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From: fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis)
Subject: Re: SNEAKERS question
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 16:12:30 GMT
Organization: Austerlitz, Gershovitz, and Carmichael

Amy Wisotsky writes:
>dly@vms.macc.wisc.edu writes:
>
>
>>What does SNEAKERS stand for?  I didn't catch any reference to it
>>during the movie.  I've even tried to make other words out of the
>>letters, but I'm stumped.  Any one know?
>
>I've come up with two possibilities for this:   
>
>1)  refers to the people "sneaking" around, breaking into codes, etc.
>
>2)  refers to footwear.  If you remember, when the two guys came to
>talk to Marty the first time, one of Marty's workers told him
>"shoes...expensive ones"  (possibly not exact words) to describe what
>type of people the visitors were.
>
>If anyone has any other suggestions, I'd love to hear them.
>
Old IBM slang for programmers.


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From: gorrindo@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Sue Gorrindo)
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1992 19:31:44 GMT
Subject: Re: TOM SKERRITT info wanted
Organization: the HP Corporate notes server
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies

Tom Skerritt started out in TV - it's driving me crazy because I can't
remember the name of the series - it took place in the 60's and was a war
He and Robert Redford started there.

He was also in The Turning Point.  He has quite a history of playing the
female support figure.
From: cb366@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark B. Bendiksen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Your Favorite Cameo Appearance in a Film
Date: 30 Sep 1992 14:06:09 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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Scott Hopkins writes:

>Cza Cza Gabor in Naked Gun 2 1/2!      
>                                                
>        -Casey 

Wow, any relation to Zsa Zsa Gabor?


Mark (so sorry to be nitpicky but I'm bored) Bendiksen
cb366@freenet.cwru.edu
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From: vickie@pilot.njin.net (Vickie Mapes)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Melinda Dillon
Date: 4 Oct 92 01:40:36 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:

>There's something about Melinda Dillon.  I've seen her in _Close
>Encounters..._ and _Prince of Tides_ and I know she's been in others.
>In the two films I've mentioned, she in a sense plays on facial
>expressions, facial expressions which only she can get.  How can one
>describe them?  Does anyone else know what I mean?  I'm wondering
>whether it would be proper to call her a character actress.  That
>seems a bit extreme, but I can't help thinking she gets cast for those
>facial expressions...

Yes, I know exactly what you mean. I've always liked Melinda Dillon
too, in large part because of her expressions. There are so many
wonderful ones in Close Encounters, but my favorite might be where
she's taking photos at the end, and she's smiling broadly, really the
first time you see her extremely happy in the film. Then, a short time
later, as Roy is going up the plank and turns to look for her, she
has her hand against her face and says goodbye in the most subtle and
poignant of ways. 

She was also in:
Bound For Glory
Absence Of Malice
A Christmas Story
Fallen Angel
F.I.S.T
Harry and the Hendersons
Right of Way
Slatshot
Songwriter

Vickie

   "Is that an Eli minute or a real minute?"
From: jseaver@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Jason John Seaver)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Billy Joel's All Shook Up: Soundtrack??
Date: 1 Oct 1992 14:17:53 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Keywords: soundtrack

In article <greg.717894847@babel.cltr.uq.oz.au> greg@ctpm.uq.oz.au (Greg Hall) writes:
>
>	In Australia at the moment the radio station's are playing
>  Billy Joel's latest single, "All Shook Up", a cover of the Elvis
>  number. Tell if I'm wrong but I think I read somewhere that it
>  was from the soundtrack of some movie and that it included other
>  Elvis covers as well. Can anyone tell which movie and what other
>  covers (if any) are included?

	"Honeymoon in Vegas".  The best cut off the album, IMHO, is Travis
Tritt's "Burning Love".  Jeff Beck does a unique "Hound Dog", Billy Joel has
another song, as do Amy Grant, John Cougar Mellencamp (I think), and Willy
Nelson (ack barf).  A pretty good album.
 
