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From: redrum@carson.u.washington.edu (Joe Stremick)
Subject: Re: Where is Arnie now?
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 06:20:31 GMT

In article <1992Oct09.034658.2112@openage.openage.com> ghost@openage.openage.com (Glenn Host) writes:
>Almost every year Arnold S-word has been fdoing a movie, usually
>two - one heavy action movie (Commando, Predator, T2, Total Recall,
>Running Man) and one duo-film (Twins, Red Heat, Kindergarden Cop)
>but since T2 he has not made any movies!
>
>What is his next movie or is he taking a break or his
>he spending his time campaigning for Bush
>(definitely a job for Arnie right now!)
>
	Well, he did *direct* a film:  "Christmas In Connecticut."
	I don't think it ever played in theaters, but it is being
released to video soon.  Probably full of "Family Values."

|----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-Joe Stremick,               |"But I was going in to Toshe Station to |
|       a.k.a. Redrum         |pick up some power converters!"         |
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From: brad@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Brad Barton)
Subject: Re: Star Wars music like what earlier composition?
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 18:20:50 GMT
Organization: CompuTrac Inc., Richardson TX

In article <1992Oct14.164151.59715@cc.usu.edu> slb3y@cc.usu.edu (Punk Rocketeer) writes:
>In article <1992Oct14.210105.2022@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>,
>pjs@euclid.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter J. Scott) writes:
>     Holst (I don't know anything about a first name)
>
>     "The Planets"

Gustav Holst (1874-1934)  Personally, I think the definitive version of the
Planets is on Telarc CD  (CD-80133).


"Never give a sword to a man who cannot dance." -- Celtic Proverb

--Brad


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From: pjm6z@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Dave Lister)
Subject: Re: Looking for articles on Patrick Stewart
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 03:51:25 GMT

In article <Bw2rGt.M2x@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> gjschmid@lambert.uwaterloo.ca (Greg Schmidt) writes:
>As the subject line says, I am looking for articles concerning Patrick
>Stewart, better known as Captain Picard.  I am not posting this to any
>of the numerous Star Trek groups, because I am looking more for articles
>dealing with his career outside Star Trek (ie. when he was a Shakespearean
>actor, Dune, etc.).  Articles in books, or widely available magazines
>would be best (I don't have access to the Talahassee Telegraph or the
>Indianapolis Inquirer, so articles in them are useless, unless you would
>care to type them up for me).
>
>Thanks in advance.
> _________________________________________________________________
>/ _ \     Greg Schmidt (gjschmidt@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca)    \
>\__) \                                                             \
>     |"The world is such a stupid place." -Tom Cochrane & Red Rider|   __
>      \  "If you're optimistic, you're forgetting something." -me   \ (_ \
>       \_____________________________________________________________\___/


There is a pretty good interview of Stewart in the new issue of Playboy
Magazine.


-- 
"On the one hand we have Holly a computer with the IQ in excess of 12 thousand
 who has a total grasp of astrophysics.  On the other we have Lister, who, and
 let's be fair, is a complete and total gimp."
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From: patswift@netcom.com (Patrick Swift)
Subject: Re: Star Wars music like what earlier composition?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 02:10:36 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.210105.2022@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov writes:
>I've read in the past postings to the effect of "The theme from
>Star Wars is a rip-off of piece X, by composer Y."  I have no
>idea whether this is true and personally don't care, I would just
>like to know the claimed values of X and Y so I can go listen to
>it myself...

Heyo!

Yup, I've heard that a lot, too.  Even had the song that the theme music was
supposedly ripped off from played for me and the segment in particular pointed
out to me.  I dunno.  Maybe it's just my crummy hearing, but I didn't hear much
similarity.

There is a remarkable similarity, however, between some of the music in Star
Wars and Holst's THE PLANETS, the most noticeble one being derived from being
"Mars".  Then again, a LOT of sci-fi movies seem to like taking snips and
pieces of THE PLANETS.  It's good stuff, so I guess I can't really blame 'em.

					* Patrick Swift *
-- 

------------------------- patswift@netcom.netcom.com --+-----------------------
"The mind is a wonderful thing.                        | Shadowfox! BBS
 It starts working the minute you're born,             | (510) 452-3551
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From: uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann)
Subject: Re: TRON/HEAVY METAL/DUNE/BLADE RUNNER
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 16:04:32 GMT

BRADHAMP@ASHLEY.COFC.EDU writes:

>Are TRON and HEAVY METAL available on tape?  if so, how can I get copies?

