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movies-digest        Friday, September 25 1998        Volume 02 : Number 100



Re: [MV] What about funny movies?
[MV] Sci-Fi Movie News - 09/24/98
Re: [MV] What about funny movies?
Re: [MV] What about funny <hard to find> movies?
Re: [MV] What about funny <hard to find> movies?
Re: [MV] What about funny <hard to find> movies? -Reply
RE: [MV] What about funny <hard to find> movies? -Reply
Re: [MV] What about funny <hard to find> movies? -Reply
[MV] Local Hero
Re: [MV] What about funny -hard to find- movies?
Re: [MV] What about funny movies?
[MV] Rush Hour review
Re: [MV] What about funny <hard to find> movies?
[MV] Coming Monday, 9.28, to The Flick Filosopher...
[MV] Movie News - 09/25/98
RE: [MV] What about funny <hard to find> movies?
Re: [MV] Local Hero

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Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 17:30:28 EDT
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Subject: Re: [MV] What about funny movies?

my fav was high school high, and i loved happy gilmore

alison

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Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 17:36:06 -0600 (MDT)
From: The Reporter <[e-mail]>
Subject: [MV] Sci-Fi Movie News - 09/24/98

Published reports indicate that Chris Carter is
getting ready to start work on a second X-Files feature
film, which will likely hit theaters in 2000.  Gillian
Anderson and David Duchovny have reportedly already
agreed to star in the film.

                        -=> * <=-

Universal Pictures has picked up the rights to the Mad
Max SF film series and plans to release the fourth Max
movie in the summer of 2001 or 2002, according to
Variety.  George Miller, who had a hand in writing and
directing the first three Max films, has signed on to
produce and direct the new flick, and although he has
developed a story for the picture, he won't necessarily
write this one himself.

Variety also reported that Mel Gibson has not been
contacted about appearing in the fourth Max film, despite
having starred in the first three.  One reason might be his
going rate of $20 million per film, a far cry from the
$15,000 he received for starring in the original Mad Max.

Miller plans to shoot Max 4 in Australia, the same locale
used for the previous films, Mad Max, The Road Warrior
and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.

                        -=> * <=-

George Lucas and his company Lucasfilm may shoot the
second Stars Wars prequel movie in Australia,
according to The Hollywood Reporter.  Lucas has
made several trips Down Under to scout out potential
filming locations, and the trade paper speculated he may
base production of the film out of Fox's new $120 million
studio in Sydney.

The switch in venues would be a major change for Lucas,
who worked out of Leavesden Studios in London, England,
on the first four Star Wars movies.  Other films that have
shot in Sydney include the upcoming Keanu Reeves SF
thriller The Matrix and Dark City, while Jim Henson
Productions plans to shoot the new Sci-Fi Channel series
Farscape there.

                        -=> * <=-

Actor Will Smith is teaming up with the writing duo of
Glen Morgan and James Wong for the SF action movie
The Mark, according to Variety.  Universal Pictures
originally bought the script from comic book writer Rob
Liefield for about $2 million, but it's not clear whether
Morgan and Wong will be working from Liefield's screenplay
or starting fresh.

The film will feature Smith as a regular guy in 2001 New
York who finds a talisman that gives him special powers.
He subsequently becomes caught up in a struggle for the
domination of Earth.

Smith is best known to SF fans for his starring roles in
Independence Day and Men in Black.  Morgan and Wong
are also well known SF veterans, having worked on such
shows as The X-Files, Millennium and Space: Above &
Beyond.

No director has been set for The Mark, which will likely
begin shooting in late 1999.

                        -=> * <=-

The X-Files: Fight the Future will be released to home
video on Oct. 13, including exclusive interviews with
Chris Carter and Gillian Anderson, according to Fox
Home Entertainment.  The video will be available in
pan-and-scan format for a suggested retail price of
$22.98 and in widescreen format for $24.98.

Fox also plans to release a collector's gift set for Fight the
Future that includes both video formats, a numbered
script printed on non-reproducible red paper, individual
frames from the 35mm film print and reprints of the three
theatrical posters.  The gift set will also feature the video
The Making of The X-Files and a special Making of The
X-Files book from HarperCollins.

The giftset will be available on Nov. 2 for a suggested
price of $79.98.

                        -=> * <=-

Nickelodeon Movies plans to develop the stop-motion
SF series Prometheus & Bob into a feature film,
according to Variety.  Beavis & Butthead Do America
screenwriter Joe Stillman is working on the script, while a
director is being sought.

