HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: kimp@rpi.edu (Phil Kim)
Subject: re: A problem with Indiana Jones part 3
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:22:11 GMT

In article <1e99pmINNmvk@eagle.natinst.com> darrenl@natinst.com (Darren Lilie) writes:
[stuff deleted]

>Also, when I saw the old man in the knight suit, I thought, "Yeah, right".
Why?  He could drink from the Holy Grail to lengthen his life.
From: jkung@acs.ucalgary.ca (Jimmy Kung)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Test..  (please ignore)
Date: 20 Nov 1992 15:32:12 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Just testing...  sorry for the inconvienience.  (11/20 14:30 MST)

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From: arnold@pyramid.unr.edu (Bruce M Arnold)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: My opinion of Under Siege(possible spoilers).
Date: 16 Nov 92 20:29:52 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Nevada, Reno  Department of Computer Science

In article <1992Nov14.185151.4125@nmr-z.mgh.harvard.edu> shinh@nmr-z.mgh.harvard.edu (Shinjiro Hirose) writes:
>In article <1du7nlINN3qc@eagle.natinst.com> darrenl@natinst.com 
>(Darren Lilie) writes:
>
>
>
>>much time to "cook" the "homemade bomb" that he put in the microwave.
>>I mean that the buzzer happen to go off right before the bomb exploded and
>>there happen to be several of the terrorists in the room at the time.
>
>
>I guess you didn't remember that the bad guys had turn the circuit
>breaker on when they came into the kitchen.  Segal had set the 
>microwave to go on when the power came back. (It must have been
>one of those old one with the timer dial...)  That's how he made\
>sure they'd be in the room when the bomb went off...
>-Shin
> 

We all know this, but the dude was asking, how did it go off exactly at
the time of the "DING"  (if you remember, the circuit breaker went back
on, then the microwave started, DING, "oh shit', BOOM... why didn't it
just go off.. before the "DING" (how come in _Say_Anything_, the plane
didn't crash before the "DING"?  oh well))

Bruce..

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From: tom@europa.lonestar.org (Tom Kimball)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Planet of the Apes
Date: 20 Nov 92 05:25:04 GMT
Organization: Moria Mining Guild (BBS) -- Dallas, Texas, USA

In article <1e9357INNl50@network.ucsd.edu> ivy@chem.ucsd.edu (Ivy Blumberg) writes:
>>you're probably thinking "Planet of the Apes, a great movie -- NOT!" But watch it
>>again!
>I agree it was a great flick.
>
>>Remember also that when this movie came out in 1968, nobody was expecting the
>>surprise ending (on the beach). People who were adults at that time told me that
>>last shot was really a shocker to most everyone, considering the fears they lived
>This has got to be one of the best movie endings of all time!

IMHO, the POTA movies and TV series was the greatest SCI-FI of all time.
Excellent political satire more sophisticated and fascinating than Star
Trek.  I recommend watching each movie in the order it was made.

-- 
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tom@europa.lonestar.org		tom%europa@egsner.cirr.com
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 23:36:11 +0100
From: Harry_Van_Leuken@wharfrat.fido.de (Harry Van Leuken)
Subject: Re: Peter Greenaway
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
X-Comment-To: lfiddick@nyx.cs.du.edu (larry fiddick)
Organization: Harry's Point 

lf> what is his latest film?

PROSPEROS BOOK is the latest one. Now in production is THE BABY OF MACON, shoot 
in Germany and The Netherlands.

Harry

Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
From: mvburke@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (mary virginia burke)
Subject: Re: Identify this movie
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 19:14:54 GMT

In <By5yCI.27n@sci.kun.nl> caspar@sci.kun.nl (Caspar Terheggen) writes:

>Can anyone identify this movie?  It's about a haunted house,
>and a group of scientists who try to unravel the mysteries.
>It's an old movie, but still; there may be some spoilers ahead.

