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movies-digest        Thursday, January 7 1999        Volume 02 : Number 150



Re: [MV] TOP 10 FILMS OF 1998....anyone out there?!
Re: [MV] TOP 10 FILMS OF 1998....anyone out there?!
Re: [MV] TOP 10 FILMS OF 1998....anyone out there?!
Re: [MV] TOP 10 FILMS OF 1998....anyone out there?!
[MV] REVIEW: HITMAN HART: WRESTLING WITH SHADOWS -Reply
Re: [MV] TOP 10 FILMS OF 1998....anyone out there?!
[MV] Movie News - 01/04/99
[MV] Patch Adams review
[MV] Shakespeare in Love review
[MV] REVIEW: THE CELEBRATION (FESTEN)
[MV] Correction to THE CELEBRATION review
[MV] Top 20 Box Office
[MV] Hollywood Online Weekly Dispatch
[MV] Release Date
[MV] Movie News - 01/06/99
RE: [MV] Top 20 Box Office
Re: [MV] Release Date
[MV] Top Ten for 1998
[MV] my Favourites
[MV] REVIEW: A CIVIL ACTION
Re: [MV] Release Date
Re: [MV] Top Ten for 1998
RE: [MV] Top 20 Box Office

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Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 23:08:04 -0600
From: "Tonya " <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [MV] TOP 10 FILMS OF 1998....anyone out there?!

Well, here are a few movies I thought were really good this year.  These
movies might not be Oscar-quality, but I enjoyed watching them at the
theater.

Armageddon (one of my faves!)
Urban Legend (one of my faves!)
Night at the Roxbury (good for a laugh)
Bride of Chucky (another one for a laugh, not scare)
What Dreams May Come
Ever After (one of my faves!)
Meet Joe Black  (soooo good!)
Waterboy  (a laugh-er)

     ***There are more, but that's all I can think of at the moment***

I hated these:  **AGAIN- there are more, but I can't remember them all**

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
Knock Off


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Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 14:15:13 +0800 (HKT)
From: Jayson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [MV] TOP 10 FILMS OF 1998....anyone out there?!

I'm here Tonya! :) Anyway, it seems that we don't have the same taste when
it comes to movies but anyway, here's my list:

Best films:
1. Saving Private Ryan
2. The Truman Show
3. Sliding Doors
4. A Bug's Life/Antz/Mulan (good crop of kiddie films this year)
7. There's Something About Mary

Worst films:
1. Armageddon
2. Deep Impact
3. Urban Legend
4. I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

Anyway, I'm from the Philippines so some films have not yet been released
here (like Prince of Egypt, You've Got Mail, Patch Adams, Stepmom, even
Beloved and Pleasantville) so I'm looking forward to seeing them.

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Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 00:31:00 -0600
From: "Tonya " <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [MV] TOP 10 FILMS OF 1998....anyone out there?!

Well, Jayson, I haven't seen any of the movies you picked to be your
favorite.  From the things I've heard about most of them, they would
probably be on my 'good' list too.

You mentioned Deep Impact, I'd forgotten about that one.  I'll have to put
that one on my good list though, unlike you. I liked it.

I really want to see Pleasantville, You Got Mail, and Stepmom, also Mighty
Joe Young.

Hey, we did agree on the fact that neither of us liked I Still Know What
You Did Last Summer.

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Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 06:56:35 PST
From: "Danielle Conkle" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [MV] TOP 10 FILMS OF 1998....anyone out there?!

    Hmmm, i can't tell if it's me, or there really just weren't that
many great movies this year.  The only one i can think of that was great
was    1.) There's Something about Mary
outrageousness and originality always gets snaps from me!  I also liked
2.) Antz  but i don't know if i would put that on a best list.

As for worst I would put 1.) Urban Legend
                         2.) Deep Impact (Tea Leoni needs to learn how
                             to act!)

That's all i can think of right now!

>Well, here are a few movies I thought were really good this year.
These
>movies might not be Oscar-quality, but I enjoyed watching them at the
>theater.
>
>Armageddon (one of my faves!)
>Urban Legend (one of my faves!)
>Night at the Roxbury (good for a laugh)
>Bride of Chucky (another one for a laugh, not scare)
>What Dreams May Come
>Ever After (one of my faves!)
>Meet Joe Black  (soooo good!)
>Waterboy  (a laugh-er)
>
>     ***There are more, but that's all I can think of at the moment***
>
>I hated these:  **AGAIN- there are more, but I can't remember them
all**
>
>I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
>Knock Off
>
>
>-Tonya
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Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 11:30:43 -0700 (MST)
From: Bruce Bridges <[e-mail]>
Subject: [MV] REVIEW: HITMAN HART: WRESTLING WITH SHADOWS -Reply

I agree with your review 100%.  I caught the documentary on TV and
happened to tape it.  Now I am passing it around to all of my
friends.  The ending is explosive.

