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From: cs@met.ed.ac.uk (C Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Date: 1 Sep 92 20:49:51 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University Computing Service


|> : 
|> :  What is the most embarassing movie you have ever seen?  (What I mean by
|> :  embarassing, is that you feel absolutely miniscule when the lights come
|> :  up and you HAVE to walk out of the theater with every other bonehead
|> :  who bought a ticket to this turkey).  Movies on video don't count as
|> :  your stupidity is hidden by the walls of your house. :-)
|> 

	Prospero's Books.
	With John Gielgud and 'inspired' by Shakespear's play where the whole
	cast run naked around a swimming pool for a couple of hours.

----------------------
 Campbell Smith      
 remote sensing
 edinburgh university
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From: steveh@devildog.att.com (Steve Hendershott)
Subject: "Dead Again" question
Organization: AT&T IMS - Piscataway, NJ (USA)
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 13:33:14 GMT

In the movie Dead Again did anyone get the impression that the two main 
characters (Strauss and his wife) were re-incarnated in reversed sex roles?
Did Strauss come back as the woman and his wife as Mike Church?

What leads me to believe this was when Mike Church was under hypnosis, he
viewed himself in the bedroom mirror as a woman.

I have talked to others who did not feel this is the case.

Steve Hendershott
steveh@devildog.att.com
-- 
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From: WELACK@MIAMIU.BITNET
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Date: 3 Sep 92 15:10:38 GMT
Organization: Miami University - Academic Computer Service

Mine hasn't been mentioned yet, it was "Joe vs the Volcano". My wife and
I went to see it 'cause we like Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, looking for a few
laughs and what did we get? A dumb, depressing, boring movie with zero
laughs.
 
Jeez...
Go ahead, flame away.
Bill Lack
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From: nudd@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Nai Ying Kwok)
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Organization: Monash University General Access Unix
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 01:45:28 GMT

David Fox (fox@cs.nyu.edu) wrote:
: In article <92245.123837TAB129@psuvm.psu.edu> TAB129@psuvm.psu.edu (TODD BOBENRIETH) writes:
: 
:    It would have to be Naked Lunch...I hope I get flamed for saying it
:    so we see who are the airhead expressionists that actually liked
:    this piece of worthless dribble. Me and my friend went to see
:    expecting your typical Cronenberg masterpiece and ended up shifting
:    around in our seats more than any other in history. We left the
:    theater(re) feeling like we were in another reality where stupidity
:    rules...very disappointing.
: 
: Still, it was a lot better than Star Trek 5, Prospero's Books,
: or Cool World (which I completely blocked out having paid to
: see, until someone mentioned it. Thanks a lot, buddy.)

COME ON!  Propspero's Books was a great film.  Visually incredible!
Typical visual artistry from the great Peter Greenaway.
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From: bf911@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David J Mulligan Jr)
Subject: Re: Wayne's World quotes
Reply-To: bf911@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David J Mulligan Jr)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 23:43:19 GMT


In a previous article, u910779@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (Rob Torok) says:

>Usually I can't stand having movie quotes written up at length, but since this
>movie has such quotable lines, and it wont be on video here for *months*, I
>would appreciate a listing.

Really?  Won't beon video for months?  I wasin a Video Connection just 
yesterday.  I walked in the door, and right there, where you can't miss
it, is a big cardboard cutout with Wayne and Garth, Wayne saying "$14.99",
Garth saying "Excellent!".  In between the two where a lot of video tapes
that I thought were WAYNE'S WORLD.  I didn't really take a concentrated
look, but I'm pretty sure it was WAYNE'S WORLD.
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From: donnell@shark.micro.umn.edu (Your Heinous)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Most Maddening Movie
Date: 2 Sep 92 19:19:03 GMT
Organization: none

