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(Also: on the laserdisc version, after the credits, there is a plug
to go visit Universal Studios with the line "Ask for Babs" (a reference
to the "Where are they now" part of ANIMAL HOUSE))

AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (1981):
SYNW is the name of the porno film that is playing in the Picadilly Circus
theatre where David meets with Jack and his zombie friends.  The movie bill
also appears in the London underground when the man is killed.

TRADING PLACES (1983):
SYNW is on a poster in Jamie Lee Curtis' apartment.  No ape, just the
silhouette of two people.

Michael Jackson's "Thriller" (1983):
SYNW is in lines of dialogue from the movie within the video.  "...scrawled
in blood...", "What does it say?", "It says, 'See you next Wednesday'."
(Also, if you look close enough, there is a poster for SCHLOCK in the
lobby as Michael and his date leave the theatre.)

TWILIGHT ZONE - THE MOVIE (1983):
Steven Bishop plays "Charming G.I." (bad pun)

INTO THE NIGHT (1985):
There are actually two posters in INTO THE NIGHT for SYNW.  Both are in
the movie producer's office where Michelle Pfeiffer and Jeff Goldblum make a
phone call about a half hour or so into the film.

SPIES LIKE US (1985):
In one scene, Chevy Chase and Dan Ackroyd are in the office of the commander
of the army training post that is the site of their training.  There is a
shot of the commander lecturing them, and on the office wall behind him is a
recruitment poster bearing the legend "See You Next Wednesday."

COMING TO AMERICA:
A movie poster in the subway station where the Prince's bride-to-be
returns her earring gift.  (The movie claims to star Jamie Lee Curtis,
who starred in TRADING PLACES.)  Later, the Prince, to prove to his
girlfriend that money isn't important to him, gives his sizable roll
of pocket money to a pair of street people, who turn out to be the
Duke brothers (Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy) from TRADING PLACES.
They even appear in the credits!  You might recall that the Dukes are
destitute at the end of TRADING PLACES, so the plotlines are
consistent.  It is also amusing that Eddie Murphy, who made them poor
in the former movie, made them rich in the latter.

INNOCENT BLOOD (NYR):
The marquee across the street from the Melody Lounge exotic dance bar.
(Visible over the shoulders of the Mafia folks the first time they
enter the bar.)

(Interestingly, that was not the only movie marquee set up to display
the SYNW title.  The "car crash at the Shadyside gas station" scene
was filmed down the street from Stewart M. Clamen's residence (in
Squirrel Hill), and the nearby multiplex changed its marquee
appropriately every night after closing.  The movie itself featured no
footage of that theatre (or the street on which it resides), although
it is possible that it was edited out.

This leads one to believe that Landis inserts many SYNW references in
the backgrounds of his scenes, so as not to constrain himself (and his
film editor) during editing.)

[Thanks to Randy Spencer, [e-mail], Stewart M. Clamen,
[e-mail], and Jerry Boyajian, [e-mail],
for this answer.  Jerry also wants to know if anyone has catalgoed
other "Ask for Babs" references.]

12) What does the number at the end of the end credits mean?

The Motion Picture Association of America (the MPAA) is responsible for
assigning these numbers.  It is part of their film rating service.  Any film
can be submitted to the MPAA for rating (the G/PG/PG13/R/NC-17 ratings
Americans are familiar with), for a small fee.  Any film rated by the MPAA is
issued a unique number.  Any film can be submitted, but many aren't, including
most adult sex films, many foreign films, industrial films and other training
and educational films, television films, and some independently made films.

The rating service (and the numbering associated with it) was started in
1968.  There is no publicly available list of films and numbers, and the
MPAA information office does not have the title of the film issued certificate
#1 readily available.

Films before 1968 were assigned numbers based on their agreement to the
Production Code, instituted July 1, 1934.  Under that scheme, the film SHE,
released in 1935, has number 985.  Reports of any earlier number spottings
would be appreciated.  Given that the current number is in the 30,000,
I believe the current numbers are continued from those, rather than restarted
in 1968.

