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From: pierres@microsoft.com (Pierre Stromberg)
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Date: 06 Sep 92 19:03:20 GMT
Organization: Sausage, SPAM, Baked Beans, and SPAM Incorporated.

     Corvette Summer, starring Mark Hamill. I'm also ashamed to admit that
I actually liked this movie. But it was still embarassing !


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From: jameskau@aludra.usc.edu (James Kaufman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Anthony Perkins: Aids: Died yesterday.
Date: 13 Sep 1992 23:44:13 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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In article <190ts1INN1jl@agate.berkeley.edu> peterme@ocf.berkeley.edu (Peter Merholz) writes:
>
>Does anyone say how he got the virus? I heard he had a wife and kids,
>but as we know, that doesn't mean he wasn't gay or bi... Just curious...
><Because I seriously doubt he received it in heterosexual union, considering
>the odds against it... It would be unwise to further scare the heterosexual
>population about AIDS since the odds are still phenomenally against 
>transmitting it heterosexually...>
>
>--Peter M.

The Los Angeles Times mentioned that he had some homosexual affairs before
he was married; it's possible he caught the virus that way...
BTW, did anyone notice that the Enquirer reported that Perkins had AIDS
just a few days before he died?  It's one of the few times I've actually
read something (well, just browsing in the supermarket, of course! :)  )
in the Enquirer that ended up being true.....

James Kaufman
jameskau@aludra.usc.edu







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From: fod@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Frank O'Donnell)
Subject: Re: ENCHANTED APRIL
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 15:06:46 GMT

frankm@microsoft.com (Frank R.A.J. Maloney) writes:

>ENCHANTED APRIL, despite it thinness, its incredibility, is
>both magical and very funny. The actors are superb. The
>photography fills you longing to get on the next plane for
>Portofino.

It was indeed a nice little movie, and managed to achieve a
lot on what were evidently somewhat slim resources.  At times,
however, it had to me the unmistakable look of skimping that
betrayed what was apparently its low budget (i.e. they couldn't
afford a period train, so they used a shot of a light coming
through mist and something that looked sort of like the interior
of a train car to suggest the train trip; also, the interiors
of the "castle" did not correspond well to the exterior shots
of the villa in which the story was supposed to have taken place).

I was trying to remember what else I might've seen Michael
Kitchen in (the musician who owns the villa).  Any jogged 
memories?

Frank
frank@jplpost.jpl.nasa.gov
From: smith@sctc.com (Rick Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: What movies do to cities...
Date: 10 Sep 92 00:55:10 GMT
Organization: SCTC

Especially enjoyable for local folks is to watch a scene where the
movie travels through the city. Two examples come to mind...

"Protocol" with Goldie Hawn begins with a truly unlikely tour past
famous sites in Washington DC. I vaguely remember the motorcade
passing the Lincoln Memorial, then Pennsylvania Avenue (2 miles away),
then the Jefferson Memorial (a mile back, near Lincoln), and so on. By
the time the tour was over they'd have had to criss-cross the city 4
or 5 times. Gives a whole new meaning to "taking the scenic route."

Another amusing one for me was from a movie set at the University of
Minnesota and filmed around the Twin Cities. I think the name was
something like "Makin' It," a rather forgettable film for most people.
An early scene showed the male lead taking a quick jog home after a
tennis game or something. This "quick jog" passed three or four
distinctive local landmarks, all separated in reality by several miles.

Such "artistic" reorderings of geography probably produced more
watchable film. But it seems to flirt with the boundary between
artistic license and continuity errors.

Rick.
smith@sctc.com       arden hills, minnesota
Organization: Masters student, Information Networking Institute, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Date: Wed,  9 Sep 1992 13:25:42 -0400 
From: Anish Bharat Bhimani <ab4n+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: What movies do to cities...

Excerpts from netnews.rec.arts.movies: 7-Sep-92 What movies do to
cities... rlwilliams@gallua.gallau (814)

	I've seen this happen before. There was a movie with Gene Hackman 
which had him getting on the DC Subway and getting off in a station in 
baltimore!  Are there others?


I can't count the number of movies I've seen that are supposed to take
place in somewhere besides L.A., yet manage to have "Pacific Bell" pay
phones, freeway entrances to the 405 and 5 freeways, and an occasional
palm tree . . .

- Anish
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From: billb@crpmks.uucp (Bill Bochnik (Info Systems))
Subject: Re: Films with no females
Reply-To: billb@crpmks.UUCP (Bill Bochnik (Info Systems))
Organization: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 15:12:45 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.134543.6232@citib.com> ken@agassi (Ken Nodini) writes:
>stame@emunix.emich.edu (Stewart Tame) writes:
>: In article <1992Aug30.193713.4631@plains.nodak.edu!midkemia> cooper%midkemia@plains.nodak.edu (Jeff Cooper) writes:
>: >How about "The Hunt for Red October", if I remember correctly, the only
>: >scene with a female in it was a shot of a stewardess that was on the
>: >screen for only a few seconds...
>

What about the scene with Gates McFadden (of Star Trek TNG) who played his 
wife?