One description you left out is "scary".  I would hate to have run
into dad during his heyday.   He came across as a bit on the
freaky-deaky side.

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Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 22:16:33 +0200
From: Tommi Varoma <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [MV] TOP 10 FILMS OF 1998....anyone out there?!

I kind of share the same problem with Jayson because I live in Finland and
it always takes some time before the films have their premiere here. For
example Meet Joe Black has not been released yet or Ronin. I still know
what you did last summer is also unreleased but that doesn=B4t bother me too
much because I=B4m not paying for films like that. I saw Scream2 and I felt
like I have been robbed afterwards.

My list of best films 1998 is:
Saving Private Ryan - great movie with great actors. This is the first Tom
Hanks movie I actually liked
Prince of Egypt - This film kicks ass.

There can be more but who could remember them all and they are propably
1997 movies anyway

My not so good list of 1998 is:
Truman show - I expected more, it had some good ideas and the end was
almost good. Anyway I wonder how people didn=B4t get tired of this in 30
years when 2 hours was enough for me.

I don=B4t remember more of these either but who cares if they are bad.






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Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 15:49:43 -0700 (MST)
From: The Reporter <[e-mail]>
Subject: [MV] Movie News - 01/04/99

Charlize Theron -- currently seen on the screen with a big
ape in "Mighty Joe Young" and for a funny, fleeting date
with Kenneth Branagh in Woody Allen's "Celebrity" -- is to
take on the starring role in the movie version of the Tony
Award-winning musical "Chicago." USA Today says Theron has
been picked to replace Goldie Hawn, who had long been
penciled in for the role. On the other hand, this film has
been in the works since the original production of the stage
musical in 1975, and industry skeptics believe the movie
will never happen.

There would be some irony in having Theron play the role
of Roxie Hart, a murderess who kills her husband. In 1991,
Theron's mother shot and killed her own father while he was
in a drunken rage. The shooting was ruled self-defense, and
no charges were pressed.

                        -=> * <=-

The obvious works: "Patch Adams" was the No. 1 movie for a
second weekend, and "Stepmom" held its own as the critically
panned films claimed the top box office spots over the New
Year's holiday, according to industry estimates. "Adams"
made $20.1 million; "Stepmom," $15 million. They were
followed by the Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan romance "You've Got Mail"
(with $14.1 million). "The Prince of Egypt," DreamWorks'
$100 million animated fable about Moses, was in fourth place
with $11.5 million. Disney's "A Bug's Life" came in fifth
with $10 million. Much of the weekend movie business was
hampered by a severe winter storm that hit portions of the
country. "It's like a ghost town in Chicago," "Stepmom"
director Chris Columbus told Reuters, speaking from the
blizzard-stricken city.

                        -=> * <=-

In a surprise move, the National Society of Film Critics
named "Out of Sight," based on an Elmore Leonard novel, its
Best Picture. The crime thriller starred George Clooney and
was a box-office disappointment. The film also won for its
director, Steven Soderbergh, and screenplay. Nick Nolte was
named Best Actor for "Affliction" and Ally Sheedy Best
Actress for her comeback role in "High Art." Supporting
Actor winners were Bill Murray for "Rushmore" and Judi Dench
for "Shakespeare in Love."

                        -=> * <=-

DIED: Actor-director-writer Don Taylor, 78, who played
Elizabeth Taylor's bridegroom in "Father of the Bride" and
went on to direct such features as "Escape From the Planet
of the Apes," Tuesday, of heart failure, at the UCLA Medical
Center ... Oscar Scaggs, 21, the son of singer Boz Scaggs,
on New Year's Eve, of an apparent drug overdose in San
Francisco, it was announced Sunday by the elder Scaggs'
publicist.

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Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 23:28:45 -0800
From: "Jason Cormier" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [MV] Patch Adams review

Hope everyone had a happy holiday season and hope your year has started off
well!  I got to go to Montreal (actually 2 hrs east of Montreal) for New
Year's and had a blast skiing and sleeping in the chalet!  Anywho - I did
get to see a movie while I was there and it was Robin William's Patch
Adams - the number 1 movie for 2 weeks in a row!  It is definitely a
Williams movie - very funny and touching - but also kinda schmaltzy near the
end.  It is a very positive movie -even more so due to the fact that it is
based on a true story.  Good laughs but predictable (aspects of Dead Poets
Society)- but fun for the family.  78%.


