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movies-digest          Tuesday, June 15 1999          Volume 02 : Number 201



RE: [MV] anakin
Re: [MV] anakin
[MV] Re: giggles
RE: [MV] anakin
[MV] well!
[MV] once again - phantom menace
RE: [MV] once again - phantom menace
Re: [MV] once again - phantom menace
Re: [MV] Movies that never have been made
[MV] Unsubscribe
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Re: [MV] once again - phantom menace
RE: [MV] anakin
RE: [MV] Unsubscribe
RE: [MV] anakin
RE: [MV] Re: giggles
[MV] Movie News - 06/15/99
Re: [MV] once again - phantom menace
RE: [MV] Movie News - 06/15/99
RE: [MV] Movie News - 06/15/99

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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 15:58:30 -0700
From: "Romero, Leticia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: [MV] anakin

ha!  rofl!

> -----Original Message-----
> From:    jkrudy [SMTP:[e-mail]]
> Sent:    Monday, June 14, 1999 3:32 PM
> To:    '[e-mail]'
> Subject:    RE: [MV] anakin
> Importance:    Low
>
> A friend of mine suggests that since Tatooine is on the way from Crusanant
> to Naboo, that perhaps Senator Palpatine had stopped over and impregnated
> her, either as part of her duties as a slave or maybe he actually seduced
> her.  "Luke I am your father."  Then Luke freaks out so bad that Darth
> Vader
> decides not to break the rest of the news that the Emperor is his
> grandfather.
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: Monday, June 14, 1999 4:10 PM
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: [MV] anakin
>
>
> In a message dated 6/14/99 8:32:25 AM Central Daylight Time,
> [e-mail] writes:
>
> > Maybe this is just wishful thinking on my part, but my theory is that
> >  Anakin's mom maybe wasn't being completely honest when she said there
> was
>
> no
> >  father. It really reminded me of when Obi Wan told Luke that Darth
> Vader
> >  murdered Luke's father. Anybody else think she might have been covering
> >  something up? Her expressions in the film indicated to me that she knew
>
> more
> >  than she let on.
> Very good point, and we're sure to find out more about her in the next,
> possibly next 2, episode/s.
>
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:12:55 -0700
From: Oz <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [MV] anakin

Um... how to say this in a non-confrontational, friendly, yet
advisory way...

I know I'm the big blue meany of the list, but there's a lot of
people on this list and I don't know that "ha! rofl!" is really
grounds for a list-wide email, is it?

It's easy enough to send it to the originator of the post, and most
of us already get a ton of email to filter through without being
emailed someone's giggles..

Thanks.

"Romero, Leticia" wrote:
>
> ha!  rofl!
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jkrudy [SMTP:[e-mail]]
> > Sent: Monday, June 14, 1999 3:32 PM
> > To:   '[e-mail]'
> > Subject:      RE: [MV] anakin
> > Importance:   Low
> >
> > A friend of mine suggests that since Tatooine is on the way from Crusanant
> > to Naboo, that perhaps Senator Palpatine had stopped over and impregnated
> > her, either as part of her duties as a slave or maybe he actually seduced
> > her.  "Luke I am your father."  Then Luke freaks out so bad that Darth
> > Vader
> > decides not to break the rest of the news that the Emperor is his
> > grandfather.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]]
> > Sent: Monday, June 14, 1999 4:10 PM
> > To: [e-mail]
> > Subject: Re: [MV] anakin
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 6/14/99 8:32:25 AM Central Daylight Time,
> > [e-mail] writes:
> >
> > > Maybe this is just wishful thinking on my part, but my theory is that
> > >  Anakin's mom maybe wasn't being completely honest when she said there
> > was
> >
> > no
> > >  father. It really reminded me of when Obi Wan told Luke that Darth
> > Vader
> > >  murdered Luke's father. Anybody else think she might have been covering
> > >  something up? Her expressions in the film indicated to me that she knew
> >
> > more
> > >  than she let on.
> > Very good point, and we're sure to find out more about her in the next,
> > possibly next 2, episode/s.
> >
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> >
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 99 16:20:21 -0700
From: "David F. Nolan" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [MV] Re: giggles

>It's easy enough to send it to the originator of the post, and most
>of us already get a ton of email to filter through without being
>emailed someone's giggles....

I second Oz's motion.

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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 17:22:30 -0600
From: jkrudy <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: [MV] anakin

I appreciate what you said here and I know you're trying to be
non-confrontational, but she could have just as easily spent 3 or 4
paragraphs, saying that she thought that was an appealing theory, and she
thought it was well written and funny, but instead isn't it just possible
that she was trying to save some bandwidth and just left it at "ha! rofl!".
I mean that's the whole point of this list.  Somebody has an idea about a
movie,  then somebody says, "No I don't agree because..." then somebody else
says, "Yes I agree because..."  somebody else adds something else to the
conversation.

All of this boils down to Leticia agreeing with the theory, and adding her
two cents worth, in a very "economical" way.  Oh hell, forget it, let's tie
her to a stake and burn her shall we.  All in favor say:  "Ha!!!  ROFL!!!!"

James




- -----Original Message-----
From: Oz [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 10:13 AM
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: [MV] anakin


Um... how to say this in a non-confrontational, friendly, yet
advisory way...

I know I'm the big blue meany of the list, but there's a lot of
people on this list and I don't know that "ha! rofl!" is really
grounds for a list-wide email, is it?