Sorry, I can't help you, but I take this as a cue to ask my old sound-
track collector's question. Is the soundtrack of TRON available anywhere
and where? I think the coolest thing about the whole movie was the or-
chestral/synth combination of the music -- it's the reason why I watched
it over and over again.
I even know the composer: Wendy Carlos.
There's a CD available by the same person called "Switched-on Bach", but
not the Soundtrack (as far as I know).
Help! (I can't live without that music! Exist yes, but not live!!! :-) )


May Clu Be with You!

(C)OOL mcmxcii
From: slb3y@cc.usu.edu (Punk Rocketeer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: Re: Star Wars music like what earlier composition?
Date: 14 Oct 92 16:41:51 MDT
Organization: Omega:  The Final Solution

In article <1992Oct14.210105.2022@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>,
pjs@euclid.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter J. Scott) writes:
> I've read in the past postings to the effect of "The theme from
> Star Wars is a rip-off of piece X, by composer Y."  I have no
> idea whether this is true and personally don't care, I would just
> like to know the claimed values of X and Y so I can go listen to
> it myself...

     Holst (I don't know anything about a first name)

     "The Planets"
-- 
Patrick S. Clark | Just crank that volume to the point of pain.
Email is life!   | Why waste good music on a brain?
Usual Disclaimer | --Spinal Tap, "Heavy Duty"
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From: glocke@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Gordon Locke  )
Subject: T3 ?? What's the deal?
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 19:48:21 GMT

	Pardon me if this is in a FAQ somewhere (I looked and couldn't
find a FAQ posted), but I read on this newsgroup a while back a post
wherein someone quoted a newspaper article that announced the
forthcoming Terminator 3 movie.  What's the deal.
	The alleged article told of a nnews conference held by Cameron,
Arnie, Linda Hamilton, et al., and said that the flick will be out in
the summer of '93.  While I cringe at the thought of a third Terminator
movie (how could they do it??), if Cameron is behind it, I'm willing to
hold out some hope that it may be good.
	Thanks in advance ...
	
	- Gord Locke, T2 fan extraordinaire.
                          
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From: ratinox@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu (Richard Pieri/Stainless Steel Rat)
Subject: Re: Where is Arnie now?
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>>>>> "GH" == Glenn Host <ghost@openage.openage.com> writes:

GH> Almost every year Arnold S-word has been fdoing a movie, usually
GH> two - one heavy action movie (Commando, Predator, T2, Total Recall,
GH> Running Man) and one duo-film (Twins, Red Heat, Kindergarden Cop)
GH> but since T2 he has not made any movies!

The last things ]['ve heard about Arnie is he's cast in "Tooth Fairy"
and "Judge Dredd". Heavy Rumor Alerts on these, 'kay?

GH> What is his next movie or is he taking a break or his
GH> he spending his time campaigning for Bush
GH> (definitely a job for Arnie right now!)

You've really been out of it. Arnie changed his party affiliation to
Democrat last year. [And the Kennedys are trying to have the "must be
a native-born American to be President" clause ammended. Makes you
really wonder, don't it?]

--Rat
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Northeastern's Stainless Steel Rat          ratinox@meceng.coe.northeastern.edu
Do you really feel like arguing with a can of deoderant that registers nine on
the Richter Scale?                                                        --Ace
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From: donnell@manowar.micro.umn.edu (Your Heinous)
Subject: Re: TMNT III
Organization: none
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 15:55:37 GMT

In article <1992Oct5.213738.59458@cc.usu.edu> slb3y@cc.usu.edu (Punk Rocketeer) writes:
>     Does anyone have information on the third Teenage Mutant Ninja
>Turtle movie?  The local paper ran a two-sentence blurb, which only
>gave the tentative release date (April).  I know they were secretive
>about the first two, but I hope some detail has trickled out.  Anyone?
>-- 
>Patrick S. Clark | "We are not in the Eighth Dimension.
>Email is life!   |  We are over New Jersey.  All is not lost."
>Usual disclaimer | --Unidentified red Lectroid announcer

Vanilla Ice returns in a sequel that merges TMNT with "Cold As Ice".
Adopting a harder edged persona than before, he and the Turtles invade
the crackhouse neighborhoods of New York to teach junkies to just say 
No. Accompanying them will be Jessica Hahn as April, and Morton Downey Jr.
as Muckraking reporter Geraldo Montoya.