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Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 23:34:15 -0800
From: "Jason Cormier" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [MV] Shakespeare in Love review

In many critic's top ten list of the year (including mine) this movie,
written by the Bard's decendent you would think, Tom Stoppard (Rosencrantz
and Guildentern are Dead, Dogg's Hamlet and Cahoot's Macbeth) is everything
that most movies of this genre aren't: funny, entertaining, witty, romantic
and definitely smart.  You do not have to be an expert in Shakespeare to
enjoy this film - as I surely am not (though there are 2 or 3 in-jokes if
you know something about his plays).  A great time with an amazing cast -
absolutely unrecognizable Geoffry Rush (from Shine) and pompous Ben Affleck
and Ralph's brother Joseph Fiennes - not to mention that this is Gwenyth's
second good performance of the year (third if you count Sliding Doors as
two!).  Blabber blabber - this is a good movie and was very refreshing to
see - highly recommended as an alternative to the drudgery of Hollywood.
88%.


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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 07:32:56 -0700 (MST)
From: Scott Renshaw <[e-mail]>
Subject: [MV] REVIEW: THE CELEBRATION (FESTEN)

THE CELEBRATION (FESTEN)
(October)
Starring:  Ulrich Thomsen, Henning Moritzen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Paprika
Steen, Birthe Neumann, Trine Dyrholm, Helle Dolleris, Gbatokai Dakinah.
Screenplay:  Thomas Vinterberg and Mogens Rukov.
Producer:  Birgitte Hald.
Director:  Thomas Vinterberg.
MPAA Rating:  Unrated (could be R for adult themes, nudity and profanity)
Running Time:  101 minutes.
In English and Danish with English subtitles.
Reviewed by Scott Renshaw.

     THE CELEBRATION's Klingenfeldt clan is one of those families that
proves Chekhov's assertion about unhappy families being unhappy in their
own unique ways.  More to the point, it's a family that makes you feel
better about your own unhappy family.  Eldest son Christian (Ulrich
Thomsen) wallows in depression over his twin sister's recent death;
brother Michael (Thomas Bo Larsen) is still in hot water over his
alcohol-fueled scene at the last family gathering; sister Helene (Paprika
Steen) creates a stir by bringing black boyfriend Gbatokai (Gbatokai
Dakinah) to meet her less-than-politically correct relatives.  Throwing
these people together for a weekend on a country estate celebrating father
Helge's (Henning Moritzen) 60th birthday would be enough to insure plenty
of recrimination to go around.

     That's the kind of character truth "Dogma '95" -- a manifesto for a
return to bare bones filmmaking created by several leading Danish
directors -- was supposed to engender.  Yet at times THE CELEBRATION feels
forced and artificial, merely in a different way than the forced and
artifical genre films implicitly criticized by Dogma '95.  The gathering
in the story eventually comes to focus on the removal of a jurassic-sized
skeleton from the family closet, and the reactions of all the family
members to what has been revealed.  Some of those reactions ring jarringly
true, like Michael's attempt to return himself to his father's good graces
by removing the cause of the trouble.  Others feel silly, like the
machinations of the family cook to help air the dirty laundry.  But good
or bad, all the reactions spring from a bombshell rather than the typical
exchanges of small artillery that make for most family tension.

     It all seems terribly unnecessary considering how perceptively
Vinterberg and co-scripter Mogens Rukov capture the more mundane animosity
and foolishness of family gatherings.  When grandfather rises to tell the
same slightly risque joke for the second time in the evening, all and
sundry indulge him, chuckling and applauding just as merrily as the first.
Michael treats his wife Mette (Helle Dolleris) with such a basic contempt
that he leaves to walk a mile with the children when he picks up Christian
in their small car.  Helene's mother (Birthe Neumann) "mistakes" Gbatokai
for Helene's previous boyfriend, a Latino, with a casual and oblivious
racism.  Vinterberg and his exceptional cast -- Thomas Bo Larsen is
particularly good as the younger son overflowing with toxic anger -- find
moments of greatness in these simple conflicts.  They're the sort of
things all families contend with, the things that make people want to take
blood relations and make them bloody relations.

     Indeed, Vinterberg's point may have been that the more extreme
example of family crisis that supercedes the others is more common than
we'd like to believe.  If so, it still feels like an authenticity that
draws too much attention to itself.  Curiously, the same could be said for
the rigid film-making prescriptions of the Dogma '95.  The hand-held
camerawork, washed-out video-to-film cinematography, location shooting and
absence of underscore music were intended to subsume "auteurism" in favor
of story, but they simply become an auteurism of a different sort.  As
effectively as the location serves to intensify the claustrophobia of a
family forced to confront its demons, the look and sound of THE
CELEBRATION -- or lack thereof -- just make you aware of how different
this film looks and sounds than other films, exactly when the familiarity
of the situations should come into focus.

