=-=-=-=-= Society of the Rusting TARDIS Newsletter (#46, 09/09/96) -=-=-=-=-= >>> Items of interest to British media fans and Seattle-area residents, <<< >>> and whatever else I feel like spewing about. You have been warned. <<< =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -= Okay, I got back from vacation only to find 300 messages in my mailbox. So it may be awhile before I get caught up. In the meantime, here's a newsletter. (Oh yeah, and I picked up lotsa goodies in California, including Fanthorpe hardbacks, a bunch of old nails, and an Adolph Hitler Pez(tm) dispenser. You really _can_ find anything in LA if you look hard enough.) On tap this time: Quick news items Upcoming SotRT events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -= Subject: Quick news items Sound bites: Here is the latest info on the "Mr. Bean" movie, from "the production charts" of a recent issue of "Hollywood Reporter": "Dr. Bean" (comedy). Start [shooting] Sept. 30 in Los Angeles. Working Title Films, 9348 Civic Center Dr., #100, Beverly Hills, CA 90210. Cast: Rowan Atkinson. Exec Producers: Richard Curtis, RA. Producers: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner. Director: Mel Smith. Script: Richard Curtis, Richard Driscoll. "Class Act" (starring Joanna Lumley) is currently available on video via the Signals catalogue. It's likely the first season (which has not run at Rusting TARDIS meetings, BTW). They've also got Mr. Bean stuff. Call 1-800-669-9696 for a catalogue. The Whole Toon Catalog (formerly of Issaquah, then Seattle, then nowhere) is back in business. Well, it's been sold, apparently. But it's still an incredible source on animation on video (and laserdisc). Wallace and Gromit are the cover story - "A Close Shave" will be released on video in mid-October for $9.95. Call 1-800-331-6197 for a catalogue. Local news: Festival Hong Kong at the Varsity: On september 12, Tsui Hark's "The Iceman Cometh" and Samo Hung's "Eastern Condors". Call 632-3131 for showtimes. What was easily the absolute worst film of this year's Seattle International Film Festival is coming to the Varsity for a four-day run. Hal Hartley's "Flirt" will run September 13-16. Showing this film is a waste of perfectly good photons - outside of perhaps the New York City subway, things this self-indulgent are not usually done in public. A great UK film, "The Young Poisoner's Handbook", will be shown at the Varsity on September 18th. Call 632-3131 for showtimes. There will be an "X Files" Creation convention product in Bellevue on October 13th at Meydenbauer Center (1110 NE 6th. St). Mitch Pileggi [Skinner] will be there. The tickets will be sold through the mail by Pearl Jam. Um, not really. Miscellany: MTV is publishing "The 'Singled Out' Guide to Dating". Gee, what could be next? "Richard Dawson's Guide to Not Catching Hepatitis"? I got e-mail from someone who spotted a Rusting TARDIS flyer "in bldg 13 at microsoft". Our agents are everywhere. "Better put a latch on that there toilet seat, Martha." Merv Griffin! Merv Griffin! MERV GRIFFIN! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -= Subject: Upcoming SotRT events Sep 11: Video night Round Table Pizza, 5111 25th Ave. NE, Seattle Sep 17: Social Taj Mahal, 6510 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle Sep 25: Video night Round Table Pizza, 5111 25th Ave. NE, Seattle Oct 01: Social Round Table Pizza, 5111 25th Ave. NE, Seattle All events start at 7pm unless noted. Currently planned for the next video night (Sep 11): Have I Got News For You: Fall 1995 season, episode 4 Shooting Stars (the best TV game show since "Remote Control") Class Act (Comedy/drama starring Joanna Lumley) Not the Nine O'Clock News (A vintage sketch/"news" show that put Rowan Atkinson on the map, and inspired "Not Necessarily the News") Coming soon: "The Thin Blue Line" (starring Rowan Atkinson), and Christmas In September (a theme night of Christmas specials, including a new "Goodnight Sweetheart"). See you on Wednesday. "He felt as a chicken must feel when trussed by a conscientious poulterer." --"Space No Barrier", Pel Torro (a.k.a. Robert Lionel Fanthorpe) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -= The standard disclaimers apply to everything here except this statement. Contents Copyright 1996, Hand of Onan Enterprises, unless otherwise noted. To subscribe/unsubscribe to this list, send mail to "onan@eskimo.com". The Society of the Rusting TARDIS web page - http://www.halcyon.com/sotrt/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -=
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