A word or two more about MPAA ratings.  The ratings are assigned by a board
composed of "ordinary citizens", largely parents, as the intent of the
rating system is to protect the tender minds of children from harm.  The
board watches the film and collectively assigns a rating.  If the producer
doesn't like the rating, s/he has a couple of options.  The rating can be
appealed to the MPAA official in charge of rating films.  On a few occasions,
the appeal has been successful.  Not too surprisingly, appeals by large
studios tend to have a better success rate than appeals by smaller studios.
Alternately, the producer can recut the film and resubmit it.  The MPAA rating
board tends to be coy on exactly what caused a film to get a rating, and they
never actually tell a filmmaker that if this scene is cut, you will get that
rating.  Somehow or other, though, the information tends to get to the
filmmakers, so that Alan Parker, for instance, somehow knew that cutting a few
seconds of Mickey Rourke humping Lisa Bonet while blood drips from the ceiling
changes "Angel Heart" from a film no child should see to a film merely
requiring parental presence.

While we're at it, what is the MPAA?  It's an industry organization for the
American film production business, particularly for the major studios.  Its
members are Disney, Columbia, MGM, Orion, Paramount, 20th Century Fox,
Universal, and Warner Brothers.  These companies pay fees to the MPAA that
are used as the primary source of financing for the organization.  In
addition to the ratings, the MPAA performs other services for their members,
including lobbying the government.  (They prefer to refer to this service
as "working on issues important to the film industry.")  Jack Valenti, the
head of the MPAA, is a prominent spokesman who speaks for "Hollywood" as
a whole, generally on issues important to all the studios, like film
piracy, trade disputes with other countries, and censorship.  The MPAA was
founded in 1922, so it's been doing this sort of thing for quite a while.

[Thanks to Peter Reiher, [e-mail], for this answer.]

13) What ethnic actors have won Academy Awards?

(This question seem to come up every year at Oscar time.)

"Actors of ethnic extraction other then European/ Mediterranean who have
been nominated for Academy Awards" (so we don't start quibbling over Omar
Sharif).  I'm not a big fan of groupings by race, but it has its educational
values in a situation like this, showing Hollywood's record in honoring
minority contributions.  In borderline cases, we have gone by the "as
generally perceived" standard--thus no Ben Kingsley, who seems thoroughly
British despite the fact that his father was Gujrati, and none of the many
American actors who proudly say they're "part Indian" when they mean 1/16 or
1/32.  With that ponderous preamble out of the way, here's the list:

                        AFRICAN-AMERICAN

Hattie McDaniel       1939   supp   Gone with the Wind   WON
Dorothy Dandridge     1954   lead   Carmen Jones
Sidney Poitier        1958   lead   The Defiant Ones
                      1963   lead   Lilies of the Field  WON
Beah Richards         1967   supp   Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Rupert Crosse         1969   supp   The Reivers
James Earl Jones      1970   lead   The Great White Hope
Paul Winfield         1972   lead   Sounder
Cicely Tyson          1972   lead   Sounder
Diana Ross            1972   lead   Lady Sings the Blues
Diahann Carroll       1974   lead   Claudine
Howard E. Rollins Jr  1981   supp   Ragtime
Louis Gossett Jr.     1982   supp   Officer & Gentleman  WON
Alfre Woodard         1983   supp   Cross Creek
Adolph Caesar         1984   supp   A Soldier's Story
Whoopi Goldberg       1985   lead   The Color Purple
                      1991   supp   Ghost                WON
Margaret Avery        1985   supp   The Color Purple
Oprah Winfrey         1985   supp   The Color Purple
Dexter Gordon         1986   lead   Round Midnight
Morgan Freeman        1987   supp   Street Smart
                      1989   lead   Driving Miss Daisy
Denzel Washington     1987   supp   Cry Freedom
                      1989   supp   Glory         WON

                  ASIAN (including Polynesian)

Miyoshi Umeki         1957   supp   Sayonara             WON
Sessue Hayakawa       1957   supp   Bridge over the River Kwai
Mako                  1966   supp   The Sand Pebbles
Jocelyn LaGarde       1966   supp   Hawaii
Haing S. Ngor         1984   supp   The Killing Fields   WON
Noriyuki "Pat" Morita 1984   supp   The Karate Kid

                         NATIVE AMERICAN

Chief Dan George      1970   supp   Little Big Man
Graham Greene         1991   supp   Dances with Wolves

Note that John Singleton is now the first African-American to be
nominated as best director.

