From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #183 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, May 21 2003 Volume 12 : Number 183 Today's Subjects: ----------------- MOOOOO GRRRRRRRR MOOOOOO ["Maximilian Lang" ] RE: Radiohead, maybe ["FS Thomas" ] RE: Mark Burgess solo tour ["FS Thomas" ] Boycott the RIAA? ["FS Thomas" ] plummeting politicos [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: MOOOOO GRRRRRRRR MOOOOOO ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Mighty Superpowers (some boob content) ["Rex.Broome" ] Use the force ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: Radiohead, maybe [Eleanore Adams ] Re: Mighty Superpowers (some boob content) [Miles Goosens ] justice? [gshell@metronet.com] Re: ooops [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Mighty Superpowers (some boob content) [Jeff Dwarf ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 19:59:58 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: MOOOOO GRRRRRRRR MOOOOOO http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2003-05-20-mad-cow_x.htm _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 20:02:03 -0400 From: "FS Thomas" Subject: RE: Radiohead, maybe > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason R. Thornton > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 6:09 PM > To: Primo Indie-Snatch > Subject: Re: Radiohead, maybe > > > In addition, I'm so screwed up, I was probably talking about Blur, not > Radiohead. Or maybe Phish. I picked the wrong time to leave the northeast. The Field Day Festival is shaping up to be kick-arse. Liz Phair? My heart aches. http://tinyurl.com/c9cq - -ferris. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 20:07:23 -0400 From: "FS Thomas" Subject: RE: Mark Burgess solo tour > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf > Of Maximilian Lang > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 7:57 PM > To: fegmaniax@smoe.org > Subject: Mark Burgess solo tour > > Hey you, the two other Chameleons fans on the Feg list, > > Mark Burgess is topuring solo,belowisthe info from the Chameleons web > site: > > http://www.thechameleons.com/ Not nearly as complete, but pollstar (a fav right now), lists 9 gigs. Probably all confirmed: http://tinyurl.com/c9cx ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 20:16:00 -0400 From: "FS Thomas" Subject: Boycott the RIAA? While their site is getting crushed from having been at the top of Slashdot for the better part of, what, an hour, surf on over to: http://www.boycott-riaa.com The line off of Slashdot (http://www.slashdot.com) is: "Boycott-RIAA.com is running an analysis of the RIAA sales vs a number of other large corporations. It was compiled by Justin Moore at Duke University. It is really quite interesting, showing the RIAA sales are pretty much consistent with the rest of the economy. From the analysis: I would assert, however that it does make the case in cold, hard numbers that the RIAA's claim of digital piracy ravaging their sales must be taken with a rather large grain of salt. The CEOs of Eastman-Kodak are in a nearly identical economic situation as the RIAA, yet do not have the luxury of blaming digital piracy." Fascinating stuff. And not all _that_ surprising. - -ferris. np: (now praying) at the altar of Down With The RIAA ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 12:35:08 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: plummeting politicos >The server seems to be down - but even though I know next to nothing about >statistics, what does "expected" have to do with it? What I recall Barbara >saying was that Democratic politicians are twice as likely as Republican >politicians to die in small-plane crashes...a statement which *could* be >true whether politicians generally die more frequently in small-plane >crashes than expected or less frequently. Mike has answered the "Expected" business in an efficient and thoroughly bewildering manner, which is right and good. I think the overall question depends on the implied ambiguity of the original statement. If it was implied as "twice as many are likely to die in plane crashes as compared to deaths by all causes", then your statement holds, and does not need ststistical qualification. Michael's statistical calculations relate to a second, equally viable possibility: "the chances of fatality due to crash are twice as high for any Democrat flying as for any Republican flying". This requires some information regarding the number of flights and the proportion which end in fatalities. The former statement is more likely to be true, perhaps, but it is also the less interestig statistically. It implies that a Democrat getting on a plane is less safe than a Republican, which is false logic of a similar kind to suggestions that, say, the average American is a better athlete than an average Luxembourger because the US has won a higher total of Olympic medals. (oops, did I say "higher"?) James James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand. =-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= .