In article <Sep.2.10.05.10.1992.15589@cadenza.rutgers.edu> masticol@cadenza.rutgers.edu (Steve Masticola) writes:
>
>Here's a new topic: which movie made you the angriest? For whatever
>reason.
>
>In nomination:
>
>"Time to Run," a propaganda film courtesy the Billy Graham crusade
>that was somehow allowed into the theaters in the early seventies. If
>the movie's just lousy, it's one thing, but if it's actively trying to
>proselytize, it's another.
>
>I had no idea what was going on when I went into the theater, and
>didn't until the last ten minutes in the film, when there was an
>ON-SCREEN solicitation to join the long-haired friends of Jesus in the
>chartreuse microbus. 
>
>I hate paying for commercials; it's against my religion.
>
>- Steve "and I paid to see it too!" masticol@cs.rutgers.edu.
>
>
>P.S. Graham's teeth are whiter than is naturally possible, and he
>smiles with all the sincerity of a used-Yugo salesman.
>
>P.P.S. I'm pro-choice and I vote. Usually several times each election.
>
>P.P.P.S. Flames from the bible thumpers will be returned one character
>at a time, after expansion with /usr/5bin/banner and with /etc/termcap
>pre-and-post appended.

Good idea. It's not too often that I get Mad at a movie, but I think
"Bloodsucking Freaks" made me maddest. I rented it on video at the 
insistence of some friends. Stupid, mean-spirited, badly lit and shot,
sexist to the extreme, and just plain dumb! The acting was suprisingly
tolerable, which gives the film a very weird feel. The effects were
quite amateurish too. Pissed me off for a week!
I looked into this one, and found that it had only played 3 theatres
in America.
In New York City, and St.Paul, Mn., it was removed due to protests from
assorted groups <mostly parents who took their kids to see it, thinking
it was a standard horror film. Strange parents.>.
In San Francisco, the protestors stole it from the theatre, and burned the
only release print of the  film in a trash can outside the theatre!
They didn't have time to pull it.
That might be a little extreme, but I can sympathize.

					--Judex--
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From: otto@jybox.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Want name of two japanes movies.
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 02:34:20 EDT
Organization: Jyvaskyla Electronic Mailbox

jd@latcs1.lat.oz.au (John Dimogotsis) writes:

> 		The second movie is in black-and-white (don't know the staring
> 	actor's name) but the theme is similar in that again the son of an
> 	roughly middle aged samurai has become very poor, so poor in fact
> 	that he sells his sword and replaces it with a wooden one. Because
> 	of his poverty he asks help from the local "lord" who dosen't 
> 	oblige and so the poor young samurai has to commit "sepuku" (hara-kiri)
> 	with the wooden sword! I don't remember what happens to the wife and/or
> 	children, but the father of the young man goes to the lord himself,
> 	quietly outraged by manner of the hara-kiri. After a long talk with
> 	the lord where he tells the story of his son (this is actualy how
> 	every thing is revealed in the movie that is through the storytelling
> 	of the young man's father and 'flshbacks'), the middle aged samurai
> 	does battle against the lord and all his retainers, all by himself,
> 	he kills many but can't kill all, so he makes his way to some "holy"
> 	place in the lord's house and he himself commits suicide before
> 	the lords men can have the satisfaction of killing him. (Actually
> 	something like hara-kiri might have been the title).

This is SEPPUKU (aka HARA-KIRI), directed by Masaki Kobayashi.
Leading roles Tatsuya Nakadai, Shima Iwashita and Akira Ishihama.
Based on a novel by Yasuhiko Takiguchi.

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From: hurt@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hurt)
Subject: Re: AFTER HOURS (was HEAD-less)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 20:28:20 GMT

Has anyone else ever noticed the striking similarity between the scene
in After Hours when Griffen Dunne is trying to get past the punked out
bouncer at the nightclub and Kafka's _Before The Law_? The allusion
is so appropriate givenm the nightmare-surreal/comedy flavor of the
film. Check this out. Read the short piece in a Kafka reader, and then watch
the scene in the movie. If I'm not mistaken, Scorsese actually lifts
some of the dialogue straight from Kafka's work.
Anybody else notice this?

matt
From: pfleury@ddsw1.mcs.com (Patrick J. Fleury)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: The Potion with the Poison...
Date: 26 Aug 92 01:43:19 GMT
Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Chicago, IL
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                the poster and does not represent MCSNet or the system owners.