It's easy enough to send it to the originator of the post, and most
of us already get a ton of email to filter through without being
emailed someone's giggles..

Thanks.

"Romero, Leticia" wrote:
>
> ha!  rofl!
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jkrudy [SMTP:[e-mail]]
> > Sent: Monday, June 14, 1999 3:32 PM
> > To:   '[e-mail]'
> > Subject:      RE: [MV] anakin
> > Importance:   Low
> >
> > A friend of mine suggests that since Tatooine is on the way from
Crusanant
> > to Naboo, that perhaps Senator Palpatine had stopped over and
impregnated
> > her, either as part of her duties as a slave or maybe he actually
seduced
> > her.  "Luke I am your father."  Then Luke freaks out so bad that Darth
> > Vader
> > decides not to break the rest of the news that the Emperor is his
> > grandfather.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]]
> > Sent: Monday, June 14, 1999 4:10 PM
> > To: [e-mail]
> > Subject: Re: [MV] anakin
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 6/14/99 8:32:25 AM Central Daylight Time,
> > [e-mail] writes:
> >
> > > Maybe this is just wishful thinking on my part, but my theory is that
> > >  Anakin's mom maybe wasn't being completely honest when she said there
> > was
> >
> > no
> > >  father. It really reminded me of when Obi Wan told Luke that Darth
> > Vader
> > >  murdered Luke's father. Anybody else think she might have been
covering
> > >  something up? Her expressions in the film indicated to me that she
knew
> >
> > more
> > >  than she let on.
> > Very good point, and we're sure to find out more about her in the next,
> > possibly next 2, episode/s.
> >
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> >
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>
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 16:36:34 -0700
From: "Romero, Leticia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [MV] well!

I can't get away with 6 lousy letters, yet we all spent 3 days talking about
whether or not Kazan deserved that stupid Oscar.  If this was originated for
the airing of OPINIONS of movies and the like, of which mine is as valid as
any 12-year-old posing as a 22-year-old, then that's what I did!

You big meanies you!

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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 17:05:35 -0700
From: "Romero, Leticia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [MV] once again - phantom menace

I've seen it 4 times, and I'm convinced that the force fields that separate
Maul and the Jedi (how do you pluralize them?) is there to prevent anyone
from running right through the corridor and falling into the giant hole.
Why else would they be there?  Any comments?

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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 18:24:02 -0600
From: jkrudy <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: [MV] once again - phantom menace

I read the book and honestly still had a hard time figuring out what they
were for.  They were a security measure though, I remember that much.  It
seems to me that Lucas could have thought up a different means to the same
end.  The force fields scene has confused everyone I've talked too, and that
just seems unnecessary.  He could have thrown in a better explanation or did
something different.




- -----Original Message-----
From: Romero, Leticia [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Monday, June 14, 1999 6:06 PM
To: 'movies'
Subject: [MV] once again - phantom menace


I've seen it 4 times, and I'm convinced that the force fields that separate
Maul and the Jedi (how do you pluralize them?) is there to prevent anyone
from running right through the corridor and falling into the giant hole.
Why else would they be there?  Any comments?

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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 20:08:42 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: [MV] once again - phantom menace

As far as I could tell, the sole reason for the force fields was to separate
Obi wan from the fight and let Maul kill Qui gon jin.  It didn't seem to
serve any other purpose.  Another brilliant dramatic device from this
masterpiece.

bb
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- ----------
>From: "Romero, Leticia" <[e-mail]>
>To: "'movies'" <[e-mail]>
>Subject: [MV] once again - phantom menace
>Date: Tue, Jun 15, 1999, 12:05 AM
>

> I've seen it 4 times, and I'm convinced that the force fields that separate
> Maul and the Jedi (how do you pluralize them?) is there to prevent anyone
> from running right through the corridor and falling into the giant hole.
> Why else would they be there?  Any comments?
>
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 20:12:19 PDT
From: Danielle Conkle <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [MV] Movies that never have been made

  I wish a movie by any of the books by the author Christopher Pike would be
made (his young adult is sort of cheesy, but his adult books are good.)  I
would love to see Season of Passage done.  It was this scary thriller set
with travels to Mars, going deep into sci-fi, telling our origins were set
in Mars, and then the race migrated to Earth.  it's really good, and still
scares me to read it, when you get into all the alien stuff and what not.

I would also love to see a movie (possibly independent) made on youth
discovering life's changes and spirituality mixed with all their angst
against the world, that accurately portrayed teenagers life, instead of like
all this pop. teen movies coming out lately.  Sort of like a viewpoint from
a group of "normal" kids leading regular lives, but having a lot going on
inside.


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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 00:45:16 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [MV] Unsubscribe

Can Someone tell me how to get off this list?
Thanx!

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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 00:52:30 -0400
From: Mel Eperthener <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [MV] Unsubscribe

At 12.45 AM 15/06/99 EDT, [e-mail] wrote:
>Can Someone tell me how to get off this list?
>Thanx!
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 01:52:02 -0400
From: Mel Eperthener <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [MV] once again - phantom menace

At 05.05 PM 14/06/99 -0700, you wrote:
>I've seen it 4 times, and I'm convinced that the force fields that separate
>Maul and the Jedi (how do you pluralize them?) is there to prevent anyone
>from running right through the corridor and falling into the giant hole.
>Why else would they be there?  Any comments?

