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From: reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Peter Reiher)
Subject: Re: Ken Branagh
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 15:29:15 GMT

In article <Bw5K14.CFp@news.cso.uiuc.edu> tara@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Lady Johanna Constantine) writes:
>Update:
>
>Incase no one knows, the next project for film will be "Much Ado About 
>Nothing". You all get to guess who plays who.
>
>Ken is directing again.

I presume you know about "Peter's Friends", which will be released by
the Samuel Goldwyn Company some time in early 1993.  Branagh directed,
and it stars Fry and Laurie (a British comedy team perhaps best known
here in the U.S. for the Jeeves and Wooster series on "Masterpiece
Theater"), Branagh, and, of course, Emma Thompson.  It's been described
as a British "Big Chill".  Variety didn't especially like it, but that's
just one reviewer.

--
		Peter Reiher
		reiher@wells.cs.ucla.edu
From: joneil@heretix.East.Sun.COM (JJOOJJOOJJOOJJOOJJO)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: WORST SEQUEL????
Date: 15 Oct 1992 07:19:46 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
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NNTP-Posting-Host: heretix.east.sun.com

So which movies do you guys consider the WORST SEQUEL to a hit movie???

i think       --ROBOCOP really sucked rocks
                 --ALIEN ^ 3 blew chunks
                 --PREATOR 2 was a real disappointment

john
From: swb56279@eng-nxt03.cso.uiuc.edu (Steven W. Bachar Jr.)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Searching for Script to Airplane II
Date: 9 Oct 92 15:08:41 GMT
Reply-To: Seahawk@uiuc.edu (Seahawk)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

Well the subject basically says it all...I am looking for a copy
of the Script to Airplane II. I already have a copy of the Script 
to Airplane! and would like to complete my collection.  If anyone has a  
copy of it that they could e-mail me or know where I could obtain one via  
anon. FTP I would greatly apprecdiate it.  Thanks!

			Steve
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From: kimmel@staff.tc.umn.edu (Eric Kimmel)
Subject: Re: WORST SEQUEL????
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 18:50:18 GMT

In article <1bj62iINN7n7@seven-up.East.Sun.COM> joneil@heretix.East.Sun.COM writes:
>So which movies do you guys consider the WORST SEQUEL to a hit movie???
>
>i think       --ROBOCOP really sucked rocks
>                 --ALIEN ^ 3 blew chunks
>                 --PREATOR 2 was a real disappointment
>
>john
>
>
>

No question:  Highlander 2.

-Rick

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From: jmartin@ntmtv.UUCP (Jeff Martin)
Subject: Re: Reuse of Music in Film Trailers (was: Danny Elfman)
Originator: jmartin@cleomed
Organization: Northern Telecom Incorporated
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 22:01:51 GMT

Another example....

	There`s a section of music from Close Encounters that seems
	to turn up every so often. The one that comes to mind is
	the trailer for Krull.


Jeff Martin
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From: mftjs@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (T. Jerry Scott)
Subject: Re: Movies you heard were good but sucked (was Re: Most  Embarassing Movie)
Organization: Educational Computing Network
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 22:54:08 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.060319.25914@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Gordon.S.Witter@dartmouth.edu (Gordon S. Witter) writes:
>In article <BvnwGx.52M@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>
>mftjs@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (T. Jerry Scott) writes:
>
>> I think you should be flamed.  And so does the Academy, which rewarded
>> Terms with lots of awards.  I also guess you think Steel Magnolias is
>> a bummer too.  What about Beaches?  All in the same theme.  
>
>I suppose you're refering to the same Academy that gave Oscars to Jack
>Palance and Sean Connery.  Don't get me wrong, I like them both, but
>neither was Oscar (in the classical sense) material.

I guess the same can be said for Chariots of Fire, DD O'Conner's and 
Dustin Hoffman's performances in their two Oscar winning movies, and
for Amadeus, etc.  Sometimes the Academy does quite well and sometimes
it does quite strangely.  But in a age of big money, lots of money
is spent to try and garner an Oscar.  To me the worst mess I ever
saw was Out of Africa gaining all the Oscars and M Streep not winning
the Oscar even though she carried the show.