     Some might argue the same was true of the most notable previous Dogma
'95 effort, Lars Von Trier's BREAKING THE WAVES.  Yet in that film, the
style supported the instability of the main character's world;
thematically, the look was of a piece with the story.  In THE CELEBRATION,
that same look works far less effectively, because it feels like an
exercise rather than a choice.  When Vinterberg nails the truth of basic
family interaction, it's easy to overlook that exercise.  Later, when a
dramatic plot point takes over, it starts to seem that too much has been
imposed on these characters from without -- a bad dogma starts to run over
all its great karma.

     On the Renshaw scale of 0 to 10 bad dogmas:  7.

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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 08:19:19 -0700 (MST)
From: Scott Renshaw <[e-mail]>
Subject: [MV] Correction to THE CELEBRATION review

My thanks to a kind reader who chose not to mock me when pointing out that
the quote I attributed to Chekhov should in fact be attributed to Tolstoy.
Apologies for the blunder.

Scott

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Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 20:43:12 +1300
From: Alistair Dunn <[e-mail]>
Subject: [MV] Top 20 Box Office

Top 20 Box Office Earners (America only)

1 - Titanic    (a really big surprise - Yeah right!)
2 - Armaggedon
3 - Saving Private Ryan
4 - There's Something About Mary
5 - The Waterboy
6 - Dr Dolittle
7 - Deep Impact
8 - Godzilla
9 - Rush hour
10 Good Will Hunting
11 - Lethal Weapon 4
12 -The Truman Show
13 -  Mulan
14 - As Good as it Gets
15 - A Bugs Life
16 - Antz
17 - The Mask of Zorro
18 - The X files
19 - The Wedding Singer
20 - Enermy of the state


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Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 04:23:12 -0800 (PST)
From: [e-mail] (Hollywood Online)
Subject: [MV] Hollywood Online Weekly Dispatch

                    Hollywood Online Weekly Dispatch

Hello movie fans!

Welcome yet again to the Hollywood Online Weekly Dispatch, delivered
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movie site features, exclusive interviews and audio clips, movie
soundtrack news, premiere coverage, and much more.

So, away we go . . .

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NEW MOVIES RELEASED THIS WEEK
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(in alphabetical order)

Movies Opening or Expanding
January 8, 1999

"A Civil Action"
http://www.hollywood.com/cgi-bin/TARGET/indexmg.cgi?civilaction
Drama: Small-time attorney John Travolta gets in over his head when
he greedily takes on a case that leads in unexpected directions.
Steven Zaillian directs.
January 8, 1999 - expanded release

"It Happened Here"
http://www.hollywood.com/cgi-bin/TARGET/indexmg.cgi?ithappened
Art/Foreign: This 1963 release follows the adventures of an English
nurse at the close of World War II. While waiting for the Allies to
arrive, she weighs her career options in a frenzied, German-occupied
London. Filmed in gritty documentary style, the production includes
vintage costumes, settings and a non-pro cast. Co-directed by Kevin
Brownlow and Andrew Mollo.
January 8, 1999 - NY release

"The Ogre"
http://www.hollywood.com/cgi-bin/TARGET/indexmg.cgi?ogre
Drama: John Malkovich stars as "the ogre," a French man who becomes
a recruiter at a Hitler Youth school in Prussia during World War II.
From a torturous upbringing in a catholic orphanage to false accusations
of child abuse as an adult, Malkovich's simpleton finally earns respect
as a teacher who molds peasant boys into Nazi youths.
January 8, 1999 - LA release

"Private Confessions"
http://www.hollywood.com/cgi-bin/TARGET/indexmg.cgi?private
Art/Foreign: Liv Ullman directs an Ingmar Bergman tale that
spans the relationship of a husband and wife over several decades.
In 1925, a 36-year-old woman confesses her infidelity to a priest
who advises her to break off the affair. As time passes on, Bergman
isolates revealing encounters between the woman and her husband, her
lover, the priest and her best friend.
January 8, 1999 - NY release

"Shakespeare in Love"
http://www.hollywood.com/cgi-bin/TARGET/indexmg.cgi?shakespearelove
Comedy: Joseph Fiennes stars in the romantic comedy, set in London
1593, about the struggling playwright Will Shakespeare. Fiennes is
suffering from writer's block and can't seem to complete his latest
work, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," until Fiennes sets
his sights on the beautiful Gwyneth Paltrow. Love overcomes Fiennes
and unleashes his creative juices.
January 8, 1999 - expanded release

"The Thin Red Line"
http://www.hollywood.com/cgi-bin/TARGET/indexmg.cgi?thinredline
Action/Adventure: Terrence Malick returns as writer-director of a
star-studded adaptation of James Jones' novel about Guadalcanal.
January 8, 1999 - expanded release

"Waking Ned Devine"
http://www.hollywood.com/cgi-bin/TARGET/indexmg.cgi?neddevine
Comedy: Ian Bannen and David Kelly co-star as senior citizens in a
small town called Tully More. From a bit mention in the Irish Times,
they learn that someone in their populace of 52 has won the lottery.
Their scheme: work themselves into the winner's good graces before
they know they've won, thus becoming best friends before the money
is collected.
January 8, 1999 - expanded release


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SHOWTIMES MOVIE LISTINGS
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Now that you've seen what's coming out this week, here's the best way
to find out where it's playing in your neighborhood, and when! Plus,
get maps, theater information, and much more!