Plural of Jedi is Jedi.  Sort of like moose or deer.

Having only seen the movie once (got in opening night, the other times we
tried, they were sold out.  Go figure:-), I thought it was some sort of
phase coupling (yep, I just made that up to sound impressive:-) that had to
deal with a reactor changing or something similar.

Maybe there's more detail in the book.

Regards,

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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 08:15:12 -0500
From: Wade Snider <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: [MV] anakin

I thought I had sent one through already. guess not. Kelley died on Friday
in LA. It is true as can be. He had been sick for a few months.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:    [e-mail] [SMTP:[e-mail]]
> Sent:    Monday, June 14, 1999 5:12 PM
> To:    [e-mail]
> Subject:    Re: [MV] anakin
>
> In a message dated 6/14/99 9:07:26 AM Central Daylight Time,
> [e-mail] writes:
>
> > In other news, did anybody hear that DeForest Kelley died?? I just saw
> it
> >  mentioned as a footnote to a "This Is True" mailing list I am on.
> Anybody
> >  know if he really died? If so, when was it??
> not sure of the date, but I do know that he died sometime last week.
> maybe
> satruday??  It's so weird, b/c I think of the original startrek cast as
> idols, and don't think of them as mortal.  Whenever one of them dies, it's
> a
> big shock to me....
>
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 08:16:01 -0500
From: Wade Snider <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: [MV] Unsubscribe

Hahahahaha.......Exactly.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:    Mel Eperthener [SMTP:[e-mail]]
> Sent:    Monday, June 14, 1999 11:53 PM
> To:    [e-mail]
> Subject:    Re: [MV] Unsubscribe
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> At 12.45 AM 15/06/99 EDT, [e-mail] wrote:
> >Can Someone tell me how to get off this list?
> >Thanx!
> >
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>
> Ya know, sometimes, it's not even worth trying to come up with a
> smart-arsed comment.:-)
>
> Regards,
>
> --Mel
>
>
> --Mel Eperthener
> president, Gowanna Multi-media Pty
>
> Please support the endeavour
> of a friend and fellow Australian.
>
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 08:16:55 -0500
From: Wade Snider <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: [MV] anakin

Hahahah. LMAO

> -----Original Message-----
> From:    Oz [SMTP:[e-mail]]
> Sent:    Tuesday, June 15, 1999 11:13 AM
> To:    [e-mail]
> Subject:    Re: [MV] anakin
>
> Um... how to say this in a non-confrontational, friendly, yet
> advisory way...
>
> I know I'm the big blue meany of the list, but there's a lot of
> people on this list and I don't know that "ha! rofl!" is really
> grounds for a list-wide email, is it?
>
> It's easy enough to send it to the originator of the post, and most
> of us already get a ton of email to filter through without being
> emailed someone's giggles..
>
> Thanks.
>
> "Romero, Leticia" wrote:
> >
> > ha!  rofl!
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: jkrudy [SMTP:[e-mail]]
> > > Sent: Monday, June 14, 1999 3:32 PM
> > > To:   '[e-mail]'
> > > Subject:      RE: [MV] anakin
> > > Importance:   Low
> > >
> > > A friend of mine suggests that since Tatooine is on the way from
> Crusanant
> > > to Naboo, that perhaps Senator Palpatine had stopped over and
> impregnated
> > > her, either as part of her duties as a slave or maybe he actually
> seduced
> > > her.  "Luke I am your father."  Then Luke freaks out so bad that Darth
> > > Vader
> > > decides not to break the rest of the news that the Emperor is his
> > > grandfather.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]]
> > > Sent: Monday, June 14, 1999 4:10 PM
> > > To: [e-mail]
> > > Subject: Re: [MV] anakin
> > >
> > >
> > > In a message dated 6/14/99 8:32:25 AM Central Daylight Time,
> > > [e-mail] writes:
> > >
> > > > Maybe this is just wishful thinking on my part, but my theory is
> that
> > > >  Anakin's mom maybe wasn't being completely honest when she said
> there
> > > was
> > >
> > > no
> > > >  father. It really reminded me of when Obi Wan told Luke that Darth
> > > Vader
> > > >  murdered Luke's father. Anybody else think she might have been
> covering
> > > >  something up? Her expressions in the film indicated to me that she
> knew
> > >
> > > more
> > > >  than she let on.
> > > Very good point, and we're sure to find out more about her in the
> next,
> > > possibly next 2, episode/s.
> > >
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> > >
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> >
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 08:17:12 -0500
From: Wade Snider <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: [MV] Re: giggles

Heheheheheh

> -----Original Message-----
> From:    David F. Nolan [SMTP:[e-mail]]
> Sent:    Monday, June 14, 1999 6:20 PM
> To:    [e-mail]
> Subject:    [MV] Re: giggles
>
> >It's easy enough to send it to the originator of the post, and most
> >of us already get a ton of email to filter through without being
> >emailed someone's giggles....
>
> I second Oz's motion.
>
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 11:59:35 -0600
From: "Gregory A. Swarthout" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [MV] Movie News - 06/15/99