					-Jay


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From: a0s5108@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Neal and Mara Priestly)
Subject: Re: What are those Negroes doing with guns?
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 14:55:20 GMT

I keep seeing this thread, and while I wonder why it is still in r.a.m I
feel that I should put in my two cents.

I will spare you all the quoting as by now I feel anyone who doesn't kill
it out of hand can quote it without having to see it again.

Mr Bopper, I would submit to you the following:  your basic complaint seems
to boil down to the fact that taxation is ACCOMPLISHING ONE OF IT'S MAIN
GOALS, that being the redistribution of discresionary marginal income to 
those who are not born to discresionary income.

You seem to feel that this is in some way a 'punishment for succeeding.'
I would pose this question/counter-arguement to you:  How much help did
the hypothetical successful person receive from the government?  Did this
business benefit from federally funded Department of Defense Interstate
Highway System?  (Yes Virginia, the DOD built the highways...)  Does the
business employ people with the benefit of a college education, which are
at two levels subsidised by the government both directly funding projects
and operating costs, and through financial aid either through funding the
costs of the specific individual hired or through bolstering the budget 
of the institution which gave them the education.

How sucessful would that person be without the aid/interference of the 
government in the marketplace.  I would propose that much of the sucess
is aided by the feds, and they have a right to request repayment in
proportion to the gains made.  

I refuse to comment on the equity of the current tax structure.  I don't
have the background to argue any stance I may have substantively and would
guess that very few people do.  (By arguing substantively I mean not only
saying 'this is bad,' but also being able to suggest an alternative to those
things you feel are bad and being able to tell me why they are better.)

FYI:  I would classify myself as grey collar...somewhere in that grey
      area between blue and white.   I work too hard to be white collar,
      but hold the title of manager.

-Neal Priestly
Disclaimer:  As my company has no political agenda other than hoping people
 have disposable income, this statement can in no way be construed as being
 the opinion of the company or it's officers.
 Spelling flames to /dev/bitbucket.  I haven't finished my spellchecker yet,
 it is riddled with typos.

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From: Richard A. Swift <Richard.A.Swift.1@nd.edu>
Subject: Re: Deckard as 6th Replicant doesn't hold water
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A6F4DA378F03401C@rswift.aero.nd.edu>
X-Xxdate: Sun, 4 Oct 92 23:28:23 GMT
Organization: University of Notre Dame, Aero. & Mech. Eng.
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d11
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 22:23:38 GMT

In article <5980@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> Markus Stumptner,
mst@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at writes:
>>>And where do you get they idea they are able to erase memories?  
>> I don't know they can. I don't know they can't. The point is, on the
>> evidence, neither you nor I know they can't.
>
>The fact that they are still experimenting with implants, together
>with what I know (little enough) about the way the human brain works,
>is quite sufficient for me to conclude that they can't.

There were at least two instances in the movie where the concept of
"reprogramming" a replicant was touched upon. The first was near the
beginning when Deckard sees the computer profiles of the replicants for
the first time, and his boss mentions that one had been reprogrammed for
"an off world hit squad". The second instance came near the end of the
film when Roy confronted Tyrell, and Tyrell states "You wish to be
reprogrammed?". I don't remember the exact dialog, but these passages in
the script gave me the feeling that some type of "knowledge implants"
were in use.
______________________________________________________
Rich Swift    
                      Hessert Center for Aerospace Research
                              University of Notre Dame
______________________________________________________
From: grayt@Software.Mitel.COM (Tom Gray)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Hero and Meet John Doe
Date: 6 Oct 92 12:31:44 GMT
Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.


I can't be the only one who has noticed that the new movie
"Hero" is an almost direct rip off of the Frank Capra movie
"Meet John Doe"

The characters of the reporter (Geena Davis & Barbera Stanwyck)
who create a phony hero. The inadvertant outpouring of goodwill
caused by the phoney hero and all the rest is just too close.

