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  1989 in television Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
December 17 - The Simpsons premieres on FOX with a special Christmas episode (1989—).
spent $475 million on television advertising to promote their movies in 1989, an increase of 19...
The nonprofit organization's study compared four weeks of programming in the fall of 1989 and four weeks at the outset of the current television season.
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  Shag - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shag (bird) is the name for some birds of the cormorant family like the Common Shag.
Shag is a 1989 film starring Bridget Fonda, Phoebe Cates, Annabeth Gish, Jeff Yagher and Scott Coffey.
Shag (Day) is a non-sexual tradition at Westminster School where the pupils may wear non-uniform clothes, but are expected to donate to charity.
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 ‘Shag’ (PG-13)
The people responsible for "Shag," a friendly but slight comedy set in South Carolina in 1963 about a group of longtime girlfriends who head to the beach for a final, postgraduation blowout, show something that's fairly rare these days -- a genuine delight in having gotten hold of their filmmaking equipment.
Directed by Zelda Barron, "Shag" runs mostly on youthful eagerness and nostalgia, and for people who spent their teenage years dancing and drinking and falling in love to beach music, the appeal may be great.
And though the palpable enthusiasm of its creators carries you further into the film, and further into the lives of the four friends than you might otherwise go, it is eventually replaced with a sense of weariness at the worn-thin material.
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 deseretnews.com - Movie review: Shag | Deseret Morning News Web edition
On the plus side, "Shag" is a fairly harmless teen comedy, as opposed to the "Porky's"-style sleaze that often permeates this genre, and it boasts some very charming performers — most notably Gish, Hannah and Fonda, though all seem too old to be playing 18-year-olds.
Hannah, who is 25, has played mostly teenage girls in movies, but "Shag" was attractive as a teen project that was a bit different, in its lack of exploitation elements and being told from the girls' point of view.
Among her better-known roles were those in the films "Racing with the Moon" and "Creepshow 2" ("I got slimed in that one"), and she was a regular on the TV show "Fame."
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 Roswell UFO incident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Generally, however, the film is considered to be either a hoax by Santilli, or a real 1947 film that does, for some reason, show the autopsy of a rubber mannequin or perhaps a doctored human body.
Nick Redfern maintains the film might be a genuine surviving record of the experiments he claims the military conducted in 1947 on genetically deformed humans.
If Santilli did not hoax the film, this might suggest the film came from within the U.S. government and either depicts a genuine autopsy of some kind or was a hoax manufactured by some agency such as the CIA for unknown disinformation purposes.
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 Movie Search at Tribute.ca
She made her first film, Aria, at 23; she had only one scene, but she made an impression by stripping off her clothes, having sex, and killing herself before it was over.
Her resume of films and performances was so impressive that when Cameron Crowe wrote the movie Singles (1992), he had Bridget in mind.
Never married, she lived with actor/director Lee Drysdale between 1986 and 1989, actor/producer Eric Stoltz between 1990 and 1998, and presently she is dating singer/actor Dwight Yoakam.
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 The Bridget Fonda Appreciation Page-biography
Bridget Fonda emerged in 1989 in a trio of movies-Scandal, Strapless, and Shag-in which she played charming sexpots.
[1989] was widely considered to be a routine teens-at-the-beach romp, Fonda was judged memorable in the role of Melaina Buller, who hopes to attract the attention of pop star Jimmy Valentine by entering a beauty contest.
[1989], a contemporary sociopolitical drama that was written and directed by the British playwright David Hare, Fonda essayed the part of Amy Hempel, the party-going younger sister of Lilian Hempel [Blair Brown], a humanistic American doctor working in London in the 1980s, at the height of Thatcherism.
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 Shirley Anne Field | Biography (born 1938) | Gallery | Mailing Address
Her first sizeable part was in Michael Powell's classic Peeping Tom (1960) as a temperamental film star.
Apart from Alfie (1966), her subsequent British films of this period were unworthy of her.
She worked in America during the early nineties including the feature Shag (1989) and a stint on the popular daytime soap "Santa Barbara" (1984).
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 LA Weekly: Film Feature: Fallen Angels, Resurrected
ELLA TAYLOR weighs in on the film itself.
Slumming's the wrong word: Imamura's rowdy, bawdy, untidy films, though peopled with hookers, thieves, pornographers, addicts and other notables of the low life, imbue their sullied characters with redemption, a heroism of the spirit if not of attainment.
Nothing could be more different from the grimly savage mood of that film than the goofy awe with which Akagi and Sonoko, lying entwined in the bottom of a boat, see the giant mushroom cloud billowing toward them from the horizon.
