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From: suddejw@shuttle.msfc.nasa.gov (John Sudderth)
Subject: Witching Hour
Followup-To: rec.arts.movies
Organization: Boeing
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:15:52 GMT

Does anyone have more information on "The Witching Hour" (by Anne Rice)
being released in June?
 
Actors? 
Director?
Anything?
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From: patk@sr.hp.com (Patrick Kearney)
Subject: Re: S & E Memo to the Academy
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:34:55 GMT
Organization: HP Sonoma County (SRSD/MWTD/MID)
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Cathy A. Benney (cathy@nosc.mil) wrote:
: Hello fellow net users,
: 
: Last night (Sun. Jan 24), S & E were doing a Memo to the Academy
: show.  When I tuned in to it, they were discussing a movie that
: they said was a definite possibility as their best film of 92.  
: They mentioned that it had a very violent opening scene, but the
: violence wasn't continued after that.  It sounded like a movie
: worth seeing, but I didn't get it's name.  Did anyone else see
: this S & E, and if so, could you send me an email telling me the
: movie's name?  I remember that the movie they reviewed just AFTER
: this one was Malcolm X.
: 
: Thanks in advance,
: 
: 	Cathy


Eeek. I had the same experience. Please post the name of this film so
we can all know what it is!
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From: sterbenc@ivhs.mot.com (Joe Sterbenc)
Subject: Re: The Abyss .. again
Organization: MOTOROLA 
Distribution: rec
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:14:39 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.movies

In article <GHARRISO.93Jan25090648@vancouver.gssec.bt.co.uk>,
gharriso@vancouver.gssec.bt.co.uk (Grant Harrison) wrote:
> 
> 
> The Abyss was shown in the UK last night. I know this film has
> been discussed frequently before, but here's a question I haven't
> seen answered yet.
> 
> Can anyone confirm or deny the existance of the breathable liquid
> which is shown in the film. You know, the stuff the rat breathes
> and survives ( so does Ed Harris). I remember being told a couple
> of years ago by a friend that the stuff actually exists but seeing 
> the film again last night re-awakened that old scepticism.
> 
> GH
> ~~
> --
>          /\              Grant Harrison
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> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I believe it does exist, and has been used by Navy Seals over here
much as is portrayed in the movie. I doubt Harris actually did it,
though....

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From: ac717@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeffry L. Johnson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: PEEVES at MOVIE THEATERS !
Date: 22 Jan 1993 04:40:49 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ac717@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeffry L. Johnson)
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In a previous article, tvervaek@col.hp.com (Tom Vervaeke) says:

>2. Poor sound, unfocused projector.

Long gone are the days of a projectionist only having to deal with a single 
screen. If you are lucky, the only duties of the projectionist is projection. 
All too often, the projectionist is also the manager, or an usher, or a 
concession person. It seems that all we have is film threaders. The shows are 
automated to the point of starting automatically without human assistance. This 
is progress! 8-) Right??!!  

If there is a problem, you must inform the staff. As a projectionist, I wish I 
could be at every screen all the time checking focus, sound, framing, etc. Try 
doing that in a 10 screen theatre. You are running everywhere prepping for the 
next show.

-- 
Jeffry L. Johnson                                    CWRU Film Society Alumnus
Technologist, HLA Lab, Institute of Pathology, CWRU/Univ. Hosp. of Cleveland
Projectionist, Centrum Theatre;      IATSE Local 160  Officer: Examining Board
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From: egnilges@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Edward G. Nilges)
Subject: Re: Coppola's DRACULA
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 14:40:13 GMT

In article <1993Jan19.015207.16882@netcom.com> damiel@netcom.com (Paul Theodoropoulos) writes:
>
>it's a recursive thing, Ed. 
>
>you still don't understand.