[Thanks to Jon Conrad, [e-mail], for bulk of this answer.]


14) What are all the James Bond films and who played Bond?  When is the
next James Bond film?
    "Casino Royale" episode of CLIMAX TV series    1954    Barry Nelson
    Dr. No                        1963    Sean Connery
    From Russia With Love                1964    Sean Connery
    Goldfinger                    1964    Sean Connery
    Thunderball                    1965    Sean Connery
    Casino Royale                    1967    David Niven*
    You Only Live Twice                1967    Sean Connery
    On Her Majesty's Secret Service            1969    George Lazenby
    Diamonds Are Forever                1971    Sean Connery
    Live and Let Die                1973    Roger Moore
    The Man With the Golden Gun            1974    Roger Moore
    The Spy Who Loved Me                1977    Roger Moore
    The Strange Case of the End of Civilisation
         as We Know It                1977    ?
    Moonraker                    1979    Roger Moore
    For Your Eyes Only                1981    Roger Moore
    Octopussy                    1983    Roger Moore
    Never Say Never Again                1983    Sean Connery
    The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.        1983    George Lazenby+
    A View to a Kill                1985    Roger Moore
    The Living Daylights                1987    Timothy Dalton
    Licence to Kill                    1989    Timothy Dalton
    "Diamonds Aren't Forever" episode of ALFRED
        HITCHCOCK PRESENTS            1989    George Lazenby=


And regarding the John Landis stuff, I wonder if anyone has compiled a list
of the films that feature the "When In Hollywood Visit Universal City
Studios (Ask for Babs)" card at the end of the closing credits.


* Woody Allen plays his nephew, "Jimmy Bond"
+ Only a cameo--Lazenby drives a car with license plate "007" in this
  made-for-television movie and is clearly supposed to be Bond, though he
  is never called by name.
= Lazenby plays "James ... [sic]"

(Michael Golan mentions also CANNONBALL (1976), but in that Roger Moore
is explicit that he is *Roger Moore*, not James Bond, in spite of all
appearances.  Still, some may want to count this.  "M" and "Miss
Moneypacket" appear in "The Strange Case of the End of Civilisation as
We Know It," a 1977 British television production starring John Cleese;
they were played by Kenneth Benda and Charlotte Alexandra respectively.)

And as far as the *next* Bond film goes:
UA, who made the Bond films, is still owned by MGM, which is in moderately
bad financial trouble.  They keep making movies, but they tend not to
make big budgetbusters, at the moment.  MGM still has a distribution
deal with Broccoli for James Bond films, so any he made would have to go
through them, meaning they would presumably be financed by MGM, too.

In addition to the financial problems at MGM, there are legal problems.
For a while MGM/UA was owned by Pathe Communications, which was run by
an Italian weasel named Paretti.  He bought the studios under shady
circumstances; everyone predicted he wouldn't have enough money to pull
it off, and, in the end, he didn't.  He's now hiding out from U.S.
indictments in his native land.  At any rate, one of the measures he
took to dig up money for his acquisitions was to sell the television
rights to the James Bond films.  But part of the money from this sale
was to go to Broccoli, and he felt that the rights were sold for bargain
basement prices to help Paretti out of his financial troubles (at the
expense of Broccoli).  So Broccoli is suing.  Until the suit gets settled,
chances are there will be no more Bond films.

Should the suit get settled, and should MGM pull itself out of trouble,
there will probably be another Bond film.  While the last two performed
poorly in the U.S., they were big hits in Europe and Asia, more than
recouping their costs.  As part of a lengthy series, they have more library
value than they would otherwise.  Also, given the poor performance of the
last "Rocky" film, and the collapse of the Pink Panther films (I doubt
if the upcoming one will change that), Bond is the only valuable series
that MGM/UA still have.