Now if you want to mentions the People's Choice Awards, well okay.  Then
those really great screen characters like Rosanne B might get awards.

=====================================================================
Thomas J. Scott  (aka Dr. J.)			Phone: 309-298-1452
Western Illinois University			mftjs@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
From: hhtra@usho21.hou281.chevron.com (T.M.Haddock)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Manchurian Candidate * SPOILERS *  Was - Re: What's the plot of the Manchurian candidate?
Date: 13 Oct 92 16:42:13 GMT
Organization: Chevron


 Huh... I think it's more like this:  *******  SPOILERS *******


























 Frank Sinatra is on patrol with Lawrence Harvey and others in Korea. 
 They are captured and brainwashed.  Only Harvey is brainwashed to kill 
 because of him being a "momma's boy".  The others are done to forget
 what happened and to remember something else that makes Harvey out to
 be a Hero.  With a heroic war son, this helps his step-father get
 selected to be a Vice President.  (Too many skeletons to be President?)
 Anyway, Harvey's job is to kill the President (at the inauguration?)
 so that his step-father will become President.  His step-father is 
 a Red-Chinese Commie plant hence the title Manchurian Candidate. 
 Harvey is programmed to kill on the command from his local controller -
 HIS OWN MOTHER (Angela Landsbury/Hillary Clinton).  But before all this
 comes to be, Frank is having flashbacks, starts remembering, gets 
 de-programmed, and sets out to find the rest of the patrol members to
 de-program them. When he gets to Harvey and becomes involved with 
 Harvey's upcomming wedding plans and the political campaign, this is
 were he starts to unravel the plot.  Frank attempts to de-program 
 Harvey, but fails, and Harvey sets off to kill the President.  Only
 Frank's efforts didn't really fail because Harvey instead shoots his
 mother, step-father, and then himself.

 
 TRAVIS
From: jxxl@huxley.cs.nps.navy.mil (John Locke)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Wicked, Bad, Scary Movies. (Recommendations anyone?)
Date: 8 Oct 92 21:16:42 GMT
Organization: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA

bov@x.co.uk (Andy Bovingdon) writes:

>  Night of the Demon - Very effective for its time.

If that's the Dana Andrews film, it was called "Curse of the Demon"
here in the USA. Great flick. Must see plus.

John
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From: Joseph.J.Marcheso.Jr.@dartmouth.edu (Joseph J. Marcheso Jr.)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Bad, Big-budget movies.
Date: 16 Oct 92 02:25:06 GMT
 <Oct14.015554.77911@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> 
 <1992Oct15.061819.25393@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>  
 <1992Oct15.163420.21082@news2.cis.umn.edu>
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
X-Posted-From: InterNews1.0a5@newshost.dartmouth.edu


Well, my philosophy is that any movie in which bad things happen to Rex
Reed automatically become top ten material in my book.

How about King Ralph and
 Ishtar? (The king of bombs)
From: sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Bad, Big-budget movies.
Date: 16 Oct 92 04:34:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.Bw7627.Mvw
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

donnell@seahorse.micro.umn.edu (Your Heinous) writes:

>Name your favorite bad, big-budget movie. 


"Total Recall."


                                   --Steve Stelter
                                     sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
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From: mlh@eddy.austin.ibm.com (Mike Haskell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: Re: "Stranger In A Strange Land" To Be FilmedDOWN
Date: 8 Oct 92 19:27:40 GMT
Organization: IBM, Austin

In article <1992Oct5.232539.5865@cs.ucla.edu> reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Peter Reiher) writes:
>In article <1992Oct5.133912.234@news.uwyo.edu> rtravsky@news.uwyo.edu (Rich Travsky) writes:
>>In article <1992Oct5.000341.15856@sctc.com>, beede@sctc.com 
>>   (Mike Beede) writes:
>>> jsp@uts.amdahl.com (James Preston) writes:
>>> 
>>>>Or Arnold Schwarzenegger?  Gee, it's kind of fun trying to think of the
>>>>worst possible actor for a role like that.  Any other suggestions?
>>> 
>>> Peter Sellers.
>>> 
>>Peter Sellers for "Stranger in a Strange Land"? Hmmm. That would 
>>sorta turn it into another "Being There", eh?
>
>It would give new meaning to the term "stiff performance".
>