In article <1992Aug21.171611.3568@cbfsb.cb.att.com> colten@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (marc.colten) writes:
>> 
>
>Others have used this, including Red Skelton.  I recently
>saw a movie that used pretty much the same thing.  Bob Hope was
>to be in a duel and the guns were rigged in his favor, if he
>could remember one of those impossible rhymes - something about
>the bullets in the barrel of the pistol with the cross on the muzzle
>or something liek that.
>
>marc colten
>

I just recently rented this movie after I saw a quick clip of it on a 
television at a video store.  The movie is _The Court Jester_ starring
Danny Kaye and Glynis Johns.  Also in the movie as a beautiful princess
who gets a crush on Kaye is Ol' Miss "Murder She Wrote", Angela Lansbury.

	The scene where the line comes up takes place at a jousting match
where Kaye is unwillingly fighting a suitor for the hand of princess
Angela.  (He doesn't want Angela; he is tricked into fighting this other
guy.)  Anyway, a confederate of Kaye's puts poison into one of the glasses
the pre-fight toast is to be drunk from.  She then tells Kaye.

"The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle.  The chalice
from the palace holds the brew that is true."

Later, the vessel with the pestle breaks and other glasses must be substituted
so she now she tells him

"The pellet with the poison's in the chalice from the palace.  The flagon with 
the dragon holds the brew that is true."

Of course everybody gets this confused and the mixup is funny.

	When I was watching this movie a couple threads from r.a.m. came to
mind.  For example:

1) Why aren't some of the female stars from the past included among the 
discussion of "movie babes"  Glynis Johns is gorgeous with bright green (well
I think they're green) eyes and a deep throaty voice.  She also plays 
a captain in a rebel army trying to overthrow a usurping king in this movie.
Therefore, all the people who think there should be more to attraction than 
looks should be happy.  (Angela ain't so bad herself.)

2) There was a thread on the best duel in a movie some timne ago.  This
movie has one of the funniest duels.  It has Danny Kaye going up against
Basil Rathbone (the Sheriff of Nottingham  in Erroll Flynn's _Robin 
Hood_)  

This movie is great fun and probably pretty much overlooked at your video 
store.  Rent it and see it cuddled up on a couch with your significant 
other and a bucket of popcorn.  You won't regret it.

 
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From: fineberg@win31.nas.nasa.gov (Samuel A. Fineberg)
Subject: Re: sex in movies
Organization: CSC, NASA Ames Research Center, NAS Division
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 16:29:01 GMT
Reply-To: fineberg@nas.nasa.gov
Distribution: usa

In article <1296@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM>, lsnow@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM (Linda Snow) writes:
|> In article <67042@hydra.gatech.EDU> ccoprdj@prism.gatech.EDU (Jorge Diaz) writes:
|> >In article <1992Aug26.212921.8475@nas.nasa.gov> fineberg@nas.nasa.gov writes:
|> >
|> >>I think this is the real problem, not the scenes themselves.  Since some
|> >>parents don't seem to show good judgement, I think they really need a minimum
|> >>age for R movies (maybe 13 or so), regardless of whether the child is escorted.
|> >
|> >I disagree.  Well, I agree that the problem is the parent, but I don't think
|> >there should be a minimum age, regardless of whether the child is escorted.
|> >
|> >That responsibilty is solely that of the parent.  If the parent can't show
|> >good judgement, that's too bad.  The law has no place telling parents what
|> >their children are and are not allowed to see (at least, not in this
|> >country......yet).
|> >
|> 
|> In South Carolina, people under 17 can't legally come to an R rated movie
|> EVEN WITH THEIR PARENTS.
|> 
|> Oh well, this is the same state that has a law against obscene bumper
|> stickers, and will not allow an atheist to be elected governor.
|> 
|> I guess the question is, why am I living here?
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I don't know, I wouldn't want to live there either, but it sounds like a great
place to see a movie.

Sam
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From: sdt8s@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Steve Tilson)
Subject: Re: letterboxed VHS movies?
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 17:20:34 GMT

Add to the list of LBX'ed VHS movies:
Henry V (Brannagh's version)
Star Trek IV (Director's Cut)
Star Trek I-V (Collector's Editions--Boxed Set)
Ben-Hur (chariot race only, but well worth it!)

