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From: blj@mithrandir.cs.unh.edu (Brian L. Johnson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies.reviews
Subject: REVIEW: MR. BASEBALL
Summary: r.a.m.r. #01580
Keywords: author=K.Johnson
Date: 6 Nov 92 16:33:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: cbnewsj.1992Nov6.163312.15508
Reply-To: blj@mithrandir.cs.unh.edu (Brian L. Johnson)
Followup-To: rec.arts.movies
Organization: ?


                               MR. BASEBALL
                       A film review by Ken Johnson
                        Copyright 1992 Ken Johnson

105 min., PG-13, Comedy, 1992
Director: Fred Schepisi
Cast: Tom Selleck, Dennis Haysbert, Ken Takakura, Art La Fleur

     Tom Selleck, a major league ball player, is in a slump.  His team
trades him to a Japanese team.  In Japan, Selleck finds that many of the
customs are different than in the U.S., and he must learn to cope with
them.

     MR. BASEBALL is a funny, but pointless comedy.  This is a movie
just to go, watch, and have fun, no thought required.  In other words, I
loved it.  I suggest that fans of comedies see this film.  It doesn't
matter whether you see this film in the theater or on video cassette, it
will be just as good either way.   If you go to the theater, I suggest
matinee prices only.  I expect this film to be a box office bomb, and
then will be a hit on home video, just because so many good films are
out or coming soon that this one will get left behind.  On a scale of
zero to five, I give MR. BASEBALL a four.  MR. BASEBALL is rated PG-13
for explicit language, adult situations, and adult humor.

     Tom Selleck hasn't had a really good film since THREE MEN AND A
BABY that I have seen.  This film isn't going to make him a star again,
but it is on the right track.  The advertisements made this film look
like the stupidest film of 1992, so, of course, I went out to see it; it
was, and so I loved it.

     One basic problem with the film is that it tried to get emotional
at the end and that didn't fit with the rest of the film.  The beginning
of the film is about the society differences between America and Japan.
The end turns into a love tale between Selleck and a Japanese woman.
Unfortunately the humor lags there and the film starts to drag along.
The baseball part is absolutely hilarious and made the film worth going
to.

     All the people in the film do a great job, although that isn't
hard.  And the direction, by Fred Schepisi (THE RUSSIA HOUSE), is well
done.  The film has an original idea (at least I haven't seen it before)
that works.  If only the film had been cut by fifteen minutes, I think
it would have ended up much better.

--------
Ken Johnson
blj@mithrandir.cs.unh.edu
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From: pashdown@javelin.sim.es.com (Pete Ashdown)
Subject: Re: Jurassic Park
Keywords: Jeff Goldblum
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp.
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 19:32:39 GMT

rchandle@maths.tcd.ie (Ross Chandler) writes:

>There's going to be a mathematician (mad I assume) in the movies?
>That's GREAT.

Actually, he's one of the few sane characters in the book.
-- 
		       "I'm Slash man, Slash!" - Slash

DISCLAIMER: My writings have NOTHING to do with my employer.  Keep it that way.
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From: redrum@carson.u.washington.edu (Joe Stremick)
Subject: Re: Dracula played by Frank Langella
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 19:43:24 GMT

In article <BxJFp8.Duz@unix.amherst.edu> atzachar@unix.amherst.edu (Aladdin) writes:
>> 
>> I agree.  He made being bitten by a vampire look like an incredibly erotic
>> event.  Whatever happened to him anyway?
>
>Frank Langella is still around.  As a matter of fact, I played a game of
>Pictionary with him a few years back.  You may (or may not) have seen him
>in Roger Vadim's more recent "...and God Created Woman" (not the one with
>Bridgette Bardot but rather Rebecca DeMornay).  He also played Skeletor in
>"Masters of the Universe" with Dolph Lundgren.
>

	He was also in _1492_, but I don't know which role he played.

|----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-Joe Stremick,               |"I'm Luke Skywalker;                    |
|       a.k.a. Redrum         |               I'm here to rescue you." |
|----------------------------------------------------------------------|

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From: U15289@uicvm.uic.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,rec.games.trivia,bit.listserv.cinema-l,rec.arts.tv
Subject: Film/TV Trivia Quiz: All Actors Big- and Small-Screen, Part 3
Date: 6 Nov 92 19:47:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: uicvm.92311.134756U15289
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Supersedes: <92311.130202U15289@uicvm.uic.edu>

Buoyed by the success of the last edition, we herewith bring you the current
one.  As always, the object is to link one or more motion pictures from one
list with one or more television series from the other, on the basis of actors
that the several films share with the one series, or vice versa.