-=-.-=-.-=-.- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-. -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= You talk to me as if from a distance =-.-=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time -=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 20:49:59 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: MOOOOO GRRRRRRRR MOOOOOO Maximilian Lang wrote: > http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2003-05-20-mad-cow_x.htm How one cow can do more damage than Mrs O'Leary's: Canadian mad cow case hits McDonald's, Wendy's, Tyson stocks Wonder what a case of CJD would do? Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 18:13:24 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Mighty Superpowers (some boob content) Barbara: >>Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara - both came out of SCTV.... You have every right to be proud of that, too. Best sketch show ever produced in this hemisphere. And Catherine is really, really great in the film. There's depth and shade to her *improvised pauses*, fer chrissakes. And she shows off some Mad Autoharp Skillz. Oddly, one comes away from the film feeling like these people are about the right age to play these characters, but none of them are. It's an unusual instance of performers in their early-to-mid 50's playing about 10 or 15 years older. Not the normal thing in Hollywood, where folks usually play intelligence-insultingly younger roles or waaaayyy older cake-on-the-makeup ones. Perhaps stranger is that I realized that by thinking about Mary Margaret O'Hara and the fact that she did her one record in the mid-'80s, so how much older could Catherine be? As if I hadn't seen every episode of SCTV and known pretty much what age she was then. Anyhow, I'm in love with her. Again. __________ Jason: >>It looks like there are at least two movies coming out soon with "kick-ass >>female vampire supertypes": "Underworld," Hmmm... I wonder if Don Delillo signed off on all those changes when he sold the film rights? Also on the girls-fighting tip, my wife is on my case to buy the Dark Angel Season 1 DVD set. But her boobs didn't really jiggle because her leather outfit was too tight and stiff. Alias is a much better bet for jin-shin-jiggle or whatever. >>Don't recall ever gaining super-powers in any of my dreams before. My wife occasionally realizes her dreams are dreams and starts flying. Like, she can just leave the rest of the dream behind and just fly. I'm sort of jealous of that. When I realize I'm in a dream, I start telling the other characters it's a dream. Seriously. I am so much dumber in my dreams than I am in real life. "The Hulk" looks dreadful. _____ So let's get some more Luxor reviews. Would you say that it's song-orientationalistic? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 21:34:07 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: Mighty Superpowers (some boob content) >From: "Rex.Broome" >Subject: Mighty Superpowers (some boob content) >Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 18:13:24 -0700 >Barbara: > >>Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara - both came out of SCTV.... >You have every right to be proud of that, too. Best sketch show ever >produced in this hemisphere. And Catherine is really, really great in the >film. There's depth and shade to her *improvised pauses*, fer chrissakes. >And she shows off some Mad Autoharp Skillz. I should add that Christopher Guest and Fred Willard are Second City Alum as well, American troop...keepin it real. As if I hadn't seen every episode of >SCTV and known pretty much what age she was then. > >Anyhow, I'm in love with her. Again. Sorry dude, she's mine. >>"The Hulk" looks dreadful. But Jeniffer Connely looks great. Max _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 22:53:28 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: Stolen Segway On Tue, May 20, 2003, Michael Wells wrote: > Monster Garage, baby! Is this the /greatest/ show or what? The > unintentional comedy is staggering. Yes, Monster Garage RULES! > Michael "mine would go something like this" Wells BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! That is awesome. But I think you forgot the JATO rocket. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 23:17:23 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Use the force http://www.teamabuse.com/toxic/stuff/swk.htm _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 22:20:15 -0700 From: Eleanore Adams Subject: Re: Radiohead, maybe I downloaded all but 4 songs on Limewire (a napster like clone) It is very very good. If you watch CSI, they have used trax from the new album 2 weeks in a row in the new episodes. it is both song and hallucination oriented, but still more Kid A than OK Computer, and NOT Bends or anything early. But there are structured songs. I am loving it and can't wait to get my reserved copy. A big (slightly broken) thumb up! eleanore On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 01:55 PM, Gene Hopstetter, Jr. wrote: > I'm kinda looking forward to the new Radiohead album. Even though I'm > a little burnt out on the Stargazing 2003 sound (Sigur Ros, et al.). > Does anybody know if the Radiohead album is gonna be song-oriented, or > hallucination-oriented. Is it gonna be released on SACD or DVD-A? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 10:44:50 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: Mighty Superpowers (some boob content) At 06:13 PM 5/20/2003 -0700, Rex.Broome wrote: >Barbara: >>>Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara - both came out of SCTV.... > >You have every right to be proud of that, too. Best sketch show ever >produced in this hemisphere. I tend to agree, but since SCTV was almost wholly reliant on parody, I think it'll steadily lose appeal as more and more generations come into being who don't have firsthand memories of the popular culture of the '70s and early '80s. I have an intelligent, perceptive friend in his mid-twenties who thinks the show is a dreadful bore, but I don't blame him. I mean, SCTV "programs" like THE MIDNIGHT EXPRESS SPECIAL are reliant on about six layers of prerequisites for their humor, and why would a person who doesn't remember THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL, Wolfman Jack, MIDNIGHT EXPRESS, or the ubiquity of Anne Murray's "Snowbird" think any of it was funny? How likely would I be to double over in laughter at an Adlai Stevenson imitation, y'know? (Memo to corporate bigwigs holding up SCTV DVDs because of not being able to get the music clearances situation sorted out: time is ticking on how long this property will be worth *anything,* so why not do the deals and make some money while us thirtysomethings and fortysomethings are in our DVD box set purchasing prime? It's a limited window, guys, and some money is better than zero money.) Anyway, I fully expect THE KIDS IN THE HALL to have a more lasting reputation among North American sketch comedy shows, as they more often took the Python route of avoiding terribly topical stuff and just being surrealistically funny. However, Catherine O'Hara is certainly the Best. Sketch. Comedienne. Ever. Even when SCTV alums get good film roles, as Ms. O'Hara's stellar turn in A MIGHTY WIND, I still feel like they're undervalued because it's really not a forum that shows off their range and versatility. Too often we're predictably stuck with typecasting: Moranis the Nerd, Candy (R.I.P.) the Funny Fat Guy, Levy the Square, etc. On the other hand, Catherine's versatility has probably cost her film career -- since she's a chameleon who's not easily typecast, directors and casting people aren't looking at scripts and hitting the intercom button yelling "Get me a Catherine O'Hara-type! Forget it, get me Catherine O'Hara!" >Also on the girls-fighting tip, my wife is on my case to buy the Dark Angel >Season 1 DVD set. But her boobs didn't really jiggle because her leather >outfit was too tight and stiff. DARK ANGEL was way more about Jessica Alba's *ass*, dude, a top 5 bodypart if I've ever seen one. But unless the DARK ANGEL DVDs feature deleted porn scenes or something, I can't imagine purchasing them, because it was yr typical James Cameron mediocrityfest: good core ideas (most ripped off from better science fiction stories) sunk by indifferent to embarrassing scripts. If there's one thing I can't abide, it's mediocrity, because it's so freakin' frustrating to sit there and know what you're watching could easily be so much better. Outright bad, like MANOS: HANDS OF FATE, that's entertainment; watching DARK ANGEL is like grading a C+ term paper. Favorite "wtf" DARK ANGEL moment: the first season episode where the authorities plaster a purported likeness of Max all over town, but it doesn't look a bit like her -- yet security guards, passersby, crack addicts, and farm animals are able to recognize her from this really, really bad drawing. Why was it a drawing in this slightly futuristic age of advanced technology (post-"Pulse," sure, but there's still lots of working technology, especially in the hands of the authorities)? Why was it a *bad* drawing that no one would recognize? And why wouldn't anyone on the set of the show say "ummmm... shouldn't