Prometheus & Bob has run on Nickelodeon since 1996 as
part of the comedy show Kablam!  The series focuses on
an extraterrestrial who comes to Earth in order to find
intelligent life and who instead meets up with a prehistoric
caveman.

                        -=> * <=-

Eddie Murphy will star in the upcoming SF comedy Pluto
Nash, according to Variety.  The film is based on a
script written by Mystery Men scribe Neil Cuthbert
that tells the story of a lunar colonist who takes on a
mega-corporation based on Earth.

Murphy will play the title character, who heads up to a
lunar settlement in order to escape his checkered past,
only to find that a corporation is attempting to take
control of the moon's new residents.  No director has been
announced for the project.

                        -=> * <=-

Universal paid close to $5 million for the film rights to
the Dr. Seuss classic children's story "How the Grinch
Stole Christmas," according to Variety.  The studio
plans to produce a live-action version of The Grinch and
has already lined up Jim Carrey to star in the picture, with
Ron Howard attached as director.

Universal beat out three other parties bidding on the
rights to The Grinch, including a pitch from Fox that would
potentially have seen Jack Nicholson in the title role.  The
rights were put up for auction earlier this month by
Audrey Geisel, the widow of Dr. Seuss himself, Theodor
Geisel.

                        -=> * <=-

Academy Award winner Cuba Gooding Jr. is reportedly
in talks to co-star in the semi-science-fictional movie
Chill Factor, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Gooding would play one of two men who are forced to
keep a dangerous material chilled below 50 degrees
Fahrenheit.  (Or what?  The bus will blow up? -- Greg)

Earlier this month Skeet Ulrich was signed to play the
other starring role in the film, which will begin shooting in
October.  Hugh Johnson is directing the project based on a
script by Mike Cheda and Drew Gitlin.

                        -=> * <=-

Rob Lowe is in final negotiations to join the cast of
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, according
to Variety.  The film is a sequel to the 1997 hit SF
comedy Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery,
which starred Michael Myers as a British secret agent who
was frozen in the 1960s and thawed out in 1997.

The first Austin, directed by Jay Roach, earned $54 million
in the United States and did brisk business in the home
video market.  The sequel will once again be directed by
Roach and star Myers, while Lost in Space's Heather
Graham is set to co-star.

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Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 20:28:46 -0400
From: Chris Culligan <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [MV] What about funny movies?

I don't think anyone mentioned Meatballs.  Remember that movie??  Bill
Murrey is a hilarious actor.  Ground Hogs Day and What About Bob are
also good.

Garrett Winters wrote:

> If we are talking funny movies here are some of my favorites
> Austin Powers
> Happy Gilmore
> Dumb and Dumber
> Ace Ventura
> Beverly Hills Cop
> Any Monty Python Movie
> Fish Called Wanda
> Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
> It's a Mad, Mad, Mad,Mad World
> Smokey and the Bandit
> The Gumball and Cannonball Rally movies
> Kentucky Fried Movie
> They Call Me Bruce
> Strange Brew
> Airplane
> Top Secret!
> Naked Gun
> Back to School
> Ferris Bueller
> and too many more to get remember.
>
> Garrett
>
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Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 12:08:03 -0700
From: Jason Cormier <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [MV] What about funny <hard to find> movies?

Everyone has their own tastes of course - but can anyone recommend some
funny movies that the majority of people have not heard of?  Like The Tall
Guy with Jeff Goldblum, Emma Thompson and Rowan Atkinson...or The Party
with Peter Sellers...or the Lonely Guy with Steve Martin...orSwimming with
Sharks with Kevin Spacey...or Better Off Dead with John Cusack...or Phantom
of Liberty by Luis Bunuel...or Trouble With Harry by Hitchcock!  I'm
interested in other people's reccomendations...see if you can reccomend a
comedy that I haven't seen!  (This is more a request than a challenge as I
cannot find anymore comedies out there!)