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NEW VIDEOS RELEASED THIS WEEK
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(in alphabetical order)

Videos Released
January 5, 1999

"Disturbing Behavior"
http://www.hollywood.com/cgi-bin/TARGET/indexmg.cgi?disturbing
Horror: In Cradle Bay, unruly and misbehaving teenagers are simply a surgical
procedure away from Stepford-like perfection. Teen pregnancies, drunk driving,
drug overdoses, and other typical problems warrant an effective solution from
the local high school psychiatrist. But new kid on the block James Marsden and
social outcasts Nick Stahl and Katie Holmes remain wary of his prescription.

"How Stella Got Her Groove Back"
http://www.hollywood.com/cgi-bin/TARGET/indexmg.cgi?stella
Drama: Angela Bassett appears to have it all, but what she really wants is to
escape the stress in her life by vacationing in Jamaica. Instead of finding
peace and quiet, she unexpectedly meets sexy, young Taye Diggs. Despite the
twenty years between them, Diggs helps the fortysomething rediscover love and
happiness. Based on Terry McMillan's popular book.

"Out of Sight"
http://www.hollywood.com/cgi-bin/TARGET/indexmg.cgi?outofsight
Action/Adventure: George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez share screen time and
chemistry as an escaped convict and feisty federal agent. On the lam from
Florida to Detroit, Clooney's bank robber finds just enough time to fall for
Lopez, the FBI agent hot on his trail. Screenwriter Scott Frank follows "Get
Shorty" with another Elmore Leonard crime-noir caper. Steven Soderbergh directs.


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HOLLYWOOD NEWS
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HOLLYWOOD ROUNDTABLE - Our columnists' reflections on all things cinema.
http://www.hollywood.com/news/roundtable/

ART ATTACK: Top Ten Foreign Films of 1998
http://hollywood.com/news/roundtable/Thursday/12-31-98/index.html


THE PRESSROOM
http://www.hollywood.com/pressroom
The best premiere coverage, celebrity photos and interviews on the web!
New this week:

"Patch Adams" Premiere
http://www.hollywood.com/pressroom/premieres/patchadams/patchadams.html

Faux Fur
http://www.hollywood.com/pressroom/events/fur/award_fur.html

James Woods Interview ("Another Day in Paradise")
http://www.hollywood.com/pressroom/interviews/jwoods/jwoods.html


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DIGITAL REVOLUTION
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Everything you could want to know about DVDs, laser
discs, industry developments, and all the latest titles.

Pick of the Week:
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The critics pass fair judgement on "A Civil Action." Check out what they're
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MOVIETALK
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Hear your favorite celebs in their own words, behind the scenes,
unrehearsed, and in glorious RealAudio! This week:

Melanie Griffith ("Another Day in Paradise"); Woody Harrelson,
Patricia Arquette "The Hi-Lo Country"); Susan Sarandon, Julia Roberts
("Stepmom"); Robert Duvall, John Travolta ("A Civil Action");
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Date: 06 Jan 99 16:16:10 +0000
From: "ABYRNE.IE.ORACLE.COM" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [MV] Release Date

Can anyone tell me if/when the "HitMan Hart" documentory/film will bbe
released in Europe,(basically Ireland). Thank you, Thank You, Thank You!
And heres a pop quiz. What is the quote the end of my template from.
You will probably all know, but hey, it will mean you will all respond to
the
other question.
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Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 13:47:08 -0700 (MST)
From: The Reporter <[e-mail]>
Subject: [MV] Movie News - 01/06/99

George Lucas has told Vanity Fair he plans to call it quits
after the much-anticipated three-part prequel to his
blockbuster "Star Wars" trilogy. The long-standing
perception has been that the complete "Star Wars" saga would
be nine parts. "I never had a story for the sequels, for the
later ones," Lucas says in the February edition of the
magazine. "And also, I'll be to a point in my age where to
do another trilogy would take 10 years." Lucas, 55, said he
would "probably not" be open to letting someone else make
"Star Wars" movies. The first new movie in the new series,
"Star Wars: Episode I, The Phantom Menace," is scheduled to
be released in the US on May 21. Episodes II and III are
promised for the years 2002 and 2005, Lucas said.

