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	Rumor has it that there may be problems with Arnie's new
	film "The Last Action Hero" because they are re-shooting some
	scenes in LA.  The studio said they do that on all their
	films.

	In any case, what I found interesting is they mentioned the
	film has cost $77 Million to make!

	
 UPI Arts & Entertainment -- Scott's World
	
	HOLLYWOOD (UPI) -- Summer officially begins everywhere in the northern
hemisphere June 21 with the celestial solstice.
	Everywhere except Hollywood, which has been operating on its own
calendar since the advent of movies.
	Summer in Hollywood begins just before school lets out, stretching
seasonal box office potential.
	The first summer pictures already are out. ``Dragon: The Bruce Lee
Story,'' which opened at the top of the box-office rankings, has Jason
Scott Lee in the title role with Lauren Holly and Robert Wagner co-
starring.
	``Dave,'' which also had a strong debut, stars Kevin Kline as an
ordinary guy who doubles for a stricken president, becoming a hero with
politically correct programs to help the down-trodden while romancing
the first lady.
 Other May releases:
	--``Menace II Society'' is a harsh urban story of survival among young
blacks in the inner city, starring Tyrin Turner and Vonte Sweet.
	--``Hot Shots! Part Deux'' stars Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges and
Valeria Golino in an action story with Sheen as a commando on a special
mission for the president.
	--``Made In America,'' in which Whoopi Goldberg and Ted Danson fall in
love off-screen and on, deals with a sperm bank mixup resulting in a
beautiful daughter.
	--``Sliver'' proves Sharon Stone's sexual appeal in ``Basic Instinct''
wasn't a fluke as she drives William Baldwin and Tom Berenger crazy in a
psychosexual mystery.
 June
	--``Jurassic Park,'' Steven Speilberg's long-awaited $60 million film
version of Michael Crichton's fantasy of dinosaurs genetically recreated
for a theme park, starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum.
	--``Rookie of the Year'' is a fantasy about a little leaguer who leaps
to the major leagues when an accident gives him a pitching arm that
brings Chicago's Cubs a pennant.
	--``Once Upon a Forest'' is a feature-length animated adventure of
three woodland creatures in a race against time to save a friend's life.
	--``Last Action Hero'' has Arnold Schwarzenegger as a movie superstar
humbled when an 11-year-old boy is blasted from his theater seat into
Arnie's movie.
	--``Dennis the Menace,'' the comics' brat, hits the big screen with
Walter Matthau as long-suffering neighbor George Wilson, directed by
John Hughes.
	--``Guilty as Sin,'' a suspense drama directed by Sidney Lumet, has an
attorney (Rebecca De Mornay) defending a charmer (Don Johnson) until she
discovers he's guilty.
	--``Life With Mikey'' stars Michael J. Fox as a former child star, now
a third-rate 31-year-old agent specializing in child actors; he picks a
winner when she picks his pocket.
	--``What's Love Got To Do With It?'' is a Tina Turner film biography
starring Angela Bassett, with Larry Fishburne as Ike Turner.
 July
	--``Free Willy'' is the story of a boy (Jason James Richter) and a
trapped whale named Willy, both aggressively anti-social and searching
for a home.
	--``The Son-In-Law'' stars Pauly Shore as a funky L.A. rocker who
winds up in the the farm belt and falls in love with fresh-scrubbed
cutie (Carla Gugino), much to her parents' horror.
	--``Hocus Pocus,'' a comedy with Bette Middler, Sarah Jessica Parker
and Kathy Najimy as witches accidentally conjured up on Halloween in
present-day Salem, Mass.
	--``Stakeout II'' stars Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez recreating
their detective roles in a sequel to the 1987 comedy hit.
	--``Surf Ninjas'' finds teenage brothers learning they're South Sea
island princes with martial arts and surfing skills to overthrow the
island's dictator.
	--``Rising Sun'' stars Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes as detectives
investigating the murder of a young woman in the offices of a large
Japanese firm.
	--``The Meteor Man'' is a fantasy starring Robert Townsend (who also
wrote and directed) as a superman with a fear of heights, with Bill
Cosby and James Earl Jones.
	--``Undercover Blues'' stars Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid as
married spies recovering stolen arms in a romantic comedy whodunnit set
in New Orleans.
	--``The Firm'' teams Tom Cruise with yet another veteran Oscar-winner,
Gene Hackman, in John Grisham's story about an Ivy League lawyer
employed by a crooked firm.
	--``This Thing Called Love'' involves four novice songwriters
emotionally involved in work and each other, starring River Phoenix,
Samantha Mathis, Dermot Mulroney and Sandra Bullock.
	--``Coneheads'' revives thin ``Saturday Night Live'' sketches with Dan
Aykroyd and Jane Curtin reprising their roles as Beldar and Prymaat
Conehead.
	--``In the Line of Fire,'' a thriller starring Clint Eastwood as a
Secret Service agent and John Malkovich as an assassin out to kill the
President.
	--``Poetic Justice'' is a drama about a hairdresser (Janet Jackson)
and a postal worker (Tupac Shakur) who discover each other on a cross-
country trek.
	--``Josh and S.A.M.'' is kiddie sci-fi with a boy convincing his
younger brother he is a strategically altered mutant created by the
Pentagon.
	--``Johnny Zombie,'' this teen comedy's hero (Andrew Lowery), dies on
the eve of a school prom and returns as a zombie determined to keep his
date.
 August
	--``Father Hood'' has Patrick Swayze as a negligent papa who retrieves
his kids from a terrible foster home and is pursued by the cops.
	--``The Man Without a Face'' has Mel Gibson directing himself as
disfigured stranger in Maine village befriended by 12-year-old boy,
another outsider.
	--``The Fugitive'' stars Harrison Ford in David Janssen's old TV role
of Dr. Richard Kimble on the run from a murder he didn't commit.
	--``Heart & Souls'' is a fantasy/comedy of four defunct people given a
second chance to resolve their earthly lives, starring Robert Downey Jr.
, Charles Grodin, Alfre Woodard and Kyra Sedgwick.
	--``For Love or Money,'' a romantic comedy, stars Michael J. Fox as a
Manhattan hotel concierge who falls for beauty played by Gabrielle
Anwar.
	--``Robin Hood: Men in Tights,'' Mel Brooks' zany comedy, stars Cary
Elwes, Richard Lewis, Roger Rees and Tracey Ullman.
	--``Fatal Instinct'' is director Carl Reiner's satire of film noir
starring Armand Assante as a cop whose scheming wife (Kate Nelligan)
plots his murder.
	--``Son of the Pink Panther,'' director Blake Edwards' revival of the
infamous Inspector Clouseau, stars Italy's Roberto Benigni as Clouseau's
illegitimate offspring.
	--``Needful Things'' is a horror thriller involving a New England
antique shop that unleashes unspeakable evils, starring Ed Harris and
Max von Sydow.


     -=-=-R~C~W-=-=-

	CANNES, France (UPI) -- British actor John Hurt's behavior while on
location for the filming of Dostoyevsky's ``Crime and Punishment'' is
rumored to have raised a few eyebrows.
	After knocking back the beers for two hours with a group of
journalists he allegedly left without paying and had trouble remembering
his lines. His co-star Vanessa Redgrave, however, was a model of
professionalism.
                               ------
	Movie success is difficult to predict even for a film of the 15th
century visionary ``Nostradamus'', currently shooting in Romania. Rutger
Hauer, F. Abraham Murray and Tcheky Karyo star in the $15 million
production about the man believed by some to have predicted events such
as the World War II.
                               ------
	Taking their cue from Kenneth Branagh's film of Shakespeare's ``Much
Ado About Nothing,'' East Coast producers Troma Films have announced 
``Tromeo and Juliet'' to sit alongside their other fine titles: ``Vegas
in Space,'' and ``Subhumanoid Meltdown''.
                               ------
	After selling their annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony to
television, the American Association of Motion Picture Writers, usually
finds itself with a huge budget surplus. This year bonuses were dished
out to Association members in the form of free trips to to Cannes. ``The
only problem is,'' says one member, ``most of us are over 60 years old.''
This explains the number of elderly journalists looking rather
bewildered around town.
                               ------
	Body-builders seem to be in fashion this year. After the giant
inflatable model of Arnold Schwartzenegger was launched into the bay
Saturday, a body-builder-actor called Aden Young attracted most of the
attention at a party thrown by Australian company Beyond Films last
night. The company, which made ``Strictly Ballroom,'' says Young is
destined for great things.