I'd suggest that the lack of understanding is yours.  Your parody, which
was only mildly amusing and completely unoriginal (being part of a genre
of bashing the "political correct" which has been around for years), is
inferior to the real thing, in which I was able to draw bonafide
connections and continually drain the stack (which a smart young punk
like you knows is a data structure for supporting recursion) by
returning repeatedly to the issue at hand: whether Francis Ford Coppola
is, as I claim, a Fascist and without talent.  Your parody does not
return to this claim in this fashion.

And you may think that the racism and sexism of our society are amusing;
I don't.  

Also, you lied when you told the net that you'd continued a discussion
with me by electronic mail.  I received no communication from you.  Why
didn't you just 'fess up, and admit that your intellectual equipment
was, and remains, inadequate save for feeble parody of the discussion at
hand?


From: cn@otter.hpl.hp.com (Colin Needham)
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 08:04:24 GMT
Subject: Re: A question on `The Player'
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies

In article <9301230805.AA28713@cec2.wustl.edu>, sp2@cec2.wustl.edu writes:
>  I saw the Tim Robbins movie `The Player' today and
>  ...
>.. Can someone list ALL movie
>celebrities who come for a short time in this movie?

The following info is taken from the r.a.movies lists (available via 
anonymous ftp from boulder.colorado.edu in pub/tv+movies/lists):

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Player, The (1992)

Altman, Robert (d)
Tolkin, Michael (w) (also novel)
Newman, Thomas (m)
Lepine, Jean (ph)

Anderson, Richard
Auberjonois, Rene
Belafonte-Harper, Shari
Black, Karen
Bowen, Michael
Busey, Gary
Carradine, Robert
Cher
Coburn, James
Cusack, John
D'Onofrio, Vincent
Davis, Brad
Dooley, Paul
Falk, Peter
Fletcher, Louise
Franz, Dennis
Gallagher, Peter
Garr, Teri
Gershon, Gina
Glenn, Scott
Goldberg, Whoopi
Goldblum, Jeff
Gould, Elliott
Grant, Richard E.
Grey, Joel
Grier, David Alan
Henry, Buck
Huston, Anjelica
Ireland, Kathy
James, Brion
James, Steve
Kellerman, Sally
Kirkland, Sally
Lemmon, Jack
MacDowell, Andie
Matlin, Marlee
McDowell, Malcolm
Merrill, Dina
Mull, Martin
Nolte, Nick
Remsen, Bert
Reynolds, Burt
Robbins, Tim
Roberts, Julia
Rogers, Mimi
Sarandon, Susan
Scacchi, Greta
St. John, Jill
Steiger, Rod
Stevenson, Cynthia
Stockwell, Dean
Tomlin, Lily
Wagner, Robert
Walston, Ray
Ward, Fred
Willis, Bruce

Cheers,

Col

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From: awalsh@mta.ca (Andrew Walsh)
Subject: Finola Hughes
Reply-To: awalsh@mta.ca
Organization: Mount Allison U, Sackville, N.B. Canada 
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:41:22 GMT

Just to add to the thread...

She's also a regular on the mid-season replacement "Jack's Place"
on ABC. It started as a summer show, then was taken off for the
new season, and now they've brought it back. I really like her
work. Nice hair too. :-) You should have seen the episode where
she tried out for a dance company. ;-);-);-);-);-);-)
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From: jameskau@phakt.usc.edu (James Kaufman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Who from Poltergeist is now dead?
Date: 25 Jan 1993 01:43:59 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: phakt.usc.edu

In article <1993Jan24.212630.1503@bradley.bradley.edu> guru@camelot.bradley.edu (Jerry Whelan) writes:
>	I was BSing with a friend recently and claimed that a lot
>of the cast from the original Poltergeist film have died.  But
>I didn't really know who, so could someone who knows post a list
>of who's dead, what character they played and how/when they died?
>
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>``written by a drunken insane pathological liar''        guru@stasi.bradley.edu



I remember Heather O'Rourke (the little They're Here girl) died a few years 
ago (she was only 12).  Some illness.  The other daughter, Dominique Donne
(daughter of a famous novelist) was stranged by her boyfriend before that.
The Indian guy, Will Sampson (the guy from Cuckoo's Nest) also is dead.  And
I think there's one more, but I forgot who.  