At 08:28 PM 9/24/1998 -0400, you wrote:
>I don't think anyone mentioned Meatballs.  Remember that movie??  Bill
>Murrey is a hilarious actor.  Ground Hogs Day and What About Bob are
>also good.
>
>Garrett Winters wrote:
>
>> If we are talking funny movies here are some of my favorites
>> Austin Powers
>> Happy Gilmore
>> Dumb and Dumber
>> Ace Ventura
>> Beverly Hills Cop
>> Any Monty Python Movie
>> Fish Called Wanda
>> Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
>> It's a Mad, Mad, Mad,Mad World
>> Smokey and the Bandit
>> The Gumball and Cannonball Rally movies
>> Kentucky Fried Movie
>> They Call Me Bruce
>> Strange Brew
>> Airplane
>> Top Secret!
>> Naked Gun
>> Back to School
>> Ferris Bueller
>> and too many more to get remember.
>>
>> Garrett
>>
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Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 00:13:07 -0400
From: Mel Eperthener <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [MV] What about funny <hard to find> movies?

At 12.08 PM 24/09/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Everyone has their own tastes of course - but can anyone recommend some
>funny movies that the majority of people have not heard of?

Best way to find these movies is to send your friends to the video store.
This is how I get to see the "What the heck did you get?!?" movies that I
end up liking.  (Off-topic:  I had friends get Point Break my last night in
Australia.  I had sworn up and down that I would NEVER watch a "surfing"
movie, it looked so silly.  Ended up really enjoying it.  Still kind of
silly, but I have seen worse).  Once someone brought home this comedy, From
the Hip, about this attorney.  Starts off really funny, then gets kind of
serious, as he tries to solve the crime.  My wife hated it, which means it
MUST be good:-)

Also, for funny movies, we cannot forget the Australian trifecta of funny
movies from the early '90s:  Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; Strictly
Ballroom; and Muriel's Wedding.  No common theme here, except that they are
all Australian, and are all ROTHLMAO funny.

As for sad movies, two that really touched me are The Year My Voice Broke
(a coming-of-age story that has some humour in it, as well), and Boulevard
of Broken Dreams, about a movie producer dying of cancer.  He goes back to
his native Melbourne to make amends with everyone. (best part is Tom
Traubert's Blues, a song title I could have found a LOT easier if Amazon
didn't have the IMdB so screwed up, later done by Rod Stewart).

Just a few more that you may not be familiar with.  Watch them if you can.

Regards,

- --Mel


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Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 08:38:47 -0700
From: Bruce Bridges <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [MV] What about funny <hard to find> movies? -Reply

One of the Funniest movies I've ever seen that is not too well known
(although I would expect many of you to know) is a movie from the
mid-seventies called "Real Life" I believe.  Anyway it is about a
film crew that  attempts to document the life of a typical family by
moving in and filming every waking moment.  It is by Albert Brooks
and he is also the star.  Charles Grodin is the father of the family.
 I would suggest this to everybody.

Another film I haven't seen since it came out but remember enjoying a
great deal is "Soup for One" about a newely single guy coping with the
single scene.

Finally, there was a movie called "Local Hero" I believe about the
representative of a huge American Corporation who is sent to an
British Village to oversee its purchase.  Instead he finds himself
charmed and drawn into the quirky community.  Can't remember the
actors but it is a great movie.

Also, "Funny Bones".

I could go on and on.

bb

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Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 10:42:09 -0600
From: jkrudy <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: [MV] What about funny <hard to find> movies? -Reply

Was "Local Hero" the one where he's in the phone booth, watching the
Northern Lights and trying to describe them to somebody on the phone????

JAMES K. RUDY


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To:    [e-mail]
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One of the Funniest movies I've ever seen that is not too well known
(although I would expect many of you to know) is a movie from the
mid-seventies called "Real Life" I believe.  Anyway it is about a
film crew that  attempts to document the life of a typical family by
moving in and filming every waking moment.  It is by Albert Brooks
and he is also the star.  Charles Grodin is the father of the family.
 I would suggest this to everybody.

Another film I haven't seen since it came out but remember enjoying a
great deal is "Soup for One" about a newely single guy coping with the
single scene.

Finally, there was a movie called "Local Hero" I believe about the
representative of a huge American Corporation who is sent to an
British Village to oversee its purchase.  Instead he finds himself
charmed and drawn into the quirky community.  Can't remember the
actors but it is a great movie.

Also, "Funny Bones".

I could go on and on.

bb

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Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 01:27:56 -0700
From: Jason Cormier <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [MV] What about funny <hard to find> movies? -Reply

Please do go on and on!  Thos are the kind of suggestions I am looking for!
 I will definitely check those out - thanks for the reccomendations!

