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From: bz035@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Alain Jones)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Call 555-ACME : -)
Date: 7 Sep 1992 23:18:59 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bz035@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Alain Jones)
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In a previous article, jpehko@cs.joensuu.fi (Juha Pehkonen) says:

> could someone clue me in, what's the story behind 555 phone numbers and
>the Acme Corporation. Registered trademarks of Hollywood? :-) They're
>everywhere!

Finally, a question I can answer (at least partly).  555 numbers are
widely used as fictitious phone numbers because they are guaranteed not to
be subscriber phone numbers under the US telephone system.  As far as I
know, the only valid number in the 555-XXXX series is that of directory
assistance, 555-1212.  

As far as ACME is concerned, I don't have a clue -- it was probably a
trend started by the Road Runner cartoons :-)

Alain Jones
bz035@cleveland.freenet.edu
From: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Star Trek 6 (Was: Re: Most Embarassing Movie)
Date: 11 Sep 92 16:39:03 GMT
Reply-To: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com

In article <smith.86@panther.adelphi.edu> smith@panther.adelphi.edu  
(Jim Smith) writes:
> 
> Best/Worst quote from ST6:
> "I'm a physician, not a bricklayer."  YEA!
> "It took Nixon to go to China."  BOO!

I would have reversed them. I'm tired of the "I'm a physician,
not a ____" lines, but I thought the line about Nixon was
pretty good (and accurate).

--
Jim Mann            
Stratus Computer   jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com  
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From: hudson@eggneb.astro.ucla.edu (David Hudson)
Subject: Re: Name this Movie
Organization: UCLA Dept of Astronomy
Date: 14 Sep 92 12:02:20 PDT

In article <1992Sep14.100859.29362@nuscc.nus.sg> med50003@nusunix2.nus.sg (WANSAICHEONG KHIN-LIN) writes:
>The reference however in the earlier series of posts about this movie
>which detailed ralph macchio dueling the devil for the soul of an old
>blues musician did strike a bell though. I have seen this movie and I
>thought the ending was pretty good. Mind you, I did fall asleep and eat
>a snack away from the tv in the middle. I have this weakness for really
>good guitar work (Joe Satriani played the devil's champion). The fun
>part is watching ralph macchio fake playing classical music on an
>electric guitar - :-))
>
>Anybody know of any other movies like this? (trivia question.)
>
>Gervais

I believe the devil's guitarist was Steve Vai, a student of Joe 
Satriani.
			
				Dave

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From: chil@fraser.sfu.ca (Keith Lim)
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 07:16:17 GMT

<BMS111@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:

>Other drek includes:
>Monster in the Closet ("I don't give a monkey's fart....")
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
What are you talking about; this was a great movie! I tell everyone to
try to find it to watch it. I can't believe how many B fans have never
seen this before.

>Lucas
>Deadlock
>Highlander 2
>qquit
^^^^^^
Hmmm...never heard of this movie before. :)

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From: jameskau@aludra.usc.edu (James Kaufman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Movies based on King (Was: Re: Most Embarassing Movie)
Date: 11 Sep 1992 16:25:43 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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In article <6318@transfer.stratus.com> jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com writes:
>In article <1992Sep11.093828.58808@cc.usu.edu> fajack@cc.usu.edu  
>writes:
>> 	Anyway, I swear that I'll never to go another Steven King's  
>adaptation
>> movie.  I guess Misery is just a fluke of all those BAD BAD Steven  
>King's
>> adapation.
>> 
>
>There have been several good adaptations on King's work, including:
>
>Stand By Me     Based on "The Body."  This is probably the best
>                film based on one of his works.
>Misery          Not as good as the book, in part because it 
>                ignores many issues the books raises about the
>                author and his audience, but well done never the 
>                less.
>The Dead Zone   I haven't read the book, but the movie was pretty
>                good.
>The Shining     This one is hard to judge, because the movie is
>                very much Kubrick's, not Kings.  It misses much
>                of the feel of the book. However, considered on
>                its own, with no reference to the book, it is
>                well done.
>
>--
>Jim Mann            
>Stratus Computer   jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com  

I'd probably add to that Brian DePalma's Carrie.  I liked it and thought
it was a little more coherent than the book (although that's not necessarily
a good thing :)  ). And I thought that Christine was kind of decent in a
way.
James Kaufman
jameskau@aludra.usc.edu
From: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: call 555-acme : -)
Date: 14 Sep 92 09:17:14 EST
Reply-To: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

AJ>As far as ACME is concerned, I don't have a clue -- it was probably a
AJ>trend started by the Road Runner cartoons :-)

     Chuck Jones, creator and director of the Road Runner cartoons, says
     that "Acme" was a nonsense word used by many companies when he was
     young simply so that those companies could appear in the phone book
     close to the beginning of the alphabet.  Nowadays we have AAA Tools
     AABBCCDD Plumbing, etc., but back then it was Acme Tools, Acme
     Movers, Acme Tires, and so on.  Hence the inspiration for the
     patented Acme Anvils, Acme Rocket Powered Roller Skates, Acme
     Catapults, Acme Bat-Man Outfits, Acme Parachutes...