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	HOLLYWOOD (UPI) -- Summer officially begins everywhere in the northern
hemisphere June 21 with the celestial solstice.
	Everywhere except Hollywood, which has been operating on its own
calendar since the advent of movies.
	Summer in Hollywood begins just before school lets out, stretching
seasonal box office potential.
	The first summer pictures already are out. ``Dragon: The Bruce Lee
Story,'' which opened at the top of the box-office rankings, has Jason
Scott Lee in the title role with Lauren Holly and Robert Wagner co-
starring.
	``Dave,'' which also had a strong debut, stars Kevin Kline as an
ordinary guy who doubles for a stricken president, becoming a hero with
politically correct programs to help the down-trodden while romancing
the first lady.
 Other May releases:
	--``Menace II Society'' is a harsh urban story of survival among young
blacks in the inner city, starring Tyrin Turner and Vonte Sweet.
	--``Hot Shots! Part Deux'' stars Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges and
Valeria Golino in an action story with Sheen as a commando on a special
mission for the president.
	--``Made In America,'' in which Whoopi Goldberg and Ted Danson fall in
love off-screen and on, deals with a sperm bank mixup resulting in a
beautiful daughter.
	--``Sliver'' proves Sharon Stone's sexual appeal in ``Basic Instinct''
wasn't a fluke as she drives William Baldwin and Tom Berenger crazy in a
psychosexual mystery.
 June
	--``Jurassic Park,'' Steven Speilberg's long-awaited $60 million film
version of Michael Crichton's fantasy of dinosaurs genetically recreated
for a theme park, starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum.
	--``Rookie of the Year'' is a fantasy about a little leaguer who leaps
to the major leagues when an accident gives him a pitching arm that
brings Chicago's Cubs a pennant.
	--``Once Upon a Forest'' is a feature-length animated adventure of
three woodland creatures in a race against time to save a friend's life.
	--``Last Action Hero'' has Arnold Schwarzenegger as a movie superstar
humbled when an 11-year-old boy is blasted from his theater seat into
Arnie's movie.
	--``Dennis the Menace,'' the comics' brat, hits the big screen with
Walter Matthau as long-suffering neighbor George Wilson, directed by
John Hughes.
	--``Guilty as Sin,'' a suspense drama directed by Sidney Lumet, has an
attorney (Rebecca De Mornay) defending a charmer (Don Johnson) until she
discovers he's guilty.
	--``Life With Mikey'' stars Michael J. Fox as a former child star, now
a third-rate 31-year-old agent specializing in child actors; he picks a
winner when she picks his pocket.
	--``What's Love Got To Do With It?'' is a Tina Turner film biography
starring Angela Bassett, with Larry Fishburne as Ike Turner.
 July
	--``Free Willy'' is the story of a boy (Jason James Richter) and a
trapped whale named Willy, both aggressively anti-social and searching
for a home.
	--``The Son-In-Law'' stars Pauly Shore as a funky L.A. rocker who
winds up in the the farm belt and falls in love with fresh-scrubbed
cutie (Carla Gugino), much to her parents' horror.
	--``Hocus Pocus,'' a comedy with Bette Middler, Sarah Jessica Parker
and Kathy Najimy as witches accidentally conjured up on Halloween in
present-day Salem, Mass.
	--``Stakeout II'' stars Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez recreating
their detective roles in a sequel to the 1987 comedy hit.
	--``Surf Ninjas'' finds teenage brothers learning they're South Sea
island princes with martial arts and surfing skills to overthrow the
island's dictator.
	--``Rising Sun'' stars Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes as detectives
investigating the murder of a young woman in the offices of a large
Japanese firm.
	--``The Meteor Man'' is a fantasy starring Robert Townsend (who also
wrote and directed) as a superman with a fear of heights, with Bill
Cosby and James Earl Jones.
	--``Undercover Blues'' stars Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid as
married spies recovering stolen arms in a romantic comedy whodunnit set
in New Orleans.
	--``The Firm'' teams Tom Cruise with yet another veteran Oscar-winner,
Gene Hackman, in John Grisham's story about an Ivy League lawyer
employed by a crooked firm.
	--``This Thing Called Love'' involves four novice songwriters
emotionally involved in work and each other, starring River Phoenix,
Samantha Mathis, Dermot Mulroney and Sandra Bullock.
	--``Coneheads'' revives thin ``Saturday Night Live'' sketches with Dan
Aykroyd and Jane Curtin reprising their roles as Beldar and Prymaat
Conehead.
	--``In the Line of Fire,'' a thriller starring Clint Eastwood as a
Secret Service agent and John Malkovich as an assassin out to kill the
President.
	--``Poetic Justice'' is a drama about a hairdresser (Janet Jackson)
and a postal worker (Tupac Shakur) who discover each other on a cross-
country trek.
	--``Josh and S.A.M.'' is kiddie sci-fi with a boy convincing his
younger brother he is a strategically altered mutant created by the
Pentagon.
	--``Johnny Zombie,'' this teen comedy's hero (Andrew Lowery), dies on
the eve of a school prom and returns as a zombie determined to keep his
date.
 August
	--``Father Hood'' has Patrick Swayze as a negligent papa who retrieves
his kids from a terrible foster home and is pursued by the cops.
	--``The Man Without a Face'' has Mel Gibson directing himself as
disfigured stranger in Maine village befriended by 12-year-old boy,
another outsider.
	--``The Fugitive'' stars Harrison Ford in David Janssen's old TV role
of Dr. Richard Kimble on the run from a murder he didn't commit.
	--``Heart & Souls'' is a fantasy/comedy of four defunct people given a
second chance to resolve their earthly lives, starring Robert Downey Jr.
, Charles Grodin, Alfre Woodard and Kyra Sedgwick.
	--``For Love or Money,'' a romantic comedy, stars Michael J. Fox as a
Manhattan hotel concierge who falls for beauty played by Gabrielle
Anwar.
	--``Robin Hood: Men in Tights,'' Mel Brooks' zany comedy, stars Cary
Elwes, Richard Lewis, Roger Rees and Tracey Ullman.
	--``Fatal Instinct'' is director Carl Reiner's satire of film noir
starring Armand Assante as a cop whose scheming wife (Kate Nelligan)
plots his murder.
	--``Son of the Pink Panther,'' director Blake Edwards' revival of the
infamous Inspector Clouseau, stars Italy's Roberto Benigni as Clouseau's
illegitimate offspring.
	--``Needful Things'' is a horror thriller involving a New England
antique shop that unleashes unspeakable evils, starring Ed Harris and
Max von Sydow.