(Launch) - Mike Myer's "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me"
shagged almost $54.7 million this weekend, knocking "Star Wars:
Episode One - The Phantom Menace" out of first place. Still, for
those who can't get enough of that most shaggable of secret agents,
HBO has agreed to develop an Austin Powers cartoon. "When you write a
script, you always have another script's worth of material that
didn't make it in," Myers said. "I'm looking at this animated series
of 13 half-hour shows is that it will be sort of like a joke
orphanage, a land of lost toys." No date has been set for the series.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Austin Powers is absolutely swinging, baby.
"Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me," the James Bond spoof sequel
starring Mike Myers as the sexually charged man of mystery, took in
$54.7 million over the weekend, making more in its first three days
than the original movie did in its entire run. That knocked the
latest "Star Wars" installment out of first place and accorded
unlikely blockbuster status to a concept that started out as an
in-joke Myers thought few people would get. Now, everywhere you turn,
somebody is trying to do his best Austin Powers imitation, imposing a
bad English accent on his buzzwords: "Oh, behave!" and "Yeah, baby!
Yeah!" "We're stunned, it's almost surreal," said Mike Deluca,
president of production at New Line Cinema, the film's distributor.
"I think in a weird way the culture caught up with it."

The original, "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery," tested
poorly and opened to a tepid $9.5 million in May 1997. People just
didn't seem to understand the humor about a '60s spy with bad teeth,
a bearskin rug of a chest and an infatuation with sex. Myers said the
idea was inspired by his late father, a Liverpool-born salesman who
loved British comedy, from Peter Sellers to Monty Python. "You would
have had to have grown up in my house to get it," Myers said before
the film opened. But audiences warmed up to Austin's humor, and the
$16 million-budget film hung on through the summer to gross $53.9
million and turn a profit. Then it went to video, where it was - as
Austin would say - smashing. The tape dominated the 1998 video
charts, with $44 million in sales. It spawned Austin theme parties in
colleges and homes, and set the groundwork for the sequel, with
double the budget.

                        -=> * <=-

LOS ANGELES (AP) - No one in Hollywood can guarantee a box office
bonanza like Tom Hanks, Mel Gibson or Tom Cruise, according to a
Tinseltown trade publication. Making the top 10 of The Hollywood
Reporter's 5th annual Star Power '99 survey of bankable stars were,
in order, Hanks, Gibson, Cruise, Harrison Ford, Jim Carrey, Leonardo
DiCaprio, John Travolta, Julia Roberts, Robin Williams and Brad Pitt.
The Hollywood Reporter surveyed 135 entertainment industry
executives, bankers, buyers and sales agents. The top 10 list was "a
subjective look at the bankability of 525 actors and actresses
worldwide." "You obviously need a good script and a good director,
but the casting of the right actor and right actress in the right
park is essential to the success of any movie," said Sherry Lansing,
chairwoman of Paramount Motion Picture Group.

Voters were asked about an individual's ability to attract financing,
ensure global distribution and open a film on the strength of their
name, among other things. The list was to be published in Tuesday's
edition.

                        -=> * <=-

(SW Networks) - Empire magazine has reported that "2001: A Space
Odyssey" author Arthur C. Clarke is in talks with Tom Hanks on an
upcoming film adaptation of Clarke's "3001: The Final Odyssey" and
that Hanks, a two-time Oscar winner, is eager to direct the project.
The "Final Odyssey" project is based on the last book of Clarke's
Odyssey trilogy, which spun not only Stanley Kubrick's legendary film
("2001: A Space Odyssey"), but also the sequel "2010: The Year We
Make Contact." Hanks' first and last directorial effort was the
acclaimed period piece "That Thing You Do," which failed to make a
significant impact at the box office, but has found a home on VH1.

                        -=> * <=-

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Last year's raunchy satire "Orgazmo" was slapped
with an NC-17 rating for its constant stream of sex jokes and crude
sight gags. A few months later, the action-packed "Payback" showed
Mel Gibson killing a variety of people in a variety of ways before he
was tortured, but the ratings board gave the film an R rating. For
years, producers have complained the ratings board has more tolerance
for violence than for sex. That has raised questions about whether
checking IDs at the theater door - as President Clinton said Tuesday
that theater owners have agreed to do - will shield youngsters from
violence. The president may have complicated the issue further by
getting the government involved, contends lawyer Alan Dershowitz, who
helped push through the NC-17 rating in 1990 to take the X-rated
stigma off non-pornographic films with adult themes.

"The system itself is skewed against sex and in favor of violence,"
Dershowitz said. "But once the president puts the heavy thumb of
government on the scale, it begins to smack of governmental
intrusion." Jack Valenti, head of the Motion Picture Association of
America, which sets the ratings, said he applauded the agreement,
calling it "a big step forward." Valenti developed the system more
than 30 years ago. He admits it is subjective and imperfect, but said
it consistently receives favorable reviews from parents. Over the
years, the system has been altered only slightly.

                        -=> * <=-

(SW Networks) - Due to overwhelmingly positive reaction to the
star-studded movie's coming attraction, which is playing before "Star
Wars: Episode I" in many theaters across the country, Universal has
decided to move up the release date of its action/comedy "Mystery
Men." The movie - about a group of superheroes with lame powers -
will now bow on July 30, not August 6. Moving up a movie's release
date may be done for many reasons. It can mean a studio has expressed
confidence in a movie, it can be done to give the movie more run-time
before competition, or a release date can be changed to get one
product out of the way of a similarly-themed one.

"Mystery Men" centers on a group of would-be superheroes. Ben Stiller
stars as an angry guy called Mr. Furious, Janeane Garofalo is a
bowling ball-throwing heroine called The Bowler and Fargo's William
H. Macy plays The Shoveller. The heroes do battle with villain, Shine
Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush's Casanova Frankenstein. Greg Kinnear also
stars as Captain Amazing, the movie's only actual superhero.