Sorry. Just kidding.

					--Judex--

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From: andrew@mks.com (Andrew Hamilton-Wright)
Subject: Re: Computers or physical? (was Re: Is not! Is too! Is not! Is too!)
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 13:18:13 GMT

In article <5998@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> mst@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (Markus Stumptner) writes:
>From article <1992Oct6.220652.11274@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>, by dsc@gemini.tmc.edu (Doug S. Caprette Bldg. 28 W191 x3892):

        [Stuff about definition of 'andriod' deleted]

>Just for fun, another one that should be called an android in my
>dictionary is the Terminator.  Now, of course, "android" sounds much
>wimpier than "cyborg" (which he definitely is not).
>-- 
>Markus Stumptner                                mst@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at

Actually, while on the "dictionary def'n" thread - a cyborg (as I have always
understood it) is a contraction of "Cybernetic Organism", meaning an organism
enhanced by "robotic" implants (being usually electro/mechanical strength or
memory stuff) - now . .

The Terminator (500? - Arnie's model anyway) has a 'living' exterior skin
(which dies & starts to smell) - so can't he be considered a human
skin with (a whole lot of) cybernetic help?

I do agree, however, that the updated model (with no skin) and the 'earlier
models' (with rubber skin) are not cyborgs.

(Note: I'm absolutely sure the movie people had no idea there was an argument
for their name choice, however)

-- 
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   / ||/// //\' `\\\     Database(Admin),        Mortice Kern Systems Inc.
  /  |/ /_//  \\___/     56 Scottsdale, Guelph,Ont.   
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From: glocke@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Gordon Locke  )
Subject: Re: T3 ?? What's the deal?
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 22:57:41 GMT

In article <BvtoH0.n4J@acsu.buffalo.edu> dianetti@acsu.buffalo.edu (Donald J. Dianetti) writes:
>In article <1992Oct8.194821.27843@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> glocke@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Gordon Locke  ) writes:
>>	Pardon me if this is in a FAQ somewhere (I looked and couldn't
>>find a FAQ posted), but I read on this newsgroup a while back a post
>>wherein someone quoted a newspaper article that announced the
>>forthcoming Terminator 3 movie.  What's the deal.
>>	Thanks in advance ...
>>	
>>	- Gord Locke, T2 fan extraordinaire.
>>                          
>What I have heard (for what it's worth):
>
>I believe that the post you are referring to was a hoax (the poster 
>quoted an LA Times article that no one else could verify).
>However, I have heard through various mass-media sources that Arnold
>has expressed interest in doing T3.  Chances are in Hollywood that if
>Arnold wants to do something, he will get to do it.  I heard nothing
>about Cameron or anybody else being involved, and it certainly will not
>be out in the summer of '93.

	This is the way I understood the situation before I read the
post in question.  Basically, that Cameron is against the idea, but
Arnie would like to do it.  [Damn Republican =^]  I'm relieved to hear
it was just a hoax.  The thought of a "T3" <brrr ...> sends chills up
and down my endoskeleton.

	- Gord>
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From: mst@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (Markus Stumptner)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Computers or physical? (was Re: Is not! Is too! Is not! Is too!)
Date: 7 Oct 92 10:40:00 GMT
Organization: DB and ES Subdivision, TU Vienna

From article <1992Oct6.220652.11274@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>, by dsc@gemini.tmc.edu (Doug S. Caprette Bldg. 28 W191 x3892):
> Well, perhaps what we really disagree on is the definition of 'traditional'.
> In the all the literature I read prior to the Old Star Trek, 'android' meant
> a flesh and blood, or biological, but synthetic or manufactured human.  For 
> that matter, I haven't read anything since in which androids were electro-
> mechanical. 

The oldest reference to androids I remember is from the sixties.  The
story was translated into German and as far as I recall, originally
published in F&SF in the early sixties or earlier.  Anyway, it
explicitly dealt with electronic androids.  Could have been by
Clifford D. Simak, but I'm not sure.  I'll see if I can still find it.

>recall that in "Star Wars" the 
> robots, some of whom only remotely resemble humans, were referred to as
> 'droids--clearly a perversion of 'android.'