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	CANNES, France (UPI) -- British actor John Hurt's behavior while on
location for the filming of Dostoyevsky's ``Crime and Punishment'' is
rumored to have raised a few eyebrows.
	After knocking back the beers for two hours with a group of
journalists he allegedly left without paying and had trouble remembering
his lines. His co-star Vanessa Redgrave, however, was a model of
professionalism.
                               ------
	Movie success is difficult to predict even for a film of the 15th
century visionary ``Nostradamus'', currently shooting in Romania. Rutger
Hauer, F. Abraham Murray and Tcheky Karyo star in the $15 million
production about the man believed by some to have predicted events such
as the World War II.
                               ------
	Taking their cue from Kenneth Branagh's film of Shakespeare's ``Much
Ado About Nothing,'' East Coast producers Troma Films have announced 
``Tromeo and Juliet'' to sit alongside their other fine titles: ``Vegas
in Space,'' and ``Subhumanoid Meltdown''.
                               ------
	After selling their annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony to
television, the American Association of Motion Picture Writers, usually
finds itself with a huge budget surplus. This year bonuses were dished
out to Association members in the form of free trips to to Cannes. ``The
only problem is,'' says one member, ``most of us are over 60 years old.''
This explains the number of elderly journalists looking rather
bewildered around town.
                               ------
	Body-builders seem to be in fashion this year. After the giant
inflatable model of Arnold Schwartzenegger was launched into the bay
Saturday, a body-builder-actor called Aden Young attracted most of the
attention at a party thrown by Australian company Beyond Films last
night. The company, which made ``Strictly Ballroom,'' says Young is
destined for great things.


    
     -=-=-R~C~W-=-=-

	CLEVELAND (UPI) -- A movie poster collector paid $70,000 Sunday for a
rare sheet from the 1931 movie ``Dracula,'' setting a world record for a
movie poster sold at auction.
	``To tell you the truth, I was going to go to $90,000,'' Richard
Feiertag of Orangeburg, N.Y., said following the sale. Promoters had
hoped the poster would bring between $75,000 and $100,000.
	The ``Dracula'' poster, believed to one of only two in existence, was
presented during the Vintage Poster Auction at Cleveland's Conference
Center.
	A poster from ``Yankee Doodle Dandy'' went for $475, while a sheet
from ``The New Adventures of Batman and Robin'' fetched $650.
	The audience burst into applause when the ``Dracula'' poster was
brought onto the stage.
	Auctioneer Michael DeFina had an opening bid of $40,000, and, within
seconds, Feiertag, another audience member, and a telephone bidder had
ratcheted the sheet to its selling price. One of the auction's
promoters, dealer Morris Everett Jr., then announced a record sale had
been set. The previous record was held by a ``King Kong'' movie poster
that sold for $57,200 at Christie's in 1991.
	Feiertag, who owns a store called ``Poster City,'' said he purchased
the ``Dracula'' for his personal collection he started 30 years ago. He
said the poster, aside from its value as a rare piece of ephemera,
pleases him athletically. The poster depicts the film's star, Bela
Lugosi, behind a spiderweb ``ensnaring'' the faces of the other actors.
	The second highest price paid during Sunday's auction was $47,500 for
a 1933 ``King Kong'' poster, sold to Matthew Shapiro, a private
collector from Hartford, Conn.
	The auction was held at the end of a week-long convention, during
which 100 dealers sold posters, autographs, lobby cards and photos from
various movies.
	The event also featured an appearance by Meinhardt Raabe, who will go
down in history as the munchkin coroner from the movie ``The Wizard of
Oz.''
	The event, the first produced by Everett and poster dealer Marty
Davis, attracted only about 1,000 customers during the weekend, leaving
Everett somewhat unhappy.
	``Maybe it was the wrong place, maybe it was the wrong weekend,'' he
said. ``But frankly, if a munchkin can't pull 'em in and 'Dracula''
can't pull 'em in, maybe Cleveland isn't the right market.``


    

     Any rumors/info on the Flintstones.Has the filming started,if so when
    is the release date.I think the casting of John Goodman as Fred is
    superb.


    SCott

    Supposedly Liz Taylor will be Wilma's mother
    
    Flintstone's meet the Flintstones.....
          

    On ET last night they had a short story about the Bedrock set it has
    become a major tourist attraction until today. Shooting finished
    yesterday and the Bedrock set will be loaded up and hauled back to
    hollywood over the next few days.
                           Jeff Peters  

    
    
    I think John goodman may have made a mistake taking on the role of Fred
    Flinstone.   Granted, he does "fit" the character well, but he could be
    type casted for the rest of his life!  Yaba Daba Doo!
    
    
    

    Hmmm, come to think of it, Babe Ruth and Fred Flintstone DO have a lot
    in common...

    The Clinstones cartoon in Private Eye is pretty funny.

    How are things coming along with the new Star wars Movies?????


    SCott

    Saw a brief preview for _The Flintstones_ before _Jurassic Park_ last
    night; release is scheduled for summer 1994....  

    There was absolutely no content to the clip -- it simply flashed the
    theme song words on the screen (accompanied by the music) and ended
    with a shot of Goodman grinning at the camera....

    -- Cathy

    Rosie ODonnel (stand up comediane, and played the dance-hall bouncer
    friend of Madonna in League of their own) will play Betty Ruble
    
    Joyce

    
    