                        -=> * <=-

(SW Networks) - The big mouth of talk wrestling, Morton Downey Jr.,
is headed to the big screen. The man who paved the way for the likes
of Jerry Springer says that Hollywood wants to turn his life into a
movie with Nicolas Cage playing the lead role. The New York Daily
News reported that although Downey named Paramount Pictures as an
interested party, a film company spokesperson has denied any
knowledge of such a project.

                        -=> * <=-

(SW Networks) - It's said in Hollywood that no one plays injured or
crazy like "Braveheart" Oscar winner Mel Gibson. The
actor/director/producer who came to global attention by playing
half-touched characters like "Mad Max" and the "Lethal Weapon"
series' Martin Riggs, however, won't be playing mad again, if a new
project comes through. Gibson's Icon Productions banner now has a
stake in the drama "The Professor and the Madman," which will be
directed by "The Fifth Element's" Luc Besson.

As Launch previously reported, the project centers on the real-life
relationship between Professor James Murray and Yale educated
physician Dr. William Chester Minor, the two men who helped create
the Oxford English Dictionary. The film, based on the book by Simon
Winchester, will explore what happened when Murray discovers that his
partner, Minor, was a paranoid schizophrenic murderer, who had
contributed to the dictionary from imprisonment in an asylum. Variety
notes that no deal has been set for Gibson to star in the pic, but if
he does, he'd be playing Murray's part.

                        -=> * <=-

NEW YORK (AP) - Acting isn't everything for Cate Blanchett, the
Oscar-nominated star of "Elizabeth." But having a normal life isn't
easy for the movie star who got married two years ago, so the best
perks accompanying the filming of her upcoming movie, "The Talented
Mr. Ripley," in Rome, Naples, and Venice were the romantic locales.
"I finally had a honeymoon with my husband in Italy," Blanchett said.
The 30-year-old Australian actress also costars in the upcoming film
"An Ideal Husband," an adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play. She plays
the overly moralistic Lady Gertrude Chiltern, a part she chose
because of its inherent challenges. "I thought it would be
interesting to play a prig who unravels," Blanchett said. "I don't
believe you have to fall in love with your character. It's important
to present the unpalatable, flawed side." Blanchett's other film
credits include "Pushing Tin," "Paradise Road" and "Oscar and
Lucinda."


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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 12:22:51 -0600
From: "Gary Heidenreich <[e-mail]>" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [MV] once again - phantom menace

> I've seen it 4 times, and I'm convinced that the force fields that separate
> Maul and the Jedi (how do you pluralize them?) is there to prevent anyone
> from running right through the corridor and falling into the giant hole.
> Why else would they be there?  Any comments?

I think it's dangerous to try and rationalize too much of the aesthetics
of the Star Wars movies.  Why are there pits at all?  How can Coruscant
function without any nature?  What did Luke just happen to grab on to
after jumping off the (...what is that? a giant ear?) at the end of
Empire?  I think certain things in the Star Wars universe are done
purely because they look so cool and work well with the story.  The
force fields, in my opinion, are nothing more than a device to add
dramatic tension and to highlight the differing characteristics of the
three Jedis (Qui-Gon: calm and meditative; Maul: patient but prowling;
Obi-Wan: anxious and aggitated).

Peter Heidenreich


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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 12:32:37 -0600
From: jkrudy <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: [MV] Movie News - 06/15/99

In case anybody cares, Clarke's Odyssey trilogy was not a trilogy but
actually a 4-book series.  He wrote a book called 2061: Odyssey Three, then
he wrote 3001: The Final Odyssey.




- -----Original Message-----
From: Gregory A. Swarthout [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 12:00 PM
To: Movies Mailing List
Subject: [MV] Movie News - 06/15/99


(Launch) - Mike Myer's "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me"
shagged almost $54.7 million this weekend, knocking "Star Wars:
Episode One - The Phantom Menace" out of first place. Still, for
those who can't get enough of that most shaggable of secret agents,
HBO has agreed to develop an Austin Powers cartoon. "When you write a
script, you always have another script's worth of material that
didn't make it in," Myers said. "I'm looking at this animated series
of 13 half-hour shows is that it will be sort of like a joke
orphanage, a land of lost toys." No date has been set for the series.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Austin Powers is absolutely swinging, baby.
"Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me," the James Bond spoof sequel
starring Mike Myers as the sexually charged man of mystery, took in
$54.7 million over the weekend, making more in its first three days
than the original movie did in its entire run. That knocked the
latest "Star Wars" installment out of first place and accorded
unlikely blockbuster status to a concept that started out as an
in-joke Myers thought few people would get. Now, everywhere you turn,
somebody is trying to do his best Austin Powers imitation, imposing a
bad English accent on his buzzwords: "Oh, behave!" and "Yeah, baby!
Yeah!" "We're stunned, it's almost surreal," said Mike Deluca,
president of production at New Line Cinema, the film's distributor.
"I think in a weird way the culture caught up with it."