we at least have a drawing that actually *looks* like Jessica?" I suspect the answer to that last question is similar to the answer to "why wouldn't anyone say 'Mr. Lucas, ummmmmmmm, wouldn't a script and actors be a good idea?'" Actual good DARK ANGEL moment, besides ones involving tight outfits on Max and Original Cindy: Lydecker's Speech Unto the AA Meeting, the one brilliant piece of writing in forty-odd hours of television. >Alias is a much better bet for >jin-shin-jiggle or whatever. Still my pick over 24 and such -- not just on jiggle factor, but for telenovela-style lickety-split no-dawdling-on-plot-points-forever move-the-damn-story-along kicky spy thrills. Fastest hour of television ever: I always look at the clock after I think 20 minutes of show have gone by, and it always turns out to be at the last commercial break before the show's end. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 09:17:00 -0700 From: "Natalie Jane" Subject: Film film film film >It looks like there are at least two movies coming out soon with "kick-ass >female vampire supertypes": "Underworld," which was mentioned here >recently by someone, maybe Steve, and "The League of Extraordinary >Gentlemen." I'm sure our resident undead-fanatic Natalie Jane will be >there opening night for both films. ;) Actually, I would like to see "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen," since I've read some of the comics (ugh, COMICS! *shudder* Comics are for GEEKS!), and Alan Moore, as they say, knows the score. This is the second Alan Moore comic to be made into a film, yeah? The first was "From Hell," which I didn't want to see because a) the comic gave me nightmares and b) I heard the film wasn't so good. Maybe this one will be better. Too bad Terry Gilliam never got around to making "Watchmen." So I actually saw a film myself the other day! In a theater! I got to use my student ID for the first time - and given that school started at the beginning of April, that shows you how often I go to see movies. I went to see "Donnie Darko," which a lot of my friends recommended. I liked it, but with reservations. (No spoilers here, read on...) The set-up is great - a disturbed teenager starts having bizarre visions about time travel and the end of the world - but the plot strands weren't tied together well, and the denouement (I love that word) was a bit disappointing, particularly the revelation of who Donnie's spirit guide (so to speak) really was. The cast was very good - the adorable Jake Gyllenhaal (droool) did an excellent job, as did his sister Maggie, the equally adorable Noah Wyle, Drew Barrymore, and Patrick Swayze in a hilarious cameo. Donnie's mother was played by my favorite under-rated actress, Mary McDonnell, who's also been in several John Sayles movies, and always adds a bit of earthy strength and class to whatever role she plays. I'd say the film was worth seeing - it's out on video now - but it's not quite as wonderful as my friends claimed. Oh, and speaking of film, Jane the Timeline Chick gave me a brand-new DVD of "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart," the recent documentary about Wilco. I've seen the film already, but I'm looking forward to seeing the 70 minutes of extra footage, as soon as my new computer gets fixed. Jane showed me a clip of Tom - err, Jim O'Rourke - ranting about how he "ruins records." Tee-hee. anyway, n. _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 11:14:21 -0500 (CDT) From: gshell@metronet.com Subject: justice? what a role model, he was 65 years old and taking pcp, carrying a shotgun and a pistol, assaulting the police and wrecklessly endangering possibly hundreds of people on many different occasions and sc state rep. kennedy says: "I've been a fan of James Brown all my life. I've listened to his music all my life," Kennedy said. "I think this is something that he deserves. He has been one of our great entertainers in this country. He's done so much for the country and for me as a young person growing up here." In September 1998, Brown, high on PCP and carrying a shotgun, entered an insurance seminar next to his office in Augusta, Georgia, and asked seminar participants if they were using his private restroom, according to authorities. Police chased Brown for a half-hour from Augusta into South Carolina and back to Georgia. The chase ended when police shot out the tires of his truck. Brown received a six-year prison sentence after he was convicted on charges of assault, failure to stop for a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest, carrying a pistol and drug possession. He spent 15 months in a prison near Columbia, South Carolina, and 10 months in a work-release program in Aiken before being paroled on Feb. 27, 