           From    -=-=-R~C~W-=-=-

	
	HOLLYWOOD (UPI) -- Summer of 1993 will be a hard act for Hollywood to
follow.
	Even as the slate of fall films is being released, the nation's box
offices are playing merry tunes for ``The Fugitive,'' ``Jurassic Park,''
``In the Line of Fire,'' ``Free Willy,'' ``The Firm,'' ``Sleepless in
Seattle,'' ``Cliffhanger'' and ``Indecent Proposal.''
	It was an all-time box-office summer with almost $2 billion in
domestic gross receipts.
	Labor Day began Hollywood's fall season, well ahead of the autumnal
equinox, with a drop in kid-oriented comedies. Drama, romance and action
films will outnumber comedies five to one.
	With some 150 new movies scheduled for release before the holidays,
here are a selection of some of the highly anticipated films of the
season:
 Action and drama:
	``Carlito's Way,'' a New York barrio drama of organized crime
starring Al Pacino, Sean Penn and Penelope Ann Miller.
	``Shindler's List,'' starring Liam Neeson and Ben Kingsley in a taut
drama of a Nazi who sacrifices his wealth and risks his life to save 1,
300 Jews in World War II.
	``Demolition Man,'' a violent actioner with Sylvester Stallone as L.
A.'s top cop pursuing arch criminal Wesley Snipes, set in the year 2032.
	``The Age of Innocence,'' Michelle Pfeiffer tour de force in classic
American novel directed by Martin Scorsese, co-starring Daniel Day-
Lewis.
	``Remains of the Day,'' with Oscar-winner Anthony Hopkins playing the
perfect English butler, directed by Mike Nichols.
	``Flight of the Innocent,'' set in Southern Italy, about a young boy
caught up in a violent family feud. Italian cast directed by Carlo
Carlei.
	``The Good Son,'' in which Macaulay Culkin sets aside his cute-kid
image to play a bad seed in drama of corrupt 12-year-old, co-starring
kid actor Elijah Wood.
	``Boxing Helena,'' an eerie tale of a limbless woman starring
Sherilyn Fenn in a role refused by Madonna and Kim Basinger, directed by
Jennifer Lynch.
	``Six Degrees of Separation,'' film version of the stage hit about
the void between society's rich and poor, starring Stockard Channing and
Donald Sutherland.
	``Bopah!'' a South African apartheid story of policeman father and
political activist son, with Danny Glover and Alfre Woodard, directed by
Morgan Freeman.
	``Philadelphia,'' with Tom Hanks playing a gay attorney stricken by
AIDS, directed by Oscar-winner Jonathan Demme, co-starring Denzel
Washington.
	``Striking Distance,'' starring Bruce Willis in action drama of
Pittsburgh river patrol cop pursuing serial killer suspected of killing
his father.
	``Malice,'' about campus crime confronting a young professor and his
wife involved with a sinister surgeon, starring Alec Baldwin, Nicole
Kidman, Bill Pullman.
	``Wrestling Ernest Hemingway,'' relying on star power of Robert
Duvall, Richard Harris, Shirley MacLaine, Piper Laurie as retirees in
Florida.
	``In the Name of the Father,'' with Oscar-winners Daniel Day-Lewis
and Emma Thompson in the true story of an innocent man forced to confess
to a horrifying crime.
	``My Life,'' starring Michael Keaton as a cancer victim video-taping
his life story for his unborn baby to see in the future, with Nicole
Kidman as his pregnant wife.
	``Fearless,'' director Peter Weir's spiritual love story of two
survivors of catastrophic plane crash, starring Jeff Bridges and Rosie
Perez.
	``Heaven and Earth,'' the new Oliver Stone epic of Vietnamese woman's
experiences during and after the war, with Tommy Lee Jones, Joan Chen
and Haing Ngor.
	``Fortress,'' a terrifying look at American maximum security prison
of the near future with Christopher Lambert and Loryn Locklin as
rebellious inmates.
	``Mother's Boys,'' a psycho-thriller with Jamie Lee Curtis playing an
evil mother taking revenge on her husband by abusing their sons.
	``A Bronx Tale,'' starring Robert De Niro, who also directs, as the
bus-driver father of a boy who witnesses a murder and comes to idolize a
gangster.
	``Gettysburg,'' a Civil War saga based on the Pulitzer prize-winning
novel, starring Martin Sheen, Tom Berenger, Jeff Daniels and Sam
Elliott.
	``A Dangerous Woman,'' about a man in a perilous love triangle who
seduces two women in the same household, starring Debra Winger, Barbara
Hershey and Gabriel Byrne.
	``Home of Our Own,'' starring Oscar-winner Kathy Bates as a single
tyranical mother of six kids in search of an affordable home in Idaho.
	``Romeo is Bleeding,'' with Gary Oldman as a New York cop with a wife
and a mistress whose career and marriage fall apart when a female
assassin enters his life.
	``The Piano,'' starring Holly Hunter as a mute 19th century pianist
in a love triangle with Sam Neill as her husband and Harvey Keitel as
her lover.
	``The House of Heroes,'' with heavy-hitters Meryl Streep, Glen Close,
Jeremy Irons and Vanessa Redgrave in film version of Isabel Allende's
novel of Chilean history.
	``The Pelican Brief,'' Julia Roberts' return to films as a coed who
discovers a plot to murder Supreme Court justices and goes on the lam.
	Comedy:
	``The Beverly Hillbillies,'' the film version of TV's long-running
hit with Jim Varney as Jed Clampett, Cloris Leachman as Granny and
Dabney Coleman as Mr. Drysdale.
	``Undercover Blues,'' with Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid as a spy
couple (parents of an infant) running from bad guys in Central America.
	``Fatal Instinct,'' director Carl Reiner's spoof of an inept cop
(Armand Assante) and shrewish wife who is planning his murder with her
auto mechanic lover.
	``Calendar Girl,'' about four small town Nevada youths heading for
Hollywood in 1962 to meet their dream girl, Marilyn Monroe.
	``I'll Do Anything,'' a rare Hollywood musical comedy starring Nick
Nolte and Julie Kavner.
	``Beethoven's 2nd,'' the sequel to the surprise box-office sensation
two years ago, with the original cast headed by huge St. Bernard and
Charles Grodin.
	``Addams Family Values,'' the return of batty comedy with Anjelica
Huston, Raul Julia and Christopher Lloyd reprising their roles.
	``Guarding Tess,'' with Shirley MacLaine as a former First Lady under
the protection of an off-beat Secret Service agent played by Nicolas
Cage.
	``Money for Nothing,'' in which blue-collar worker John Cusack finds
$1.2 million lost from an armored car, based on a true story.


    

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	What's new on the home video scene ...
  
                              MOVIES
	``Aladdin'' -- Another irresistible animated fairy tale adventure from
Disney, a high-octane epic complete with flying carpet, magic lamp and a
big blue, wisecracking genie. Aladdin is a street-smart peasant in the
mythical Arabian city of Agrabah who rescues and falls in love with the
beautiful Princess Jasmine. But, alas, the law says she can only marry
nobility and she has but two days to make a choice. Jailed by the evil
sorcerer Jafar, a lulu of a Disney villain, Aladdin escapes and, in a
harrowing episode, finds the lamp and promptly changes his luck with one
rub. Out comes a wish-granting one-man show of a genie (wildly voiced by
Robin Wiliams with rapid-fire impersonations of everyone from William
Buckley to Robert DeNiro). Aladdin wishes to become a prince, setting
him on a collision course with the sinister Jafar, scheming to take over
as ruler -- and grab the lamp for his own devious demands. Naturally,
Aladdin is more than up for the task. As usual, the animation and
overall picture quality are excellent, the colors bright and crisp. It's
a very busy film, loaded with action that would have been better
presented in letterbox format. But that version, on laserdisc, isn't
expected until next year. The musical score, another Oscar-winner, is
exceptional. Earning better than $200 million theatrically, better than
any previous Disney work, ``Aladdin'' will be released on video for a
limited time. 1992. 90 minutes. Closed captioned. Walt Disney Home
Video. Rated G. $24.99. (Also available in a deluxe edition, $99.99, and
a children's activity kit, $34.99.)
  
	``The Dark Wind'' -- Lou Diamond Phillips plays a rookie Navajo cop
who gets inadvertently mixed up in the dangerous world of drugs and
murder in this faithful adaptation of a Tony Hillerman best-seller. As
Jim Chee, Phillips is assigned to such minor tasks as finding a water
thief and arresting drunks and speeders. But, the discovery of a body
and talk of witchcraft sets him out on a new path, punctuated by a plane
crash and an overly interested FBI agent. Hillerman is tops at
describing the lives and beliefs of Native Americans in New Mexico and
Arizona and some of that is included here, but overall, the film, tied
to painstaking, fundamental police work, moves too slowly and lacks
sufficient punch. Directed by famed documentarian Errol Morris in his
fiction feature debut. 1993. 111 minutes. Closed captioned. LIVE Home
Video. Rated R. $92.98.
  
	``Sidekicks'' -- Chuck Norris dominates this pleasant little film
that's a sort of cross between ``The Karate Kid'' and ``The Secret Life
Of Walter Mitty,'' but his presence this time is more a parody on his
usual tough-guy image. The plot evolves about a young boy (Jonathan
Brandis), an asthmatic outsider shunned and bullied at school, ignored
at home by his dad (Beau Bridges) and forced to spend much of his time
fantasizing how he and Chuck Norris team up to take out the bad guys. To
defend himself in the real world, he learns karate from an old master
(Mako) and winds up, predictably, in a match opposite the school's No. 1
bully, who's egged on by an evil karate teacher (comically overplayed by
Joe Piscopo). And, guess who shows up to lend a hand? Why, Chuck, of
course, to help save the day -- and this time it's no dream. A family
film that will appeal mostly to younger members. The action is far too
tame for hardcore Chuck Norris fans. 1993. 104 minutes. Closed
captioned. Columbia TriStar Home Video. Rated PG.
  
	``Just Another Girl On The I.R.T.'' -- In a splendid debut
performance, Ariyan Johnson plays a talented, high-spirited teenager
determined not to be just another girl in the Brooklyn projects. Her
burning ambition is to become a doctor, a dream severely imperiled when
she becomes pregnant. At times a gripping, realistic if not particularly
revealing story, peppered with pathos and humor, packaged well by by
another engaging newcomer, writer-director Leslie Harris. 1993. 96
minutes. Closed captioned. LIVE Home Video. Rated R. $92.98.
  