                        -=> * <=-

In the wake of Gus Van Sant's redo of Alfred Hitchcock's
"Psycho," and despite the film's poor box office
performance, The New York Times engaged in a bit of whimsy
by fantasizing about remaking other classics by the late
master of suspense. Rutgers professor Lisa Zeidner played
casting director and came up with Tom Hanks and Alicia
Silverstone in the Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak roles for
"Vertigo"; Bruce and Demi in Sean Connery's and Tippi
Hedren's shoes for Hitch's mediocre "Marnie"; and "English
Patient" headliners Ralph Fiennes and Kirstin Scott Thomas
for Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in "Notorious." As for the
"new" "North By Northwest," the professor suggests Anne
Heche in the Eva Marie Saint role and Cary Grant -- through
computer technology -- in the Cary Grant role, because
"Keanu Reeves just won't do."

                        -=> * <=-

DIED: Three quiet Hollywood legends: Veteran American
Indian actor and environmentalist Oskie "Iron Eyes" Cody,
94, whose work over the course of an 80-year film career
included "Little Big Man" and a '70s TV commercial in which
he shed a tear over pollution, Monday, in Los Angeles ...
Matinee idol of the '30s David Manners, 98, who played the
romantic interest in the original 1931 Bela Lugosi "Dracula"
and in Katharine Hepburn's 1932 screen debut "A Bill of
Divorcement" (before he retired from Hollywood in 1936 to
become a writer), in Santa Barbara, Dec. 23 ... David O.
Selznick's executive assistant on "Gone With the Wind"
Marcella Rabwin, 90, who became a civic leader in Beverly
Hills (spearheading the campaign to build that city's
library), in San Diego on Christmas Day. Her husband, the
late Dr. Marc Rabwin, was the good doctor who delivered Judy
Garland.

                        -=> * <=-

Besides being PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive, Harrison Ford, 56,
is America's favorite movie star, according to a poll
released Tuesday, with the late John Wayne rating second
place. The annual Harris poll of America's box office
favorites, based on interviews with 1,010 adults, found that
Ford was the No. 1 choice among people aged 18 to 24, as
well as for American adults overall. Western movie hero John
Wayne, who died in 1979, was the second most popular star,
ahead of Mel Gibson, who came in third, and Clint Eastwood
and Tom Cruise, who shared fourth place. (Eastwood topped
the list last year.) Other stars in the Top 10 list were
Jack Nicholson, Brad Pitt, Sean Connery, Denzel Washington
and Wesley Snipes. The highest ranking female movie star was
Julia Roberts, who took the 15th spot.

Stars who dropped off the Top 10 list this year included
Kevin Costner, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Richard Gere.

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Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 17:39:34 +1300
From: jkrudy <[e-mail]> (by way of Alistair Dunn <[e-mail]>)
Subject: RE: [MV] Top 20 Box Office

Your email has sparked some debate among myself and a several coworkers here
at Micron.  We were wondering what the time period was on these Top 20
Earners.  Is it money these movies earned just in '98 or all time earnings.
We were wondering where you got this information from, and what the actual
figures were for each movie.  One last wonder is, how much money (domestic,
foreign and video sales) has Titanic and Armageddon made?

Any and all help you can provide will be much appreciated,

James K. Rudy


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Subject: [MV] Top 20 Box Office


Top 20 Box Office Earners (America only)

1 - Titanic    (a really big surprise - Yeah right!)
2 - Armaggedon
3 - Saving Private Ryan
4 - There's Something About Mary
5 - The Waterboy
6 - Dr Dolittle
7 - Deep Impact
8 - Godzilla
9 - Rush hour
10 Good Will Hunting
11 - Lethal Weapon 4
12 -The Truman Show
13 -  Mulan
14 - As Good as it Gets
15 - A Bugs Life
16 - Antz
17 - The Mask of Zorro
18 - The X files
19 - The Wedding Singer
20 - Enermy of the state


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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 1956 21:21:03 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: [MV] Release Date

I don't know when "Hitman" will be released in Ireland, but the quote was from
Braveheart :)

ABYRNE.IE.ORACLE.COM wrote:

> Can anyone tell me if/when the "HitMan Hart" documentory/film will bbe
> released in Europe,(basically Ireland). Thank you, Thank You, Thank You!
> And heres a pop quiz. What is the quote the end of my template from.
> You will probably all know, but hey, it will mean you will all respond to
> the
> other question.
> Thanks & Regards,
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Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 21:17:12 +1100
From: "Carmine Pascuzzi." <[e-mail]>
Subject: [MV] Top Ten for 1998

Hi all,

Just thought I'd send in my Top 10 for films that I saw in 1998 in
Melbourne, Australia. Note that a few of those already mentioned haven't
been released here as yet.