Steve
--
You are a true believer. Blessings of the state, blessings of the masses.
Thou art a subject of the divine, created in the image of man by the masses,
for the masses. Let us be thankful we have an occupation to fill. Work 
hard...increase production...prevent accidents...and be happy. (THX-1138)
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From: gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart)
Subject: Sex Scenes in Movies
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 22:13:37 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.195424.4530@asl.dl.nec.com> clee@aslws01.asl.dl.nec.com (Christina Lee) writes:
>
>does anyone out there think that the sex scenes in certain
>movies are getting too explicit and not really called for?

Duh.

GMS
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From: reeves@yauw.aosg.gsf.dec.com (jon reeves)
Subject: Re: Film with the least actors
Reply-To: reeves@decvax.dec.com
Organization: AOSG
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:25:36 GMT

Secret Honor.  One character, one actor.  I'm sure there are others.
-- 
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From: reeves@yauw.aosg.gsf.dec.com (jon reeves)
Subject: Re: Film with the least actors
Reply-To: reeves@decvax.dec.com
Organization: AOSG
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 15:10:29 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.85857.21859@ms.uky.edu>, fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis) writes:
|> Secret Honor. One. F. Murray Abraham as Richard Nixon.

Bzzt.  Thanks for playing.  I forget the actor's exact name, but Peter Baker Hall
is closer to correct than F. Murray Abraham.
-- 
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From: jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Jenny Gutbezahl)
Subject: Re: Woody and Mia
Keywords: thank heaven for little girls
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 18:49:18 GMT

Don't know if anyone else saw this, but I read in the paper that Dick
Cavett completely believes Woody and "If these charges are true I'll
publicly kiss Pat Buchanan on the lips." (I may have pararphrased
sightly, as I don't have the paper in front of me, but that's the gist 
of it).

Now I don't know about what happened between Woody and the seven year
old.  I hope to God the accusations are false.  But I sure would LOVE
to see Dick & Pat.


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From: gckchin@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Kelvyn Chin)
Subject: Re: Most Maddening Movie
Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 01:43:12 GMT

citrin@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Wayne Citrin) writes:
: 
: "Cinema Paradiso" - I was angry that such an oversentimental, melodramatic,
: manipulative film could possibly have won the Foreign Film Oscar and be
: considered one of the best films of the year.  
:

AAAARRRRGGGGHHH!!!! I disagree again !! Jeez, what is it with you guys???
:) Just kidding. I loved C.P. Everything right down to the sets and
Ennio Morricone's music was superb.

kelvyn
 
: Wayne
: 
: -----------
: Wayne Citrin   citrin@soglio.colorado.edu   citrin@cs.colorado.edu
From: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Truly Madly Deeply
Date: 27 Aug 92 16:08:37 GMT
Reply-To: bd%fluent@dartmouth.EDU
Organization: Fluent Inc., Lebanon NH


nancyl@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Nancy Lellenberg Bentrup) writes:

>Just rented Truly Madly Deeply last night and really liked it.  Would be 
>interested in comments from others who have seen it. thanks.

I thought it was great, but it was not as light-heaerted as I thought
it was going to be.  Sweetly depressing.
-- 
   Brice Dowaliby, Fluent Inc., 10 Cavendish Court, Lebanon, NH  03766
                         bd%fluent@dartmouth.edu        
             I don't speak for them, they don't speak for me
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From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Date: Wed,  2 Sep 92 21:27:47 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Aug31.215528.29891@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
  <case.24.715387839@ucs.sdsu.edu>
  <1992Sep2.190534.4863@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>

>
>    I used to work for the local theatres, so I saw a LOT of free movies.
>Only three times did I get up and leave, even though I wasn't paying for
>the flick: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles; Russkies; and Career 
>Opprotunities. Russkies was just plain dumb, and the other two I
>considered insulting to my intelligence.
>                                     Lyle
>
>--

You didn't like PT&A?? The rental-car-counter scene with Steve Martin's
blood-pressure-exploding monolog is a classic. MOre than once I've been
at a rental-car counter and had his whole dialog race thru my brain. 
Candy and Martin were a great complimentary "buddy" team. It's definitely
my favorite John Hughes film. Have it on tape and have probably watched
it a dozen times. Ah well... it's wonderful to see all these 
completely contrary analyses of the same film. 
Harv
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From: kirsten@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Kirsten Starcher)
Subject: Re: sex in movies
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 14:07:04 GMT

In article <24174@oasys.dt.navy.mil> dlee@oasys.dt.navy.mil (David Lee) writes:
>I agree 100%.. Our society has become so explicit in everything we do
>that we have become NUMB to the violence,..etc. Most movies that I have
>seen recently seems to have the sex and violence merely to try and outdo
>each other...The bigger and better syndrome; if a little is good, then
>a lot must better..