Yes.  Now that, I agree, is a perversion.
 
>>                 The androids in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep are
>>mechanical/electronic. 
> Absolutely not true.

I agree.  I stand corrected.

As for the robots in Caves of Steel, I do not object to the phrase
"android robot" which I have also seen occasionally.  I have always
(ok, so that's 25 years back) felt that "android" only referred to the
form, not the "implementation". I did not see Star Trek till about
'75, though of course other sources could have influenced my before
that.

Just for fun, another one that should be called an android in my
dictionary is the Terminator.  Now, of course, "android" sounds much
wimpier than "cyborg" (which he definitely is not).

> However, I am one of those old farts who also doesn't like
> that newfangled pronounciation of 'kilometer' that Carl Sagan popularized
> either.

I'm curious, what is the difference?  I've only heard Carl Sagan
speaking the usual German pronunciation :-)
-- 
Markus Stumptner                                mst@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at
University of Technology Vienna                 vexpert!mst@relay.eu.net
Paniglg. 16, A-1040 Vienna, Austria             ...mcsun!vexpert!mst
From: donnell@manowar.micro.umn.edu (Your Heinous)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: Re: What is the name of the SCI-FI movie with Julie Christie and a computer
Keywords: Julie Christie, information wanted
Date: 13 Oct 92 15:51:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: news2.1992Oct13.155100.16277
Organization: none

In article <1992Oct9.082425.17539@Cadence.COM> mas@Cadence.COM (Masud Khan) writes:
>In article <billd.717294449@cheetah> billd@informix.com (William Daul) writes:
>>It has something to do with a massive computer who refuses to tell 
>>governments how to mine the ocean bottom.  Julie Christie is impregnated
>>by the computer.  
>>
>>NAME THAT MOVIE!
>>
>>Thanks,  --Bill
>
>I think it was The Demon Seed and the computer was called Proteus.
>
>Mas
>-- 
>                /\    /\    /\  ///////
>               //\\  //\\  //\\ \\\
>              ///\\\///\\\///\\\ \/////\
>             ///  \\//  \\\/==\\\     \\\



It was definately "Demon Seed", a
fine addition to the ranks of mid 1970's "Head" movies. Great lightshow,
and a wonderful, evil, post-modernist sculpture...

					--Judex--
From: mst@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (Markus Stumptner)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: Re: alt.bladerunner
Date: 8 Oct 92 17:29:02 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.sf.movies
Organization: DB and ES Subdivision, TU Vienna

From article <1992Oct8.133708.22798@nntp.hut.fi>, by pejulaju@sandman.cs.hut.fi (Pentti Lajunen):
> In article <6004@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> mst@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (Markus Stumptner) writes:
>>Exactly.  What happened to the Alien 3 thread that so many people
>>whined about in September?  Well, it's died.

> Yeah, but ALIEN 3 was the best big budget film from Hollywood in years!

See?  It's the best big budget film from Hollywood in years, and much
younger than Bladerunner, but the thread still died.  Thanks for
supporting my argument.

[Actually, no, I don't think Alien 3 was the best big budget film from
Hollywood in years.  Alien 3 is... well, let's not start this again.]
-- 
Markus Stumptner                                mst@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at
University of Technology Vienna                 vexpert!mst@relay.eu.net
Paniglg. 16, A-1040 Vienna, Austria             ...mcsun!vexpert!mst
From: kaufman@eecs.nwu.edu (Michael L. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: Re: Tremors
Date: 9 Oct 92 17:46:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: eecs.1992Oct9.174641.7175
Organization: EECS Department, Northwestern University

rfletcher@cactus.org (Robert Fletcher) writes:
>  Will there ever be a Tremors II?

God, I hope not. One was way more then enough.

Michael

-- 
Michael Kaufman | I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on
 kaufman        | fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in
  @eecs.nwu.edu | the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be
                | lost in time - like tears in rain. Time to die.     Roy Batty 
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From: geirj@hsr.no (Geir Johannessen)
Subject: Re: Aliens v Predator Movie??? (+ Alien 3)
Organization: Rogaland University Centre
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 16:30:17 GMT

In article <23553@flab.flab.fujitsu.co.jp>, takehira@flab.fujitsu.co.jp (Takehira Masanori) writes:
> Hello,
> 
> My name is Takehira Masanori from Japan.And I saw "Alien^3" about a month 
> ago.
> 
> Is "Aliens vs Predeator" a comic or something? I would like to know about 
> it. Somebody , would you please tell me about the book ? ( If it is a 
> book.) And please tell me the author and the company which publishes it 
> also.
> 
> Thank you.
>                                   Takehira Masanori 
> 

Well, as promised, here's some more accurate information about "Aliens vs
Predator" (the comic).