	``Mac'' -- John Turturro makes his directorial bow in this notable,
intense little drama inspired by his late father and the pride and
plight of immigrant blue collar workers. Turturro also stars as Mac, the
headstrong, eldest son of an immigrant Italian carpenter determined,
after his father's death, to buck the odds and start his own business
rather than continue with unethical and dishonest builders. Turturro's 
``labor of love'' focuses on a family that's funny, quirky, with the
usual sibling rivalry, but immensely loyal. Like most photo albums, his
work is not always totally in focus, but that hardly matters. 1993. 118
minutes. Closed captioned. Columbia TriStar Home Video. Rated R.
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                             VIDBITS
	``Groundhog Day,'' the Bill Murray comedy about a self-important TV
weatherman trapped in a seemingly endless rerun of the same day, remains
No. 1 on the latest Billboard video rental chart. There were no
newcomers on the list as ``Scent Of A Woman'' moved up a notch to No. 2,
switching places with ``Falling Down.'' ``Point Of No Return'' and 
``Alive'' round out the top five. ``Home Alone 2'' remains secure as the
No. 1 best-seller...
 
	Warner Home Video announces two winners for fall. First, there's the
charming sleeper hit ``Free Willy'' about a boy's all-out efforts to
free a whale from an aquatic park, due Nov. 16. Then, on Dec. 22, it's
time for ``Dave,'' the mistaken-identity political comedy starring Kevin
Kline and Sigourney Weaver... Release date for Sylvester Stallone's 
``Cliffhanger'' has been moved up a week by Columbia TriStar, to Nov.
17... ``Who's The Man?'' described as the first hip-hop whodunit, heads
for video Nov. 3, from New Line... For the kids, ``Tom And Jerry: The
Movie'' is slated for Oct. 27, from Family Home Entertainment.
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	 Billboard's top 10 videocassette rentals:
	1. Groundhog Day -- Columbia TriStar Home Video
	2. Scent of a Woman -- MCA/Universal Home Video
	3. Falling Down -- Warner Home Video
	4. Point of No Return -- Warner Home Video
	5. Alive -- Touchstone Home Video
	6. The Bodyguard -- Warner Home Video
	7. Unforgiven -- Warner Home Video
	8. Benny & Joon -- MGM/UA Home Video
	9. Sommersby -- Warner Home Video
	10. A Few Good Men -- Columbia TriStar Home Video
    
    
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	HOLLYWOOD (UPI) -- As holiday movies, many of them released for
Academy Award consideration, fade from theaters, Hollywood is taking up
the slack with inbetween films aimed at a broad market with lesser
stars.
	Kids are still in school. Oldsters stay at home watching TV during
the cold months. It's not a season for releasing potential blockbusters.
	Theater owners will be receiving plenty of new movies, but winter-
released pictures usually don't stick around as long.
	Studios are sending out a balanced schedule of comedy, drama and
action films with only a few major stars involved. Most pictures
featuring box-office superstars are saved for the summer and holiday
boom seasons for obvious reasons.
	Following is a partial roster of new movies due for theaters in the
next two months:
 FEBRUARY
	--``The Getaway,'' a romantic adventure in which wife Kim Basinger
rescues husband Alec Baldwin from a Mexican prison with the help of
gangster James Woods only after allowing him to make love to her.
	--``Reality Bites,'' with college grad Winona Ryder employed by a
local TV station caught in a romantic triangle between a man she loves
and the man she pretends to love, co-starring Ethan Hawke and Ben
Stiller.
	--``Guarding Tess,'' a comedy about a cranky ex-first lady (Shirley
MacLaine) feuding with secret service man Nicolas Cage who would as soon
kill as protect her.
	--``Gunmen,'' with Mario Van Peebles as a New York cop who joins
smuggler Christopher Lambert in search of stolen money in the Amazon.
	--``Romeo is Bleeding,'' with Lena Olin as a beautiful villain pitted
against an organized crime task force cop played by Gary Oldman.
	--``Threesome,'' with Lara Flynn Boyle, Stephen Baldwin and Josh
Charles as college roommates facing a curious sexual triangle -- girl
loves boy who, in turn, loves their male roommate.
	--``Sugar Hill,'' with Wesley Snipes and Michael Wright as Harlem
crime czar brothers who come to grief when Snipes falls in love with
actress Theresa Randle and opts out of criminal lifestyle.
	--``I'll Do Anything,'' a romantic comedy starring Nick Nolte as an
unemployed Hollywood character actor who has custody of his precocious
6-year-old daughter and becomes involved romantically with Joely
Richardson, a studio bigshot.
	--``Car 54, Where Are You?,'' a takeoff on the old TV series with
David Johansen and John C. McGinley as the dumb cop partners.
	--``My Girl 2,'' a sequel starring Anna Chlumsky, Dan Aykroyd and
Jamie Lee Curtis which explores first love and the importance of family
ties and loyalty.
	--``Blank Check,'' about a kid, Brian Bonsall, given a signed blank
check in haste by a major criminal after a traffic accident; he fills it
out for $1 million setting off wild action.
	--``Blink,'' a thriller featuring Madeleine Stowe as a blind musician
who regains sight only to witness a murder, forcing cop Aidan Quinn to
protect her from the killers.
	--``Ace Ventura: Pet Detective,'' a comedy about the abduction of NFL
star Dan Marino and his team's field goal-kicking pet dolphin with Jim
Carrey in the title role.
	--``Seasons,'' the latest IMAX attraction on the giant screen,
providing a profound and beautiful study of the sun and its effects on
all life on planet Earth.
 MARCH
	--``The Chase,'' a romantic action comedy with Charlie Sheen as a
falsely convicted bank robber who takes Kristy Swanson hostage and makes
a run for the Mexican border.
	--``PCU,'' college antics of dorm group determined to fight political
correctness led by Jeremy Piven, Chris Young, David Spade and Megan
Ward.
	--``Greedy,'' with patriarch Kirk Douglas at death's door victimized
by money-hungry kin when nephew Michael J. Fox arrives in time to snare
his sexy (ex-pizza deliver girl) ``nurse'' Olivia d'Abo for himself.
	--``Blue Chips,'' with basketball flash Shaquille O'Neal helping high
school coach Nick Nolte and his lady, Mary McDonnell.
	--``8 Seconds,'' the first rodeo-based movie in years, starring teen
heartthrob Luke Perry as a cowboy champ of the rodeo circuit.
	--``Golden Gate,'' an interracial drama of crooked FBI agent Matt
Dillon who falls in love with Joan Chen, daughter of a man he shook down
in San Francisco's Chinatown.
	--``The House of Spirits,'' reuniting Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep
for the first time since ``The French Lieutenant's Woman'' in a period
piece about Chilean dynasty, also starring Glenn Close, Winona Ryder and
Vanessa Redgrave.
	--``Bad Girls,'' a 19th century version of ``Thelma & Louise'' with
Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Andie MacDowell and Drew
Barrymore as Western gunfighters settling the score with bad guys.
	--``Wolf,'' with Jack Nicholson as a man bitten by a wolf and
thereafter drawn deeply into the mystical feral spirit of the animal,
changing his marriage, his job and his life.
	--``Silent Tongue,'' with Alan Bates as an 1850's Westerner who sells
his half-Indian daughter to River Phoenix igniting a racial feud as
American Indians clash with settlers.
	--``My Father, the Hero,'' a comedy about a 14-year-old girl who
pretends her father, Gerard Depardieu, is her lover to impress her
boyfriend on vacation, causing complicatons all around.
	A handful of foreign language films also will be released during this
slack season:
	--``The Scent of Green Papaya,'' Vietnam's first Oscar entry, a tender
story of a young servant girl to a Saigon family who dares to fall in
love.
	--``Highway Patrolman,'' the misadventures of a young Mexican highway
patrolman who becomes disillusioned with corruption and violence.
	--``Savage Nights,'' a French autobiographical drama about Cyril
Collard who succumbs to AIDS.
	--``Fiorile,'' a romantic fable spanning three centuries of an Italian
family told in flashbacks from the present to the 18th century.
	--``Belle Epoque,'' a story of conflicts in a Spanish country house in
1931 when an army deserter is sheltered by a family with four beautiful
daughters.
 adv weekend feb 5-6 or thereafter


                    

    
    Does anyone have a list of what is coming out in the Summer season?
    

