[RE][scifinoir2] On London's Tube, adages squeezed in among the admonitions
Leave it to the Brits to bring back culture. Martin (may just mosey on across the Pond for some of that wisdom) -[ Received Mail Content ]-- Subject : [scifinoir2] On London's Tube, adages squeezed in among the admonitions Date : Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:28:03 - From : ravenadal ravena...@yahoo.com To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com I find this hilarious and so bizarre. It is like something out of a dystopian movie. ~rave! http://gioquah.notlong.com chicagotribune.com SPOTLIGHT PHILOSOPHY IN MOTION On London's Tube, adages are being squeezed in among the admonitions Henry Chu, Tribune Newspapers July 19, 2009 LONDON Click here to find out more! -- On a sweltering summer's day, packed in with sweaty passengers, does anyone on the London Underground really need reminding that Hell is other people, as Jean-Paul Sartre wrote? Apparently so, according to a quirky new campaign to show that commuting and contemplation on the Tube don't have to be mutually exclusive activities. Drivers and other staffers on the subway system's well-traveled Piccadilly line have been given manuals of quotations from famous authors and philosophers that they can intone over their crackly intercoms whenever the mood strikes. Instead of being instructed to have a nice day like their American counterparts, passengers in London may now hear gems like, A throne is only a bench covered in velvet (said Napoleon Bonaparte, who never had to fight for a seat on the Tube) and, There's more to life than increasing its speed (said Mohandas Gandhi, who was never stuck on a stalled train while trying to rush to a job interview). The punchy proverbs aren't just food for thought, says Transport for London, the body that operates the Underground. They're also art. The idea of sprinkling people's journeys with pearls of wisdom sprang from the mind of Jeremy Deller, an artist who generally avoids taking the Tube but who felt it worth trying to enliven the experience of those who do. Deller despises the incessant admonitions to let passengers off the train first and please take your belongings with you. It's soul-destroying, he said. Copyright © 2009, Chicago Tribune http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds
[RE][scifinoir2] topic: What is the worst book to movie adaptation that you know of?
Right off the top, Mr Worf, Jumper comes to mind. I saw about half of it (through various illicit means), and it's not even close to the book, save for the premise of teleportation. And the less I say of Little Anny's performance, the better... -[ Received Mail Content ]-- Subject : [scifinoir2] topic: What is the worst book to movie adaptation that you know of? Date : Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:11:47 -0700 From : Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com What do you think? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds
[RE][scifinoir2] article: After Watchmen, what is unfilmable?
Nothing is unfilmable, given today's technology. The only problem in filming is the adaptation, which can (and, all too often, DOES) get away from its source material. Sure, it may suck in fans, but those are the folks who aren't fans. Ask any Anne Rice fan what they think of anything of hers that's been shot to film. -[ Received Mail Content ]-- Subject : [scifinoir2] article: After Watchmen, what is unfilmable? Date : Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:08:51 -0700 From : Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/07/after-watchmen-whats-unfilmable-these-legendary-texts/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds
Re: [scifinoir2] William Shatner: Rocket Man
WowThat was just wow On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:24 PM, brent wodehouse brent_wodeho...@thefence.us wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN3MGN899yE Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo! Groups Links -- Bringing diversity to perversity for 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] William Shatner: Rocket Man
LMNAO! -[ Received Mail Content ]-- Subject : Re: [scifinoir2] William Shatner: Rocket Man Date : Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:08:45 -0700 (PDT) From : Bosco Bosco ironpi...@yahoo.com To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com There are things you can't unsee. My eyes they burn. Bosco --- On Mon, 7/20/09, brent wodehouse wrote: From: brent wodehouse Subject: [scifinoir2] William Shatner: Rocket Man To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, July 20, 2009, 8:24 PM http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=NN3MGN899yE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds
[RE][scifinoir2] William Shatner: Rocket Man
I... am... KEERO!! -[ Received Mail Content ]-- Subject : [scifinoir2] William Shatner: Rocket Man Date : Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:24:39 -0400 From : brent wodehouse brent_wodeho...@thefence.us To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN3MGN899yE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds
