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bdh3
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response 98 of 229:
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Jan 27 04:42 UTC 2000 |
If you goto the http reference, you can't get back....
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md
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response 99 of 229:
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Jan 27 12:48 UTC 2000 |
??
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don
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response 100 of 229:
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Jan 27 15:37 UTC 2000 |
I'll give three:
???
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janc
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response 101 of 229:
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Jan 28 04:50 UTC 2000 |
Re #98: Click on the link with your middle mouse button to open the
page in a new window. If your mouse hasn't got a middle button, install
Linux.
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gull
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response 102 of 229:
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Jan 28 05:16 UTC 2000 |
Or, under IE, use shift-click. Under Netscape, right-click on the link and
choose 'Open in New Window' from the pop-up menu.
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orinoco
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response 103 of 229:
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Jan 28 05:50 UTC 2000 |
Ort, under Netscape on a mac, command-click the link.
There,w asn't that easy?
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remmers
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response 104 of 229:
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Jan 28 14:40 UTC 2000 |
"Bowfinger" - delectably zany farce, well worth a rental at your
friendly neighborhood video store. Steve Martin plays Bowfinger, an Ed
Wood-like movie director trying to make a scifi movie about aliens
taking over the earth, on a budget of $2000. Eddie Murphy is the manic
movie star who ends up in Martin's movie without realizing it; Murphy
also plays a second role as the star's bashful, self-effacing brother.
As an added bonus, the film gets in a few nice jabs at Scientology.
Found myself laughing quite a lot. Frank Oz (of Muppet fame) directed.
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md
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response 105 of 229:
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Jan 28 17:27 UTC 2000 |
Ouch. Ordinarily, I take Mr Cranky's reviews
with the grain of salt he (or they) want me to
take them with. In the case of Bowfinger, however,
Mr Cranky drops the mask and delivers a straight
critique, with which I couldn't agree more:
"I'm basically used to the fact that, as an actor,
Steve Martin is a smartass. For a comedian, this
can be a gift, a necessity. Being a smartass as
a writer, however, is something entirely different.
Those of us who have achieved minimal notoriety can
credibly retain a smartass perspective, because we
can still look at the world through average eyes
and offer our take on subjects big and small, rich
and poor, without being hypocrites due to our social
position.
"Steve Martin does not have this "luxury." He is a
millionaire. He is a writer and a filmmaker who can
write any book or get any film made merely by the
power of his name. That Martin would choose to
ridicule the caricature of low-budget filmmaking that
is Bobby Bowfinger is the equivalent of Martin taking
a stroll down Hollywood Boulevard and taking a warm
piss on the first homeless guy he saw because said
person offended his sense of aesthetics.
"In "Bowfinger," Bobby Bowfinger (Martin) has two
thousand dollars, a bunch of bad actors, and wants to
make a movie. He wants to make it with superstar Kit
Ramsey (Eddie Murphy) but doesn't have his permission.
So, he simply follows Ramsey around and films the movie
anyway. He gets a look-a-like named Jiff (Murphy, in a
dual role), a bunch of bad actors including Daisy
(Heather Graham), Carol (Christine Baranski) and Slater
(Kohl Sudduth), a screenwriter Afrim (Adam Alexi-Malle)
and camera man and supplier, Dave (Jamie Kennedy).
"What does Steve Martin know about low-budget filmmaking,
anyway? What does he know about misfits or about people
who will forever fall short because they lack intelligence
and talent? What does he know about actresses who have to
sleep around to get what they want, other than having
maybe slept with one? Why didn't Martin just make a comedy
film about a quadriplegic's dream of competing at the
Olympics in the 100-yard dash? He could have had hilarious
scenes of the quad falling over in his electric wheelchair
and being pinned on the hot asphalt for several hours.
"Bowfinger" is a mean-spirited comedy trying to pretend
it's silly and cute, which makes it that much more
contemptible."
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drewmike
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response 106 of 229:
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Jan 28 20:22 UTC 2000 |
(Re 101: Changing your software adds controls to your hardware?
Impressive.)
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mary
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response 107 of 229:
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Jan 29 00:52 UTC 2000 |
Re: #105 This guy saw another movie. The character of Bowfinger is
passionate about film and nothing, not the lack of funding, acting talent,
or legal contracts will get in the way of his dream. He face radiates
pride when the first screening ends to the applause of an appreciative
audience. The scene where the Fed-Ex guy brings him his next "offer" is
precious beyond belief. The Bowfinger character is a Hollywood hero.
In this movie Steve Martin isn't trying to mock Hollywood as much as
pay tribute to every director with a dream and not much else.
I like this film.
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hhsrat
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response 108 of 229:
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Jan 29 01:25 UTC 2000 |
(Mr. Cranky = Christopher Potter?)
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tpryan
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response 109 of 229:
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Jan 30 02:06 UTC 2000 |
I am glad I got the DVD of Muppets in Space. I watched the movie
for the first time last night. A lot of laughing out loud. Laughed
more when I watched it again with the live commentary by the director,
Tim Hill, Gonzo, Rizzo and Kermit going on.
