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From: flournoy@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Raymond Suke Flournoy)
Subject: Re: SNL:season premiere:comments
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 19:34:29 GMT

In article <1992Sep27.220537.1@cgsvax.claremont.edu> walkerjo@cgsvax.claremont.edu writes:
>
>In fact, this seems to be a hallmark of the show lately: talented cast members
>wasted.  Chris Rock is a prime example: ...

  You mean Chris Rock, the Luckiest Man on Television?  (narrowly
beating out Bob Saget)  I really think that he is one of the worst
players they have on that show.  The problem is he only has about 2
characters/voices which he can do.  Out of necessity, they have used
him in the past as Arsenio Hall and a couple other celebrities, and he
was *awful*.  He just can't disguise that squeaky, raspy voice and
whiny delivery.

  All of this, just IMHO, of course.


--Raymond Flournoy        
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From: rick@sadtler.com (Rick Morris)
Subject: Re: Cable Re-Regulation
Organization: Sadtler Research Laboratories
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 11:49:04 GMT

In article <BvA1LB.3uD@news.cso.uiuc.edu> mppg9231@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael Peercy) writes:
>jsp@uts.amdahl.com (James Preston) writes:
>
>|             ...                 So until the phone company really gets into 
>| the cable TV business and provides some real competition, I have no problem 
>| with the government stepping in.
>
>It may be a reflex action for you to call for government intervention
>to alleviate government-caused problems, but I think you ought to look
>harder for a more reliable solution.
>

If the Feds stayed out, a small degree of competition would exist in the
local bidding process (I emphisize small).  But with Fed. intervention, the
choices become un-choices.  All cable companies will offer the same thing
as dictated by the Feds.

csh> setenv POLITICAL_SOAPBOX on
Why the heck my hard-earned dollars should go to affect somebody's television
watching on the West Coast is WAY beyond me.  This cable thing is not a
Federal Issue, and Mike's "reflex action" statement above hits the nail
on the head.  We have to re-educate ourselves not to cry to Big Brother
every time we itch, because Fed scratching just causes more problems.  Tell
me... Do you want your tax burden to go to someone on the other side of the
country, or would you like your tax burden (if there must be one) to go to
people in your own community or state?  Do you want judgement of an elected
offical from the other side of the country deciding what you are allowed to
watch on TV, or someone from your own state or community who is more indebted
to your vote?  Our founding fathers figured that the community and state
would better serve the individual than the Federal government, what do you
think?

The issues of this election should not be the republicrat or democrin's family
values, it should be: just what should the role of the Federal government be in
MY life, IF ANY!
csh> setenv POLITICAL_SOAPBOX off

Sorry.  That political stuff doesn't belong here.  But the cable discussion
does, and I think that Federal regulation is wrong, and that's my two cents,
so there!

-Rick.
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Sadtler Research Labs, Philadelphia   -But I speak for myself
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From: batman@sgi.com (The Reverend Doctor Karl Elvis MacRae)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Date: 4 Oct 92 00:16:11 GMT
Reply-To: batman@lenny.corp.sgi.com
Distribution: na
Organization: Tattooed Love Boys

In article <1992Oct1.113039.1@skcla.monsanto.com> jjfink@skcla.monsanto.com writes:
>
>A good number of the scenes appeared to be colorized old WWI film.  I'm not
>sure if it's from 'live' footage or recreation, but it was pretty terrifying

	I'm *certain* that the footage in question is from some old
	movie or something; for one thing, the angle it was shot from
	looked unlikely for actual war footage, and for another, I
	rather think I've seen it before somewhere. I'd say that
	pretty much all of the footage with horses, and most of the
	large-scale german charges, were all old stock footage.
	Extremely well used, however. Only real tech-geeks like us 
	would notice, I think.


>7) Kid Indy:  The younger Indy stories seem to be mostly travelogues.  If he
>meets yet another major historical figure, I just may gag.


	I like the young-indy episodes for several reasons.

	One is that I really like the guy playing his father (Does
	an awesome Sean Connery impression). Another is that it's 
	a chance to be more overtly educational; the Teddy Rosevelt
	episode was a perfect example. It never condemned hunting; it
	just *showed* it, and let us decide for ourselves. 

	Also, it lets the show focus more on other characters, which
	is good; such a great show should have a chance to do that,
	and with the rock-em-sock-em pace of the teen indy shows, 
	there's just not room.

		However, I'd say that about 1 in five is about the 
	right mix, or maybe one in four; certainly not every other
	episode.