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From: 910252m@ace.acadiau.ca (DWAYNE ALLAN MACKINNON)
Subject: Re: Name this Movie
Summary: Time to sum it up
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 13:19:55 GMT

To Geoff and Dave Meeks especially,

      The movie that Geoff described in his original post is called Hiding 
Out. It starred Jon Cryer, Annabeth Gish, and also Keith Coogan (but I'm not 
sure about him.) In it, Cryer plays a stockbroker who was unknowingly 
laundering money for the mob. He turns federal witness, but after his 
federal bodyguards are killed off he goes on the lam, eventually finding his 
way to his cousin's (Coogan's) home town. Disguising himself with a two-tone 
punker hair-do he enters his cousin's high school. Although he at first hid 
out at his cousin's, the feds started looking for him there, and he then 
started staying at the school. It was there that he befriended the janitor, 
who although he was black and certainly a very nice guy, was not a musician (
he was an ex-boxer). While at school Cryer became extremely popular by 
standing up to a number of teachers. This prompted some people to campaign 
to get him elected student body president. Cryer didn't want this, hence the 
scenes of him roller-skating through the halls, ripping down his own 
election posters. Cryer also falls in love with a pretty high school senior (
Annabeth Gish). One good scene - Cryer making points with Gish's dad by 
showing him how to save a few hundred dollars on his tax return. Eventually 
Cryer is found by both the mob and the feds, enters the witness protection 
program, and ends up at the same college as Gish.

     Sorry to get so long-winded.

    One note : to Wansaicheong Khin-Lin : In Crossroads the devil's champion 
was played by Steve Vai, not Joe Satrianni. Vai also did all fancy 
guitar work in the movie.


DMK
Acadia University, N.S., Canada.
From: mst@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (Markus Stumptner)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: "Reservoir Dogs" review. (DO NOT) See this film!
Date: 9 Sep 92 17:11:08 GMT
Organization: DB and ES Subdivision, TU Vienna

From article <1992Sep9.145447.8964@cbnewse.cb.att.com>, by gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart):
> Firstly, the entire context has been included, so I'm not sure what you're
> talking about re: context.

Including does not help if your posting ignores what is being said in
the context.  Nobody expressed belief in the existence of a seat of
pacificity until you brought the topic up.

> Fourthly, the conclusion that my post seemed to say that racism and
> violence is a prerequisite for affecting the rest of the world does fit
> the definition of "loopy". 

Given the context that you included, it was the logical one.  Sorry if
that was not what you intended.

> Fifthly, my comments still stand as questioning the apparent conclusion
> of the original poster that this racism and violence is the mainly the
> exclusive purview of the Western Male.  That conclusion, while I hope not
> intended as such by the original poster, is both sexist and racist.

I agree that it would be, but such a conclusion was not visible
anywhere in the original posts.  "A fits B" does not necessarily mean
"non-A does not fit B", especially if one is talking about cultural
matters where the closed-world assumption is usually taken not to
hold.

Finally, I agree that this discussion has reached sufficient length
for one that is based on a single sarcastic remark.
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University of Technology Vienna                 vexpert!mst@relay.eu.net
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From: cb366@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark B. Bendiksen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: What movies do to cities...
Date: 11 Sep 1992 14:59:45 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Speaking of continuity errors in location filming.......

Paul Verhoeven's _Robocop_ was filmed almost entirely on
location in my hometown of Dallas, TX (at least the "outdoor"
scenes). An interesting choice since the film is supposed to
take place in futuristic "New Detroit". Nevertheless, in one
chase scene toward the beggining of the film one can see
cars racing towards the Dallas skyline with Reunion Tower in
plain sight. In case you don't know, Reunion Tower is the
building which has a large rotating "dome" on top. Then, they
show a shot from in FRONT of the cars, and Reunion Tower and
the Dallas skyline is BEHIND them. When viewing the film
with a Dallas audience it was funny to hear their laughs of
amusement at this rather obvious screw-up. I guess the editor
had something else on his mind that day....