    As far as I've heard;
    
    Beverly Hills Cop III
    The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (remake, stars Sean Connery)
    Highlander III (missing Sean Connery...)
    
    
    can't remember any others.....
    
    Michael

	Filming is supposed to start on Die Hard 3, I would guess
	it would come out this summer ....

    Probably later than summer.
    
    Don't forget about the Flintstones.

    Some U.S. summer release dates:
    
    True Lies (Schwarzenegger/James Cameron) July 15
    Baby's Day Out (John Hughes) July 1
    I Love Trouble (N. Nolte & Julia Roberts) July 1
    Blown Away (Jeff Bridges) July 1
    Wyatt Earp (K. Costner) June 24
    The Client (S. Sarandon & Tommy Lee Jones) July 22
    Wolf (Nicholson & Pfeiffer) June 17
    The Mask - July 29
    Clear & Present Danger (Harrison Ford) Aug 14
    Maverick (Richard Donner - dir) May 20
    The Flintstones - Memorial Day Weekend
    The Little Rascals - Aug 15
    North - July 8
    Little Big League - 22
    Lassie - July 8
    The Lion King - June 15/24
    Beverly Hills Cop III - May 27
    City Slickers II - June 10
    The Next Karate Kid - Aug 5
    
    
    T.C. Fox plans to release Die Hard III at Christmas - Features a
    terrorist who bombs Manhattan.  John McTiernan directs - Shooting (and
    probably lots of stuff being blown up, too) starts in June in New York.
    

    
    
    
    
        Heres some more movie dates, not cross referenced with reply -1
    
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	Between Memorial Day and Labor Day, the major Hollywood studios
and independents will release nearly 60 major motion pictures.
Release dates are subject to change, and several films will debut
in limited markets before moving nationally:
    
    
	-- May 25: ``Beverly Hills Cop III,'' Eddie Murphy.
	-- May 27: ``The Flintstones,'' John Goodman.
	-- Sometime in June: ``Me Let's Hope I Make It,'' Lina
Wertmuller, director.
	-- June 1: ``The Cowboy Way,'' Woody Harrelson.
	-- June 3: ``Renaissance Man,'' Danny DeVito; ``Endless Summer
II: The Journey Continues,'' Bruce Brown, director.
	-- June 10: ``City Slickers 2,'' Billy Crystal; ``Go Fish,'' Rose
Troche, director; ``Speed,'' Keanu Reeves.
	-- June 15: ``The Lion King,'' animated.
	-- June 17: ``Getting Even With Dad,'' Macaulay Culkin; ``Wolf,''
Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer; ``Airheads,'' Steve Buscemi;
``White,'' Julie Delpy; ``Fear of a Black Hat,'' Rap group N.W.H.
	-- June 24: ``Wyatt Earp,'' Kevin Costner.
	-- June 29: ``I Love Trouble,'' Julia Roberts.
	-- Sometime in July: ``The Shadow,'' Alec Baldwin; ``D.R.O.P.
Squad,'' Spike Lee, producer.
	-- July 1: ``Blown Away,'' Jeff Bridges; ``Baby's Day Out,'' Joe
Mantegna.
	-- July 8: ``Angels in the Outfield,'' Danny Glover; ``North,''
Elijah Wood; ``Lassie,'' Helen Slater; ``It Could Happen to You,''
Nicolas Cage.
	-- July 15: ``Forrest Gump,'' Tom Hanks; ``True Lies,'' Arnold
Schwarzenegger; ``Mi Vida Loca,'' Alison Anders, director.
	-- July 20: ``Little Big League,'' Jason Robards; ``Black
Beauty,'' David Thewlis.
	-- July 22: ``Terminal Velocity,'' Charlie Sheen; ``The Client,''
Susan Sarandon.
	-- July 27: ``Milk Money,'' Melanie Griffith.
	-- July 29: ``A Low Down Dirty Shame,'' Keenen Ivory Wayans;
``Yellow Dog,'' Mimi Rogers; ``The Mask,'' Jim Carrey; ``Camilla,''
Bridget Fonda.
	-- Aug. 3: ``The Scout,'' Albert Brooks.
	-- Aug 5.: ``Natural Born Killers,'' Woody Harrelson; ``Camp
Nowhere,'' Christopher Lloyd; ``Karate Kid 4,'' Pat Morita.
	-- Aug. 12: ``Clear and Present Danger,'' Harrison Ford; ``A
Troll in Central Park,'' animated; ``Jerky Boys,'' Kamal.
	-- Aug. 19: ``Andre,'' Keith Carradine; ``Corrina Corrina,''
Whoopi Goldberg; ``Blankman,'' Damon Wayans.
	-- Sometime in August: ``The River Wild,'' Meryl Streep; ``The
Little Rascals,'' Steven Spielberg, producer; ``Wagons East,'' John
Candy; ``In the Army Now,'' Pauly Shore; ``Ed Wood,'' Johnny Depp;
``Simple Twist of Fate,'' Steve Martin; ``Little Buddha,'' Keanu
Reeves; ``Pulp Fiction,'' Uma Thurman; ``Highlander III: The
Magician,'' Christopher Lambert; ``Queen Margo,'' Isabelle Adjani;
``Barcelona,'' Whit Stillman, director.
	-- Sept. 2: ``It's Pat: The Movie,'' Julia Sweeney.


    

    
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	LOS ANGELES (AP) -- If you can describe a movie in a sentence,
odds are it's coming out this summer:
    