LIST 1:  Films

 1. Where The Heart Is / Thelma and Louise / Under Fire / 12 Angry Men
 2. The Turning Point / Clean and Sober
 3. Petulia / East of Eden
 4. The Sure Thing
 5. Willie and Phil
 6. Murphy's Romance
 7. The Graduate / The Mighty Quinn / Animal House / She-Devil
 8. American Hot Wax
 9. Two of a Kind / Honey, I Shrunk The Kids
10. The Americanization of Emily / The Spy Who Loved Me
11. Perfect
12. Help!
13. Strapless / Return of the Secaucus Seven
14. City Slickers
15. Looking for Mr. Goodbar / Mickey One

LIST 2:  TV

 A. Welcome Back, Kotter / Anything But Love
 B. The Tonight Show / Saturday Night Live
 C. Dr. Kildare
 D. Buffalo Bill
 E. Bronk / Soap
 F. Family Ties / Knots Landing
 G. Gidget / The Rockford Files
 H. Rumpole of the Bailey / Shining Time Station
 I. St. Elsewhere
 J. Picket Fences
 K. Dobie Gillis
 L. Welcome Back, Kotter
 M. Maverick
 N. The Rookies / Nichols
 O. The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd

Email your answers to me by Thursday, November 20.  The answers will have to
wait for another day :-).

                                               Mitch Pravatiner
                                               U15289@uicvm.uic.edu
From: 01mbmccabe@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: DAVID LYNCH\DUNE
Date: 12 Nov 92 05:37:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: bsu-ucs.1992Nov12.003748.11791
Distribution: world
Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's

> Was anyone else out there disappointed with David Lynch's "Dune"?
> The movie brutally left out important parts in the book and the
> screenplay was awful. I've found Lynch's "Blue Velvet" and "Wild at
> Heart" to be refreshingly offbeat, but I think his style of filmmaking
> is not suited to sci-fi. I would have liked to have seen some sort of TV
> mini-series -- a string of two hour segments -- done by a Spielberg or
> Lucas instead.
My view of the movie is:

The first time I watched it, I liked it, but didnt quite understand it,
although I didn't know I didn't understand it until reading the books.

After I read the books I liked it and understood it.  However, I understood it
so well, that I could tell how chopped and mixed the storyline is.  The movie
still gets an A+ from me though.  After all, it is the movie and not the books.
Kinda hard to compare imagination with a TV screen.  (I never saw it in the
theater.....DAMN!)

			-Matt
From: bchurch@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Robert Church)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: T2/Lear Jet
Date: 6 Nov 92 02:42:45 GMT
Organization: Ohio University School of Art. Athens

In article <1992Nov5.190118.22320@urbana.mcd.mot.com> avonruff@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Al Von Ruff) writes:

>The story dealt with the reported rumor that T2 was destined to be the most 
>expensive movie of all time. It itemized several of the large-ticket
>expenses for the movie. Among them was the jet.

I read in Newsweek that it was the most expensive movie made but that it
wasn't over budget. Pretty amazing.



-- 
*********************************************
*    bob church                             *
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*    D-8195 NFS #27                         *
From: AH.PBL@forsythe.stanford.edu (Mark)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: What's Arnold up to?
Date: 13 Nov 92 18:45:05 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Stanford University
NNTP-Posting-Host: morrow.stanford.edu

In article <1992Nov13.172943.5297@cs.ucla.edu>,
reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Peter Reiher) writes:
>In article <1992Nov13.154926.23739@u.washington.edu> rcampb@cac.washington.edu (Russ Campbell ) writes:
>>Anyone know what Mr. Schwarzenegger is doing these days?
>
>Schwarzenegger is currently filming "The Last Action Hero".  It will
>probably come out next summer.  His next film, as usual, will be whatever
>he damn well pleases.  Schwarzenegger is one of the few actors who can
                                                         ^^^^^^

  Ha ha ha ha ha ha!  Stop!  You're killing me with these
one-liners!  "Actor"!  Ha ha ha ha ha ha!

