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James Neibaur

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(Msg. 31) Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 9:14 pm
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Richard Carnahan 3/14/06 2:22 PM

>>> Have you seen it lately? I loved it back when. But I watched ithe
>>> DVD a couple of years ago and it seemed like the world's longest UCLA
>>> student film.
>>
>> So it holds up as poorly as Blazing Saddles, eh?
>>
>> JN
>
> BLAZING SADDLES still works for me.

Then I guess I'll have to see Kentucky Fried Movie again (and it was U of
Wisc Madison, not UCLA)

JN

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(Msg. 32) Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:17 pm
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Richard Carnahan 3/14/06 3:27 PM

> No I meant it >looked< like a UCLA student film. I saw a lot of them
> (as well as USC films) during the sixties and early seventies.

I think that's about what it was, yeah. Offbeat maverick filmmaking trying
to put a myriad of ideas into one movie, which made it uneven and
disjointed, but still interesting and fun.

JN

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(Msg. 33) Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 3:03 pm
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Matt Barry wrote:

> Here's a question: which comedian not currently working in movies
> (i.e., TV or standup comedian) do you think would have the best
> potential of being a really excellent film comic if given the chance?

My top five picks:

Rik Mayall (Britcoms BOTTOM, THE YOUNG ONES, etc.)
Chris Barrie (Britcom THE BRITTAS EMPIRE)
Zach Braff (SCRUBS)
Nicole Sullivan (formerly on MAD-TV, more recently free-lancing)
Phil Hendrie (off-beat radio personality)



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(Msg. 34) Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 2:59 am
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Shush 3/17/06 5:03 PM

> Zach Braff (SCRUBS)

He did make a film, all his own, called Garden State. Not bad.

JN
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(Msg. 35) Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 10:07 am
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Shush wrote:
> Matt Barry wrote:
>
> > Here's a question: which comedian not currently working in movies
> > (i.e., TV or standup comedian) do you think would have the best
> > potential of being a really excellent film comic if given the chance?
>
> My top five picks:
>
> Rik Mayall (Britcoms BOTTOM, THE YOUNG ONES, etc.)
> Chris Barrie (Britcom THE BRITTAS EMPIRE)
> Zach Braff (SCRUBS)
> Nicole Sullivan (formerly on MAD-TV, more recently free-lancing)
> Phil Hendrie (off-beat radio personality)
>

I guess I'm not getting out enough. I'm not familiar with >any< of
these actors.
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(Msg. 36) Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 12:21 pm
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On 18 Mar 2006 10:07:30 -0800, "Richard Carnahan" <rfcsac627n.TakeThisOut@aol.com> wrote:

>
>Shush wrote:
>> Matt Barry wrote:
>>
>> > Here's a question: which comedian not currently working in movies
>> > (i.e., TV or standup comedian) do you think would have the best
>> > potential of being a really excellent film comic if given the chance?
>>
>> My top five picks:
>>
>> Rik Mayall (Britcoms BOTTOM, THE YOUNG ONES, etc.)
>> Chris Barrie (Britcom THE BRITTAS EMPIRE)
>> Zach Braff (SCRUBS)
>> Nicole Sullivan (formerly on MAD-TV, more recently free-lancing)
>> Phil Hendrie (off-beat radio personality)
>>
>
> I guess I'm not getting out enough. I'm not familiar with >any< of
>these actors.

You mean you're not staying in enough...these are all TV players. Chris Barrie
was great as Rimmer on RED DWARF.
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(Msg. 37) Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 2:59 am
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Constance Kuriyama 3/18/06 6:44 PM

> Rowen Atkinson is an extraordinarily taledted performer, but he's
> always depended heavily on others for his material. Nobody's yet
> managed to exploit his talent at feature length.

Atkinson's bits as Mr. Bean on TV are amusing but the features I saw (the
Mr. Bean one and Johnny English) were terrible

> As for Spade and Farlely--occasionally funny, but ugh! Why is it
> necessary now for comedians to be vaguely repulsive? Whatever
> happened to cute comedians?

Spade, Farley, Sandler, et. al., are ok at a Three Stooges level of
boorishness (I would certainly contend the longevity of the Stooges will not
likely be matched by these latter day pretenders). And I do like the quirky
comedy of today like Royal Tenenbaums, et. al. But I will most certainly
agree that we do not have the caliber of Chaplin and Keaton in our current
cinema.

JN
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