1991....... - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://edition.cnn.com/2003/LAW/05/20/brown.pardoned.ap/index.html gSs ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 09:41:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: ooops Barbara Soutar wrote: > Here's a thought I had today, you might find it annoying, > I don't know. I never know for sure what reaction I'm > going to get. This has to do with the sexual > misadventures of Democratic politicians. Let's say that > there is less financial corruption among Democrats than > Republicans. Then, if that is true, *some* of them feel > justified in taking advantage of occasional sexual > favours granted to them because of their position. > They might be tempted to take advantage of some perks of > the office. As long as sex is defined as "a physical act > that may result in a baby" then they can also claim that > they did not engage in sex. Voila! Except that doesn't explain why so many Republicans (including so many of the more brutal shrieker re: Clinton) have also been involved in various similar incidents. ===== "Being accused of hating America by people like Ann Coulter or Laura Ingraham is like being accused of hating children by Michael Jackson or (Cardinal) Bernard Law." -- anonymous . __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 09:57:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Mighty Superpowers (some boob content) Miles Goosens wrote: > However, Catherine O'Hara is certainly the Best. Sketch. > Comedienne. Ever. At least the top 5. Dare I say Gilda? And if she had ever been used well at SNL, I think Julia Sweeney would have had a shot being amongst the top. Another reason to detest Rob Schneider and Adam Sandler (or Cheri Oteri and Molly Shannon for that matter). > Even when SCTV alums get good film > roles, as Ms. O'Hara's stellar turn in A MIGHTY WIND, I > still feel like they're undervalued because it's really > not a forum that shows off their range and versatility. > Too often we're predictably stuck with typecasting: > Moranis the Nerd, Candy (R.I.P.) the Funny Fat Guy, Levy > the Square, etc. True, though film work is generally less conducive to showing off that sort of range anyways, at least within a single film. You can find it over a body of work though. > On the other hand, Catherine's versatility has probably > cost her film career -- since she's a chameleon who's not > easily typecast, directors and casting people aren't > looking at scripts and hitting the intercom button > yelling "Get me a Catherine O'Hara-type! Forget it, get > me Catherine O'Hara!" On the other hand, she can still get better work than it seems like Moranis has gotten in years (when was he last in something watchable? I almost want to say Little Shop of Horrors). I don't think it's cost her a film career, just full stardom. Giving a quick glane on allmovie (couldnt' acccess IMDB for some reason), and it looks like she's had a fairly steady stream of work, and there was nothing there that stuck at as being half as embarassing as a lot of the stuff Moranis has subjected himself too -- even those Home Alone movies. I think she's somewhat in the same position as Levy was a couple years back, and if she got the right role could easily be as decent a commodity (to put it vilely) as he has become. ===== "Being accused of hating America by people like Ann Coulter or Laura Ingraham is like being accused of hating children by Michael Jackson or (Cardinal) Bernard Law." -- anonymous . __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 13:00:12 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: Mighty Superpowers (some boob content) At 09:57 AM 5/21/2003 -0700, Jeff Dwarf wrote: >Miles Goosens wrote: >> However, Catherine O'Hara is certainly the Best. Sketch. >> Comedienne. Ever. > >At least the top 5. Dare I say Gilda? I liked Gilda a lot, but I think Catherine was/is both more versatile and more funny. Also, as far as I know, Catherine didn't have an inexplicable stalker-like crush on an older, terminally unfunny star of Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor movies. (Minority Gene Wilder opinion, I know, but strongly held, and recently unpleasantly reinforced by his WILL & GRACE cameos.) >And if she had ever >been used well at SNL, I think Julia Sweeney would have had >a shot being amongst the top. Another reason to detest Rob >Schneider and Adam Sandler (or Cheri Oteri and Molly >Shannon for that matter). Hey, I think Molly Shannon's the best thing SNL has had in its long, dark, endlessly unfunny last decade -- and at the very least, Molly jumping around in those impeccably slit skirts waving at the camera as the credits roll was by far the most entertainment I've gotten from the show in a long time. :-) I like Cheri too, and think that she