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An interesting sounding Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Time Bandits, formerly of Monty Python) movie where Johnny Depp plays a businessman who travels back in time to Spain where Don Quixote mistakes him for Sancho Panza is in the works, but on hold. Hey, the guy is fighting windmills after all, so mistaking Johnny Depp for Sancho Panza isn't all that far fetched.

The State Twin Theater of downtown State College has special midnight movie showings every Friday and Saturday night at midnight, when some classics are re-run. Two weeks ago, I went with some friends to see Caddyshack. "That's the worst looking hat I ever saw. You buy a hat like that, it should come with a free bowl of soup. Oh! But it looks good on you!" It was a great experience. Goodfellas and The Terminator are showing at some point, which actually might justify the full price of $6.75.

According to an article in the depths of Entertainment Weekly, it appears that one of the now many popular ambiguously gay quintets will be joining the ranks of The Beatles in A Hard Days Night and Help!, and the Spice Girls in Spiceworld. Yes, it's true, 'N Sync is making a movie. There's no word on the plot or any details of the movie, except that "they won't be playing themselves like the Spice Girls did." Hollywood learns from history. Teenyboppers remember your tissues.

The Fugitive er... Double Jeopardy was number one in the box office last weekend. Hollywood learns from history. Note that the common person among all three "Fugitive" movies, is Tommy Lee Jones. He completely stole The Fugitive from Harrison Ford with his portrayal of Sam Gerard.

A real screenwriter has read the same pages that you're reading! In case you didn't notice the discussion section on the bottom of the welcome page, my movie area has been visited by William Martell, whose filmography is available thanks to the Internet Movie DataBase. You also might want to visit his homepage and drop him a line. He even knows Fred Olen Ray, a B-movie director whose resume includes Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers

Charlton Heston came to Penn State University. On September 21, 1999 I was present in Eisenhower Auditorium to hear Charlton Heston, star of Planet of the Apes (one of the greatest P-movies of all time) speak on "Winning the Cultural War." Of course, his speech was terrific, but he dodged questions during the brief question and answer session afterwards. And for some reason, Heston's greatest work, Planet of the Apes, Soylent Green, Omega Man was only brought up by people praising him right before questioning his stance on gun control.

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