Ah, I'm glad to see that there's people out there who think the same as I do.
It's gotten so that without n% violence, a movie is nothing.  We don't even
*see* it any more, it's just part of any movie.  It's where the phrase
"gratuitous violence" comes from.

I remember watching some movie -- I can't remember, I think it was _Manhunter_
-- and I just sat there thinking, "This shouldn't be entertainment."  People
around me were watching it perfectly contentedly, as if it was normal human
behavior to slit someone's throats and have the blood spurt all over the walls.

As for the sex in movies, well, it really does depend on the context.  A little
is fine; too much (like the last 20 minutes of _Prince of Tides_) is a little
unnecessary.  Then you've got your violent sex, in other movies (hey, a 2 in 1
deal!), and that's a whole new ball game.

Someone said something about a mother bringing their 2-4-year-old in to see
SWF.  I hope that a) they don't do that too often and b) they have lots of
money for psychiatrists' bills later.  Some people are stunned.


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From: wwr@calmasd.prime.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Unforgiven (was Re: sex in movies)
Date: 31 Aug 92 21:44:21 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Computervision - A Division of Prime Computer

In article <Btu2pz.J07@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, buccb@after.math.uiuc.edu (Carlos Dragonslayer Butler) writes:
> Steve Masticola writes 
>> Me too. I was in "Unforgiven" last week, and sat behind a couple who
>> had brought in two small (<= 8 years old) girls. For those who haven't
>> seen it, "Unforgiven" features scenes of rape, slashings, torture,
>> explicit sex, and violence. PLENTY of violence.
> 
> 	Glad you told me. Now I know not to go see it. I wish
> I could have gotten some inkling of the violence from the hype.
> 
> --
>    		     Carlos Dragonslayer Butler
> buccb@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu buccb@after.math.uiuc.edu buccb@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
>         University of Illinois 	     (217) 373-4781 Pager
>      "People often condescend what they fail to comprehend...
>      ...ignorance makes life easier. Learn to tolerate. Peace."


       "PLENTY of violence", yes it had some violence, but "PLENTY"?!
Definitely less than DieHard, less than FreeJack, less than a slew of other
films -- no denying that there are SOME acts of violence - on a violence level,
solely a violence level, I wouldn't disallow my children from seeing the film
(there plenty of other reasons that I wouldn't want my kid to see this adult
film).
	At least the violence isn't cheap, & the film reveals the ugliness of
the act - not just "BANG, he's dead - ride off into the sunset, hero." type
mentality.

walter
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 15:24:30 EDT
From: <RXK110@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Films with no females
 <TENE.92Aug29135403@julia.jyu.fi> <1992Aug30.045623.26767@panix.com>

John Carpenter's : THE THING was completely ( and thankfully) devoid of women.
From: conrad@brahms.udel.edu (Jon Conrad)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Sneakers ?
Date: 28 Aug 92 17:07:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.BtpE88.8J
Organization: University of Delaware

In article <591@ccrwest.UUCP> map@ccrwest.UUCP (Mark Prysant) writes:

>And a wonderful cast: Redford, Sidney Poitier, Ben Kingsley,
>Mary McDonnell (sp?). All told, seven Oscar Nominees (I think)>

It has one of the more impressive above-the-title lineups I can recall
in a movie:  The 7 names so featured are Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd,
Ben Kingsley, River Phoenix, Mary McDonnell, Sidney Poitier, and David
Strathairn.  All but Strathairn (one of my very favorite actors for
years now -- what a kick to see him get this kind of exposure!) have
indeed been nominated for Oscars, and Redford, Kingsley, and Poitier
have won (though Redford won for directing, not acting).

Jon Alan Conrad