     "Acme - The Name You Can Trust!"
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From:  (J M T Costa)
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Followup-To: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Organization: Yale University
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 18:07:49 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.215528.29891@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>,
mlh@eddy.austin.ibm.com (Mike Haskell) wrote:
> 
> 
>  What is the most embarassing movie you have ever seen?  (What I mean by
>  embarassing, is that you feel absolutely miniscule when the lights come
>  up and you HAVE to walk out of the theater with every other bonehead
>  who bought a ticket to this turkey).  Movies on video don't count as
>  your stupidity is hidden by the walls of your house. :-)

It must have been a totally idiotic, mornic, unfunny film about earth being
invaded by green stand-up comedians from Mars. There ought to be a law
against moronic would-be cult movies.
From: eugenehs@aludra.usc.edu (HEUGE aka Eugene Hsu)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Film with the least actors
Date: 6 Sep 1992 01:50:40 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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In article <1992Aug28.134543.14891@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com> mccreary@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com (Ed McCreary) writes:
>In article <9yH7PB2w164w@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> dascoser.bbs@cybernet.cse.fau.edu writes:
>>I was just trying to think about which film had the least number of 
>>actors. The smallest I could thing of is Breakfast Club which only has 
names deleted
>>Can anyone think of a film with less (Nature films, cartoons, 
>>documentarys and film of that sort don't count.
>>
>_My Dinner with Andre_ only two right?
>_The Quiet Earth_ only three actors.

The Quiet Earth, wasn't that the movie about some bizarre power supply
net around the world being really screwed to hell.  The plot being that
only the people who died in the instant it activated were put into 
existance in the new world.  There were 3 survivors shown, but there were
others (the lab dude had coworkers in flashback), the other man had a 
flashback about a fight when he died, and there was a car accident.  If
I am wrong sorry, but hey it still would place The Quiet Earth on a
lower point than The Breakfast Club so you would still be right.

Of course all those movies about "all people in the world dying"
kinda movies tend to have less actors/resses   8)  gee I wonder why
>
>--
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>Me? Speak for Compaq?  Yeah, right.   lots of rules and no mercy.
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From: ahummel@ems.cdc.com (H. Austin Hummel)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: An annoying thing about Blade Runner
Date: 15 Sep 92 12:35:16 GMT
Reply-To: you@ems.cdc.com
Organization: Empros Systems International, a division of CDC

In article <1992Sep14.215709.15312@seas.gwu.edu>, geigel@seas.gwu.edu (Joseph Geigel) writes:
|> 
|> Now don't get me wrong, I think that Blade Runner is one of the
|> best science fiction movies ever made...however, there is this one
|> annoying point brought up on a panel at the World Science Fiction
|> convention this past Labor Day weekend that sort of bothers me.
|> 
|> The movie is a story of this cop who has to kill these replicants
|> who are all going to die in a week anyway.  Decker could have just
|> sat in a Dunkin Donuts for a week until the replicant's life span
|> ran out.  (Then, I suppose, we wouldn't have much of a movie, would we?).
|> 
|> Think about it.

I did, but that panel seems to have forgotten a major premis of all 
science fiction that is human nature. The powers is change do not 
wnat any one or thing taking any thing that was not given. The 
replicant desire for frredom was taken not given. Thus they had to
be eliminated before their time was up to satisfy the Powers that be.
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From: ddebry@itchy.dsd.es.com (David DeBry)
Subject: Re: Blade Runner Director's Cut (SPOILERS)
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Date: 14 Sep 92 18:50:14 GMT
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In <1992Sep14.005804.27267@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> kachun@astro.as.arizona.edu (Ka Chun Yu) writes:
>_BR_ is full of these little errors.  When Pris settles in front of the
>Bradbury building to wait for J. F., look at the movie theater marquee
>across the street.  It changes when J. F. shows up.

	I don't think this was a flaw, as much as an indication of
time passing.  It looks to me like Pris waited more than just a few
seconds for JF to show up.

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From: le01167@portal.lasc.lockheed.com (Ron Nadel (x2025))
Subject: Re: sex in movies
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Co. - Rye Canyon
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 14:43:48 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.202905.11094@sq.sq.com>, msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes...

>A well-known actor (possibly John Gielgud, I don't remember) apparently
>said it to his co-star just before they began filming a sex scene:
> 
>  Please forgive me if I get an erection, and also if I don't.

If this came from Gielgud, I wonder who the co-star was?  It's a funny line
and highly interesting since Gielgud is homosexual.