James Kaufman
jameskau@scf.usc.edu


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From: carpente@lds.loral.com (Mike Carpenter 6825)
Subject: Re: Well known film, well known actor (to be)
Organization: Loral Data Systems
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:38:17 GMT

In article <15603@cis.rand.org> kight@cis.rand.org writes:
>
> >>Harrision Ford in Apocalypse Now
> >>Cristopher Walken in Anni Hall
> >>(this last one is not strictly ok but I'm runing out of examples)
> >>Nicolas Cage in Rumble Fish
> >>
> >>Could some better informed souls out there help me with this list of
> >>actors/actresses - films ?
> >>
> >Hmmm..
> >Kevin Costner in The Big Chill (He was the body)
> >Most of the cast of The Outsiders (Patrick Swayze, many others)
> >Sigourney Weaver in Annie Hall
> >Geena Davis in Tootsie
> >Harrison Ford in The Conversation
> >
> >Those are the ones that pop to mind...
>
>Daniel Day-Lewis as Colin in "Gandhi" (he had three lines...)
>
>Anne

James Woods in The Way We Were
From: dkrause@miami.acs.uci.edu (Doug Krause)
Subject: Re: Who from Poltergeist is now dead?
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 25 Jan 93 13:21:22 GMT

In article <1k0covINNej2@phakt.usc.edu> jameskau@phakt.usc.edu (James Kaufman) writes:
#I remember Heather O'Rourke (the little They're Here girl) died a few years 
#ago (she was only 12).  Some illness.  The other daughter, Dominique Donne
#(daughter of a famous novelist) was stranged by her boyfriend before that.
#The Indian guy, Will Sampson (the guy from Cuckoo's Nest) also is dead.  And
#I think there's one more, but I forgot who.  

The old guy that played the preacher in part II.

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From: eet6f@Virginia.EDU ("Ellen Elise Tuffly")
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Name of hotel in The Shining?
Date: 27 Jan 93 19:19:58 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Virginia

The name of the hotel in The Shining is called The Stanley Hotel
in Estes Park, Colorado, which is located on the edge of the
Rocky Mountain National Park.  Stephen King apparently stayed
there one night and dreamed the whole plot for the book.  The
hotel looks exactly like the one in the movie.  In fact, in the
lobby, there are newspaper clippings about Stephen King and his
book.  Travelers who have seen the movie are often hesitant to
stay there after seeing the hotel from the outside.
Xref: sparky rec.arts.movies:38523 rec.pets:4436
From: mcglk@cpac.washington.edu (Ken McGlothlen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,rec.pets
Subject: Re: The Abyss .. again
Date: 26 Jan 93 20:19:24
Organization: Dubious.
	<74385@cup.portal.com> <1993Jan26.130449.29785@email.tuwien.ac.at>
NNTP-Posting-Host: yang.cpac.washington.edu

harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) claimed that he has a friend who was one of
the divers during the filming of "The Abyss," and that they went through 15
rats to film the sequence involving the oxygenated fluid.  In fact, he claims
that they were using seawater to accomplish the effect.  This has upset a few
people.

Sorry, Harv, but your friend is pulling your leg in a *big* way.

Seawater simply doesn't have enough dissolved oxygen to keep someone alive.
Period.

The fluid demonstrated on the rat in "The Abyss" actually *does* exist.  It's a
superoxygenated fluid, and for the life of me, I can't remember what it is.  It
was written up in Scientific American, among other places, in the '70s, and I
*think* it's composed of something like silicone or glycerin or something like
that.  I wish I could remember exactly what it is---if someone bothers to look
up an article on this, I'd appreciate hearing what the substance is again.

In any case, the fluid *will* sustain mammalian life---unlike seawater, which
contains maybe 5% dissolved O2 on a good day, the fluid runs at around 20-25%
dissolved O2.  And it's safe on the lungs---you don't wind up with pneumonia
afterwards or anything like that.  The experiment has been done with countless
rats in the last 20 years.