Mark B. Bendiksen
cb366@freenet.cwru.edu
-- 
"If we don't get some cool rules ourselves, pronto,
 We'll just be bogus, too."-- Dr. Jeff Spicolli
From: jxxl@huxley.cs.nps.navy.mil (John Locke)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: The Film with the fewest (> 0) actors
Date: 11 Sep 92 20:22:30 GMT
Reply-To: jxxl@cs.nps.navy.mil (John Locke)
Organization: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA

gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart) writes:

> >Doesn't Lawrence of Arabia have greater than zero actors? We still haven't
> >plumbed the depths of this infinitely fascinating topic.
> 
> Yes, it does.  I think there is a library in Hollywood devoted to
> films with more than zero actors.  It is the great ">0 Hall of Films".
> It has been heralded as being "Somewhat Less Than Infititely Fascinating"
> for many, however less than infinitity, years.  You may want to look
> into the "Characteristics of the Western Male" wing.  Many of the
> exhibits may surprise you, but I rather doubt it.  Most struck me as
> pretty much ordinary w/r/t the rest of the world.

What I'm really interested in is a reference book that lists movies in
order of number of actors. Then if you had a bet as to whether "How
the West Was Won" really did have a cast of thousands you could check
to see who the winner was.

Then again, you might want to avoid movies with only thirteen actors,
for spiritual reasons. This book would give you a definitive list of
those movies to avoid.

There is a book that lists movies by the number of horses, but I'm
waiting for it to come out in paperback. By the way, does anyone know
which movie has the least amount of horses? Hint: it's not "The Lemon
Drop Kid."

John
From: spencer@dew.Princeton.EDU (S. Spencer Sun)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: FREDDY AS FRO7
Date: 11 Sep 92 20:32:00 GMT
Reply-To: spencer@phoenix.princeton.edu (S. Spencer Sun)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Live Organ Transplants

In article <1992Sep11.015122.11023@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, sdt8s@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Steve Tilson) writes:
>cobarruvias@asd2.jsc.nasa.gov writes:
>> 
>> Dont bother watching it, renting it, reading about it, IT SUCKS
>> 
>Good. I was afraid I'd missed something really outlandishly
>good. I guess the fact that the theater was only giving it
>matinee shows should've tipped me off...

Yeah, I think we're doing that too.... it's a bad sign when they start
doing split shows (whatever they're called, I never bothered to learn
the precise movie-business-lingo name for this, and I'm sure there is
one) the week after release...

Although from a projectionist's standpoint, running a different matinee
and night movie sure as hell beats alternating the movies for every
show... (friend of mine tells me he once had All Dogs Go to Heaven
alternating with Leatherface... labelled that sucker all over the
place)

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From: jeff@archone.tamu.edu (Jeff Raymond)
Subject: Re: movie with 'blows' in the title?
Organization: College of Architecture, Texas A&M University
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 20:44:59 GMT

In article <1992Sep8.192944.346@athena.mit.edu> brian@mtl.mit.edu (brian foley) writes:
>
>This is for a puzzle I'm doing...
>
>The puzzle requires me to find out the number in a movie title
>with the word 'blows' in it. (ie. 'seven blows' or something
>like that).
>
>any takers?
>
>thanks'
>Brian


The film is The 400 Blows, directed by Francois "Frank" Truffaut, 1959.

Hope that helps.

jeff

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From: ahummel@ems.cdc.com (H. Austin Hummel)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Dune, embarrassing?
Keywords: n
Date: 9 Sep 92 17:01:38 GMT
Reply-To: you@ems.cdc.com
Organization: Empros Systems International, a division of CDC

In article <1992Sep9.144813.27448@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, ren@Turing.ORG (Karen Prestemon) writes:
|> 
|> Can someone PLEASE tell me what those big whales floating around in space
|> were?  Its been a while since I've read the book or seen the movie, but
|> tha one aspect of the film kind of stuck with me.  Weree the whales in 
|> Dune in any way related to that huge salami that came for all the whales
|> in Star Trek IV?????
|> 
|> What gives??
|> 

Karen, those were not whales in Dune but mutated man caused by the
spice melange (sp?) and zero gravity state.
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From: pfeiffer@nmsu.edu (Joe Pfeiffer)
Subject: Re: REVIEW: STAY TUNED
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
	<pxjndv=.garys@netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 21:22:05 GMT

In article <pxjndv=.garys@netcom.com> garys@netcom.com (Gary Stollman) writes:

   You GOTTA be kidding me!!  You gave this absolute TURKEY a high score!!?? 
   I wasted a free ticket coupon the other day to see this BOMB and walked
   out after about 30 mins or so...I haven't seen a good movie in 8 months!!
   I just guess Hollywierd has gone down the tubes!!  If it weren't for
   Spielberg and Lucas, the studios would go out of business!!!

This isn't a movie, it's a collection of puns.  If you will enjoy
watching an hour and a half of references to Hellevision, to TVs with
666 channels, and similar lines, you may like this movie.