For those of you who have not seen "Hero", don't wastet the money.`
It is too long, too transparent with only one good scene by Dustin
Hoffman to compensate for the boredom. Rent "Meet John Doe", Gary
Cooper and Barbera Stanwyck with Cpara's ideas and diection create
a much more entertaining movie with a much more thorugh exploration
of the theme of the inherent courage and altruism in all people.

Hero is a rip off. Worse still, Hero is a boring rip off.

-- 
i.sinature
From: il@bambam.u.washington.edu (Il Hwan Oh)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Do Replicants Dream of Electric Unicorn?
Date: 5 Oct 92 18:28:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Oct5.182854.15308
Reply-To: iho@cac.washington.edu
Organization: University of Washington, Tacoma

> poy@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Stephen Poy) writes:
> in the original story by P K Dick, the main premise if i remember correctly
> was about the social problems dealt with by a crumbling society in the
> future.  one aspect of the novel not discussed in the movie was the
> fact that in order to be socially acceptable people of earth had to
> own a live animal.

That wasn't true.  It's true that all humans cared a great deal for
animals, but real animals were very rare and hard to find.  I was very
confused by the Mercerism bit, but I'm sure about the animals bit.

-- 
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Computer Facilities Manager             |  and why does it
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From: casey@well.sf.ca.us (Kathleen Creighton)
Subject: "I Dream of Jeannie w/Dark Brown Hair"
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 00:01:33 GMT


Help!  What movie is that song from?  Title and year, please.  Thanks!

casey@well.sf.ca.us
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From: s084@brems.ii.uib.no (Jon)
Subject: Re: the absolute worst movie of all time, so bad it's bad
Organization: University of Bergen, Norway
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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 10:47:40 GMT

DOG BASEBALL!!! (hennessy@acsu.buffalo.edu) wrote:
: 	OCTAMAN
: 
: 	there.  the worst movie of all time.  so bad it wraps all the way
: around and back to bad again.  do not see this movie unless you are using a
: real cheap tv so you can kick it in.  a 12 million megafart stinker.  

Haven't seen that one.  But IMHO the worst movie ever made is 'Plan 9 From
Outer Space' by Edwards (something).

It starts out real horrorshow with a story teller which tries so desperately
to be dramatic and fails.  The title music (music?) is even worse.  And
starring 'Vampira' and a Swedish ex-boxer doesn't make things better.  The
flying saucers are _real_ flying saucers (or dishes..).  You can even see the
cords they hang in.

A major 'actor' in the film dies during the first two weeks, and is replaced
by a 30 year younger and two feet higher actor which covers his face with
his cloak all the time.  Both actors appear in the film of course, and even
in adjacent shots.

You get great conversations and remarks as "He's been murderer. <pause>
I'm sure someone is responsible!'

The movie was ment seriously and has in fact got a morale!

It's in b/w and made I think in the 50s.

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From: jogle@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Jim Ogle (Ks. Jim))
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: the absolute worst movie of all time, so bad it's bad
Date: 4 Oct 92 04:16:49 GMT
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM

In article <mumble> pepke@ds1.scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke) writes:

>In article <grumble> lev@nsinic.gsfc.nasa.gov (Brian S. Lev) writes:

>>that I consider worse than "Battle Beyond the Stars" -- which I saw eons
>>ago in the theater, and which a friend of mine and I still refer to 
>>"Garbage Beyond the Stars."
>
>But where else can you see John-boy Walton flying around the universe inside
>a big scrotum, hmmmmm?

Never pictured the ship as a scrotum myself...it always looked like a
set of hooters to me (even more so on the movie poster - amazing the
things you'll remember when its something vaguely sexual and you were
in your teens at the time!)



