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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 1992 15:12:00 EST
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Subject:      Nicholas Cage/Elvis Impersonators

                  I N T E R O F F I C E   M E M O R A N D U M

                                        Date:     21-Aug-1992 02:39pm DST
                                        From:     Anita F. Colyer
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Subject: Nicholas Cage/Elvis Impersonators

Hi, Everybody.

I went to see Single White Female last night with a friend.  I thought it was
interesting, but I was a little surprised to find that it was gorier than I had
expected.  Yes, it was predictable. Yes, it reminded me a lot of Fatal
Attraction.  But it had some good moments, and that building it all took place
in (the rent-controlled apartment building in New York) was an amazing piece of
architecture, purely from an aesthetic point of view.  I have a question for
anyone out there:  the guy who played Sam, Allie's boyfriend, looked really
familiar.   Where have I seen him before?  Sorry, I don't remember his name
from the credits. . . . My friend and I both thought he looked familiar, but
couldn't place him.  One of my favorite scenes (and I won't give any more away
than I have to):  the cat, purring contentedly in the bathtub.

I saw some previews for the next Nicholas Cage movie, where (again!) there's an
Elvis impersonator theme.  (Trivia question:  how many, and which, Nicholas
Cage movies involve Elvis themes?)  I think the title of this new movie was
Honeymoon in Las Vegas, or something like that.  It looked pretty good.  Then
again, Cage is usually very good.  (Another trivia question:  what is Cage's
REAL last name?  Hint: he is the nephew of a very famous uncle.)  And yes, I
too would like to see a sequel to Wild at Heart.  Interestingly enough, they
released two videos to the theme song of that movie (Chris Isaak--"Wicked
Game") on MTV--one containing scenes from the movie, one containing scenes of
Chris Isaak and a girlfriend/model/whatever running up and down the beach.  The
video with the movie scenes was very haunting:  filled with scenes of flames,
and Laura Dern screaming--lots of red in the video (actually, there seemed to
be a lot of red imagery in that movie, if I remember correctly).  Oddly enough,
it seemed like MTV only aired the "movie" video a few times before withdrawing
it.  Did they do this for any particular reason?  I wondered if it might be a
licensing problem with the folks from the movie.  Obviously that wasn't a
problem with Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody," a song and video from Wayne's World
which was aired many, many times.  For you MTV trivia fans, that song was also
available in two different video versions--the movie verson, and the original
Queen version.  In the past this hasn't happened often, but it recently seems
to have become more common.  Ah, the postmodern world of video (and film, I
guess, according to you folks who have access to laser discs)--now we can
choose the version we like best.  How long will it be before we rewrite Gone
With the Wind?  I, for one, would rather have seen Rhett and Scarlett live
happily ever after. . . .   :)

Anita
Penn State
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