Now, my Gonzo think film festival of 1999 films will be:
Galaxy Quest, Toy Story 2, and Muppets in Space--they have something
in common.
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bdh3
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response 110 of 229:
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Jan 30 05:35 UTC 2000 |
I liked _Bowfinger_ as well. Whats-her-name even filled me in on all
the 'inside' jokes.
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bdh3
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response 111 of 229:
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Jan 30 05:48 UTC 2000 |
Watched _Rush Hour_ recently with Jackie Chan and some eddie murphy
wanabe along with some latina that used to have longer hair (hesche
appeal?).
Mary Wilson, Nai-nai, and I (while whats-her-name was in
californicatoria otherwise she's object to its rating). The funniest
parts were Mary Wilson translating the mandarin dialog so I wouldn't
miss anything (those parts were subtitled). Its the first Jackie Chan
movie I've seen and I suspect not the last. It actually had an
interesting plot, good action, and the out-takes in the trailer were
hilarious. I believe it is the second english film(tape) that nai-nai
has enjoyed (the first being a COPS 'best of' that she was amazed at -
the notion that the police would actually let the media follow along
with them and film things as they happened....) (Mary Wilson loves
COPS)
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gull
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response 112 of 229:
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Jan 30 07:42 UTC 2000 |
I find COPS kind of disturbing. I'm thinking in particular of one episode
where they stopped a black guy riding on a bicycle at night, apparently for
no other reason than that he was black, and it was night. Of course, he
turned out to have a warrant against him, when they checked out his ID on
the computer, but how many guys did they harass who *didn't* have warrants
against them? Obviously they don't show that part on TV, but by inference
it must happen quite a bit.
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scott
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response 113 of 229:
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Jan 30 13:31 UTC 2000 |
I find those "cops" shows rather disturbing as well.
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jazz
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response 114 of 229:
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Jan 30 16:26 UTC 2000 |
On the same thought, I am concerned about the politically correct
telling police that they can't use any profiling skills they may have had -
unless they're profiling someone who is white, or of a minority that's not
large enough or politically powerful enough to have the protection of the
politically correct - because profiling is racist.
But I have seem some things on that show that really should have
resulted in someone getting dismissed permanently from the police force.
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mary
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response 115 of 229:
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Jan 30 16:52 UTC 2000 |
Profiling is racist.
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don
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response 116 of 229:
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Jan 30 16:59 UTC 2000 |
Is profiling the kind of stuff people are talking about when they mention
"Driving While Black"?
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gull
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response 117 of 229:
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Jan 30 20:21 UTC 2000 |
Re #114: Right...they shouldn't be profiling *anyone* based on the color of
their skin.
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mcnally
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response 118 of 229:
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Jan 31 02:18 UTC 2000 |
I find "Cops" too disturbing to watch due to my "My god.. if *this* is
how they behave when they KNOW they're being filmed" reaction to most
of the footage..
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bdh3
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response 119 of 229:
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Jan 31 05:58 UTC 2000 |
(sounds like a good topic for a separate item)
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richard
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response 120 of 229:
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Jan 31 17:15 UTC 2000 |
"NETWORK"-- caught this on dvd over the weekend. I had forgotten what
a really great movie this is. A really biting commentary on the power of
television and how people get destroyed by ambition and ego. Peter
Finch great as a network news anchor who has a mental breakdown and starts
ranting and raving on the air. Faye Dunaway and Robert DuVall as the
heartless programming execs who keep Finch on the air after his breakdown
because his rantings are garnering great ratings. "I'm as mad as hell
and Im not going to take it anymore" William Holden as the crusty
news editor who is the only one who even cares about Finch. This
movie was written by Paddy Chayefsky as a commentary on how television,
and its ability to foster and drive a celebrity and ego-driven culture,
could create generations of people so controlled by it that they lose
touch with reality. That you could end up with people like the Dunaway
and Duvall characters, who lose their ability to relate in the real world
and start looking at what's on television as reality.
A great movie. Finch, Dunaway and Chayefsky all won academy awards. I highly
recommend it.
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bruin
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response 121 of 229:
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Jan 31 20:08 UTC 2000 |
And Peter Finch, who died shortly before the Academy Award Presentations, was
the first posthumous Best Actor Oscar.
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bdh3
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response 122 of 229:
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Feb 2 05:50 UTC 2000 |
(Apropos of nothing, I believe his oscar was accepted by his widow who
happens to be black)(he is white). Isn't this black history month?)
A really great flick, and although somewhat dated in its specifics it is
perhaps even more relevent to today than when it was filmed (I mean we
have federal and state money being spent to train 'former' welfare
recipients to be 'psychics' (NY state in a recent AP wire service
story). We have _NEWSWEEK_ altering photographs to fit stories, we have
a president debating the meaning of the word 'is'...
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