Yea, I heard he lost a lot of weight, won't do speaking parts, and is
quite a recluse now.
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From: amc01@aix370.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE (Guido Menschingg)
Subject: Re: David Lynch movies
Reply-To: amc01@aix370.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE (Guido Menschingg)
Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne, F. R. Germany
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 15:11:53 GMT

David Lynch DID do "The Cowboy and the Frenchman". I didn't see it, I read
about it in a recently published German biography of David Lynch.
That film had been ordered (I forget the details) by the French government.
Somehow they wanted several short films about the way the French are perceived
in other countries. The bio said they were kind of taken by surprise by the result.
It appears to be a REAL David Lynch kind of film.

Sebastian Hagedorn
Cologne University
Germany
hgd@spinfo.Uni-Koeln.DE
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From: hafner@ifi.unizh.ch (Michel Hafner)
Subject: Re: Liebestraum - Opinions?
Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 22:28:02 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.141637@usho72.hou281.chevron.com> hhtra@usho72.hou281.chevron.com (T.M.Haddock) writes:
>  What does "liebestraum" mean?

Liebestraum: German for "lovedream/dream of love..."
								M.H.
From: chief@lysator.liu.se (Erik S|derstr|m)
Subject: Re: SNEAKERS question
Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Society, Link|ping University
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 17:44:00 GMT

For complete information on the story behind the word 'SNEAKERS' check out
Issue 40 of Phrack Magazine, which has an article on the subject, and the
story.


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From: vnelson@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gerald Vernon Nelson)
Subject: Re: the absolute worst movie of all time, so bad it's bad
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 01:31:32 GMT


>My friend just walked in and he's becoming quite obsessed with the
>topic. First he thought RAD wins but now he's describing this movie
>called "Eve of destruction" which in his words was "The only movie ever

Actually, I kind of liked "Eve of Destruction"

If you want really bad......A
How about that 90 minute commercial "Mac n Me"?

Vern Nelson
From: cczjct@vax.nott.ac.uk
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Sinead on SNL
Date: 15 Oct 92 14:19:27 GMT
Reply-To: cczjct@vax.nott.ac.uk
Organization: University of Nottingham, UK

I too didnt want to reply to said event especially as I didnt see it but read
about it, however, it is my opinion that Miss Sinead has some extremely
bad hangups in her life, and should either seek professional help or keep
quiet and not abuse her position as a "Celebrity". I too am no big fan of
the Pope but she ought to attack issues and not people.
From: bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Editing in _1492_ (was Re: Fav Directors)
Date: 7 Oct 92 16:49:01 GMT
Organization: HHMI/Human Genetics, Univ of Pa.

In article <1992Oct6.212057.24222@ifi.unizh.ch>, hafner@ifi.unizh.ch 
(Michel Hafner) writes:

>>Unfortunatly Scott also committed a major editing faux pas in my book: he
>>cut from a very dark scene to a dazzling bright one, don't you hate that?
>>And he did it three times!

> What's theoretically wrong with that? You might get blinded for a very short
> time, but depending on the circumstances this effect might be perfectly
> appropriate. The other way around you might see little or nothing for a short
> time too, but this can also be appropriate, if it suits the story.

Theoretically it may be ok.  But in reality, it gives me a headache, and 
pisses me off.  That's not appropriate to the enjotment of any film.
There are other ways (,amy of them used by Ridley Scott) that capture that
stunning effect better than blinding the audience.  Check out the sighting
of land scene in _1492_...impressive.

Greg Bole                                "What kind of mother would I be if I
bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu              didn't give my girls tits...tips?"
                                             Dustin Hoffman in _Tootsie_
From: Ulrich_Leuter@wharfrat.fido.de (Ulrich Leuter)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: The Last of the Mohicans
Date: 13 Oct 92 07:19:53 GMT
Organization: Nightmare On Wall Street
X-Comment-To: (Greg Bole)

Hello Greg,
in a message posted 08 Oct 92 you wrote:

 GB> Sure did!  I also liked the Scottish "Clanned" (sp?) song.  They are
 GB> a group composed of Enya's siblings.  They also did a great song used
 GB> in _Patriot Games_.