At this point, it's anyone's guess about when the film will appear, what
the title, plot, or setting will be, and who will star.

[The above re the future of Bond films is courtesy of Peter Reiher,
[e-mail].]


15) What are those funny dots that blink on in the upper-right corner of
    films?

These are change-over cues, or "reel-change dots," signaling the
projectionist that it is time to change reels.  The average reel
contains about twenty minutes of 35mm film.  In some old films on TV,
you'll see long changeover cues since some projectionists were paranoid
that they would not see the marks.  so, they extended the marks to
include more frames.  Sometimes they would just use a paper punch and
make *big* holes in the film.  Hard to miss these....

Video versions these days usually don't have these dots, though you may
see them in older movies, or in wide-screen films that have been panned-
and-scanned.  (The video versions lack the dots in part because the sides
of the picture get trimmed when it is transferred to video.)

(Paul Parenteau, [e-mail])

(Ron Birnbaum, [e-mail], also says that the dots also used on television
to signal that a commercial break is coming.)

PART TWO: Frequent Topics and other things we just thought you might
like to know.  First a few general notes... The readership of
rec.arts.movies is in the whole very knowledgeable about a wide
range of movies.  However, it is my informal assessment that
science fiction and fantasy movies are discussed and analyzed far
beyond their popularity in most of the rest of the world.  This is
neither good nor bad, and the reason for it seems fairly obvious
to me.  The readership of this group reflects the broader
readership of USENET.  This latter population is top heavy with
computer scientists and other forms of science scholars.  There is
a correlation (though not necessarily a causal relationship) between
being in one of these professions, and an interest in science
fiction and fantasy.  Okay, enough of that.  Now, here are some
things which come up often, and, while you are free to discuss
them, you should be forewarned that some long-time readers may get
fairly fed-up with you.


PART THREE: Frequently discussed topics:

1) COLORIZING -- Various legal and moral issues.  As most of you
probably know, Ted Turner and others have taken to adding "color" old
black and white films.  "Color" is in quotes, because it is questionable
whether you can really call it color.  Anyway, there is, every so often,
a discussion of some aspect of this.  There are a whole host of legal
and moral/ethical issues involved here.  Suprisingly there really seems
to be a fair mix of opinion on this issue.  No, you cannot just turn off
the color on your television; adding color changes the values of the
various sections so they show up differently.  However, adding color
requires a restored clean print, so many claim that the money from
selling color-added films is being used to preserve the films (in black
and white as well as in color).  It has been ruled illegal to add color
to CITIZEN KANE due to the way Orson Welles's contract was written.
(Boyajian points out that "colorization" is a trademarked term.)

2) PRODUCT PLACEMENTS IN MOVIES.  In many films, the film company
will get paid by some companies to use their products.  Some
readers object to this as a fairly manipulative and distracting
presence.  Others do not object, commenting that people really do
use name-brand products, so using them in films makes sense.
Many have commented on the pack of Marlboro cigarettes in DEAD AGAIN,
saying this was the best product placement they had ever seen.

3) HAS ANYONE SEEN THIS GREAT MOVIE I JUST SAW CALLED HEATHERS?
For some reason, every time someone stumbles across this movie,
they feel like they should post to the net and ask if anyone else
has seen it, and do they want to discuss it.  This is fine, of
course, but it does get to be a little repetitive.  The film stars
Winona Ryder as Veronica and Christian Slater as J.D.  Two students
at a high school in Ohio.  The three most popular girls at the
school, and Veronica's best friends, are all named Heather.  The
film is a black comedy which revolves around the relationship of
JD & Veronica, and how they interact with the 3 Heathers and
others.  Some people think it is very good, although many netters were
disappointed with the ending.  If you haven't seen it yet, you should.

4) WHAT'S THIS TALK ABOUT A GHOST IN THREE MEN AND A BABY?
There is a rumor that if you watch TMATB very closely you will see a
ghost in it.  The scene in question is the one where Ted Danson's
character meets his mom in his apartment.  If you look near the window
you can see an image resembling a small boy.  This is supposedly the
ghost of a boy who was killed in the house where the movie was filmed.