and Molly came as close to persevering over utterly crap material as anyone could. On the other hand, I cannot fathom why anyone thinks Will Farrell is funny in the least -- I mean, I've heard several people, including Conan O'Brien, introduce him as "the funniest man alive," and not in a knowing "Al Franken Decade" sort of nudge-nudge way. Whereas for me, his mere presence on the screen is enough to have me looking for a handy brick or shotgun. Schneider and Sandler were fine as bit players in the "transitional" cast (the one that still had Hartman, Carvey, Myers); it was when they went from occasional flavors to being the focus of the show (see also "Spade" and "Farley") that their severe limitations were revealed. I liked Julia Sweeney initially but got tired of her as she did more on SNL, and haven't enjoyed her work since, so I'm not sold on the idea that more Sweeney is a Good Thing. >> Even when SCTV alums get good film >> roles, as Ms. O'Hara's stellar turn in A MIGHTY WIND, I >> still feel like they're undervalued because it's really >> not a forum that shows off their range and versatility. >> Too often we're predictably stuck with typecasting: >> Moranis the Nerd, Candy (R.I.P.) the Funny Fat Guy, Levy >> the Square, etc. > >True, though film work is generally less conducive to >showing off that sort of range anyways, Hey, thanks for restating my point ("it's really not a forum that shows off their range and versatility"). :-) >at least within a >single film. You can find it over a body of work though. Theoretically you could. But that would require Candy to have played characters like Johnny LaRue on the big screen, instead of Funny Fat Guy. Sometimes John got to play Scary Funny Fat Guy, but that's about as versatile as Hollywood would let him be. >On the other hand, she can still get better work than it >seems like Moranis has gotten in years (when was he last in >something watchable? I almost want to say Little Shop of >Horrors). I don't think it's cost her a film career, just >full stardom. Giving a quick glane on allmovie (couldnt' >acccess IMDB for some reason), and it looks like she's had >a fairly steady stream of work, and there was nothing there >that stuck at as being half as embarassing as a lot of the >stuff Moranis has subjected himself too -- even those Home >Alone movies. Well, I'm talking cash rather than cred (see "commodity" just below). Moranis the Nerd is still likely to bring in bigger bucks than O'Hara the Chameleon, if Rick is still willing to take the money. >I think she's somewhat in the same position >as Levy was a couple years back, and if she got the right >role could easily be as decent a commodity (to put it >vilely) as he has become. Of course I'd love to see the Levy PR Renaissance become sustainable (heck, the EW article a couple of weeks ago was probably the single biggest mainstream story ever focused on just Levy), and Catherine to become just as in demand, but I remain doubtful. Want a cautionary tale? Remember that moment in the late '80s or early '90s when Stuart Pankin was ubiquitous? Thought not. Frosty Kimmelman was hot, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 13:44:45 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Mighty Superpowers (some boob content) >Miles: >[Gene Wilder] an older, terminally unfunny star of Mel Brooks and >Richard Pryor movies. > >Hey, I think Molly Shannon's the best thing SNL has had in its long, >dark, endlessly unfunny last decade Hm. If we ever do a "video night" together, we're renting dramas. > I liked Julia Sweeney initially but got tired of her as she did >more on SNL, and haven't enjoyed her work since I saw that one-woman film she did ("When God Said Ha," something like that?), and thought it was a damn good piece of work. Not so much because it was *funny*, but because of its overall humanity, insight, etc. Hard to see that film, and not want to give Sweeney a big hug afterwards. What, no 24 and Buffy babble? Was anyone else really surprised that 24 didn't have a "clean" ending, and is already pointing itself toward next season's story? As for Buffy, well, as usual, the first half of the episode was a redundant, dreary, talky bore, but things picked up in the second half. Awfully deus ex machina with the amulet and ax, though. Feeling relieved that the weekly obligation to watch is off my back. Look for everyone in the cast to sink into obscurity, except James Marsters. Shoot...now I have to contrive some boob content to add, to fit the subject line. Um, um...oh, I got it. I think that lacy red dress Lauren Graham wore on last night's Gilmore Girls will become a permanent feature of my mental image of her. Mmmmmmm.... Eb ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #183 ********************************