	John Goodman IS Fred Flintstone. Bingo. ``The Flintstones.''
	Eddie Murphy plays that detective again. No sweat. ``Beverly
Hills Cop III.''
	Mel Gibson remakes the James Garner TV Western. Easy.
``Maverick.''
	The summer film season is packed with an assortment of
no-brainers, easy-to-sell sequels and lowbrow star vehicles.
	Billy Crystal returns in ``City Slickers'' and there's yet
another ``Karate Kid'' update (without the Karate Kid himself,
since he's now in his 30s). Watch for a movie version of ``Lassie''
and be warned now: Keanu Reeves has the title role in ``Little
Buddha.''
	Nearly 60 movies will be released nationally between Memorial
Day and Labor Day. The most notable summer titles include Disney's
animated ``The Lion King,'' Arnold Schwarzenegger's $100 million
gamble ``True Lies'' and the late comedian John Candy's last movie,
``Wagons East.''
	It's the year's most profitable season, and the studios aren't
about to gamble.
	Except a little.
	In the year's most surprising casting decisions, a couple of
Hollywood's most respected performers -- Jeff Bridges and Meryl
Streep -- are setting aside their typically somber and often obscure
screen images to anchor two of the season's highest-profile movie
thrillers.
	Following last year's little-seen ``Fearless'' and the small
independent film ``American Heart,'' Bridges will star in July 1's
``Blown Away'' as the leader of the Boston Bomb Squad.
	Streep, whose credits include the Australian story ``A Cry in
the Dark'' and the epic ``Out of Africa,'' chucks her various
accents to play an American whitewater guide in the action film
``The River Wild,'' due in August. Ever the method actress, Streep
even did her own stunt work.
	Audiences will have the last word on whether the
casting-against-type works. The movies' directors are confident it
does.
	``I just thought it would be a lot of fun to see her doing
something so different from the perceived persona that she has,''
says Curtis Hanson, who directed Streep in ``The River Wild.''
	``I'm a big fan of Meryl, and I don't mean this to be
pejorative, but I felt that many times people have admired her
acting and the characters she has played without identifying so
much with those characters. And I thought if we could put her in a
movie where the audience really gets sucked in to identify with her
... that we would have something that would really be special.''
	Streep plays Gail Hartman, whose failing marriage to David
Strathairn is as turbulent as the rapids where the family
vacations. The whitewater expedition turns calamitous when the
Hartmans meet up with bad guy Kevin Bacon.
	Filmed on Oregon's Rogue and Montana's Kootenai and Flathead
rivers, ``The River Wild'' aims to turn the usual male action story
upside-down.
	``First of all, (Streep's) character is a wife and mother, which
are trappings the typical male action hero does not bring along,''
Hanson says.
	``What motivates Meryl's character in this whole story is taking
a trip to bring her family closer together. ... It ends up being
about that -- but in a very different way than was anticipated.''
	Bridges previously played opposite Clint Eastwood in 1974's
``Thunderbolt and Lightfoot'' and Glenn Close in 1985's ``Jagged
Edge.'' For the most part, however, the actor has shunned such
mainstream roles in favor of modest stories driven by interesting
characters and thoughtful screenplays -- in other words, nobody sees
his movies.
	That may change this summer.
	In ``Blown Away,'' a big-budget story from recently moribund
MGM, Bridges' bomb-squad expert must outwit and survive a fiendish
bomber, played by Tommy Lee Jones.
	``I expressed an interest in Jeff and Tommy to play the roles
and I thought they both would say no because at that time neither
was known as an action star,'' says ``Blown Away'' director Stephen
Hopkins. Jones had not yet appeared in ``The Fugitive'' when
``Blown Away'' was cast.
	Hopkins, whose credits include ``Predator 2'' and ``Judgment
Night,'' says ``Blown Away'' hopes to distinguish itself from other
action films by focusing as much on story as on pyrotechnics.
	``A lot of the people in the film are much more real than we are
used to,'' Hopkins says. ``In my other films, it's usually `Blow up
large areas of real estate and kill as many people as possible.' ''
	``Blown Away,'' he says, ``looks different. It doesn't look like
it's going to be a big slugfest. In some ways, it's funnier. A lot
of the fun stuff in the film is suspense -- and the suspense won't
work if the characters are not conceived well.''
	Actors such as Bridges and Streep aren't the only ones charting
new courses this summer. Director Robert Zemeckis, familiar for the
``Back to the Future'' movies, is directing what appears to be one
of the summer's more original and heartfelt stories.
	``Forrest Gump,'' opening July 15, stars ``Philadelphia'' Oscar
winner Tom Hanks as a simple-minded hero of war and business not
cut from the usual matinee idol pattern.
	Co-starring Robin Wright, ``Forrest Gump'' cannot be easily
described: It tries to mine a new storytelling vein. Facing such
simply sold concept movies as ``City Slickers 2'' and ``The
Flintstones,'' ``Forrest Gump'' ends up looking unusual -- and
tricky to promote.
	``I think people ultimately want to see things that are
different. That's my feeling about it,'' Zemeckis says.
	Many summer movies, Zemeckis concedes, ``already have pre-sell.
They're already in the public consciousness. So when you have a
movie like `Forrest Gump,' yep, it's a real tough one. But then I
think it's very rewarding: It becomes a two-phased, very hard thing
to do.
	``First, you have to make a movie that people really enjoy. Then
you have to get the word out to them,'' he says. ``You can't just
do one without the other.''
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	TRAILERS: Al Pacino, Oscar winner for ``Scent of a Woman,'' has
been cast to play the title role in director Oliver Stone's
``Noriega.'' Filming is scheduled to begin in Florida and Panama
this fall.

All dates are extremely subject to change.

OCTOBER		Wes Craven's New Nightmare, The Puppet Masters,
		Ed Wood
NOVEMBER	Star Trek Generations, Stargate, The Swan Princess,
		Interview With The Vampire, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
X-MAS		The Pagemaster, The Goofy Movie, Miracle On 34th Street,
		Tall Tale, Richie Rich, Highlander III
1995		Judge Dredd, Mortal Kombat, Mary Reilly, Batman Forever,
		Casper, Street Fighter, Pocahontas, Congo, The Phantom,
		Tank Girl, Goldeneye, In The Mouth Of Madness

	Demi Moore could become the most highly paid (for a single movie)
	actress in Hollywood history.  She has supposedly been offered
	$12M to star in a movie called "Strip Tease" set in Florida.

    
    I wonder if this is based on the Carl Hiasen (?) novel of the same
    name?
    
    DFW

    RE: 179.28
    
    > I wonder if this is based on the Carl Hiasen (?)
    > novel of the same name?
    
    Yes, it is.
    
    			dick
    

	Tonya Harding is making a movie (her probation officier has
	to go to the set with her every day).  I forget the name,
	and the time frame for the release ....

    re: Tonya in movie
    
    Don't remember the name of the movie or the actor they were quoting,
    however on this morning's new radio channel, there was a short blurb on
    this movie. One of the actors in the film says halfway through filming
    Tonya gained 16 pounds and had breast implants, so she looks very
    different in what was filmed before/after.  Even the annoucer didn't
    get the line out with a straight "voice" (rather than face), so who
    know's if it's true....
    
    janetb.

    
    Tom Arnold to star in the movie version of "McHale's Navy" .He will
    not star in the movie version of "The Honeymooners" as originally
    planned.
    
    
    ed

    
    .32
    
    Huh?  McHale's Navy *was* a movie, followed by the TV series, and a
    sequal movie "McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force".
    
    Of course they would have forgotten that in Hollywood...
    
    Marshall

    
    Re: .33  > McHale's Navy *was* a movie, followed by the TV series
    
    I could be wrong (happened once before, although I forget the details), 
    but it seems to me that the first "McHale's Navy" movie (ca. 1965) was 
    based on the TV series, rather than the other way around.  
    
    This inspires a trivia quiz: What is the earliest example of a
    television series (rather than an individual teleplay, like "Marty") 
    being spun off onto the big screen?  
    
    Ron D.

    
    Re .34
    
    Which way do you mean?  Earliest TV series made into a movie, or ,
    first movie of a TV series?
    
    ed

    First example of a movie based on a TV series.  
    
    rd

    >> I could be wrong (happened once before, although I forget the details), 
    >> but it seems to me that the first "McHale's Navy" movie (ca. 1965) was 
    >> based on the TV series, rather than the other way around.  
    
    Yes, that's correct... the TV series was first, then the first movie
    came out a year or so later.
    
    
    >> This inspires a trivia quiz: What is the earliest example of a
    >> television series (rather than an individual teleplay, like "Marty") 
    >> being spun off onto the big screen?  
    
    My knee-jerk reaction was to say "Flipper", but the more I think about
    it, the more I think that "Flipper" was a movie first (with a mostly
    different cast, even), as was "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea".
    
    Hmmm, maybe "McHale's Navy" was the first!  I remember a lot of talk
    at the time, along the lines of "Why should I pay and go out to see
    them?  I can see them every week for free on TV".
    
    Chris

    How about Disney?  Was "Davy Crckett" ever made into a feature?
    
    -Stephen

    
    	And don't forget "Tarzan".
    
    	Or The Three Stooges.
    

>    	And don't forget "Tarzan".
>    
>    	Or The Three Stooges.

_Tarzan_ and _the Three Stooges_ were movies decades (mild hyperbole, 
but only mild) before either appeared on TV.

Was there ever a Three Stooges TV series?  I don't mean the locally produced
scheduled reruns of the movie shorts, did the Stooges ever produce anything
specifically for TV?
(I think remember at least two different Tarzan TV series.  Didn't one star
Ron Ely, who was also one of the movie Tarzans?)

- tom]

There were a couple of Dr Who movies (starring Peter Cushing as the Doctor)
which were made sometime back in the 60's. They were definitely based on 
the TV series.