First of all, the movie was not filmed in a house, but on a Toronto
soundstage.  So the whole premise is hokey to begin with.  But here is
more evidence provided by: [e-mail] (Brian Enright)):

> I then rewound and ran it through super slow mo.  When they pass the
> window on their way in, you can't see the boy but it looks like there
> is a bed post sticking up.  When they pass the window again it looks
> like a two-dimensional cut-out but not of Ted Danson.  It's a little
> boy with a baseball cap, a white tee-shirt and a blue unbuttoned
> button-down shirt in my opinion.  Hmmmm.  I had to investigate.
>
> After further investigation of other scenes in the movie I found there
> were no bed posts on the bed.  Then I hit the clue that gave it away.
> This particular scene is almost at the end of the movie.  In this
> scene Ted Danson walks to a window where there is a cut-out of him in
> a black top hat and a black tuxedo with a white shirt.  If you
> examine this cut out closely and go back to the scene in question,
> you will notice that they are the same cut out.  You can see that the
> boy *is* Ted Danson and he is wearing a top hat and even his shoulders
> hidden behind the curtain are noticeably not a little boy's but a man
> in a tuxedo.
>
> I hate to burst any bubbles but it *definitely is* a cut-out of Ted
> Danson in a *tuxedo*..

5) Can someone explain BARTON FINK?

So far as I can tell, no. :-)

From: [e-mail] (Will Bell):

Other information:  There are several lists revolving around film that
are kept by netters.  These frequently come up.

One major project is a list of votes/ratings of a plethora of movies.
This list is maintained by Chuck Musciano,
([e-mail]), and it is posted regularly, with a
chance for people to vote.  The report is also available via anonymous
ftp from penguin.gatech.edu (128.61.9.46) in the pub/movie directory.

Evelyn Leeper ([e-mail]) provides several services for the
r.a.m readers (aside from her many postings), including maintaining
these lists:

       -- Academy Award Nominations & Winners from 1987 on
       -- Hollywood Vocabulary (such terms as chopsocky, bowed,
          helmed, etc.)
       -- Information on what all those people listed in film
          credits do (e.g. key grip, gaffer...).

Evelyn is also the moderator of the group rec.arts.movies.reviews, which
is a collection of movie reviews written by USENET-ers.  The
rec.arts.movies.reviews archives are currently stored on LCS.MIT.EDU
(192.20.239.131) which is a UNIX machine, and are in the directory
/common/movie-reviews.  The archives are currently available to anyone
with FTP access to this machine.  The files are numbered, so you will
need to refer to the latest index to see which ones you want.  Every
hundred issues is a cumulative index (nn00).  The number of reviews has
made it necessary to split them up into subdirectories.  Thus, numbers
0001 through 0099 are in 00xx.dir, 0100 through 0199 in 01xx.dir, and so
on.  There are files "INDEX*" in the directory /common/movie-reviews that
index all reviews.  If you have no FTP access, you can request copies
of reviews (12 or less at a time) by sending mail to Evelyn.


Another group of interest is rec.arts.cinema.  This is a moderated
group, devoted to more serious analyses of film and film related issues.
The moderator is Manavendra Thakur.  Send submissions to
[e-mail].  (This group has been very inactive of late,
and may be dead.)


Several "filmography" lists are kept by various rec.arts.movies gurus, and are
posted regularly.  These lists are:


 List            | Maintained by
 ----------      |---------------------------------------
 Directors       | Dave Knight <[e-mail]>
 Dead actors     | Col Needham <[e-mail]>
 Actresses       | Andy Krieg <[e-mail]>
 Actors          | Col Needham <[e-mail]>
 Writers         | Andy Krieg <[e-mail]>
 Cinematographers| Michel Hafner <[e-mail]>
 Composers       | Michel Hafner <[e-mail]>
 Goofs           | "Starman" <[e-mail]>

The lists are also available via anonynmous FTP from boulder.colorado.edu
(128.138.240.1) in the directory ~ftp/pub/tv+movies/lists.