At 08:38 AM 9/25/1998 -0700, you wrote:
>One of the Funniest movies I've ever seen that is not too well known
>(although I would expect many of you to know) is a movie from the
>mid-seventies called "Real Life" I believe.  Anyway it is about a
>film crew that  attempts to document the life of a typical family by
>moving in and filming every waking moment.  It is by Albert Brooks
>and he is also the star.  Charles Grodin is the father of the family.
> I would suggest this to everybody.
>
>Another film I haven't seen since it came out but remember enjoying a
>great deal is "Soup for One" about a newely single guy coping with the
>single scene.
>
>Finally, there was a movie called "Local Hero" I believe about the
>representative of a huge American Corporation who is sent to an
>British Village to oversee its purchase.  Instead he finds himself
>charmed and drawn into the quirky community.  Can't remember the
>actors but it is a great movie.
>
>Also, "Funny Bones".
>
>I could go on and on.
>
>bb
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Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 10:25:17 -0700
From: "Romero, Leticia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [MV] Local Hero

Local Hero was with Burt Lancaster (!) and Peter Riegert (sp?) who is one of
my favorite under-rated actors (see Crossing Delancy, A Woman in Love,
Oscar....)
This is a sweet story with a hilarious twist on the "fish out of water" plot
- - more like "fish who is determined to get the world to breath underwater"
kind of movie.  Definately a recommended movie!

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Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 10:36:20 PDT
From: "Chris Culligan" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [MV] What about funny -hard to find- movies?

Ok, Mel, since your theme on this message seems to be Autralian films,
and Jason's post was on hard to find funny movies, how about this one
Jason:

The Coca-Cola Kid

Have you seen it??  I loved it and thought it was quite funny!

CHRIS

>
>At 12.08 PM 24/09/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>Everyone has their own tastes of course - but can anyone recommend
some
>>funny movies that the majority of people have not heard of?
>
>Best way to find these movies is to send your friends to the video
store.
>This is how I get to see the "What the heck did you get?!?" movies that
I
>end up liking.  (Off-topic:  I had friends get Point Break my last
night in
>Australia.  I had sworn up and down that I would NEVER watch a
"surfing"
>movie, it looked so silly.  Ended up really enjoying it.  Still kind of
>silly, but I have seen worse).  Once someone brought home this comedy,
From
>the Hip, about this attorney.  Starts off really funny, then gets kind
of
>serious, as he tries to solve the crime.  My wife hated it, which means
it
>MUST be good:-)
>
>Also, for funny movies, we cannot forget the Australian trifecta of
funny
>movies from the early '90s:  Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; Strictly
>Ballroom; and Muriel's Wedding.  No common theme here, except that they
are
>all Australian, and are all ROTHLMAO funny.
>
>As for sad movies, two that really touched me are The Year My Voice
Broke
>(a coming-of-age story that has some humour in it, as well), and
Boulevard
>of Broken Dreams, about a movie producer dying of cancer.  He goes back
to
>his native Melbourne to make amends with everyone. (best part is Tom
>Traubert's Blues, a song title I could have found a LOT easier if
Amazon
>didn't have the IMdB so screwed up, later done by Rod Stewart).
>
>Just a few more that you may not be familiar with.  Watch them if you
can.
>
>Regards,
>
>--Mel
>
>
>--Mel Eperthener
>president, Gowanna Multi-media Pty
>
>email: [e-mail]
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Date: Fri, 25 Sep 98 18:40:29 +0100
From: Garrett Winters <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [MV] What about funny movies?

Chris Culligan writes
>I don't think anyone mentioned Meatballs.  Remember that movie??  Bill
>Murrey is a hilarious actor.  Ground Hogs Day and What About Bob are
>also good.

proves my point that I would forget some, probably as Groundhog day was
hilarious but I have only seen it the once straight through that I forgot
it.
Garrett

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Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 01:47:37 -0700
From: Jason Cormier <[e-mail]>
Subject: [MV] Rush Hour review

Well I overcame my fear of Chris Tucker to see this Jackie Chan movie - and
all I can say is that I am all tuckered out.  Hee hee...urghhh.  Advice to
the makers of the inevitable Rush Hour 2 - less Tucker more Chan - less
Tucker is the key point here.  Now you might not remember who this Tucker
guy is - but I sure do.  He ruined on heckuva good movie for me - The Fifth
Element.  It was really interesting until he came along - the fast talking
VJ.  Anywho - he's still fast alking - an Eddie Murphy wannabe whose voice
is winning the annoying contest against Rosie Perez.  Chan does some great
stuff here but not nearly enough to keep my interest in this by-the-numbers
buddy cop flick.  How it made $33 mil in its first weekend I'll never know!
 I was entertained for a collected total of about 12 minutes of this film -
that earns it a 60%.
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Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 11:18:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christina Stanley <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [MV] What about funny <hard to find> movies?