The original, "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery," tested
poorly and opened to a tepid $9.5 million in May 1997. People just
didn't seem to understand the humor about a '60s spy with bad teeth,
a bearskin rug of a chest and an infatuation with sex. Myers said the
idea was inspired by his late father, a Liverpool-born salesman who
loved British comedy, from Peter Sellers to Monty Python. "You would
have had to have grown up in my house to get it," Myers said before
the film opened. But audiences warmed up to Austin's humor, and the
$16 million-budget film hung on through the summer to gross $53.9
million and turn a profit. Then it went to video, where it was - as
Austin would say - smashing. The tape dominated the 1998 video
charts, with $44 million in sales. It spawned Austin theme parties in
colleges and homes, and set the groundwork for the sequel, with
double the budget.

                        -=> * <=-

LOS ANGELES (AP) - No one in Hollywood can guarantee a box office
bonanza like Tom Hanks, Mel Gibson or Tom Cruise, according to a
Tinseltown trade publication. Making the top 10 of The Hollywood
Reporter's 5th annual Star Power '99 survey of bankable stars were,
in order, Hanks, Gibson, Cruise, Harrison Ford, Jim Carrey, Leonardo
DiCaprio, John Travolta, Julia Roberts, Robin Williams and Brad Pitt.
The Hollywood Reporter surveyed 135 entertainment industry
executives, bankers, buyers and sales agents. The top 10 list was "a
subjective look at the bankability of 525 actors and actresses
worldwide." "You obviously need a good script and a good director,
but the casting of the right actor and right actress in the right
park is essential to the success of any movie," said Sherry Lansing,
chairwoman of Paramount Motion Picture Group.

Voters were asked about an individual's ability to attract financing,
ensure global distribution and open a film on the strength of their
name, among other things. The list was to be published in Tuesday's
edition.

                        -=> * <=-

(SW Networks) - Empire magazine has reported that "2001: A Space
Odyssey" author Arthur C. Clarke is in talks with Tom Hanks on an
upcoming film adaptation of Clarke's "3001: The Final Odyssey" and
that Hanks, a two-time Oscar winner, is eager to direct the project.
The "Final Odyssey" project is based on the last book of Clarke's
Odyssey trilogy, which spun not only Stanley Kubrick's legendary film
("2001: A Space Odyssey"), but also the sequel "2010: The Year We
Make Contact." Hanks' first and last directorial effort was the
acclaimed period piece "That Thing You Do," which failed to make a
significant impact at the box office, but has found a home on VH1.

                        -=> * <=-

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Last year's raunchy satire "Orgazmo" was slapped
with an NC-17 rating for its constant stream of sex jokes and crude
sight gags. A few months later, the action-packed "Payback" showed
Mel Gibson killing a variety of people in a variety of ways before he
was tortured, but the ratings board gave the film an R rating. For
years, producers have complained the ratings board has more tolerance
for violence than for sex. That has raised questions about whether
checking IDs at the theater door - as President Clinton said Tuesday
that theater owners have agreed to do - will shield youngsters from
violence. The president may have complicated the issue further by
getting the government involved, contends lawyer Alan Dershowitz, who
helped push through the NC-17 rating in 1990 to take the X-rated
stigma off non-pornographic films with adult themes.

"The system itself is skewed against sex and in favor of violence,"
Dershowitz said. "But once the president puts the heavy thumb of
government on the scale, it begins to smack of governmental
intrusion." Jack Valenti, head of the Motion Picture Association of
America, which sets the ratings, said he applauded the agreement,
calling it "a big step forward." Valenti developed the system more
than 30 years ago. He admits it is subjective and imperfect, but said
it consistently receives favorable reviews from parents. Over the
years, the system has been altered only slightly.

                        -=> * <=-

(SW Networks) - Due to overwhelmingly positive reaction to the
star-studded movie's coming attraction, which is playing before "Star
Wars: Episode I" in many theaters across the country, Universal has
decided to move up the release date of its action/comedy "Mystery
Men." The movie - about a group of superheroes with lame powers -
will now bow on July 30, not August 6. Moving up a movie's release
date may be done for many reasons. It can mean a studio has expressed
confidence in a movie, it can be done to give the movie more run-time
before competition, or a release date can be changed to get one
product out of the way of a similarly-themed one.

"Mystery Men" centers on a group of would-be superheroes. Ben Stiller
stars as an angry guy called Mr. Furious, Janeane Garofalo is a
bowling ball-throwing heroine called The Bowler and Fargo's William
H. Macy plays The Shoveller. The heroes do battle with villain, Shine
Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush's Casanova Frankenstein. Greg Kinnear also
stars as Captain Amazing, the movie's only actual superhero.

                        -=> * <=-

(SW Networks) - The big mouth of talk wrestling, Morton Downey Jr.,
is headed to the big screen. The man who paved the way for the likes
of Jerry Springer says that Hollywood wants to turn his life into a
movie with Nicolas Cage playing the lead role. The New York Daily
News reported that although Downey named Paramount Pictures as an
interested party, a film company spokesperson has denied any
knowledge of such a project.

                        -=> * <=-

(SW Networks) - It's said in Hollywood that no one plays injured or
crazy like "Braveheart" Oscar winner Mel Gibson. The
actor/director/producer who came to global attention by playing
half-touched characters like "Mad Max" and the "Lethal Weapon"
series' Martin Riggs, however, won't be playing mad again, if a new
project comes through. Gibson's Icon Productions banner now has a
stake in the drama "The Professor and the Madman," which will be
directed by "The Fifth Element's" Luc Besson.