Unfortunately, it's quite hard on higher-order mammals---that is, mammals
intelligent enough to panic.  The acclimatization process is quite difficult,
and since it's viscous, it's difficult to respire normally.  And the expulsion
process is awfully hard on a person, too.

One reason why I really like "The Abyss" was its attention to detail regarding
the scientific questions; that, combined with Ed Harris' acting talents,
certainly gave the impression that they'd used the fluid on him (as another
poster in this thread has claimed).  However, that's highly unlikely.  If you
pay closer attention, you'll note that where Harris is *clearly* immersed in
fluid inside the suit, the shots are fairly short; for the longer shots,
they're using a trick helmet---it has a double-walled faceplate, and the fluid
is resting between the two plates.  The expulsion scene in the alien habitat
was accomplished with the vomit effects seen in such films as "Parenthood,"
"Stand By Me," and other recent films that involve convincing technicolor
yawns---specifically, a combination of shots that have a hose affixed to the
side of the face, and the actor dropping small amounts of a convincing-looking
substance out of his/her mouth.

				---Ken McGlothlen
				   mcglk@cpac.washington.edu
				   mcglk@cpac.bitnet
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Subject: Re: HOWARDS END with spoilers
From: mnor1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Mark Hiro           Norman         )
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:00:48 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland

In <1ji4jqINNmdq@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> bruceg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Bruce Gimble) writes:

>I have some questions about Howard's End as well.  Since it was a based on an
>E.M. Forester novel, I was wondering if it was part of a series.  The ending
>was left somewhat open and I wondered if the characters were continued/resolved
>in some sort of way.

If you've seen A Room With a View, Maurice, or Where Angels Fear to Tread
you might have noticed a sort of continuity since they were all written
by E M Forster and (apart from WAFTT) were all produced by Merchant Ivory.

In Howards End (the novel) Mr Vyse, a character from ARWAV, is mentioned
(I can't find the bit, but I remember it) and in ARWAV (the movie) the
events of WAFTT are the subject of gossip between Miss Lavish and Aunt
Charlotte.
The novels weren't a series, but they are definitely related - and so too
with the movies.

> Also, throughout the movie, there were hints about how well
>the lead female's belongings fit in the house.  It made me suspect that her
>family had owned the house before.  Did I miss something crucial in the movie?
>(Maybe I had to go to the restroom at this point, I dunno).  But I mean, even
>the sword fit perfectly (as was stressed in the movie) over the mantel.  The
>housekeeper acted like she knew this fact as well.  

I think this more represents how deserving Margaret is of the house - it is
the sort of house which people like her, and Ruth Wilcox, are at home in.
Since Mrs Wilcox also bequeathed the house to her on her deathbed, it is
even more appropriate.

To Forster houses were more than boxes of bricks - remember how concerned
Mrs Wilcox was over hearing about the Schlegels were being evicted from
their house, which they had grown up in, due to the lease expiring?

>Someone please explain.  
>Thanks.

Pretty hopeless explanation really, but I hope it helps.
If you really want to know more about HE, I think that someone in
rec.arts.books knows a LOT about it - far more than I, anyway.


Mark.
From: sandyl@soda.berkeley.edu (Sandy Lai)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Rumor: _American Psycho_
Date: 22 Jan 1993 04:43:02 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu

Actually I had heard the righst had been bought but.. I could have read it on the net. 
I don't think it would be all that controversial-they have made a movie about Jefferey Dahmer and the material is almost the same. (Granted the Dahmer movie was made really hush-hush).
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From: sp2@cec2.wustl.edu (Sundara Pandian)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: A question on `The Player'
Date: 23 Jan 1993 02:07:43 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Hi,
  I saw the Tim Robbins movie `The Player' today and
I liked it. If you haven't seen it yet and you like
comdey movies, I recommend it for you. I was surprised
to see many celebrities in this movie and I remember
seeing - Cher, Burt Reynolds, Anne McDonnell, Julia
Roberts, Whoopie Goldberg,  and many others - playing 
guest roles in this movie.. Can someone list ALL movie
celebrities who come for a short time in this movie?