As a movie, it never takes off at all.  The acting is bad, the writing
is bad, the directing is bad.  The puns are awful (which is, of
course, the best kind!).  The ending is completely implausible; it's a
definite ``hmmm, we've run out puns, let's end it'' ending.

-Joe.
From: lewis@linac.fnal.gov (June Cummins Lewis)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Most Maddening Movie(Cape Fear Spoilers)
Date: 4 Sep 92 21:56:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: linac.#T#A5#4#1
Organization: Fermiland, Batavia, IL

For me, the most maddening movie was the same as the most
embarrassing--Pretty Woman.  It just made sick that so many people
lapped up the story as if it were realistic and possible.  I don't
mind escapist fluff, but when a film pretends to have
verisimilitude, which this one totally lacked, it goads me to no end.
And the tired Cinderella message was completely banal. Right, 
a woman is going to go to Hollywood and end up a prostitute and
totally avoid all the horrendous things that can happen in this situation.
Yeah, a rich guy is going to scoop up this lovely prostitute and marry
her.  What's the message?  Girls can become prostitutes as long as
they have hearts of gold?  Prostitutes can become millionaires as long
as they find the right john?  Give me a break. The whole thing was a
contrived, sexist, stupid piece of trash.

Sorry!

The other movie that irked me to no end was Dangerous Liaisons (the
Michelle Pfeiffer version), and for the life of me I can't remember
why.  I just remember my sister saying to me "OK, shut up already, we
know you didn't like it."

So, taking her advice, I'll shut up now.

June Cummins Lewis

-- 
"Saying that men talk about baseball in	order to avoid talking about their
feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order
to avoid talking about baseball."
			--Deborah Tannen, author of _You Just Don't Understand_
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From: rchao@well.sf.ca.us (Robert Chao)
Subject: filmmakers who didn't go to film school
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 00:25:10 GMT


What filmmakers never went to film school? The two I know of right
now are Woody Allen and Stanley Kubrick, who started out as a
photographer.
-- 
Robert Chao
Oakland, California
Xref: sparky rec.arts.movies:26918 rec.games.trivia:3096 bit.listserv.cinema-l:6565
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Friday, 4 Sep 1992 11:42:41 CDT
From: <U15289@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,rec.games.trivia,bit.listserv.cinema-l
Subject: Film Trivia Quiz: The Actornet, Part 7

Having run the crosses into the ground, let's try filling in a square this time
.  As always, the object is to plug movies into the correct spots in the struc-
ture, based on the performers they have in common.  This time, the links come
together in a complete circuit.

                           S---_---_---_---_---_
                           |                   |
                           _                   _
                           |                   |
                           _                   H
                           |                   |
                           _                   _
                           |                   |
                           _                   _
                           |                   |
                           _---_---_---_---_---_

A. _Fort Apache, The Bronx_             K. _Bus Stop_
B. _The Prince and the Showgirl_        L. _Marathon Man_
C. _Hot Shots_                          M. _Basic Instinct_
D. _Who Framed Roger Rabbit_            N. _Jacob's Ladder_
E. _Bull Durham_                        O. _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_
F. _Total Recall_                       P. _Peggy Sue Got Married_
G. _Big Top Pee-Wee_                    Q. _Backdraft_
H. _The Graduate_                       R. _Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid__
I. _The Untouchables_                   S. _Down and Out in Beverly Hills_
J. _Under Fire_                         T. _Wall Street_

Email your answers to me by Thursday, September 17.  Results posted to the net
later on.

                                              Mitch Pravatiner
                                              U15289@uicvm.uic.edu
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From: u910996@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (Delroy Hartley)
Subject: Re: Movies you heard were good but sucked (was Re: Most Embarassing Movie)
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 15:18:16 GMT

jason@ab20.larc.nasa.gov (Jason Austin) writes:


[lots of stuff dd'd]

>Robin Hood: A lot of noise.
Is this the Robin Hood POT version?

[.sig deleted]

posted for Bernard Booth
by
Delroy Hartley u910996@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au
From: fag2@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Farul A Ghazali)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Blade Runner- SLC, UT
Date: 11 Sep 92 04:03:40 GMT
Reply-To: fag2@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Farul A Ghazali)
Organization: Columbia University

In article <jjonsson.147@alexandria.lib.utah.edu> jjonsson@alexandria.lib.utah.edu writes:
>The Director's cut of Blade Runner will begin an "Exclusive Engagement" 
>(Exclusive to Salt Lake City that is) at Trolley Corners theater at 500 So. 
>700 E. Friday, with shows at 7:00pm and 9:40pm. Presumably they will have 
>matinees this weekend.
>

They are showing it at Loew's Village Theater in NYC, Friday. I don't
know of showtimes yet, but I'll be there.


--
Farul Azim Ghazali.
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