On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Jason Cormier wrote:

> Everyone has their own tastes of course - but can anyone recommend some
> funny movies that the majority of people have not heard of?

Schizopolis, directed and written by and starring Steve Soderbergh. One of
the funniest movies I've ever seen, and one of the most original movies
I've ever seen too. It really proves the point that studio producers and
executives are a pack of meddlesome dilettantes who rely too much on L.A.
test audiences and whatever is proclaimed to be the hot property of the
moment.

christina
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Date: 25 Sep 1998 18:19:41 -0000
From: The Flick Filosopher's Coming Attractions <[e-mail]>
Subject: [MV] Coming Monday, 9.28, to The Flick Filosopher...

The Flick Filosopher's Coming Attractions - http://www.flickfilosopher.com/flickfilos

Ah, vacation. Just the word alone is restful. My recent vacation, relaxing
as it was, continues to inspire me.

During my long road trip, my traveling companion/bestest friend and I
concocted an even crazier idea than the one we had just embarked upon
(driving to Johnstown, PA, the Boredom Capital of America) -- driving
across the whole U.S. of A. It's something I've always wanted to do --
leave the interstates behind, wend my way along the more interesting state
and county roads, and take my sweet time driving from sea to shining sea
- -- say two months there and back. It's a wacky idea, but I'm trying to
figure out how I could possibly make it work.

In the meantime, I'm gonna start exploring the frontiers of America this
very week. Join me as I step Into the Great Wide Open of Montana in *Clay
Pigeons* and Alaska in *The Edge.*

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Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 12:20:13 -0600 (MDT)
From: The Reporter <[e-mail]>
Subject: [MV] Movie News - 09/25/98

HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - Surfing legend Jeff Hakman is riding the crest
of a Hollywood wave as his biography "Mr. Sunset" is being turned
into a low-budget picture. Hakman and his Quicksilver surfwear
company will partner with October Films to co-finance the project;
together with Kelly Slater, the current world surfing champion, he
will also serve as an associate producer. "Mr. Sunset," written by
Phil Jarratt, follows Hakman's storied career in the surfing world,
starting at age 13 when he was surfing 25-foot waves in Hawaii and
including his national surfing title four years later.

                        -=> * <=-

* BORN: To actor James Caan ("The Godfather") and his wife,
Linda, a son, Jacob Nicholas Caan, eight pounds, at the UCLA
Medical Center. He is the couple's second child.

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Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 11:16:45 -0700
From: "Romero, Leticia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: [MV] What about funny <hard to find> movies?

Is Schizopolis on video?!!  I LOVED that movie!!  It was the most hysterical
movie I've ever seen!  (even funnier than Hudson Hawk -- Ha!)  I got to meet
Steve Soderberg, and he's as quirky as is filmaking!

> -----Original Message-----
> From:    Christina Stanley [SMTP:[e-mail]]
> Sent:    Friday, September 25, 1998 11:19 AM
> To:    [e-mail]
> Subject:    Re: [MV] What about funny <hard to find> movies?
>
> On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Jason Cormier wrote:
>
> > Everyone has their own tastes of course - but can anyone recommend some
> > funny movies that the majority of people have not heard of?
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> Schizopolis, directed and written by and starring Steve Soderbergh. One of
> the funniest movies I've ever seen, and one of the most original movies
> I've ever seen too. It really proves the point that studio producers and
> executives are a pack of meddlesome dilettantes who rely too much on L.A.
> test audiences and whatever is proclaimed to be the hot property of the
> moment.
>
> christina
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Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 11:28:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christina Stanley <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [MV] Local Hero

On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Romero, Leticia wrote:

> Local Hero was with Burt Lancaster (!) and Peter Riegert (sp?) who is one of
> my favorite under-rated actors (see Crossing Delancy, A Woman in Love,
> Oscar....)

Local Hero was directed and written by Bill Forsyth, who also did
Housekeeping, Gregory's Girl (which beats all American '80s teen comedies
starring Brat Packers), and Comfort and Joy. If you like low key comedies,
you should check them out, but I consider Local Hero to be the best of
these.

christina
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