Colin Needham has written a set of shell scripts for creating and
searching a massive movie database using the information contained on
all the lists.  The scripts are also available via ftp in the directory
~ftp/pub/tv+movies/lists/tools.  He also publishes a set of scripts for
managing the task of voting in Chuck's Movie Ratings poll; they are
available via anonymus ftp from penguin.gatech.edu (128.61.9.46) in
the pub/movie/process directory or via e-mail from him
([e-mail]).

Bob Niland ([e-mail]) has several articles on Laser Disc
technology and availability available from his archives.  You may request
any of these at any time.  Recent copies are also available for anonymous
ftp on:
    princeton.edu (128.112.128.1, directory pub/Video/Niland) and
    bobcat.bbn.com (128.89.2.103),
    wsmr-simtel20.army.mil (192.88.110.20).

Lastly, there are a series of movie trivia contests.  Some of these
even offer prizes!  The initial contest postings generally include
information on how to enter.  The important point is that you
should never post answers, but should send them e-mail.

Evelyn C. Leeper   |   [phone]   |   att!mtgzy!ecl or [e-mail]

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  [c.b.i.p.archives] The Most Useful MSDOS Programs at Simtel and Garbo
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        ****   The Ultimate Guide to MSDOS Archive Files  ****

Version: 1.9  Oct 24 1992

Compiled by Samuel Ko ([e-mail])

This is a good selection of the "best" sharewares and freewares that are
available from Simtel (wsmr-simtel20.army.mil) - the largest depository
of MSDOS files - and Garbo (garbo.uwasa.fi) - a good alternative to Simtel.
This list contains many commonly-and-frequently-wanted sharewares/freewares/
public domain programs. So before you post any requests for ftp'able MSDOS
files in comp.binaries.ibm.pc.wanted or other msdos/pc newsgroups, please
try to read the list first. This will help reduce the traffic in those groups
a bit. Besides you might find some other interesting stuff here.

As it is more convenient to ftp files from Simtel's mirror sites than
Simtel itself, so I use the directories of oak.oakland.edu (the most
up-to-date mirror site) instead. If you want to use the parent site (Simtel)
or other mirror sites (e.g. wuarchive.wustl.edu), please change the path name
accordingly. Here is how to do it:  (`whatever' is the name of subdirectory
to be substituted)

oak: /pub/msdos/whatever = Simtel: PD1:<MSDOS.WHATEVER>
                         = wuarchive: /mirrors/msdos/whatever

Please note that garbo is mirrored in N. America at wuarchive. Therefore
garbo: /pc/whatever = wuarchive: /mirrors/garbo.uwasa.fi/whatever

For info on other Simtel and Garbo mirror sites, please see Appendix 1.

Thanks to all who have helped in improving the list. However, to save
some bandwidth, I do not want to include a long list (over 100 names) of
acknowledgment. I do sincerely thank each and every one of you who has
contributed to this compilation in one way or the other.

Any further comments and suggestions will be very much appreciated. I am
particularly interested in any programs that you think are better than those
listed below.

I will usually update this list once a month. However, I will be pretty busy
in the next couple of months, so the next issue will not be out until late
December / early January.

General format of an entry:
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Program:  Name and/or Description
Version:  The latest release
Upload Date:  The date the program was uploaded to Simtel or Oak
File:  The name of the file that corresponds to the program
Size:  The size of the archive file
Location:  The directory from which the file can be found
Status:  Shareware / Freeware Info
Comment:  My comment and supplementary info
Alternative:  Other similar program
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Contents:
* Section A:  Application Programs
* Section B:  Compression / Decompression Programs
* Section C:  Utilities
   Area 1:  4DOS
   Area 2:  Disk Utilites
   Area 3:  Directory Utilities
   Area 4:  File / Text Utilities
   Area 5:  Screen Utilities
   Area 6:  System Utilites
   Area 7:  Other Utilities
* Section D:  Anti-Virus Programs
* Section E:  Editors
* Section F:  Communication Programs
* Section G:  Miscellaneous Files
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* Appendix 1:  Mirror Sites
* Appendix 2:  Obtaining files by emails
* Appendix 3:  Getting upload announcements by emails
* Appendix 4:  How to do anonymous ftp?
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