 (Maybe he'll register as a Democrat so he can stay on as the
head of President Clinton's Council on Physical Fitness?)
From: hamster@werple.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: The Big Blue
Date: 6 Nov 1992 21:29:14 +1100
Organization: werple public-access unix, Melbourne
NNTP-Posting-Host: werple.apana.org.au

kaminl@rpi.edu (Matt Garretson) writes:

>Your post piqued my interest. Since it seems that at least some of the 
>text on the outside of the box is in French, and since it is the "long"
>version, I was wondering if they might just mean that it is the 
>original version; i.e. "Le Grand Bleu" and not "The Big Blue". I would

No, it's a longer cut that was released cinematically in France. The
copy I found was from England (PAL system tape, US people!) and was as
the previous post on this subject described. 

This version is letterboxed at 2.35:1 and runs for around 163 Minutes.
The opening credits list the film as being "Le Grand Bleu" but the film
itself is in English. Strangely - and there's a note in the booklet
about this - some of the scenes have French subtitles. Not all, just a
few. 

There are a couple of new sub-plots lurking in this longer version, as
well as the two (very low-key) sex scenes that were removed from the
Australian release to gain it a softer rating. This may have happened
elsewhere in the world as well. 

>really love to know which score this version has... the original Eric
>Serra score, or the trashy Bill Conti clone? If it's the former, I'll
>definitely have to seek this tape out. So Simon, my suggestion is for
>you to rent the tape and tell us all about it!   ;->

Beat you to it, Simon! I've had this for about three months now... now,
what's all this about a Bill Conti score? No way, don't tell me it was
released in the US with a BILL CONTI score? Bleucch. I can hear it
now... (cue "Rocky's Theme"... aaargh). The "Version Longue" contains
the original Eric Serra score. So does the Europe/Australia 115 Min
version.

Shades of Ridley Scott's "Legend" here, I think... but that's another
story :-)

-- 
(@)  (@)                            |    Anthony Horan
   UU                               | Melbourne Australia
////////                            | "Alas, poor kcirroY...
hamster@werple.apana.org.au         | I knew him backwards!"
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From: cbh@opus.mlb.semi.harris.com (Cherie Slasor)
Subject: Re: Dracula played by Frank Langella
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:18:59 GMT
Organization: Harris Semiconductor, Melbourne FL

In article <1992Nov9.175449.9299@newstand.syr.edu> ncchang@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Ning-chih Chang) writes:
>	Since the new Dracula film will be released this Friday,  I would 
>	like to discuss the 1979 Dracula played by Frank Langella.  I think
>	he is the most romantic Dracula I've ever seen.  However, from several
>	newspaper reviews, the movie was thought as a failure.  How do you 
>	think about it?
>	
>	

I agree.  He made being bitten by a vampire look like an incredibly erotic
event.  Whatever happened to him anyway?


-- 
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Phone:    (407) 724-7607	     |	P.O. Box 883, MS #62B-022
          cbh@mlb.semi.harris.com    |  Melbourne, FL   32902-0883
From: ctuel@zeus.calpoly.edu (Cliff Tuel)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Movie with Michael Caine and Jay Leno?
Date: 12 Nov 92 07:54:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: zeus.1992Nov12.075432.106475
Organization: Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo


I saw a movie starring Jay Leno and Michael Caine a long time ago
on TV.  Must have been made in the 70's.  Anyone know the title?

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From: 4224_5201@uwovax.uwo.ca (Dark Lord of the Sith)
Subject: Re: MR SARDONICUS AND WILLIAM CASTLE FILMS
Organization: University of Western Ont, London
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:43:11 GMT

In article <1689B86A1.PETERC@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu>, PETERC@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Peter Correnty) writes:
>  
> Sinister Cinema only carries public domain titles, so they don't have
> MR. SARDONCIUS.  The only place I've seen it is Eccentri-Cinema.  I
> bought a copy and the print is very good.  They also have THE TINGLER,
> HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (which can be easily found in many video stores),
> HOMICIDAL and I SAW WHAT YOU DID.
>  
> -Pete.

    Now Pete, what is the use of telling us what is from Eccentri-Cinema
if you do not forward me the address of this company. Promise yourself to
write back, or the Dark Lord of the Sith might give you a visit.

-- 

John P. LaRocque
4224_5201@uwovax.uwo.ca

"Farm chores sure could be dull, and Luke Skywalker was bored beyond belief.
He yearned for adventures out among the stars - adventures that would take him
beyond the furthest galaxies to distant and alien worlds.