As Launch previously reported, the project centers on the real-life
relationship between Professor James Murray and Yale educated
physician Dr. William Chester Minor, the two men who helped create
the Oxford English Dictionary. The film, based on the book by Simon
Winchester, will explore what happened when Murray discovers that his
partner, Minor, was a paranoid schizophrenic murderer, who had
contributed to the dictionary from imprisonment in an asylum. Variety
notes that no deal has been set for Gibson to star in the pic, but if
he does, he'd be playing Murray's part.

                        -=> * <=-

NEW YORK (AP) - Acting isn't everything for Cate Blanchett, the
Oscar-nominated star of "Elizabeth." But having a normal life isn't
easy for the movie star who got married two years ago, so the best
perks accompanying the filming of her upcoming movie, "The Talented
Mr. Ripley," in Rome, Naples, and Venice were the romantic locales.
"I finally had a honeymoon with my husband in Italy," Blanchett said.
The 30-year-old Australian actress also costars in the upcoming film
"An Ideal Husband," an adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play. She plays
the overly moralistic Lady Gertrude Chiltern, a part she chose
because of its inherent challenges. "I thought it would be
interesting to play a prig who unravels," Blanchett said. "I don't
believe you have to fall in love with your character. It's important
to present the unpalatable, flawed side." Blanchett's other film
credits include "Pushing Tin," "Paradise Road" and "Oscar and
Lucinda."


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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 11:38:44 -0700
From: "Romero, Leticia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: [MV] Movie News - 06/15/99

Jimmy's so smart...