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 Barnes & Noble.com - Biography - Bridget Fonda
That year, she appeared in both You Can't Hurry Love and Shag, the latter opposite Phoebe Cates as one of a group of girls looking for a good time in Myrtle Beach.
The combined impact of her favorably reviewed performance in that film and her lead in another 1989 film, Strapless, effectively gave Fonda a small bit of land on the Hollywood map.
She went on to star in such films as Cameron Crowe's Singles (reportedly, Crowe wrote Fonda's role specifically for her), Single White Female (1992), Bodies, Rest, and Motion (1993), Point of No Return (1993), and It Could Happen to You (1994).
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 Discount Shag Area Rug   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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 Bridget Fonda Picture Galleries
Although her famous lineage may have initially helped her when she was starting out, she has evolved into a strong performer in her own right, noted for the grit, spirit, and complexity of her performances.
Although she suffered severe stage fright during her first two years, she was able to overcome her fears, and, upon leaving the institute two years later, she began to find work on the stage.
Fonda made her film debut with a non-speaking role in the 1982 comedy Partners, and it was not until 1988 that she had her first speaking role in a feature film.
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 Stars of the '80s: Phoebe Cates
Phoebe attended the Professional Children's School and then the American School of Ballet, but a knee injury in 1977 cut her studies short.
Inheriting exotic beauty from her Filipina mother, she turned to modeling and was featured on several magazine covers, including Seventeen, accelerating her transition to television and feature films.
) Her big screen debut came in that 1982 film, and she immediately became one of the hottest properties in Hollywood, even though early on she tended to land in projects that critics generally slammed.
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 The Belgium UFO Wave, 1989, UFO Casebook Case Files
Of all the reports of UFO sightings, some of the most intriguing ones are those which come in flaps, or waves, have multiple witnesses, and photographs.
One of the most heralded cases of this type was the Belgian flap which began in November of 1989.
Many observers had their cameras ready, and took what they thought would be clear images, but when the film was developed, the image was blurred, and the craft's outline was vague at best.
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 Edsels in the Media
A psychedelic film starring Ben Vereen and Cindy Williams, a bunch of hippie-types riding cross-country in a 1958 Pacer 4-door in search of Nirvana.
A red/white '59 Ranger 2d hardtop is shown broken down in the opening scene, and its driver uses the excuse that the car breaks down frequently to cover the fact he's having an affair.
It may have been a film and not made for TV, but I know I'm right about the Edsel and the wolf and that it was Disney.
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 Sharing Steve :: New Stuff
Called the Comedy Film Honors and so new as not to have a nickname yet (the Commies, perhaps?), the awards are the result of what organizers call a serious -- yes, serious -- lack of appreciation for the art of the film comedy.
Filming: Production started on April 19th, 2002 (pushed back two months from February, 2002; first scheduled for December, 2001) in Los Angeles on a budget of at least $20 million, and had wrapped by late October, 2002.
The film is scheduled for release by Artisan Films in 2001.
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 Phoebe Cates
In 1984, with her star on the rise, Cates portrayed a young actress bent on destroying her deadbeat mother in the notoriously tasteless television film Lace (1984).
Written by Chris Columbus and produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, the bizarre, special effects-laden film about a group of strange and violent creatures was a colossal success -- despite premiering only two weeks after Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and on the same day as Ghostbusters (1984).
Acting opposite Kline (who portrayed her fictional husband in the film), Cates played none other than an actress who has left show business to raise a family.
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 007 angers anti-smokers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Bond, better known for his vodka-martinis than his nicotine habit, smoked in his early films but has not been seen with a cigarette since the 1989 film Licence to Kill.
When Brosnan took over the role in the mid-1990s he adopted a strong anti-smoking stance but agreed to smoke cigars in the latest movie because it is set in Cuba, the paper reported.
Britain is expected to toughen its rules on cigarette advertising next year, outlawing the use of cigarettes in films and television dramas.
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Though his own class background was firmly haut bourgeois (he professes a lifelong indifference to tea ceremonies), in his youth Imamura worked briefly as a fl marketeer, during which he cultivated a habit of slumming that was to shape his career.
Imamura's new film honors the worlds both of his origin and his attraction.
For her part, Sonoko, who, now that she works for Akagi, promises that she "hardly ever" turns a trick, means to obey the injunction of her dead geisha mother to go easy on the "freebie lays" and hold out for true love.
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 DVD list
The film begins with the "Dawn of Man" segment, about the evolution of apes, and then ventures into the future, taking a look at what the world might be like in the first year of the 21st century.
The film was shot with the cooperation of the Department of Defense, the Department of the Air Force, the Department of the Army, and the National Guard.