Ron
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From: koosman@utkux1.utk.edu (Toby Koosman)
Subject: Re: Howard's End
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 16:30:30 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.92046.16582@ms.uky.edu> fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis) writes:
>Toby Koosman writes:
>>Anyway, that was the fun of the plot wasn't it, trying to figure
>>out how much of Meg's charm and good humor was genuine, and how much was
>>manipulation.
>>
>I think "manipulation" is much too severe a word for the survival skills
>that these women displayed. And even if it were "manipulation" why
>wouldn't "charm and good humor" be genuine as well. Charm isn't fakeable
>and being happy is it's own accomplishment.

Sorry, it was badly phrased.  "Charm" is real, but sincerity can certainly
be counterfeited.  If it weren't so, there would be no theatre, cinema
or Republicans in the White House.  (Nor Democrats either.)

I don't think Meg was "bad", I think she was compromised, as her sister's
efforts not to be compromised should make clear in contrast.  Like many
people she persuades herself, perhaps, that she wants what she needs.

I don't believe the sisters' financial situation was as secure as their
lifestyle suggested.  That they didn't own their house is significant.
Their brother warns Helen against bankrupting herself by giving money to
Leonard Bast.  They are also dangerously close to spinsterhood--Helen,
the younger sister, refers to herself as an old maid.

The point is, Mr. Wilcox is in a position to do things that they need,
and Meg caters her desires to what she knows is realistic and necessary.
Remember her conversation with Mrs. Wilcox about Helen's relations with
their son?  They talk about the practical constraints on love.  These
constraints are what Helen is trying to defy.  This is the film's
tension.

-- 
Toby Koosman                                Internet: koosman@utkux1.utk.edu
University of Tennessee                     Bitnet: takoosma@utkvx             
Knoxville, TN  USA       
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From: johnf@uhheph.phys.hawaii.edu (John Flanagan)
Subject: Re: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (minor spoilers)
Organization: University of Hawaii, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 01:14:11 GMT

In article <1992Sep7.170616.2107@intacc.uucp> zerobeat@intacc.uucp (Ferenc Szabo) writes:

>It would be an extreme stretch to suggest that the white horse has to do with
>the white liquid in Sarah's glass.

"White horse" is a nickname for heroin.

--John
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From: kachun@astro.as.arizona.edu (Ka Chun Yu)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,rec.arts.sf.movies,alt.cult-movies,rec.video.releases
Subject: Re: Blade Runner Director's Cut (SPOILERS)
Date: 14 Sep 92 18:25:19 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

In article <zggqbgzn@cck.coventry.ac.uk> gdg019@cch.coventry.ac.uk (Ridley McIntyre) writes:
>Okay, someone fill me in here. You Americans are forever telling us that the
>"International" or "European" version of BR has extra flight footage and
>extra violence. Where?
>
>If by the extra violence you mean the scene where Pris sticks her fingers up
>Deckard's nose and tries to wrench it off (Ford's idea at the time), then I'm
>sorry, but we don't get that scene here in Britain, either.
>
>From what I can gather, the British version is the same as the American version.

I feel kinda sorry for you Brits then.  I think the Aussies have the original
American version too.

Anyhow, yes the fingers in Deckard's nose is one shot that was deleted.  The
other two were shots of Roy's thumbs plunging into Tyrell's eye sockets and
blood flowing out, and a shot of the nail puncturing through the top of Roy's
hand.  All three shots totalled less than seventeen (or fifteen?) seconds so
one didn't miss that much.  However for the purist, I guess it's a little
different.

Luckily, the version available on videocassette and one of the versions 
available on laser disc is the "European" version, not the original American
release version.

>
>Anay takers?
>
>-- 
>        	 **Ridley McIntyre - Ronin Ironpig**			
>		     gdg019@cck.coventry.ac.uk
>		 -----------------------------------
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From: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Subject: Brazil (European Cut)
Reply-To: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 00:10:13 GMT

I just got my revival house schedule, and the European Cut of Brazil
will be playing at the 8th Street Playhouse (off 6th or 7th Avenue)
from October 9 through 11. 

This is a public service annoucement...


