nicholson. He's one of the truely talented people out there,
he can truly ACT. He can make you believe that he's crazy, (Cukoos nest)
or that he's a world-wise and weary detective, (Chinatown) or that he's 
possesed, (Wites of Eastwick), insa, (that one about the axes,)
and you BELIEVE.