Clive

    I saw a reference to "Dragnet" the other day, and I remembered that
    there was a "Dragnet" movie made in the 1950's based on the original
    black-and-white run of that series at the time (which differed from
    the probably-more-familiar 1960's run mainly in that actors other
    than Harry Morgan played Jack Webb's partner).
    
    I'll go look this up sometime, but for now I'll replace "McHale's
    Navy" with "Dragnet" on my list. :-)
    
    Chris

Re: .40

>Was there ever a Three Stooges TV series?  I don't mean the locally produced
>scheduled reruns of the movie shorts, did the Stooges ever produce anything
>specifically for TV?

There was an animated Three Stooges TV series, and the real Stooges did
some short live bits in between the cartoons.

				-- Bob

    
    
    
    there's a Kurt Russel/Stephen Segal movie out involving a stealth
    bomber and a 747 hijacking too. Its not out in the UK yet...but in
    a few weeks I think.
    
    Chris
    :)

	I just heard that Margo Kidder (who co-stared in the Superman movies)
	had been missing since Sat. and was just found in someones backyard
	in a dis-oriented state with several broken or missing teeth and her
	hair apparently cut with a razor.

    
    	Someone mentioned that she had a nervous breakdown.
    

                        Biographical information for
                               Margot Kidder

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Real name
     Margaret Ruth Kidder

Date of birth (location)
     17 October 1948, Yellowknife, Northwest Terr., Canada

Spouse
     John Heard (? - ?)

Other works
     CD-ROM game "Under a Killing Moon": as Bartender

Notable Guest Appearances
     "Murder, She Wrote" (1984), as Dr. Ellen Holden (2/93)

                               Margot Kidder

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Actress filmography

       1. Never Met Picasso (1996)
       2. Bloodknot (1995)
       3. Young Ivanhoe (1995) (TV) .... Laday Margarite
       4. Beanstalk (1994)
       5. Henry & Verlin (1994) .... Mabel
       6. Maverick (1994) .... Mary Margaret
       7. One Woman's Courage (1994) (TV) .... Stella Jenson
       8. Phantom 2040: The Ghost Who Walks (1994) (TV) (voice) ....
          Rebecca Madison
       9. Pornographer, The (1994) .... Irene
      10. Florida, La (1993) .... Vivy Lamori
      11. To Catch a Killer (1992) (TV) .... Rachel Grayson
      12. Mob Story (1990)
      13. White Room (1990) .... Madelaine X

      14. Body of Evidence (1988) (TV) .... Carol Dwyer
      15. Miss Right (1988)
      16. "Shell Game" (1987)TV Series .... Dinah/"Jenny Jerome"
      17. Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) .... Lois Lane
      18. Vanishing Act (1986) (TV) .... Chris Kenyon
      19. Glitter Dome, The (1985) (TV) .... Willie
      20. Keeping Track (1985) .... Mickey Tremaine
      21. Little Treasure (1985) .... Margo
      22. Picking Up the Pieces (1985) (TV)
      23. Louisiana (1984) (TV) .... Virginia Tregan
          ... aka Louisiane (1984) (TV)
      24. Superman III (1983) .... Lois Lane
      25. Trenchcoat (1983) .... Mickey Raymond
      26. Heartaches (1981) .... Rita Harris
      27. Shoot the Sun Down (1981)
      28. Some Kind of Hero (1981)
      29. Superman II (1980) .... Lois Lane
      30. Willie and Phil (1980) .... Jeannette Sutherland

      31. Amityville Horror, The (1979) .... Kathy Lutz
      32. Mr. Mike's Mondo Video (1979)
      33. Superman (1978) .... Lois Lane
          ... aka Superman: The Movie (1978)
      34. 92 in the Shade (1975) .... Miranda
      35. Black Christmas (1975) .... Barb
          ... aka Silent Night, Evil Night (1975)
          ... aka Stranger in the House (1975)
      36. Great Waldo Pepper, The (1975) .... Maude
      37. Reincarnation of Peter Proud, The (1975) .... Marcia Curtis
      38. Gravy Train, The (1974) .... Margue
          ... aka Dion Brothers, The (1974)
      39. Honky Tonk (1974) (TV)
      40. Quiet Day in Belfast, A (1974)
      41. Sisters (1973) .... Danielle Breton
      42. Bounty Man, The (1972) (TV) .... Mae
      43. "Nichols" (1971)TV Series .... Ruth
      44. Suddenly Single (1971) (TV)
      45. Quackser Fortune Has A Cousin in the Bronx (1970) .... Zazel

      46. Gaily, Gaily (1969) .... Adeline

    I'm surprised to see so many recent movie credits for Margot. They did
    a "what ever happened to.." story on one of the tabloid TV shows and
    they showed her on a wheelchair, and said she was broke. It led one to
    understand that she hadn't worked in years....
    
    
    Marilyn
    

	Re: .-1, there may be something to that tabloid report, read on ...

The Telegraph, Thursday, April 25, 1996
Today's Scoop
Kidder taken to psychiatric ward after being found dazed, disheveled

 "Superman" actress Margot Kidder was in a Calif. psychiatric ward Wed. after
being found dirty, dazed and fearful in a stranger's back yard, claiming she
had been stalked and assaulted.
 Police in Gelndale, Calif., said they found no evidence of foul play, and took
the 47-year-old actress to Olive View Medical Center in Sylmar for observation.
Tests showed no sign of drugs or alcohol in her system.
 Only last May, Kidder's "Superman" co-star, Christopher Reeve, was paralyzed
from the neck down in a horse-riding accident.
 The whiskey-voiced actress, who played :ois Lane in four "Superman" movies and
battled health and financial problems in recent years, had been missing for
three days when she was found crouching in the bushes by home owners in a quiet
Glendale neighborhood of neatly tended homes.
 Kidder appeared "frightened and paranoid" and seemed to have cut her hair to
alter her appearance, Sgt. Rick Young said.  When asked who was following her,
she wouldn't say, Young said.  "We do not feel there has been a crime at this
time," Young said.  "She claimed that she was followed and assaulted, but we
found no evidence of that."  Kidder lost a dental plate during her three-day
disappearance, leading to initial reports that her front teeth had been knocked
out.  She was scratched and bruised, but police said that was apparently from
hiding in the bushes.
 "Kidder U Kidder had been living in Livingston, Mont., and was in Los Angeles
on business, Young said.
 Kidder was last seen at the Los Angeles airport Sat. night, waiting for a
flight to Phoenix, police said.  But she never arrived there, and a business
associate reported her missing Monday.  The Theatre Guild, a producer of plays,
said that Kidder was supposed to teach an acting class in Thatcher, Ariz., on
Monday.  In a statement, the guild said she was hospitalized with "extreme
exhaustion."
 A representative for Kidder did not immediately return a call for coment.
 Kidder's career peaked in the 1970s and '80s with the "Superman" series.  She
also appeared in the movies "The Great Waldo Pepper" and "The Amityville
Horror."  She said a 1990 auto accident while filming a TV series based on the
Nancy Drew books caused a neck injury that gave her persistent pain.  She
occasionally needed a wheelchair.  She told People magazine in 1992 that she
took pills to ward off the pain, but those left her mind "muddied."

    I just found this in The Hollywood Reporter:
    
    >Chartoff will play 'Ender's Game' 
    >   More alien invasions of Earth are heading for the silver
    >   screen. Producer Robert Chartoff has latched onto film rights
    >   to the classic science-fiction novel "Ender's Game" by Orson
    >   Scott Card and hired Card to pen the script in a deal that
    >   could be worth more than $1.5 million. 
    
    >  "Ender'a Game" is about a young boy, Ender, who has been drafted
    >  into the military to defend Earth against a powerful invader. 
    
    
    Well, that's a gross understatement of what "Ender's Game" is about,
    but....