"But Luke got more than he bargained for..."
                            from Star Wars the paperback (1976, first edition)

"Urk..urk..."
"Apologies accepted", Darth Vader
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From: kjmcrae@cayley.uwaterloo.ca (insert name here)
Subject: Christmas videos (Was Re: CHRISTMAS movies?)
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:43:39 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.160234.12832@RedBrick.COM>, jfr@RedBrick.COM () writes:
> In article <Bx728D.GnG@ra.nrl.navy.mil> luther@i5160e.nrl.navy.mil (Luther) writes:
>   There are several television "specials" that are available on tape
>   that are wonderful Xmas season shows:
>  [...] 
>    A Charlie Brown Christmas
>      Not the best Charlie Brown TV special (I still prefer the
>      Great Pumpkin story personally) but still worth a peek (and
>      the kids always love it).

I love the scene near the beginning when all the kids are dancing
on stage.  One guy even does his own version of the moonwalk, pre-dating
Michael Jackson by several years!!! ;)

>    Saturday Night Live - The Gumby Christmas
>      Eddie Murphy is, well, Eddie Murphy as Gumby ("dammit!") and
>      I forget who played Donnie and Marie Osmond groping each other
>      but I still crack up during that scene.

If memory serves, Gary Kroeger played Donny and Julia Louis-Dreyfuss
(now in _Seinfeld_) was Marie.  An absolute classic!!! 

>   Jon Rosen 

...km
"I'm a man who respects a good coma." - J.Seinfeld
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
From: pejulaju@sandman.cs.hut.fi (Pentti Lajunen)
Subject: Re: the big blue
Reply-To: pejulaju@niksula.hut.fi (Pentti Lajunen)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:21:24 GMT

In article <1992Nov8.122542.9353@athena.mit.edu> eprice@sybase.com writes:
>In article <19347.66.uupcb@cutting.hou.tx.us>
>jean.simon@cutting.hou.tx.us (Jean Simon)  writes:

>>Also the end is completely different in the US version.

>Apparently the only version available in the US is the shorter,
>edited, different-ending, Bill Conti-scored version.  

I've only seen the european shorter version. How does the US version end?
I assume its "everybody smiles and those who died during the film are coming back to life (except the bad guys), the sun is shining and they lived happily 
ever after"-kind of ending, but could someone describe it a little bit more, 
please? Thanks!

SPOILER WARNING to those who haven't seen the European edition. I'll
give the ending away.......



OK, you've been warned. Blame yourself.

The European ending goes: Jacques Majol (or something like that) and his
girlfriend (Arquette's character), who's bregnant, are on the beach (or at 
sea.) Its night. Jacques is going to leave the girl and dive into the sea. 
He doesn't know that she's waiting baby for him and the girl doesn't say it (if
I remember this correctly.) He dives and leaves the crying girl on the
platform. He dives deeper and deeper and finally reaches the final point
of the pole/rope or whatever they used for their diving competition.
A lonely dolphin comes from the dark and swims to Jacques and together they 
swim away. Fade to black. THE END. <snif> (....beautiful, if I may say)


Besson dedicated this film to his daughter, according to end credits.
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From: "Ken Rawlings" <krawling@mango.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Jurassic Park Spoiler (almost)
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 21:50:43 -0500

In article <1e0rp0INNnd7@bigboote.WPI.EDU> jseaver@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Jason John Seaver) writes:
>	I think "Rising Sun" is already shooting.  Stars Sean Connery, Wesley
>Snipes, and Tia Carrere.  The casting alone makes it sound like an excellent
>movie, although I thought Connery's character (or what I'm assuming is to be
>his character) was from Southern California, not Scotland :).


	Any word on how faithful this will be to the book? I liked it a
lot, but the Japan bashing got layed on a little _too_ thick. I can
imagine there being a big backlash against this movie: pickets and
everything....

						-Ken


-- 
: Ken Rawlings                   | If you can't make them laugh, make them sick 
: CompSci/Indiana University     |    and if you make them sick, make them
: krawling@silver.ucs.indiana.edu|      _good_ and sick.   - D. Letterman
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From: donnell@tuna.micro.umn.edu (BogusMan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: CHRISTMAS movies?
Date: 5 Nov 92 23:22:47 GMT
Organization: none

In article <1992Nov5.160234.12832@RedBrick.COM> jfr@RedBrick.COM () writes:
>In article <Bx728D.GnG@ra.nrl.navy.mil> luther@i5160e.nrl.navy.mil (Luther) writes:
>>In article <1992Nov3.200429.8152@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Gordon.S.Witter@dartmouth.edu (Gordon S. Witter) writes:
>>[munch request for Christmas movies]
>>>My all-time favorite is Bob Clark's _A Christmas Story_ (1984). 
>>>Absolute classic.