Well, Clannad is an Irish group and they did also sing the title
theme of the TV-movie "Harry's Game". ( I like their "Macalla" record
best)


So long
Ulrich.
From: lsnow@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM (Linda Snow)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Raw oysters, boiled dogs, tequila worms, calfskin wallets.
Date: 9 Oct 92 16:50:32 GMT
Reply-To: lsnow@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM (Linda Snow)
Organization: NCR E&M CLEMSON Liberty, SC


>Really, now.  I gathered from the movie that animals were scarce, but
>by no means extinct.  How about the line about a meal of raw oysters and
>boiled dog?  They can't be as rare as the assertions of Zhora
>and Rachel would suggest.
>
>If they had been wiped out by radiation or toxins, humans would also be
>experiencing problems and NO Japanese actress would have been promoting
>the use of birth-control pills on ANY billboard!!
>
>If they had been decimated (but not wiped out) by pandemic, unless 
>humans had been somehow unaffected by the pandemic, we would have
>had to develop a cure/treatment for ourselves which we would almost
>certainly have extended to the domestic animals - dogs, cows, etc.

The most likely reason for animals becoming extinct or endangered is not
any of the above; it is from man's encroachment on their habitats,
or hunting them. How do
you think so many animals have become endangered already.? 
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From: shiv@bnr.ca (Shiv Naimpally)
Subject: Re: Bad, Big-budget movies.
Reply-To: shiv@bnr.ca (Shiv Naimpally)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 20:20:34 GMT

Lets not forget _Freejack_ and _Aliens 3_ !
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From: gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart)
Subject: Re: Pronunciation of 'Depardieu'
Organization: AT&T
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 15:17:39 GMT

In article <1992Oct10.051805.20639@Princeton.EDU> spencer@phoenix.princeton.edu (S. Spencer Sun) writes:
>In article <1992Oct10.051314.20264@Princeton.EDU>, spencer@phoenix.princeton.edu (S. Spencer Sun) writes:
>>
>>The first two syllables are relatively easy... 
>>
>>De -- like the word 'Day'
>>par -- just like it looks (as in a par-5 golf hole)
>>dieu -- ok, this is the hard part.  The 'ieu' sound doesn't have an
>>English equivalent that I can think of... well, sort of like the sound
>>of the 'oo' in 'good' or 'book' or 'foot.'
>
>Two things that I wanted to correct/clear up:
>
>1. I meant that the 'eu' part should be pronounced like 'oo' in 'good'

Why don't you just wait for a radio or television ad or trailer for
some movie he's in and listen?

GMS
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From: fil@me.utoronto.ca (Filippo A. Salustri)
Subject: Re: SNL: Joe Pesci's Opening Monologue
Organisation: U of Toronto, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Organization: UofT Mechanical Engineering
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 17:57:36 GMT

revpk@cellar.org (Brian 'Rev P-K' Siano) writes:

>[...]

>        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. 

	Tsk, tsk.  I should think Pesci would have said that about anyone,
regardless of gender.  I'd have said the same thing, even though I'm
atheist.  O'Conner is narrow-minded and simplistic, and her tantrums tend to
be contagious.  The Pope, and more generally the RC church, may or may not
have done questionable things, but as a world leader and representative of a
major cultural force in our global society, he, or his position at least,
deserve a certain respect.  In general, people don't like having these
constants in their lives dashed before them; their applause was just a
response to their confusion and anger.  O'Conner's outburst just
demonstrated what an uncivilized, anarchistic (in the worst sense of the
word) person she really is.

	In other words, ``beating up a woman, just because she tore up a
photo of someone'' is oversimplifying things a little too much.

Fil Salustri
-- 
Fil Salustri	fil@me.utoronto.ca		UUCP: ...!utai!me!fil
                                     A is A
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From: tdbear@tandon.com (Tom Barrett)
Subject: Re: Beverly Hillbillies: The Movie!
Organization: Tandon Corporation, Moorpark, CA
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 00:58:41 GMT

In article <j427393@pro-amber.cts.com> rsopicki@pro-amber.cts.com (Randy Sopicki) writes:
>You must be joking! Is Hollywood that bankrupt of ideas that they would
>bring back that bit of drek from the '60s?