>I only remember a few, at that time very scary, scenes:  The
>chapel plays an important role and towards the end of the movie
>the researchers discover a corpse (well preserved) sitting in
>a chair and "directing" all phenomena.  I also remember that
>during a dinner, some sort of tray with candles on sharp spikes
>starts to move, all candles drop off and the tray with spikes
>shoots towards one of the scientists who nearly gets nailed to
>his chair (nowadays he would not have been so lucky I guess).
>Note that it is not "The Haunting", which was broadcasted by
>the BBC only a week or so ago.

Sounds like "The Legend of Hell House" to me--team of psychic researchers, more
and less skeptical, go to the Belasco house to investigate and/or debunk the
reports of haunting.....Roddy McDowall is in it, also Clive Revill, who I
believe is the guy who nearly gets spiked by the Killer Tray.  Kind of a fun
flick, though the ending was pretty silly.  (The book is MUCH wilder--lots of
hallucinations and things that get QUITE intense.)

Cheers--MVB

"Cute little vermin, ja?"--Van Helsing


> Caspar Terheggen  +31 80 652801  caspar@sci.kun.nl  U634008@HNYKUN11.bitnet
From: alix@iastate.edu (L.A. Melloy)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: *SPOILER* Warnings
Date: 16 Nov 92 21:17:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: pv7b89.alix.721948663
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA

Just a reminder of net etiquette...

Could those of you posting _without_ spoiler warnings think about doing
so?  I REALLY want to see "Dracula", and have been reading some of the
posts about it, even those with spoilers (that weren't necessarily spoilers).
However, I just got done reading a post that, for me at least, was a MAJOR
spoiler (it gave away the end of the movie), that did NOT have a spoiler
warning in the subject line.

Please, _please_, PLEASE use the warning.

Thanks.

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From: gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Malcolm X controversies
Date: 19 Nov 92 17:28:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: cbnewse.1992Nov19.172810.18615
Organization: AT&T

In article <1992Nov19.141640.17399@cs.wayne.edu> faa@athena.cs.wayne.edu (Felicitas A. Atabong) writes:
>In article <1992Nov18.204812.4531@hubcap.clemson.edu> jmauric@eng.clemson.edu writes:
>>yeah. malcolm x was a drug dealer in his younger days and spike lee has seens of
>>this in his movie. i guess some blacks think malcolm x was god and never did
>>anything bad.
>>
>
>'Was God and never did anything bad??' REALLY?? I am black, but I always
>thought he was a REBEL 'WITH A CAUSE'.
>
>Feli.
>


I'm of the opinion that these "some blacks" may certainly exist, but
are probably in the minority.  Remember that you don't speak for all
blacks, as I'm sure you'll agree.  Also, I wouldn't characterize Malcolm's
earlier brushes with the law as anything as romantic as a "rebel with
a cause".  Malcolm himself was still learning and changed his mind about
lots of things while in prison, and probably wouldn't characterize his
earlier activities as anything romantic.  Witness the evolution of his
opinions and ideas.

GMS
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Toxic Avenger video?
From: bfa1225@vax1.mankato.msus.edu
Date: 23 Nov 92 12:10:56 -0600
Organization: Mankato State University



     I'd like to know if anyone out there has or has seen an un-edited version
of The Toxic Avenger?  I rented it years ago when it first came out, and I
loved it.  Later, I bought a video of it, but a lot was cut out,
disappointingly.  If anyone has any info, I'd be grateful.  Thanks in advance.

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From: tyg@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Tom Galloway)
Subject: Huntress history (was Re: Catwoman: feminist or femme fatale?)
Organization: Interleaf
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 01:45:12 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.145324.27872@news.columbia.edu> we@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Winfield Eng) writes:
>Lady Johanna Constantine mentioned about the Huntress from Earth 2
>from Pre-Crisis days.  I remember reading a villianess named the Huntress
>that wore a yellowish tiger-like outfit.  Is that the same character?

The Huntress, and the four women who've gone by the name, have a rather
complicated history, helped by post-Crisis retconning, and some pre-Crisis
confusion.