1.    LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL
2.    GOOD WILL HUNTING
3.    BOOGIE NIGHTS
4.    DARK CITY
5.    THE SWEET HEREAFTER
6.    THE BIG LEBOWSKI
7.    THE HORSE WHISPERER
8.    THE BOYS (Australian film)
9.    ELIZABETH
10.  THE INTERVIEW (Australian film)

I usually go and watch the arthouse, independent films more so than the
supposed big hits. I'm not a Tom Hanks fan at all, and would never see his
films.
I haven't seen Truman Show and Out of Sight yet. Perhaps I'm missing out
with those two in particular.

Cheers,

Carmine



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Date: 07 Jan 99 10:48:00 +0000
From: "ABYRNE.IE.ORACLE.COM" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [MV] my Favourites

And here are the votes from the Irish Jury.
Not particularly in this order, bar number one
I'm only sticking down a few, as I'm doing this from work, and the boss is
no
my case at the moment.
1)Armageddon
2)The General. An Irish film by John Boorman.Staring Brendan Gleeson and
John
Voigt.
3)Titanic
4)Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Will be a cult classic.Pulp Fiction
meets Trainspotting.
5)As Good As it Gets
6)Good Will Hunting.
7)The Full Monty

Honorable mentions.
Videos
Citizen X   trust me, see this film.


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Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 08:06:05 -0700 (MST)
From: Scott Renshaw <[e-mail]>
Subject: [MV] REVIEW: A CIVIL ACTION

A CIVIL ACTION
(Touchstone)
Starring:  John Travolta, Robert Duvall, William H. Macy, Tony Shalhoub,
Zeljko Ivanek, Bruce Norris, John Lithgow, Kathleen Quinlan.
Screenplay:  Steven Zaillian, based on the book by Jonathan Harr.
Producers:  Scott Rudin, Robert Redford and Rachel Pfeffer.
Director:  Steven Zaillian.
MPAA Rating:  PG-13 (adult themes, profanity)
Running Time:  118 minutes.
Reviewed by Scott Renshaw.

     For those unfamiliar with the American legal system -- and count it
among your blessings if you are one of them -- it is not generally the
stuff of which great drama is made.  It is a thing of motions, pleadings,
depositions and causes of action, of hundreds of hours spent reading
thousands of incoming documents, or redacting thousands of outgoing
documents.  It is a war of attrition played out in conference rooms, only
rarely involving tense attorney-witness confrontations or even-more-tense
waits for a verdict.  Cinematic law is a satisfying fiction; real law is,
for the most part, a laborious game of chicken before an out-of-court
settlement.

     A CIVIL ACTION's dubious merit involves the extent to which it
effectively captures real law.  It's based on a real case, recounted in
Jonathan Harr's non-fiction best-seller about Jan Schlichtmann (John
Travolta), a Boston personal injury lawyer with a gift for turning the "s"
in "suffering" into a dollar sign.  He sees no such dollar signs in a case
brought in by his partner Kevin Conway (Tony Shalhoub), a case involving a
statistically significant cluster of children dying of leukemia in the
town of Woburn...that is, until he discovers that the toxic chemicals in
the area just may be spilling out of the deep pockets of R.W. Grace Corp.
and Beatrice Foods.  Schlichtmann smells a killing, and the Woburn case
comes to consume everything he has and everything he is.

     There was every reason to believe that, if anyone could lend a spark
to slogging through the legal mire, it would be Steven Zaillian.  This
was, after all, the director who made chess both kinetic and poetic in
SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER.  Indeed, there are several scenes in which
Zaillian nails the harsh truths of tort law:  Schlichtmann coldly ticking
off the relative cash values of women vs. men or black vs. white in
wrongful death cases; a hilarious courtroom moment in which a corporate
defense attorney realizes he's lost the jury's sympathy before he's even
begun; an effective montage showing the mounting costs of research and
expert witnesses.  A CIVIL ACTION pulls few punches when it comes to
underlining a process that's always about money, and only accidentally
about justice.

     Unfortunately, it pulls all its punches when it comes to giving the
story an emotional hook.  Schlichtmann's conversion from shark to softy is
supposed to anchor the film, except that it's far too subtle.  In fact,
Travolta often plays Schlichtmann as though his concern is always still
about the money, his frustration less about letting his clients down than
about letting the big one slip away -- which, frankly, is a more
interesting choice.  Those clients, meanwhile, remain stoic, heroic
abstractions, the working class American equivalent of the struggling
non-white characters who serve as background color in stories of a wealthy
white character's awakening to social conscience (like SEVEN YEARS IN
TIBET).  As the film slowly becomes the story of how the Woburn case
drains all the cash out of Schlichtmann and his firm, it slowly drains
what little narrative and visual energy it had.