-- 
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From: cb366@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark B. Bendiksen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: About Timothy Dalton?
Date: 2 Oct 1992 13:27:13 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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Doug Brod writes:

>In article 1af8d4INN4ag@agate.berkeley.edu, cozzlab@garnet.berkeley.edu ()
writ:
>>In article <BvExJo.Dts@research.canon.oz.au> simon@research.canon.oz.au
(Simon:
>>                     
>>[What else is Timothy Dalton in?]     
>>                                               
>>He was King Philip in _The Lion in Winter_, early 1970s.
>                                           
>Did anyone else mention his role as Prince Barin in "Flash Gordon"?  Please
fore
>my ignorance if they did.                         
>                                                  
>Doug Brod                                  
>dbrod@eng.clemson.edu                             
                                         
>Klaatu/Gort in 92!

Thanks Doug....Since the thread started I've been racking my brains
trying to remember what recent movie I had seen Mr. Dalton in
on syndicated cable.

"FLASH.......................ah-ah........"

Not to get off on a tangent, but because of the usual time
constraints (i.e. so they can make more money), they cut part
of the scene with Dalton playing what I call "tree-stump
roulette" with the first guy before he plays it with
Flash. Too bad, one of my favorite scenes......

I enjoyed the movie, but who's the geek they found to
play Flash? I don't think his career exactly skyrocketed.


Mark B. Bendiksen
cb366@freenet.cwru.edu
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From: bchurch@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Robert Church)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: Re: "Stranger In A Strange Land" To Be Filmed
Date: 30 Sep 92 00:03:43 GMT
Organization: Ohio University School of Art. Athens

In article <1992Sep28.220422.11252@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> braca2@cspyr1.cs.adfa.oz.au (BRAY CHRISTOPHER) writes:
>sasse@netcom.com (Ellen Sasse) writes:
>
>>rtravsky@news.uwyo.edu (Rich Travsky) writes: 
>
>>> On CNN this morning (9/23), they had a short bit stating that 
>>> "Stranger In A Strange Land" will indeed be filmed and that Tom
>>> Hanks (!) has been selected to play Michael Valentine Smith.
>
>I dunno why every one assumes that MVS is white, I always pictured him
>as black.  Unsure why, but I would cast a black guy, possibly someone like
>Denzel Washington, or even someone from a smaller ethnic group.

I'm not sure why but I like to see an unknown in parts like these. I've got
enough images of MVS in my head from reading the book without confusing things
with the previous roles of an established actor.


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From: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: the absolute worst mo
Date: 30 Sep 92 07:21:20 EST
Reply-To: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

DB>        you've all seen bad movies.  bad movies which are so bad they're
DB>hilariously funny.  bad movies so bad that the dialogue from the audience
DB>makes it good.  however, I have just seen the absolute worst movie in my
DB>entire life.  so bad, not even the guys at MST3K would touch it with a ten

     The absolute worst movie I have ever seen is a low-budget Troma film
     (though I use the term "film" loosely) called "Blades."  It's a
     "Jaws" rip-off that imitates Spielberg's movie scene-for-scene, and
     it has to do with killer lawn mowers terrorizing a golf tournament.
     Sounds like a silly schlock treatment, right?  Well, this movie's
     terminal sin is this: it's BORING!  Excruciatingly, mind-bogglingly,
     numbingly boring!  It has none of the qualities that make a good
     schlock film (which is obviously what this was aiming for): the
     acting is terrible, but not funny at ALL.  There is NO blood and
     gore.  There's no sex, no nudity, just a couple of F-words tossed
     in to make this PG movie an R-rated flick.  And since the plot is
     a scene-for-scene copy of "Jaws" (Spielberg should sue!), the plot
     (such as it is) can be predicted a whole hour or more in advance.
     I saw the movie for free as part of a 24-hour marathon of schlock
     movies, and we all hated it - the only way we were able to stay
     awake was to pull an MST3000 and make up our own one-liners about
     the movie.  It was terrible.