Re: [scifinoir2] Judi Ann Mason dies at 54; playwright and screenwriter
ahar...@earthlink.net ACK! Really sad news. I'm 54 too - how long will I have? Got to enjoy life as much as possible which is really hard with this goddamn economic crisis going on! Amy She helped blaze a trail for black women writers in Hollywood, starting with 'Good Times' in the 1970s. 'Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit' was among her credits. http://uibehai.notlong.com From the Los Angeles Times Judi Ann Mason dies at 54; playwright and screenwriter By Dennis McLellan July 16, 2009 Judi Ann Mason, an award-winning playwright and a film and television writer who launched her TV career on the 1970s sitcom Good Times and later co-wrote the 1993 movie comedy Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, has died. She was 54. Mason died July 8 of a ruptured aorta en route to UCLA Medical Center, said Phyllis Larrymore Kelly, her manager. She was a trailblazer for the forward progression of African American writers, film and television writer Tina Andrews told The Times on Wednesday. Most particularly, she became that trailblazer for those African American women writers who came behind her. She was certainly front and center as a role model. A Louisiana native, Mason was a 19-year-old student at Grambling State University when she saw a flier on the theater department bulletin board announcing the American College Theater Festival's 1975 Norman Lear award for best original comedy. The top prize was $2,500. I said, 'Boy, I could sure use that money,' so I wrote 'Livin' Fat,' and it won, Mason told the New Orleans Times-Picayune in 1995. Mason's winning play -- about a poor black family facing the moral dilemma of whether to keep a large sum of money that had unexpectedly come into its possession -- was produced in New York while she was still in school. A few months after graduating in 1977, Mason was in Hollywood writing scripts for Lear's Good Times, a show she once described as comedic filet mignon. I never saw Judi Ann Mason without a smile, Lear said in an e-mailed statement released by the Writers Guild of America, West. She brought it to her writing and her writing brought the rest of us to laughter. She was the ultimate upper. Mason was born Feb. 2, 1955, in Bossier City, La. As a playwright, she wrote more than 25 produced plays, including A Star Ain't Nothin' but a Hole in Heaven, which won the first Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award in 1977 for best student-written plays. Her play Daughters of the Mock -- a south Louisiana-set story about a mock curse that a Creole grandmother has passed down from generation to generation to protect the family's women from abusive men -- was first produced by the Negro Ensemble Company in New York City in 1978 and reportedly has been performed at women's colleges across the country. After writing scripts for Good Times, Mason went on to write for shows including Sanford, and Beverly Hills, 90120 and co-wrote the 1996 cable TV movie Sophie the Moonhanger. Among other things, she also was executive story editor for A Different World, executive story editor for I'll Fly Away, and development executive and associate head writer for the NBC soap opera Generations. There weren't many black female writers in Hollywood when Mason started in the 1970s, said Andrews, a former actress. Mason, she said, inspired a number of African American women to become screenwriters. Andrews, whose credits include writing the award-winning 2000 CBS miniseries Sally Hemings: An American Scandal, is among them. She recalled auditioning as an actress for the daytime drama Generations in the late '80s and encountering Mason, whom she had first met in the '70s. When I saw her sitting behind that desk as somebody in a very powerful position as now a head writer, I saw what I could be, said Andrews. And when I later called her to congratulate her on this big, wonderful job, she said, 'If you want to write, then write.' She had a very powerful presence. I said, 'You know, I can do that.' And that's what happened. As a writer, Andrews said, Mason wrote positive, dignified characters, particularly her black characters. She had strong, realistic dialogue. It sounded like your sister, your aunt, your girlfriend: It was real, and I wanted to write like that. That's why she inspired so many of us. Mason is survived by her daughter, Mason Synclaire Williams; her son, Austin Barrett Williams; and her siblings, Viola Mason Johnson, Waletta Cookie Dunn and Willie Gene Mason. A memorial service for Mason will be held at 11 a.m. Friday in the Prayer Chapel on the East Campus of the Church on the Way, 14300 Sherman Way, Van Nuys. dennis.mclel...@latimes.com Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo! Groups Links
Re: [RE][scifinoir2] topic: What is the worst book to movie adaptation that you know of?