     Certainly much of that energy was supposed to be provided by Robert
Duvall as Jerry Facher, Beatrice's eccentric veteran attorney.  I suppose
the idea is that he's wily because he passes himself off as such a goof,
but the character's tics -- taping up an ancient briefcase covered in
Snagglepuss decals; absently bouncing a ball during a phone conversation;
obsessing over the Red Sox -- are more often distracting than they are
entertaining.  At least Duvall's fussy colorfulness, along with William H.
Macy's less-mannered breakdown as Schlichtmann's nervous accountant, give
you something to watch.  Too often A CIVIL ACTION feels like the sort of
lecture in legal maneuvering we see Facher give to students at Harvard
Law.  It runs out of gas when it runs out of things to tell us, since it
lacks characters to engage us.  Real law makes the appeal of John
Grisham-esque courtroom melodrama make a lot more sense.

     On the Renshaw scale of 0 to 10 punitive damages:  5.

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Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 13:48:29 +0200
From: Tommi Varoma <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [MV] Release Date

I saw that documentory yesterday (Wednesday) here in Finland so it is
allready released.
I don=B4t know when it comes to Ireland but hopefully someone else knows

Could that quote be from a film called Braveheart?=20
I must admit that the Irish fellow was one of my favorites.



At 16:16 6.1.1999 +0000, you wrote:
>Can anyone tell me if/when the "HitMan Hart" documentory/film will bbe=20
>released in Europe,(basically Ireland). Thank you, Thank You, Thank You!=20
>And heres a pop quiz. What is the quote the end of my template from.=20
>You will probably all know, but hey, it will mean you will all respond to
>the=20
>other question. =20
>Thanks & Regards,=20
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>Anto Byrne                Net:[e-mail]=20
>Oracle E.M.E.A.                Quality Rep.               =20
>    Unit 14                    Phone:[phone]=20
>Airways Industrial Estate        Fax:[phone]                     =20
>Cloghran                      email:abyrne=20
>Dublin 17.=20
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Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 13:03:08 -0800
From: "Jason Cormier" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [MV] Top Ten for 1998

If you like 'alternative' movies then check out Heaven if it opens there.
It is a New Zealand flick and the editting in it is really warped!!  I loved
it!

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From: Carmine Pascuzzi. <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail] <[e-mail]>
Date: Thursday, January 07, 1999 2:29 AM
Subject: [MV] Top Ten for 1998


>Hi all,
>
>Just thought I'd send in my Top 10 for films that I saw in 1998 in
>Melbourne, Australia. Note that a few of those already mentioned haven't
>been released here as yet.
>
>1.    LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL
>2.    GOOD WILL HUNTING
>3.    BOOGIE NIGHTS
>4.    DARK CITY
>5.    THE SWEET HEREAFTER
>6.    THE BIG LEBOWSKI
>7.    THE HORSE WHISPERER
>8.    THE BOYS (Australian film)
>9.    ELIZABETH
>10.  THE INTERVIEW (Australian film)
>
>I usually go and watch the arthouse, independent films more so than the
>supposed big hits. I'm not a Tom Hanks fan at all, and would never see his
>films.
>I haven't seen Truman Show and Out of Sight yet. Perhaps I'm missing out
>with those two in particular.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Carmine
>
>
>
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Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 17:39:34 +1300
From: jkrudy <[e-mail]> (by way of Alistair Dunn <[e-mail]>)
Subject: RE: [MV] Top 20 Box Office

Your email has sparked some debate among myself and a several coworkers here
at Micron.  We were wondering what the time period was on these Top 20
Earners.  Is it money these movies earned just in '98 or all time earnings.
We were wondering where you got this information from, and what the actual
figures were for each movie.  One last wonder is, how much money (domestic,
foreign and video sales) has Titanic and Armageddon made?

Any and all help you can provide will be much appreciated,

James K. Rudy


- -----Original Message-----
From: Alistair Dunn [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 1999 12:43 AM
To: [e-mail]
Cc: [e-mail]
Subject: [MV] Top 20 Box Office


Top 20 Box Office Earners (America only)

1 - Titanic    (a really big surprise - Yeah right!)
2 - Armaggedon
3 - Saving Private Ryan
4 - There's Something About Mary
5 - The Waterboy
6 - Dr Dolittle
7 - Deep Impact
8 - Godzilla
9 - Rush hour
10 Good Will Hunting
11 - Lethal Weapon 4
12 -The Truman Show
13 -  Mulan
14 - As Good as it Gets
15 - A Bugs Life
16 - Antz
17 - The Mask of Zorro
18 - The X files
19 - The Wedding Singer
20 - Enermy of the state


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