     There is nothing whatsoever to reccomend in this movie - not for
     schlock fans, not for action movie fans, not for anyone.  Avoid,
     avoid, avoid.
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From: rtravsky@news.uwyo.edu (Rich Travsky)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Reading _The Last Of the Mohicans_
Date: 5 Oct 92 13:35:33 MST
Distribution: world
Organization: Banzai Institute

In article <BvnDy6.CM6@access.digex.com>, huston@access.digex.com 
   (Herb Huston) writes:
> [whackity whack]
> I seem to remember that _The Deerslayer_ was made into a movie probably
> during the 1950s.  I know for a fact that _The Last of the Mohicans_ got
> the serialization treatment in 1936.  It stars Harry Carey, consists of
> 12 episodes running about 4 hours, and is available on videotape.
> 
> -- Herb Huston

Some years ago, there was a PBS "serialization" of _Last_of_the_Mohicans_.
A nice one as I recall, but it has been years since I saw it.

Rich Travsky                  Division of Information Technology
University of Wyoming         rtravsky@corral.uwyo.edu
"We tottered together upon the brink of the fall. I have some knowledge, 
however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling...I slipped 
through his grip..."  _The Return of Sherlock Holmes_
From: jameskau@aludra.usc.edu (James Kaufman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS (review)
Date: 27 Sep 1992 13:39:30 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu

In article <1992Sep27.040318.21311@menudo.uh.edu> cosc17wj@Rosie.UH.EDU writes:
>I thought this was a pretty good movie.  I agree that the movie looked and
>sounded great.  The scenery shots and the battle scenes were amazing.  This
>movie is worth seeing for the visuals alone.
>
>What I really liked about the subtitling was when the British officer is 
>translating for Hawkeye, while the audience is seeing the words.  Neat effect,
>IMO.
>
>I do not think this is one of the year's  best, however.  UNFORGIVEN and THE
>PLAYER are still the best of the year, IMO.
>
>-Scope

Sounds about right.  I thought the script and character development was a 
little weak, but this was one of the single-most beautiful movies I've ever
seen.  I liked the acting, too.

Haven't seen UNFORGIVEN, but THE PLAYER was better (and IMHO one of the best of
the year, too).


James Kaufman
jameskau@aludra.usc.edu
From: ralphh@sigyn.cs.athabascau.ca (Ralph Hand)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: My Own Private Idaho
Date: 1 Oct 92 14:51:11 GMT
Article-I.D.: sigyn.ralphh.717951071


I found the stars very attractive, and isn't that all that really counts.

Ralph
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From: jim@jimmc.chi.il.us (Jim McNicholas)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,rec.arts.sf.movies,alt.cult-movies,rec.video.releases
Subject: Re: Deckard as 6th Replicant doesn't hold water
Date: 28 Sep 92 03:35:00 GMT
Reply-To: jim@jimmc.chi.il.us (Jim McNicholas)
Organization: Prime Time Productions Aurora, Illinois

ttak@quads.uchicago.edu (toki  takeuchi) writes:

> It seems to me that Deckard WAS a replicant, but not among the
> original 6.  Probably the same generation as Rachel.
> 
> The fact that Edward James Olmos (Walsh?) new about Deckard's
> unicorn dream supports the idea of Deckard being a replicant.
> 
> How Olmos knew about ANYONE's dream, be it a replicant's or
> a human's implies that he had to have been told about the dream.
> The dream probably then comes from another bladerunner.  This
> bladerunner could then be one of the bladerunners that was killed
> by Batty & company.
> 
> We can then hypothesize that maybe Deckard was made as a bladerunner
> replicant to replace the killed bladerunner, and as a more
> effective one.
> 
> The thing that contradicts this idea is the part where Deckard
> is confronted by the second male replicant (that is killed by
> Rachel).  He didn't have superior phyical power that replicants are
> expected to have.
> 
> The sad thing about this story is that if Deckard is a replicant,
> he and Rachel are going to have a short lived relationship.  Four
> years was it?

the line at the end says it best who knows how long any of us have!!

just a thought!!!

> 
> Kenji Takeuchi (please send copies of responses direct to me).



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