			-Karl


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From: amo@cbnews.cb.att.com (arlene.m.osborne)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: QL: ENOUGH ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:17:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: cbnews.1992Sep29.171752.19425
Distribution: na
Organization: AT&T

In article <5264@balrog.ctron.com>, lawrence@ctron.com (Gary St. Lawrence) writes:
> Jesus Murphy! Enough with the Quantum Leap season premiere!!!
> It's been a week. Get a life will you please?!?!?!?!?
> This net has been garbled with so much CRAP about Sam's leap into LHO.
> We were all disappointed by the ending. Okay, Fine! LET IT GO!
> There's a good season coming up, how about some talk/and/or/speculation
> about that for a CHANGE!!!!
>Don't worry, they'll re-run it and then all you whiners can get your panties in
> a twist all over again!
> 
> 					Having a sh*tty day!
> 					Saint


You really ought to switch to decaf....
From: firenza@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Timothy Mark Collins)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Saturday Night Live's 18th Season
Date: 1 Oct 1992 05:13:33 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigwpi.wpi.edu

In article <1992Oct1.042520.23680@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> jblackwo@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (J P Blackwood) writes:
>
>I still think it is GUido Sarducci. If you look at the guy and think Father 
>Guido you will know. Father Guido has been associated with SNL for years. He 
>may go under more than one alias to write. Is his real name Don Novello?
>
>
>J.P.>--
>>Jeffrey Neau - jeffy@redwood.cray.com


That's his real name alright.  Don Novello.

firenza@wpi.wpi.edu
From: ahummel@ems.cdc.com (H. Austin Hummel)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: about Timothy Dalton
Date: 29 Sep 92 18:17:07 GMT
Reply-To: you@ems.cdc.com
Organization: Empros Systems International, a division of CDC

In article <1992Sep28.094159.1@cubldr.colorado.edu>, matthews_k@cubldr.colorado.edu writes:
|> In article <1992Sep23.215104.26511@newstand.syr.edu>, ncchang@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Chang) writes:
|> >  I would like to have some more information about Timothy Dalton.
|> >  Does he play any other BBC series except Jane Eyre?
|> > 
|> I don't know of any other TV series he's been in, but he has done a number
|> of films.  The first I know of was _The Lion in Winter_ in which he plays
|> the French prince, Phillippe, who is Richard (the Lion Heart's) lover.  A
|> superb film!  Other than that, he was James Bond in two films, Prince Barin
|> in _Flash Gordon_, and also played a insane asylum inmate in a quiet little
|> film that I can't recall the name of.  Anyone else know?
|> 

His best film IMHO mis "Hawks", very funny, very moving, great acting.
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From: mem@mv.mv.com (Mark E. Mallett)
Subject: Re: You Bet Your Life
Organization: MV Communications, Inc.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 04:39:29 GMT

In article <1aal05INNk2h@early-bird.think.com> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
>I don't know, but I think the original YBYL also did this with Groucho's
>sidekick.

George Fenneman, wasn't it?  I watched a lot of those old shows when they
were rerun fare, and I don't remember him being called by other
than his name.  Bad memory, maybe.

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From: dhosek@lucy.claremont.edu
Subject: Re: Cable Re-Regulation
Organization: Harvey Mudd College
Distribution: usa
Date: 29 Sep 92 10:03:46 PDT

In article <1a8rmpINN52j@lasso.crhc.uiuc.edu>, peercy@crhc.uiuc.edu (Mike Peercy) writes:
> | }You know, I have yet to hear the supporters of this bill claim that the
> | }cable industry pulls in huge profits.  This leads me to believe that
> | }cable prices are not going to drop.  And since extra burdens are placed
> | }on cable companies by this bill, I wouldn't doubt it if their rates
> | }did go up.
 
> | Well, I can't cite you a specific source, but it is my understanding
> | that cable industry profits have increased dramatically since the previous
> | de-regulation.  I'd be interested to hear if you have information that
> | that is incorrect.
 
> I have no information either.  I've only heard that prices have gone up
> 80% (three times the rate of inflation) in the last decade.  But one
> wonders how much services have gone up as well.  Perhaps the 50% of the
> rate increase not attributable to inflation?
 
> But I'll wager that more than nine-tenths of the people who have called
> their Congresspeople on this issue have even less information than we.

Well I got cable last summer. Since then my rates have increased
25% (!) with _no_ change in the selection of channels, no
increase in quality, no responsiveness from calling the cable
company.

This is why I'm waiting for the phone companies to get in the
act. Cable can't get worse than my cable company and the phone
companies are talking about putting in digital lines whose
channel capacity is around 500 or so (quoting from vague memories
in the L.A. Times). Gee, maybe I'll finally get Comedy Central.