As you could see in the papers recently... no I'm not!  Hell,
I'd even pay full price to see BH:TM!  That is, as long as it
is 70mm Digital! 

-- 
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Tandon Corporation      609 Science Drive          Moorpark, CA  93021 
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From: wbwaller@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (William Brad Waller)
Subject: Okay last time--Swing Kids release date?
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 19:29:29 GMT

Okay, this movie has had trailers out since June, and at one point had a
tentative release date of mid-August. Does anyone have any info on the reason
for its delay? The trailer looks very promising (good music, crowded dance
floors, chase scenes, Kenneth Branagh smiling devilishly)--where is this
movie?!? 

Thanx in advance, 

Brad Waller
 
Bonus question: Does anyone who's seen the trailer know what music they're
playing? 

-- 
===============================================================================
W. Brad Waller                         "For a dreamer, night's the only time 
wbwaller@phoenix.princeton.edu                        of day..."
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From: adamg@world.std.com (Adam M Gaffin)
Subject: Whatever happened to Virginia Weidler?
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 13:43:15 GMT

Halp!

I'm trying to find out whatever happened to Virginia Weidler, a chid/teen
actress in the 1930s and 1940s.  She played Catherine Hepburn's little
sister in "The Philadelphia Story" and was in a tearjerker with Bette
Davis and Charles Boyer called something like "In This Our Life."

A colleague has already checked with Leonard Maltin, who said he knows she
retired from film in 1947, but doesn't know what's happened to her since.

Anybody who knows will win my undying appreciation and a mention in a
reader-question column in the best daily paper in Framingham, Mass. (oh,
OK, the *only* daily paper in Framingham, Mass.).

Thanks!

-- 
Adam Gaffin
Middlesex News, Framingham, Mass.
adamg@world.std.com
Voice: (508) 626-3968. Fred the Middlesex News Computer: (508) 872-8461.
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From: braca2@cspyr1.cs.adfa.oz.au (BRAY CHRISTOPHER)
Subject: Re: the absolute worst movie of all time, so bad it's bad
Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 06:18:19 GMT

Late one night whilst dittering around on Sim City (uagh) I had the tele
on, watching those horrible 2 am monday morning flicks.

Terrible film, call Heartbeeps.  It eventually made me go to bed!

|-|()()|<
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From: citrin@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Wayne Citrin)
Subject: Re: Need Review of Tale of Springtime
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 17:37:06 GMT

In article <71342@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0963d@prism.gatech.EDU (Deeptendu Majumder) writes:
>The subject line says it all. I would like to know what the 
>movie is about. I would appreciate some comments.
>

Here's something I posted to the net a couple of years ago when the movie first
came out in Europe.  Rohmer's A TALE OF WINTER (Le Conte d'Hiver) has begun
appearing in festivals in the US, and was recently reviewed by Stanley Kauffman
in The New Republic.


From September 1990:

"A Tale of Springtime" - This is Eric Rohmer's latest film, shown in Europe
as "Le Conte de Printemps".  A young Parisian woman who is temporarily with-
out an apartment meets another young woman, they become good friends, and
she moves in with her.  In time the second woman introduces the first
woman to her father (the second woman's), who wants to become even better 
friends.  A nice story typical of Rohmer's work, although not as memorable
as "My Night at Maud's", "Claire's Knee", or even "Pauline at the Beach".
I saw this in Zurich in French with German subtitles, and although my
command of the languages is sufficient to go to a movie and follow most
of it, I got lost during some of the long dialogues, which this film, like
most of Rohmer's work, is full of.  I'd give it three stars out of four.
The film will appear in the New York Film festival, and I don't know where
it goes after that.

Wayne
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From: crafts@athena.mit.edu (The Invisible Man)
Subject: Christopher Columbus: The Discovery on video?
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 04:52:42 GMT

Flipping through the pages of my TV guide I noticed that on of the local TV
outlets will be showing Christopher Columbus The Discovery on free TV....

Wasn't this just released two months ago in the theaters?

Does this film have the record for the shortest time it takes for a feature to go
from theaters to free TV?

Danny 
The invisible man

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