Including retconning in Young All-Stars, Huntress made her first appearance
as the Tigress, a crossbow armed character who had a crush on the Paul Kirk
Manhunter and tried to emulate him. After being killed and brought back
to life via a valkyrie working for the Nazis, she went bad and became the
Huntress, whose foe in the Golden Age was Wildcat. 

In the 60s, in a Brave & Bold teaming up Starman and Black Canary on Earth-2.
The featured villains were Huntress and Sportsmaster (a Green Lantern foe
in the 40s), and it was revealed they'd married.

Cut to the 70s, when there was a rather strange Strange Sports Stories which
pitted superheroes against supervillains in a baseball game. Featuring the
heretofore unrevealed Earth-1 Sportsmaster and Huntress, the bet was that
if the heroes won (which they did, due to trickery by Plastic Man), Huntress
would go straight (being tired of always being on the losing side).

Cut back to Earth-2, where Helena Wayne, the daughter of the Earth-2 Batman
and Catwoman assumes the role of the Huntress after her mother's death.
She gets ambushed by the Earth-2 Huntress over the "rights" to the name,
wins a fight, and the next we see of Huntress is her and Sportsmaster being
broken out of jail in Infinity Inc. by their daughter Artemis.

After Helena died in Crisis #12, DC later created a Post-Crisis Huntress,
as described here already and currently appearing in Robin III.

"But don't you see? Don't you understand what you're doing?"
"Oh, yeah, I'm destroying Shakespeare's snob appeal."
"You *fiend*."  --Lenny and Cowboy Wally
tyg   tyg@hq.ileaf.com
From: gbradley@uks240.Berkeley.EDU (Gary Bradley)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Coppola's "Bram Stoker's Dracula"
Date: 20 Nov 92 15:43:27 GMT
Reply-To: gbradley@uks240.Berkeley.EDU (Gary Bradley)


    I was under the impression that Tom Waites played Renfield, but he
is never mentioned in any of your reviews/comments. Is he in it? Is he
good? Thank you.

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From: rj@cadre.com (Rob deFriesse)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Need Help With Movie Title.
Date: 16 Nov 92 13:35:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: fripp.1992Nov16.133535.26557
Reply-To: rj@cadre.com
Organization: Cadre Technologies Inc.

david@datamark.co.nz (David Rowland) writes:
: 
: Can anyone help me in tracking down the name of a movie I once saw.
: 
: It was a comedy about a WWI pilot who has the role of the "detective/
: hero" in the film and has the task of tracking down a prefessor who is
: kidnapped by german spies.  As he goes on his search, he is helped by
: the professors daughter.
: 
: At one stage, the "hero" has a rowing 8 contest where his entire team
: misses the start because they are all ill.  Anyway, he takes on the 
: other team single handed, winning by a boat length without even
: raising a bit of sweat while the opposing team is completely
: buggered.
: 
: The movie is directed as though it is an old movie where the "hero"
: always managers to overcome every obstacle which he faces looking as
: though its all in a days work. 
: 
: Billy Connelly plays a blind scotsman who served with the "hero"
: during the war and lost his eyesight when the "hero" got him to look
: down a rabbits hole full of ammo using a match for light.
: 
: Any help with the title of this film would be appreciated.
: 
: thanks in advanced.
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Sounds like "Bullshot" to me.  I think that's the title.  The character's name
is Bullshot Crummond, or something like that.  I also think it was produced by
George Harrison.  Great movie!

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From: wendy@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (Wendy Gomber)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: The Actor List
Date: 20 Nov 92 22:38:19 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA)



Hello anyone.

Could someone either a) post the Actor's List, b) let me 
know if it gets posted on a regular basis, or c) let me know
how to obtain it.  Much appreciation.