-dh
From: bchurch@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Robert Church)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: MURPHY BROWN
Keywords: great show, good response
Date: 3 Oct 92 03:44:19 GMT
Organization: Ohio University School of Art. Athens

In article <1992Oct2.114428.4841@sadtler.com> rick@sadtler.com (Rick Morris) writes:
>Quayle was using Murphy Brown as an example of how the Pop Culture is
>glorifying non-Republican values.  Murphy Brown is an example of that.
>He was not using Murphy Brown as an example of an irresponsible unwed
>mother, or he could have used a Real Life person (if he could find one).
>
>Quayle is trashable, but don't trash him on what the Press says he
>says.  Trash him on what HE says.  I heard that speech, and I heard the
>press reports, and let me tell you...What the Press says Quayle said
>is not what Quayle said.  Like him or not, he IS being unfairly accused!

Just look at his 'one word' speech. He said that there was one important
word, which is to be "prepared". It was of course reported as "to be prepared".



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From: baylor@nebula.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
Subject: Re: Quantum Leap
Reply-To: baylor@nebula.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 19:19:07 GMT

In article <4146@novavax.UUCP>, 
vaccaro@novavax.UUCP (N. Trafford Vaccaro) writes:
>Hello, everyone,
>
>
>I started watching QL and was wondering what the show is
>all about. I never saw the first episode but I saw the one where he went
>back and met the wife he didn't know he had. It seems that when
>he leaps, he forgets his past, which includes his wife. But the other
>night, he met his piano teacher from when he was 15 years old? Why did
>he remember her? 
Ok. Short version. Sam's memory got "swiss cheesed" (technical term: 
magnifluxed) the first time he leaped. He didn't even know who he was
and couldn't remember anything of his past. Since then, some things
have come back to him, and Al has told him a little (even though he's
not supposed to.) Circumstances can jog Sam's memory, if he's
seeing or experiencing something he's seen/done before. By the way,
Sam was not married when he stepped into the accelerator, and until
the episode you saw, there was no visible proof that Donna had
married him.
>
>What year is he from? 
Sam started leaping in 1995. At the project, the current season
is 4 years later, and Sam is still lost in time.

>Does he obtain some of the person's memory
>and skills when he leaps into him/her? I wish I could see the
>first episode.
Up until this season, the answer was a definite no. He was Sam Beckett,
an incredibly brilliant and talented man thrown on his own resources
(which do include advice from Al). However, in the season premier,
Sam says "Do you know how sometimes there's something left of the 
person I've leaped into, like a bit of his soul?" And in fact, he 
displayed knowlege and skills hat he hadn't had before. Without posting
any spoilers, there was one previous episode where he was definitely
picking up vibes from his subject (DREAMS), and several where he might 
have been (RUNNING FOR HONOR, JIMMY, 8 1/2 MONTHS) although at the time, 
I'd thought the "mights" were just from dealing with the same environment.
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From: ed@cwis.unomaha.edu (Ed Stastny)
Subject: MTV: Buzz
Keywords: buzz mtv
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 01:37:31 GMT

I'm looking for information on the ex-MTV program "Buzz".  
 
It was a show with extremely interesting/artsy graphics, documentaries,
interviews, and clips.  It last played (as far as I know) 2.5 years ago.

I have several episodes taped and am looking for an episode list to see
which ones I don't have.  If you can help, please post or email.
 
...e

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From: APUCORLE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: NEXP Premiere (SPOILERS)
Date: 29 Sep 92 14:54:50 GMT


Hey, Maggie O'Connell and I have the same birthday!  Anyway,
it was a long hot re-run summer and this season premiere
was worth the long wait.  Chris is finally getting some
chinks in his armor thanks to Marilyn.  Maurice is too....
I loved the swiftness of Ruth Ann's destruction of his
cassette player.  And Joel is still unhappy, but not so
deeply as he has been.  It seems like he's in-between hating
his situation and growing comfortable with it.  Ed is perfect
as usual.  There was really nothing to complain or dislike
about this episode.  Anyone know what the happy birthday
song was at the end?

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From: cmj1@jaguar.uofs.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Quantum Leap: What have they done to the theme song?
Summary: QL and it's theme song
Keywords: QL Quantum Leap Music Theme
Date: 2 Oct 92 07:25:48 GMT
Organization: University of Scranton

My GOD!!!!!! What have they done to the theme song!
I hope Sally has an update abotu this travesty in the next newsletter!  I am so
upset.  I actually feel violated.. I thought maybe it was just for the Oswald
thing.. and I accepted that.  But I can't take it.. It's way to boom-boomy now!
AGGGGHHHHH!
Anyone know why?

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From: preetham@chisti.umiacs.umd.edu (Preetham Gopalaswamy)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: "Room for Two"
Date: 2 Oct 92 19:12:42 GMT

I have been following this newsgroup for a while and somehow this show never
seems to get discussed, not last season when it was on for a while and not now,
when it has been renewed.   I am going out on a limb and admitting it, I really
really like this show.   Of the sitcoms now showing, there are very few which 
have me laughing out loud (Roseanne and Seinfeld are two of them), but "Room
for Two" does.   I hope the writers can sustain their talents for more than one
season.   The fact that the actress playing the daughter (Patricia Heaton I think)
is cute does not hurt at all.   I also like the comic timing of the actors.
Since not too many people are talking about this show, I hope this show does not
die a quick and ignominous death.
Any comments !!!!