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it for _later_."
From: Eduard.Marghidan@f836.n102.z1.fidonet.org (Eduard Marghidan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: HONEYMOON IN VEGAS -- Quick Impressions
Date: 11 Sep 92 18:15:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: mcws.716389680.F00002


        This movie was so weak that I felt I should ask for my money back.
So instead, I'm gonna thrash it in a message.
 Nicholas Cage (I forget his role's name, even though I saw the movie
 last night) goes out of
his way to look and sound as outrageous as possible. This one scene,
he's hitchiking planes on the runway, going to Las Vegas. In another
scene, he forgets which lever to pull to open his parachute. In yet
another scene, he yells defensively at his girlfriend while a boxing
match goes on in the background.
 Sarah Jessica Parker (Betsy) looks sweet, even though she has no
personality whatsoever in the film. She is the girl who wants to get
married at any price. She even agrees to spend the weekend with a
millionaire in Hawaii just so that her boyfriend can marry her with a
clear conscience that he keeps his word to the millionaire! Whew! S%@#!
 James Caan (Tommy) is the horny millionaire who is old enough and
disgusting enough to be plausible as such. Not much to be said about
him.
 That's for the characters, as for the film direction, I think it could
have been a 10 minute video of Elvis impersonators and the love story
plastered on top of that. I should know better than to go to a movie
that the movie critics LIKED.

eduard@mcws.fidonet.org

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From: bjbartlett@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (I'm not really a doctor...)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: What movies do to cities...
Date: 14 Sep 92 18:53:39 GMT
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"

In article <1992Sep7.103158.1@gallua.gallaudet.edu>, rlwilliams@gallua.gallaudet.edu writes:
> Hi,
> 	I just finished watching The Final Analysis with Richard Gere and 
> Kim Bassinger (don't ask).  Much of the action takes place in a light house 
> which appears to be at one end of the golden gate bridge. I've spent a lot 
> of time driving around the city, taking pictures and looking for views and 
> I don't remember any lighthouse that close to the bridge. In one scene they 
> come out to enjoy the view and have their backs turned to one of the 
> wonders of the world, the bridge. That makes me suspect that the director 
> just stuck it in for background decoration and that the lighthouse is 
> probably somewhere in Point Reyes... Right?
> 	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?
 
  In "Little Man Tate" they filmed some scenes here at Miami, and some down at 
the Univ. of Cincinnati.  So when you see the outside of the buildings, that's 
us, and when you see insides of the buildings, that's them.

-Bart
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From: cooper@cos.com (Gary Cooper)
Subject: Re: Best War Movies?
Organization: Corporation for Open Systems
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 02:22:13 GMT

>} Maybe I shouldn't have said "ten best" - it was more like, ten very
>} good war movies, representing, hopefully, differing areas of history.....
>} (I tried to include, middle ages, naval, modern, etc. periods )

>A change in definition which changes the picture considerably. One of the
>problems with "Best" lists: instead of listing what they think are actually
>the best, most people tend to go "Oh, and here's another good one that no
>one's mentioned yet..."

Which is kind of what I was hoping for - I've got a list of about
ten movies of which I'd never heard.  I guess I included the list
to show where my tastes run.  Is it just me, or do the rest of you
start to feel real paternal (maternal) over a thread you've started?
I kind of feel the need to answer every post.... :> 

>} I'm assuming you don't mean the Richard Thomas version :>

>I won't even dignify that with a response.

but I was looking forward to it.... :> 

>} Another good "arctic" war movie is _49th Parallel_ with sir Larry
>} (nazi spy in the great white north....)

>It's certainly not "arctic" in the same sense as THE BEDFORD INCIDENT or
>ICE STATION ZEBRA.

Hey - I'm a Virginian, the 49th parallel is DEFINATELY arctic! :> 

>Secondly, the way you phrased it makes it sound like Oliver *plays* a
>Nazi spy.

my screw up - what would my Advanced Comp professor think..... 

-- 
gary cooper (not the dead one)     "Non Dignis Sum!" - Waynus and Gartus
From: vanover@bcsaic.boeing.com (Jann VanOver)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Film with the least actors
Date: 4 Sep 92 17:40:02 GMT
Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle

wwr@calmasd.prime.com writes:
>keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider) writes:
>> wildcat@niwot.scd.ucar.edu (Wes Wildcat) writes:
>> 
>>>	I think in the movie Sleuth(sp) only Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine appear in it.
>> 
>> What about the Muppet Movies, and The Dark Crystal?  No actors.
>
>	Dark Crystal w/David Bowie & Jennifer Connely?  That Dark Crystal?  I
>think Dave & Jennifer will feel slightly insulted.
>
Ding Dong, You're Wrong!  Dave and Jennifer were in Labyrinth!

In a different vein, I believe that muppeteers also appreciate being 
called actors.
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From: crunch@camelot.bradley.edu (Randy Bloom)
Subject: Re: Holden's Eyes (was Re: Blade Runner...(SPOILERS))
Organization: Rare.
Date: 14 Sep 92 18:52:02 GMT

bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby) writes:

[>Hate to spoil a thread here, but if replicant eyes glowed and
[>human eyes didn't, what do you need the Voight-Kampf test for?

That's like asking "why didn't character a know character b was going to do
that? didn't he read ahead?"  The eye-glowing thing is only a film device
to let the audience "know" who was or wasn't a replicant, and isn't
necessarily an accurate measure.  The V-K battery was the only way for
people within the film to know who was who.
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