Wanted falls into this category as well. Except for the names of a couple of characters and minor plot element or two it's nothing like the original. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@... wrote: Right off the top, Mr Worf, Jumper comes to mind. I saw about half of it (through various illicit means), and it's not even close to the book, save for the premise of teleportation. And the less I say of Little Anny's performance, the better... -[ Received Mail Content ]-- Subject : [scifinoir2] topic: What is the worst book to movie adaptation that you know of? Date : Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:11:47 -0700 From : Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com What do you think? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds
[scifinoir2] Torchwood: Children of Earth
Please tell me I'm not the only one watching this. The first part was the most pleasing hour and 15 minutes of sci-fi I've watched in a long time. I can't say much without getting into spoiler territory but in the first hour alone we meet some of Captain Jack's family, recruit new members, see the government try to keep a lid on the events with extreme pedjudice and get an eerie message from beyond. Wow!
Re: [scifinoir2] Torchwood: Children of Earth
DVR'ed it. Last night was Moon party night. No TV. Tonight? DEFINITELY watching. On Jul 21, 2009, at 2:26 PM, B. Smith wrote: Please tell me I'm not the only one watching this. The first part was the most pleasing hour and 15 minutes of sci-fi I've watched in a long time. I can't say much without getting into spoiler territory but in the first hour alone we meet some of Captain Jack's family, recruit new members, see the government try to keep a lid on the events with extreme pedjudice and get an eerie message from beyond. Wow!
[scifinoir2] Re: topic: What is the worst book to movie adaptation that you know of?
Probably the Earthsea book that Ursula Le Guin had a fit about. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... wrote: What do you think?
[RE][scifinoir2] Re: topic: What is the worst book to movie adaptation that you know of?
Of course I forgot about that one. Had a memory block put in to keep the nightmares away... There's one that's flitting at the periphery of my brain, that, according to the lore I've taken in, was shot and then shelved, as it was so heinously bad. It'll come to me... -[ Received Mail Content ]-- Subject : [scifinoir2] Re: topic: What is the worst book to movie adaptation that you know of? Date : Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:16:21 - From : marian_changling md_moor...@yahoo.com To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Probably the Earthsea book that Ursula Le Guin had a fit about. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Mr. Worf wrote: What do you think? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds
[RE][scifinoir2] Re: topic: What is the worst book to movie adaptation that you know of?
Back in, because I remembered one. Starship Troopers. From thought-invoking polemic on politics to gore-splattered testosterone-fest. :P -[ Received Mail Content ]-- Subject : [scifinoir2] Re: topic: What is the worst book to movie adaptation that you know of? Date : Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:16:21 - From : marian_changling md_moor...@yahoo.com To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Probably the Earthsea book that Ursula Le Guin had a fit about. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Mr. Worf wrote: What do you think? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds
RE: [RE][scifinoir2] Re: topic: What is the worst book to movie adaptation that you know of?
I know!!! I loved the book and how it eschewed sterrotypes! I don't want to generate any spoilers! And THAT book made me look at how I perceived people in command, pilots...most people with any rank. I was chagrined, to say the least! (Chagrined??? WTF!!!) _ From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:scifino...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Martin Baxter Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 3:45 PM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: [RE][scifinoir2] Re: topic: What is the worst book to movie adaptation that you know of? Back in, because I remembered one. Starship Troopers. From thought-invoking polemic on politics to gore-splattered testosterone-fest. :P -[ Received Mail Content ]-- Subject : [scifinoir2] Re: topic: What is the worst book to movie adaptation that you know of? Date : Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:16:21 - From : marian_changling md_moor...@yahoo.com To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Probably the Earthsea book that Ursula Le Guin had a fit about. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Mr. Worf wrote: What do you think? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: topic: What is the worst book to movie adaptation that you know of?
