Subject: Re: The major is back!
From: boyajian@ruby.enet.dec.com (The fox so cunning and free)
Date: 1992-01-06, 23:54
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

Path: ruby.enet.dec.com!boyajian
From: boyajian@ruby.enet.dec.com (The fox so cunning and free)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Subject: Re: The major is back!
Date:  7 JAN 92 03:51:22 EDT
References:   <1992Jan6.185937.2766@ac.dal.ca>
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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In article <1992Jan6.185937.2766@ac.dal.ca>, davidson@ac.dal.ca writes...

} I saw an interesting blurb the other night on _Movie Television_, a
} Canadian production that does behind-the-scenes interviews with the
} cast and directors of new movies.

} Anyway, they showed the making of a film based on a Kurt Vonegunt (sp?)
} novel. It consisted of a series of short stories, the last of which
} starred Don Davis (Major Briggs). In this film, he plays a US military
} officier/diplomat who gets caught up in a revolution in South America.

} The climax of the film involves a life-size chess game!

} Unfortunately, I didn't catch the name but I believe it is to be released 
} relatively soon.

The film in question is called KURT VONNEGUT'S MONKEY HOUSE, and adapted
three short stories from his collection WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE. It
was produced in Canada last year as an original film for the US premium
cable station Showtime. It debuted on Showtime last May. The segment with
Don Davis was titled "All the King's Horses". Personally, I thought this
one the weakest of the three.

-- "Striker, you listen and listen close. Flying a plane is no different than riding a bicycle. It's just a lot harder to put baseball cards in the spokes." --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, "The Mill", Maynard, MA) boyajian@ruby.enet.dec.com