  Thanks,
 - Sundara.
From: jt29+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Thomas)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Need Video Reference Book (and Defoe ref.)
Date: 23 Jan 93 14:45:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.wfMSOs600iVg42ZlRM
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Gentle readers,

I'm looking for a book that references films on video that will meet
some special needs for a senior citizen friend of mine.  Ideally, it
would meet the following perquisites:
1.  List old movies-pre 1960 
2.  User friendly, cross indexed by title, actor/actress, genre.
3.  Use a fairly large print---this may be difficult, but would be really nice

While we're at it, would someone be kind enough to send me a summary of
flicks that Willem Defoe has appeared in.

Please respond to this account.  Thank you kindly.
J.B. Thomas
jt29+@andrew.cmu.edu
The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing
in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in
the depths of an ether binge.---Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and
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From: cosulliv@fraser.sfu.ca (Christina Marie O'Sullivan)
Subject: Re: CHAPLIN - bisexual??
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 03:51:07 GMT

mec@acsu.buffalo.edu (Marie E. Copertino) writes:


>	In one scene, Doug Fairbanks was leaving a party, and Charlie
>went out to walk him to his car. DF Jr. said, "Goodnight, Charlie", and
>Charlie said "Goodnight".  After DF JR. closed his car door and drove away,
>Charlie added, "Sweet Prince".  Does anyone konw if this is an allusion
>to romantic feelings Charlie may have had for his friend?


>			Just wondering.

>					Marie

>-- Highly unlikely Charlie was bisexual.  he and Doug were close friends
and Charlie's "Sweet Prince" probably meant nothing more than an allusion
to "Hamlet".  Doug was a doomed man due to cardiovascular problems and
his drinking, and Charlie knew it.  Doug was also very fond of aristocracy
and was in the habit of inviting royalty to palatial Pickfair.  it was 
there that Lord and Lady Mountbatten spent their honeymoon and appeared
in one of Chaplin's home movies. 

Christina O'Sullivan
christio@sfu.ca

Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
From: k206027@smog.DKRZ-Hamburg.DE (Bakayaroo Banzai)
Subject: Re: The Weird List
Organization: Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH, Hamburg
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 07:39:18 GMT

In article <1993Jan19.004435.23006@zip.eecs.umich.edu> stame@emunix.emich.edu (Stewart Tame) writes:
>In article <C12BKD.8Dy@news2.cis.umn.edu> donnell@morayeel.micro.umn.edu (BogusMan) writes:
>>english speculative fiction writer, J. B. Ballard. Now if someone with some
>>talent would adapt his "Crash", "Atrocity Exhibition", "High-Rise", or
>                         ^^^^^
>>"Hello America", which are much more indicative of his usual style.
>
>Call me crazy but I seem to remember hearing that this was going to be
>Cronenberg's next project after _Naked Lunch_ . . . 
>
You're crazy...
Does this mean that Cronenberg is evolving into the Patron Saint/Director
of books heretofore considered unfilmable?

Is a film version of Ginsberg's Howl in the works yet?..:)
Hope he gets Pia Zadora to narrate!

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Subject: Re: Dr Strangelove alternate title?
From: erkamp@JANUS.ARC.AB.CA (Bob Erkamp)
Date: 22 Jan 93 15:06:40 MDT
Reply-To: erkamp@JANUS.ARC.AB.CA
Organization: Alberta Research Council

In article <16JAN199313155778@trentu.ca>, jmacinnis@trentu.ca (Jennifer MacInnis) writes:
>
>     I am tryin to do a movie crossword but this question really has me 
>stumped.  If anyone out there knows the answer please email me.
>
>      "Dr. Strangelove, or -------" (3,1,7,2,4,8,3,4,3,4)
>                                            /\ 
>                                             |_ word lengths
>
>

Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb

Bob
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