I think that what happens is that the production company says this is a good book, let's buy the rights. They buy the rights then pick a director and a screenplay writer. The screenplay writer is busy writing his own play or movie but he needs to eat. So he or she thinks, I will work on this to pay rent for a few months. So, he gets the book and reads half of it then tries to fake the rest. Or he will ask someone that he know that read it to give him bullet points. The writer finishes the script then gives it to the director who hasn't read the story either and he goes through it and says, this costs too much, can you have him punch the guy here? etc. It then goes through 30 more hands and is finally approved. By the time it is filmed it has been changed another 100 times to where it doesn't look like the book at all. Then editing, and half assed acting totally changes the flow of the dialog of the story. By the time we see the movie it is totally different from the book. The fans and critics think its a bad adaptation and it sucks. :) On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:16 PM, marian_changling md_moor...@yahoo.comwrote: Probably the Earthsea book that Ursula Le Guin had a fit about. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... wrote: What do you think? Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo! Groups Links -- Bringing diversity to perversity for 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
[scifinoir2] Charges dropped against Henry Louis Gates Jr
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Re: [scifinoir2] Re: topic: What is the worst book to movie adaptation that you know of?
In other words, the too many cooks theory is proven valid again... -[ Received Mail Content ]-- Subject : Re: [scifinoir2] Re: topic: What is the worst book to movie adaptation that you know of? Date : Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:13:02 -0700 From : Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com I think that what happens is that the production company says this is a good book, let's buy the rights. They buy the rights then pick a director and a screenplay writer. The screenplay writer is busy writing his own play or movie but he needs to eat. So he or she thinks, I will work on this to pay rent for a few months. So, he gets the book and reads half of it then tries to fake the rest. Or he will ask someone that he know that read it to give him bullet points. The writer finishes the script then gives it to the director who hasn't read the story either and he goes through it and says, this costs too much, can you have him punch the guy here? etc. It then goes through 30 more hands and is finally approved. By the time it is filmed it has been changed another 100 times to where it doesn't look like the book at all. Then editing, and half assed acting totally changes the flow of the dialog of the story. By the time we see the movie it is totally different from the book. The fans and critics think its a bad adaptation and it sucks. :) On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:16 PM, marian_changling wrote: Probably the Earthsea book that Ursula Le Guin had a fit about. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Mr. Worf wrote: What do you think? Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo! Groups Links -- Bringing diversity to perversity for 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: topic: What is the worst book to movie adaptation that you know of?
Yep. I would agree with that. On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@lycos.comwrote: In other words, the too many cooks theory is proven valid again... -[ Received Mail Content ]-- Subject : Re: [scifinoir2] Re: topic: What is the worst book to movie adaptation that you know of? Date : Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:13:02 -0700 From : Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com I think that what happens is that the production company says this is a good book, let's buy the rights. They buy the rights then pick a director and a screenplay writer. The screenplay writer is busy writing his own play or movie but he needs to eat. So he or she thinks, I will work on this to pay rent for a few months. So, he gets the book and reads half of it then tries to fake the rest. Or he will ask someone that he know that read it to give him bullet points. The writer finishes the script then gives it to the director who hasn't read the story either and he goes through it and says, this costs too much, can you have him punch the guy here? etc. It then goes through 30 more hands and is finally approved. By the time it is filmed it has been changed another 100 times to where it doesn't look like the book at all. Then editing, and half assed acting totally changes the flow of the dialog of the story. By the time we see the movie it is totally different from the book. The fans and critics think its a bad adaptation and it sucks. :) On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:16 PM, marian_changling wrote: Probably the Earthsea book that Ursula Le Guin had a fit about. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Mr. Worf wrote: What do you think? Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo ! Groups Links -- Bringing diversity to perversity for 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds -- Bringing diversity to perversity for 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] Torchwood: Children of Earth
Based on the commercials, if you see that every kid in the world is being used as a conduit by aliens. Wouldn't you after you changed your underwear go and buy a gun or five? On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Daryle Lockhart dar...@darylelockhart.com wrote: DVR'ed it. Last night was Moon party night. No TV. Tonight? DEFINITELY watching. On Jul 21, 2009, at 2:26 PM, B. Smith wrote: Please tell me I'm not the only one watching this. The first part was the most pleasing hour and 15 minutes of sci-fi I've watched in a long time. I can't say much without getting into spoiler territory but in the first hour alone we meet some of Captain Jack's family, recruit new members, see the government try to keep a lid on the events with extreme pedjudice and get an eerie message from beyond. Wow! -- Bringing diversity to perversity for 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