    *	It's published by Dark Horse Comics

    *	It's about 180 pages long (which isn't much by Japanese standards I think)

    *	It teams both the aliens from the Alien, Aliens and Alien 3 movies and the			
	predator from the Predator and Predator 2 movies in one single story
	(against each other). I won't spoil your fun by telling you the storyline,
	I just advice you to get the comic (suggested addresses below).

    *	It's best to have seen all the above mentioned movies before reading the	
	comic.

Now, here's some comic (among other things) shops in England that'll do
overseas mail order:
	
	Forbidden Planet		The Sheffield Space Centre
	71 New Oxford Street		Department 29
	London				33 The Wicker
	WC1A 1DG			Sheffield
	England				S3 8HS
					England

	Tel: +(071) 497 2150		Tel: +(0742) 75 8905


If ordering from Sheffield Space Centre, you'll have to fork out 9.95 for the
comic + 40% of this to cover shipping and handling - regrettably I don't know the
retail price and s&h charges are at Forbidden Planet. Sorry!

Well, I hope you buy the comic!			Sayonara!
						    Geir Friestad (Anime Fan)
From: slb3y@cc.usu.edu (Punk Rocketeer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: Re: Where is Arnie now?
Date: 11 Oct 92 22:48:41 MDT
Distribution: na
Organization: Omega:  The Final Solution

In article <RATINOX.92Oct9213705@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu>,
ratinox@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu (Richard Pieri/Stainless Steel
Rat) writes:
> The last things ]['ve heard about Arnie is he's cast in "Tooth Fairy"
> and "Judge Dredd". Heavy Rumor Alerts on these, 'kay?

     I could swear on a stack of Leonard Maltin books that I saw a
promo pic for "Tooth Fairy" in a local paper.  Arnold and a girl about
8 YO, both dressed in tights and tutus.  They even held "magic wands." 
So I would suggest de-rumoring the TF statement.
-- 
Patrick S. Clark | "Sometimes a nice, simple bit of assault
Email is life!   | works as well as wizardry." - Runcible,
Usual disclaimer | in "Hershey's Kisses" by Ron Goulart 
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From: rsopicki@pro-amber.cts.com (Randy Sopicki)
Subject: Re: Tremors
Organization: ProLine [pro-amber] -- Spring Valley, Ca
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 21:56:08 PDT

I concur wholeheartedly. Tremors was one of the best in recent history. All
around good time.
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From: mph@plasma.apana.org.au (Martin Peter Howell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies,rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Deckard as 6th Replicant doesn't hold water
Date: 13 Oct 92 20:02:36 GMT

K.R.Catchpole3@lut.ac.uk writes:

>	What I meant when I mentioned 'one of the main themes' was that to
>say that if Ridley Scott had proved that Deckard was a Rep. the human aspect
>would have been lost. It would have been like watching R2D2 and C3P0 kill each
>other. By making Deckard a human, he parodies the Rep. situation with that of
>Mary Shelley's (note: book not film) 'Fankenstein', who is a very caring being
>until HUMANS screw him up.

>To say Deckard is a replicant immediatley invalidates everything but the 
>action sequences in the movie.

Not really, even if it was proved in the film that Deckard was a replicant
he still has the emotions of a human which is what makes things interesting.
Indeed seeing Roy battling with his feelings in the final scenes is in
no way `invalidated' because he is not human.  If the replicants were
uninteresting zomboids (such as R2D2 and friends) then I would agree,
but the point of the film is that the replicants develop human emotions
and effectively become human before having their lives terminated by
their 4 year life span.  It is this that makes the film appeal to humans.

However, having said that, I'm glad Deckard was not a replicant but I
would have been happier if Ridley Scott had left some more obvious clues
to suggest he was or even had Deckard wondering himself, as in DADOES.

-Martin. 
mph@plasma.apana.org.au
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