Isn't that the same Bob Clark who made "Porky's", "Deathdream", "Deranged", 
"Black Christmas" and others?
Just checkig....
			
					--Judex--
From: jamesc@cs.concordia.ca (SCHIDLOWSKY james c.)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: JOHNNY STECCHINO and Roberto Benigni
Date: 6 Nov 92 05:26:27 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

In article <1992Oct26.154551.6119@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> fod@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Frank O'Donnell) writes:
>I just saw JOHNNY STECCHINO over the weekend, which stars
>and was directed and co-written by Roberto Benigni, the
>Italian actor some may remember from Jim Jarmusch's movies
>DOWN BY LAW and A NIGHT ON EARTH.
>
>After the movie, however, I was trying to remember -- has
>anyone seen him in anything else besides the above two

(Warning; our news-server is about 10 days behind, so you may have 
 heard the following info already.)

Indeed, he directed himself, Walter Matthau, and the lovely Nicoletta
Braschi in his hilarious 1988 film IL PICCOLO DIAVOLO  (The Little Devil).
There is a small role in it by John Lurie, who should be no stranger to
Jarmusch fans.  A must.

He was also in Frederico Fellini's LA VOCE DELLA LUNA (1989), but I 
haven't seen it, or know much about it.

_-_
</+\:=-- James.                 /\                                          <\
^\:-(jamesc@.cs.concordia.ca)   \/  "These are the dark ages." -- NoMeansNo </
From: jseaver@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Jason John Seaver)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Sequels
Date: 6 Nov 92 23:19:42 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigwpi.wpi.edu

In article <1992Nov6.215426.14218@spock.UUCP> gumby@spock.uucp (Danny Richman) writes:

>Can anyone tell me what major motion picture
>has had the MOST sequels to its name???

	Hmmmmm...  I'd say either Godzilla or Dr. No (but the James Bond movies
don't really count as sequels, do they?).  In recent memory it would probably
be Friday the 13th, although Star Trek could potentially catch up (especially
if they count the Next Generation movies as part of the same series).

			-Jay
From: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Dinner with Andre
Date: 9 Nov 92 19:00:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: fluent.BD.92Nov9140022
Reply-To: bd%fluent@dartmouth.EDU
Organization: Fluent Inc., Lebanon NH

reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Peter Reiher) writes:

>In article <khoo.721030847@ee.ualberta.ca> khoo@ee.ualberta.ca (Tony Khoo) writes:
>>
>>	I was sitting on my <en francais> 'toi let' pondering
>>	life's questions when I recalled a memorable movie
>>	called "My Dinner with Andre" starring Shawn Wallace.
>>
>>	What is it about you may ask?  We'll precisely as the
>>	title suggests....a 3hr movie where Mr. Wallace is having
>>	dinner with a guy named ANDRE.
>>
>>	What do they talk about? Everything and anything besides
>>	pulse modulation systems and graphical convolution plots.
>>
>>	Is it a good movie?  Hell NO.  If I wanted to listen to
>>	two guys talk 'bout nothing for 3hrs I would watch TV
>>	during my dinner.
>>
>>	What do you think?
>
>Well, I think the film is actually less than 2 hours long, that the
>leading actor was Wallace Shawn, not Shawn Wallace, that the guy named
>Andre was Andre Gregory (a fairly well known figure in theater, less
>so in film), and that it was an interesting and unusual film.  It is
>a film about two people talking, no denying that, so one's enjoyment
>of the film is likely to rest on how interested you are in what they're
>talking about.  The film, directed by Louis Malle, actually has considerably
>more technique to it than one might think, but the basis of the film is
>what the men say to each other.  At any rate, it's definitely not a film
>everyone will like, and I'm not much surprised that some people dislike
>it rather strongly.

Only saw this movie once, and it was about 7 years ago, but I liked
it a lot.

Parts of it were a little slow, no denying, but one scene had me
giggling for about 5 minutes, and I have no idea why it affected
me that way - everyone I was with laughed for about 30 seconds 
but I just couldn't stop.

It was a scene where Wallace Shawn was talking about the fortunes in 
fortune cookies, and something about my mood that night made it
one of the funniest things I have *ever* heard.  Did it affect
anyone else this way?
-- 
   Brice Dowaliby, Fluent Inc., 10 Cavendish Court, Lebanon, NH  03766
                         bd%fluent@dartmouth.edu        
             I don't speak for them, they don't speak for me
                              DoD # 0698