Wendy
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From: jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: DRACULA's Dr. Seward(Richard E. Grant)
Date: 19 Nov 92 00:04:35 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University


ieng_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (innlingeng):
>> Can someone please email me the section of the Actor's List for
>> Richard E. Grant?  I know I have seen him in L.A. Story, but I
>> would like to know what other films he has been in, and if anyone
>> knows of any information on him.  Has anyone caught him in any
>> TV interviews?  It is a good thing to mix in more British actors in
>> American films, e.g. Gary Oldman and Anthony Hopkins in Dracula...
>> and other films that I wont rack my brain to name.

phd85@seq1.keele.ac.uk (D.H. Holden) writes:
>        He was in a film about an advertising executive that has a boil
>        on his shoulder that takes over his entire body and eventually
>        becomes him. Extremely funny!

"How To Succeed In Advertising". Way wierd, way funny, and predates "The Dark
Backward" in the "Mutant Body Parts Lead To Success" genre...

Other, top-of-my-head R.E. Grant movies:

Warlock - plays the love interest/warlock killer from the past
Hudson Hawk - the wacky rich guy. The only good part of a bad, bad movie.
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From: jrjj@moscom.com (Jad Jordan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,rec.arts.animation,rec.arts.disney
Subject: Re: ALADDIN INSIGHT
Date: 17 Nov 92 13:38:39 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Moscom Corporation, Pittsford NY

In article <BxuJ5n.5MC@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ssquier@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Sean Alan Squier) writes:
>In article <Qf24jjO00WBO89fn8u@andrew.cmu.edu> "Jason S. Peltz" <jp4x+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>>Proceed only if you've already seen it!!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Watching the opening scene of Aladdin,  I recognized William's voice as
>>the peddlar.  Much of what he said involved things not being what they
>>seemed.  He was trying to sell THE lamp.  At the end,  upon being freed,
>> the genie leaves with the lamp,  not responsible to be anyone elses
>>master,  but still possesing his powers.  I believe the peddlar at the
>>beggining was not only Williams,  but it was aslo the genie,  he also
>>had many of the facial features of the genie when doing impressions. 
>>Anyone else agree?
>>

Wellllll... I don't think so. The Genie does not take the lamp at the end.
There is one specific scene where it falls to the ground after the Genie has
been freed. I don't believe anyone picks it up. Is the peddlar the Genie? 
That one is tougher. I also don't understand why that peddlar was included at
the beginning. It could easily have started with Jafar and Gazeem meeting on
the desert. Anyone have an early script?

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Or say we're only dreaming.

A whole new world!
A dazzling place I never knew.	
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Whole new world with you!" 
	- "Whole New World" from ALADDIN
From: hist1261@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Joan of Arc gossip
Date: 20 Nov 92 10:50:13 +1300
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <wood.722092794@jfred>, wood@siemens.com. (Jim Wood) writes:
> ssc@nwu.edu (Steven Chung) writes:
> 
>>Sinead, as Joan of Arc?  Is this some kind of sick joke?
> 
> Actually I think it's quite appropriate for someone with Sinead O'Connor's
> beliefs to play Joan of Arc.  She seems to stand against ignorance, oppression,
> and hatred in the same way that Joan of Arc did.

And thousands of Catholics also want to burn her at the stake.
I can't see her topping Falconetti's performance though.

Richard.

> 
> --
> Jim Wood [jwood@siemens.siemens.com] (609) 734-3643
> "Rise up on the wings of eagles, and two step among the stars.
>  You are not forgotten.  Your smile will echo forever."
>    -- Ryerson Schwark, to our friend Rob Bernardo.
From: spongebo@cithara.login.qc.ca (THE EYE-BALL KID)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: DRACULA's Dr. Seward(Richard E. Grant)
Date: 22 Nov 92 03:20:13 GMT
Organization: Organ Grinders Monkeys Union With Penguins As Mascots

jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH) writes:

> 
> ieng_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (innlingeng):
> >> Can someone please email me the section of the Actor's List for
> >> Richard E. Grant?  I know I have seen him in L.A. Story, but I
> >> would like to know what other films he has been in, and if anyone
> >> knows of any information on him.  Has anyone caught him in any
> >> TV interviews?  It is a good thing to mix in more British actors in
> >> American films, e.g. Gary Oldman and Anthony Hopkins in Dracula...
> >> and other films that I wont rack my brain to name.
> 
> phd85@seq1.keele.ac.uk (D.H. Holden) writes:
> >        He was in a film about an advertising executive that has a boil
> >        on his shoulder that takes over his entire body and eventually
> >        becomes him. Extremely funny!
> 
> "How To Succeed In Advertising". Way wierd, way funny, and predates "The Dark
> Backward" in the "Mutant Body Parts Lead To Success" genre...
> 
> Other, top-of-my-head R.E. Grant movies:
> 
> Warlock - plays the love interest/warlock killer from the past
> Hudson Hawk - the wacky rich guy. The only good part of a bad, bad movie.
> -- 
HEY! Don't forget WITHNAIL AND I, possibly the greatest of Mr Grant's 
film performances ... What a piece of work is this man... "I'M GOING TO 
BE A STAR!!!!!" shouted across the English countryside... "I'm not drunk, 
officer, I've mearly had a few ales."

Spongebo - THE EYE-BALL KID (:::::-)

spongebo@cithara.login.qc.ca
From: gharris@jade.tufts.edu (George W. Harris)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Favorite Vampire one-liners
Date: 18 Nov 92 22:08:26 GMT
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA

In article <Bxwxzq.IHn@world.std.com> rjk@world.std.com (robert j kolker) writes:
>Here are my favorite vampire one-liners from the Vampire movies I have seen:
>
>	Listen to them....children of the night -- Dracula (Lagosi version)
>
>	Children of the night, be still! -- Love at First Bite
>
>	Look Renfield, only in America -- said when Dracual and Renfield raid
>	a Red Cross blood storage facility and find a whole cooler chest
>	of blood. (Love at First Bite)
>
>	You know too much Von Helsing for one who has lived but one
>	lifetime -- Dracula, Prince of Darkness (stage play featuring Jose
>	Greco, yes that Jose, Ole)
>
>	I never drink.......wine -- Dracula (Lagosi version)
>
>Please add more if you can think of them.

	Anyone for a game of five-card Russian Roulette? --Bill Paxton in
							Near Dark

>Bob Kolker
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From: ckt4x@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (The Mantle Clinic)
Subject: Re: Joan of Arc gossip
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:33:51 GMT

lon@edsi.plexus.COM  writes:
> 
> 	Having heard that Sinead O'Connot will not play Joan of Arc in 
> yet another remake

Is this the Joan of Arc that Kathryn Bigelow was planning on
doing?  Is this project definitely being worked on?
--
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From: gharris@jade.tufts.edu (George W. Harris)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Dracula sucked
Date: 17 Nov 92 20:00:33 GMT
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA

In article <1992Nov16.144642.28322@scott.skidmore.edu> dtschett@saims.skidmore.edu (donna tschetter) writes:
>
>A quick scan of the Net shows that women liked this movie as a whole
>and men were critical.  The guy I saw it with agrees with you-he was bored.
>I really enjoyed it. :>

	Well, the woman I saw it with disliked it as much as I did.  Flaws she
pointed out were the trivialization of Van Helsing, the surgical removal of any
horror involved in the ship voyage to England, the gratuitousness of Seward's
addiction (so he's an addict.  This remains unimportant throughout the film),
the excision of Holmwood's reluctance to accede to Van Helsing's request to
decapitate Lucy (which took days in the novel), the gratuitousness of Dracula's
latex-bound form, the inaccuracy of the period of the costumes, and the com-
plete woodenness and interchangeability of Seward, Morris, Holmwood & Harker.
Granted, the visuals were nice, and Ryder and Oldman gave good performances,
but Hopkins' over-the-top performance as Van Helsing destroyed the atmosphere,
and Coppola's vacillating between Dracula as blood-sucking monster and Dracula
as love-starved tragic figure kept us from reaching any kind of understanding
of the character.  Overall, a pretty picture to look at, but it doesn't bear
up to thinking.

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