> -----Original Message-----
> From:    jkrudy [SMTP:[e-mail]]
> Sent:    Tuesday, June 15, 1999 11:33 AM
> To:    '[e-mail]'
> Subject:    RE: [MV] Movie News - 06/15/99
> Importance:    Low
>
> In case anybody cares, Clarke's Odyssey trilogy was not a trilogy but
> actually a 4-book series.  He wrote a book called 2061: Odyssey Three,
> then
> he wrote 3001: The Final Odyssey.
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregory A. Swarthout [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 12:00 PM
> To: Movies Mailing List
> Subject: [MV] Movie News - 06/15/99
>
>
> (Launch) - Mike Myer's "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me"
> shagged almost $54.7 million this weekend, knocking "Star Wars:
> Episode One - The Phantom Menace" out of first place. Still, for
> those who can't get enough of that most shaggable of secret agents,
> HBO has agreed to develop an Austin Powers cartoon. "When you write a
> script, you always have another script's worth of material that
> didn't make it in," Myers said. "I'm looking at this animated series
> of 13 half-hour shows is that it will be sort of like a joke
> orphanage, a land of lost toys." No date has been set for the series.
>
> LOS ANGELES (AP) - Austin Powers is absolutely swinging, baby.
> "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me," the James Bond spoof sequel
> starring Mike Myers as the sexually charged man of mystery, took in
> $54.7 million over the weekend, making more in its first three days
> than the original movie did in its entire run. That knocked the
> latest "Star Wars" installment out of first place and accorded
> unlikely blockbuster status to a concept that started out as an
> in-joke Myers thought few people would get. Now, everywhere you turn,
> somebody is trying to do his best Austin Powers imitation, imposing a
> bad English accent on his buzzwords: "Oh, behave!" and "Yeah, baby!
> Yeah!" "We're stunned, it's almost surreal," said Mike Deluca,
> president of production at New Line Cinema, the film's distributor.
> "I think in a weird way the culture caught up with it."
>
> The original, "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery," tested
> poorly and opened to a tepid $9.5 million in May 1997. People just
> didn't seem to understand the humor about a '60s spy with bad teeth,
> a bearskin rug of a chest and an infatuation with sex. Myers said the
> idea was inspired by his late father, a Liverpool-born salesman who
> loved British comedy, from Peter Sellers to Monty Python. "You would
> have had to have grown up in my house to get it," Myers said before
> the film opened. But audiences warmed up to Austin's humor, and the
> $16 million-budget film hung on through the summer to gross $53.9
> million and turn a profit. Then it went to video, where it was - as
> Austin would say - smashing. The tape dominated the 1998 video
> charts, with $44 million in sales. It spawned Austin theme parties in
> colleges and homes, and set the groundwork for the sequel, with
> double the budget.
>
>                         -=> * <=-
>
> LOS ANGELES (AP) - No one in Hollywood can guarantee a box office
> bonanza like Tom Hanks, Mel Gibson or Tom Cruise, according to a
> Tinseltown trade publication. Making the top 10 of The Hollywood
> Reporter's 5th annual Star Power '99 survey of bankable stars were,
> in order, Hanks, Gibson, Cruise, Harrison Ford, Jim Carrey, Leonardo
> DiCaprio, John Travolta, Julia Roberts, Robin Williams and Brad Pitt.
> The Hollywood Reporter surveyed 135 entertainment industry
> executives, bankers, buyers and sales agents. The top 10 list was "a
> subjective look at the bankability of 525 actors and actresses
> worldwide." "You obviously need a good script and a good director,
> but the casting of the right actor and right actress in the right
> park is essential to the success of any movie," said Sherry Lansing,
> chairwoman of Paramount Motion Picture Group.
>
> Voters were asked about an individual's ability to attract financing,
> ensure global distribution and open a film on the strength of their
> name, among other things. The list was to be published in Tuesday's
> edition.
>
>                         -=> * <=-
>
> (SW Networks) - Empire magazine has reported that "2001: A Space
> Odyssey" author Arthur C. Clarke is in talks with Tom Hanks on an
> upcoming film adaptation of Clarke's "3001: The Final Odyssey" and
> that Hanks, a two-time Oscar winner, is eager to direct the project.
> The "Final Odyssey" project is based on the last book of Clarke's
> Odyssey trilogy, which spun not only Stanley Kubrick's legendary film
> ("2001: A Space Odyssey"), but also the sequel "2010: The Year We
> Make Contact." Hanks' first and last directorial effort was the
> acclaimed period piece "That Thing You Do," which failed to make a
> significant impact at the box office, but has found a home on VH1.
>
>                         -=> * <=-
>
> LOS ANGELES (AP) - Last year's raunchy satire "Orgazmo" was slapped
> with an NC-17 rating for its constant stream of sex jokes and crude
> sight gags. A few months later, the action-packed "Payback" showed
> Mel Gibson killing a variety of people in a variety of ways before he
> was tortured, but the ratings board gave the film an R rating. For
> years, producers have complained the ratings board has more tolerance
> for violence than for sex. That has raised questions about whether
> checking IDs at the theater door - as President Clinton said Tuesday
> that theater owners have agreed to do - will shield youngsters from
> violence. The president may have complicated the issue further by
> getting the government involved, contends lawyer Alan Dershowitz, who
> helped push through the NC-17 rating in 1990 to take the X-rated
> stigma off non-pornographic films with adult themes.
>
> "The system itself is skewed against sex and in favor of violence,"
> Dershowitz said. "But once the president puts the heavy thumb of
> government on the scale, it begins to smack of governmental
> intrusion." Jack Valenti, head of the Motion Picture Association of
> America, which sets the ratings, said he applauded the agreement,
> calling it "a big step forward." Valenti developed the system more
> than 30 years ago. He admits it is subjective and imperfect, but said
> it consistently receives favorable reviews from parents. Over the
> years, the system has been altered only slightly.
>
>                         -=> * <=-
>
> (SW Networks) - Due to overwhelmingly positive reaction to the
> star-studded movie's coming attraction, which is playing before "Star
> Wars: Episode I" in many theaters across the country, Universal has
> decided to move up the release date of its action/comedy "Mystery
> Men." The movie - about a group of superheroes with lame powers -
> will now bow on July 30, not August 6. Moving up a movie's release
> date may be done for many reasons. It can mean a studio has expressed
> confidence in a movie, it can be done to give the movie more run-time
> before competition, or a release date can be changed to get one
> product out of the way of a similarly-themed one.
>
> "Mystery Men" centers on a group of would-be superheroes. Ben Stiller
> stars as an angry guy called Mr. Furious, Janeane Garofalo is a
> bowling ball-throwing heroine called The Bowler and Fargo's William
> H. Macy plays The Shoveller. The heroes do battle with villain, Shine
> Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush's Casanova Frankenstein. Greg Kinnear also
> stars as Captain Amazing, the movie's only actual superhero.
>
>                         -=> * <=-
>
> (SW Networks) - The big mouth of talk wrestling, Morton Downey Jr.,
> is headed to the big screen. The man who paved the way for the likes
> of Jerry Springer says that Hollywood wants to turn his life into a
> movie with Nicolas Cage playing the lead role. The New York Daily
> News reported that although Downey named Paramount Pictures as an
> interested party, a film company spokesperson has denied any
> knowledge of such a project.
>
>                         -=> * <=-
>
> (SW Networks) - It's said in Hollywood that no one plays injured or
> crazy like "Braveheart" Oscar winner Mel Gibson. The
> actor/director/producer who came to global attention by playing
> half-touched characters like "Mad Max" and the "Lethal Weapon"
> series' Martin Riggs, however, won't be playing mad again, if a new
> project comes through. Gibson's Icon Productions banner now has a
> stake in the drama "The Professor and the Madman," which will be
> directed by "The Fifth Element's" Luc Besson.
>
> As Launch previously reported, the project centers on the real-life
> relationship between Professor James Murray and Yale educated
> physician Dr. William Chester Minor, the two men who helped create
> the Oxford English Dictionary. The film, based on the book by Simon
> Winchester, will explore what happened when Murray discovers that his
> partner, Minor, was a paranoid schizophrenic murderer, who had
> contributed to the dictionary from imprisonment in an asylum. Variety
> notes that no deal has been set for Gibson to star in the pic, but if
> he does, he'd be playing Murray's part.
>
>                         -=> * <=-
>
> NEW YORK (AP) - Acting isn't everything for Cate Blanchett, the
> Oscar-nominated star of "Elizabeth." But having a normal life isn't
> easy for the movie star who got married two years ago, so the best
> perks accompanying the filming of her upcoming movie, "The Talented
> Mr. Ripley," in Rome, Naples, and Venice were the romantic locales.
> "I finally had a honeymoon with my husband in Italy," Blanchett said.
> The 30-year-old Australian actress also costars in the upcoming film
> "An Ideal Husband," an adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play. She plays
> the overly moralistic Lady Gertrude Chiltern, a part she chose
> because of its inherent challenges. "I thought it would be
> interesting to play a prig who unravels," Blanchett said. "I don't
> believe you have to fall in love with your character. It's important
> to present the unpalatable, flawed side." Blanchett's other film
> credits include "Pushing Tin," "Paradise Road" and "Oscar and
> Lucinda."
>
>
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