						Preetham
From: il@bambam.u.washington.edu (Il Hwan Oh)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: What is the deal with that ANNOYING kid in the Britannica commercials?
Date: 28 Sep 92 01:32:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Sep28.013252.7540
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Washington, Tacoma

winter@Apple.COM (Patty Winter) writes:
> rdd@cactus.org (Robert Dorsett) writes:

>[comments on the young man in the Encyclopedia Brittanica TV commercials]
>
>>He is one of the most annoying creatures I have ever seen.  The merest 
>>sound of that scratchy, computer-enhanced voice sends me convulsively 
>>grabbing for the remote's mute button.  He has done incredible damage to his 
>>sponsor's reputation, in my eyes.  Britannica is now indelibly imprinted as 
>>a cheap, sleazy, obnoxious, kid-oriented operation.  They have no better way 
>>to spend their ad money than on crap like this?!  
>
>I've long assumed that this is Stan Freberg's son. It's Freberg doing
>the voice-overs, and the young man looks a lot like him. Also, since
>Freberg is an advertising man, I presume he also wrote the commercial.
>I agree that it's a poorly done spot. It's hard to believe that someone
>as talented as Freberg could have created it.

It definitely is Stan Freberg's son.  I heard him being interviewed by
Tom Snyder on the radio, and he mentioned it.  I don't know if he
wrote the commercial, though, as he didn't mention that part of it.


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From: cab@col.hp.com (Chris Best)
Subject: Re: Annoying Broadcasting Practices
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 21:01:37 GMT
Organization: your service


Since the TV stations don't seem to care, how about a letter or two
to the show itself?  I'm sure THEY care.

Similar situation - here in Colorado Springs, a local restaurant
is running a commercial with a style that is BLATANTLY stolen
from the Ray Charles "Right One Baby" commercials.  Since I mute
it anyway, I don't really care enough to write and complain, but 
it'll be interesting to see how long they can get away with it 
before they're shut down.

Complain to the ones who actually give a f***, and you'll most
likely be heard.
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From: acmksb@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (T.V.'s Frank)
Subject: Re: SNL: October 3, Really Bad.
Organization: Georgia State University
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 07:27:04 GMT

sorsha@wam.umd.edu (Laurie Beth Brunner) writes:


>But Sinead was different.
>-- 
>Send burnt offerings to....."If love is a grenade,.........Ahead groove......
>..sorsha@wam.umd.edu......I'll pull the pin." B-52's....factor five! -Holly..

     We here in Atlanta love the B's, and anyone who quotes them, but we wonder
about Sinead and this thing she has with the Pope.

and so for a fellow music lover the lyrics to a new offering from Atlanta

Empress of Pop (song for Sinead)

the empress does cry as she slowly sips her wine
she's such a pitiful fool to think i'd have pity too
why don't she slit her wrists and get her sorrow over with?
get a life bitch
she walks around in a filtered world and speaks of only bad not good
but she sold her soul to fame and now she cannot take the strain   
what was she thinking of when she signed that dotted line!
and what has she become but a shaved head whimpy whine?
she speaks of tough hearted issues from the page of a magazine by saying, she
believes in this and she listens to that - but in her lyrics it's never seen
i could only imagine what her life's like
she wakes in the morning regarding the beautiful sunlight
she washes her body and thinks that she's so pure somehow while cashing it in
she think that she's so safe now
she walk around in a filtered world and speaks of only bad not good 
but she sold her soul to fame and now she claims she can't get laid.

Insane Jane, "a green little pill"

Kirk Brooks
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From: winter@rainbow.ecn.purdue.edu (Nancy M. Winter)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Saturday Night Live's 18th Season
Date: 2 Oct 92 14:07:00 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <4566@equinox.unr.edu> harrisl@unssun.UUCP (Larry Harris) writes:
>>
>>Yes I believe Nora Dunn and Jan Hooks stated that the main reason for leaving
>>was the attitude toward women and women's issues on SNL. 
>>
>Bzzzzz, wrong!
>
>The real reason these two were fired was because they both refused to perform
>on the same show as Andrew Dice Clay. SNL tryed to convince Nora and Jan to
>change their minds with no luck. As a result, their contracts weren't signed
>the next year.


are ou sure that's the case with jan hooks? i'm pretty sure she was on
that show that night. and i thought she left SNL to do Designing Women
which i'm sure was a better offer not withstanding how bad that show has
gotten.
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