The film is composed entirely of reportedly "found" footage shot by three missing college students who made a journey to the woods of Western Maryland in 1994 with the purpose of making a documentary about a "witch" of local legend who is linked to murders and mysterious occurrences spanning 200 years.
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 UNEP-WCMC Protected Areas Programme - Te Wahipounamu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Some areas in the Mount Aspiring region were not explored by foot until the 1950s and some of the more remote valleys of Fiordland were still considered unexplored in the 1970s at the time that accurate detailed topographic maps became available for this remotest corner of New Zealand.
The nomination document (Department of Conservation, 1989) includes a bibliography under the headings film and videos, geology, soils and landforms, vegetation, wildlife, natural history, cultural history, resource use, recreation and tourism, park handbooks, investigation reports, management plans and overviews.
In February 1989, as part of its decision to protect South Westland's forests, the Government allocated $1.5 million towards recreational and tourist development in South Westland.
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 Up4U: Annabeth Gish   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Education: she attended Northern University High School and graduated in 1989, went to Duke University and took a break from acting in order to gain a BA in English in July 1993.
Her first film appearance was in 1986's Desert Bloom, in which, as a troubled preteen plagued by family squabbles and nuclear testing, she all but stole the show.
In 1993, Annabeth Gish briefly interrupted her film career to earn a BA in English; within a year, she was back at work in the theatrical film Wyatt Earp and the made-for-TV Scarlet.
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 Amazon.com: Shag: DVD: Phoebe Cates,Scott Coffey,Bridget Fonda,Annabeth Gish,Page Hannah,Robert Rusler,Tyrone Power ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Shag has great music, fun dialogue, famous speeches, some hot shaggin', Elvis impersonators, and great party scenes that make the movie flow really fast while a smile is on your face the entire time.
And dance!" One of the most overlooked but greatest girl-movies all time, *Shag* is a meticulously crafted period piece that takes a look back at the summer of '63 - a hallowed summer cinematically, supposedly representing an innocent America untouched by the coming traumas of the Sixties.
It is a great treasure in film, I say this objectively as a screen writer.
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 MTV.com - Movies - Phoebe Cates
After shooting to stardom during the '80s in a string of youth-orientated movies, former model Phoebe Cates hit her stride in the '90s as a featured player in ensemble films.
Born Phoebe Belle Katz on July 16, 1963 in New York City, Cates is the daughter of television producer Joseph Cates (The $64,000 Question) and the niece of film director Gilbert Cates (1970's I Never Sang for My Father).
After returning for Lace 2 (1985), Cates appeared as Michael J. Fox's model wife in Bright Lights, Big City (1988) and as a young bride-to-be in the coming-of-age film Shag (1989).
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 The Austin Chronicle Screens: Video Reviews
Driving the gang is the senator's daughter LuAnne Clatterback (Hannah), the Jiminy Cricket of the group and the one deeply concerned with appearance and morals.
The event of the weekend is a dance contest for a regional dance called "the Shag," in which couples vie to win first place.
The dance sequence finale is marvelously filmed, by turns exciting and nostalgic for anyone who remembers what Spring Break and summertime were like before MTV took over.
www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/1999-12-17/screens_video.html   (360 words)

  
 The Austin Chronicle Screens: Video Reviews
And dance!" One of the most overlooked but greatest girl-movies of all time, Shag is a meticulously crafted period piece that takes a look back at the summer of '63 -- a hallowed summer cinematically, a time that supposedly represented an innocent America untouched by the coming traumas of the Sixties.
Shag is the story of four Southern girls who, having just graduated from high school, toss off their original plan to tour old Civil War sites and instead hightail it to Myrtle Beach -- the forbidden zone of boys and booze.
As they whoop it up, each of them has her eyes opened to a reality that is not part of the world their parents laid out for them.
www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2001-11-16/screens_video.html   (323 words)

  
 pw: philadelphia weekly online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Peering up through a bushy shag haircut and often seen in a blazer while carrying a briefcase, this delightful child looks like he's already auditioning for the role of a weary middle-aged man.
Daum's touchingly human saga (co- directed by the film's cameraman, Oren Rudavsky) examines three generations of Jewish faith by dissecting his family's experience during the Holocaust and the way those events continue to echo in their psyche.
Spanning some three or four decades, the (of course) circular film focuses on two monks, one wise and aging (Young-Soo Oh), and the other his little squirt of a pupil.
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 Mods & Rockers Actors A-Z
The films in the festival spotlight an astonishing array of British and American actors.
Primarily in theatre, with some memorable film and TV roles to her credit.
In 140 film and TV roles over a nearly 60 year period Michael Hordern became the instantly-recognizable visage and sound of official England.
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