From: owner-movies-digest@lists.xmission.com (movies-digest) To: movies-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: movies-digest V2 #104 Reply-To: movies-digest Sender: owner-movies-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-movies-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk movies-digest Tuesday, September 29 1998 Volume 02 : Number 104 RE: [MV] What about funny movies? -Reply RE: [MV] What about funny -hard to find- movies? [MV] Private Ryan RE: [MV] Ronin review -Reply -Reply [MV] Ryan and morale Re: [MV] Private Ryan RE: [MV] Ronin review, Ryan etc RE: [MV] REVIEW: OUT OF THE PAST [MV] Pre 90's funny movies / depressing movies [MV] REVIEW: ANTZ Re: [MV] Pre 90's funny movies / depressing movies [MV] Movie News - 09/29/98 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 21:20:55 -0500 From: "Mr. White" Subject: RE: [MV] What about funny movies? -Reply "Real Life" was made in 1979, so its really the late 70's (I know, pedantic point). "Local Hero" stars Peter Riegart, Denis Lawson, and Burt Lancaster. It was directed by the Scottish filmmaker Bill Forsyth. If you like that one, check out his next one "Comfort and Joy" from 1984. Richard J. Doyle Visual Basic & Access Developer CRW Systems rdoyle29@msn.com - -----Original Message----- From: owner-movies@lists.xmission.com [mailto:owner-movies@lists.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Bruce Bridges Sent: Friday, September 25, 1998 10:39 AM To: movies@lists.xmission.com Subject: Re: [MV] What about funny movies? -Reply One of the Funniest movies I've ever seen that is not too well known (although I would expect many of you to know) is a movie from the mid-seventies called "Real Life" I believe. Anyway it is about a film crew that attempts to document the life of a typical family by moving in and filming every waking moment. It is by Albert Brooks and he is also the star. Charles Grodin is the father of the family. I would suggest this to everybody. Another film I haven't seen since it came out but remember enjoying a great deal is "Soup for One" about a newely single guy coping with the single scene. Finally, there was a movie called "Local Hero" I believe about the representative of a huge American Corporation who is sent to an British Village to oversee its purchase. Instead he finds himself charmed and drawn into the quirky community. Can't remember the actors but it is a great movie. Also, "Funny Bones". I could go on and on. bb [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 21:26:07 -0500 From: "Mr. White" Subject: RE: [MV] What about funny -hard to find- movies? Believe it or not, "The Coca-Cola Kid" is not really an Australian film. It takes place in Australia, but was made by the Yugoslavian Dusan Makavejev, best known for "WR: Mysteries of the Organism" and "Montenegro". A great Australian comedy is "Bliss". Very surreal, but quite funny. Richard J. Doyle Visual Basic & Access Developer CRW Systems rdoyle29@msn.com - -----Original Message----- From: owner-movies@lists.xmission.com [mailto:owner-movies@lists.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Chris Culligan Sent: Friday, September 25, 1998 12:36 PM To: movies@lists.xmission.com Subject: Re: [MV] What about funny -hard to find- movies? Ok, Mel, since your theme on this message seems to be Autralian films, and Jason's post was on hard to find funny movies, how about this one Jason: The Coca-Cola Kid Have you seen it?? I loved it and thought it was quite funny! CHRIS > >At 12.08 PM 24/09/98 -0700, you wrote: >>Everyone has their own tastes of course - but can anyone recommend some >>funny movies that the majority of people have not heard of? > >Best way to find these movies is to send your friends to the video store. >This is how I get to see the "What the heck did you get?!?" movies that I >end up liking. (Off-topic: I had friends get Point Break my last night in >Australia. I had sworn up and down that I would NEVER watch a "surfing" >movie, it looked so silly. Ended up really enjoying it. Still kind of >silly, but I have seen worse). Once someone brought home this comedy, From >the Hip, about this attorney. Starts off really funny, then gets kind of >serious, as he tries to solve the crime. My wife hated it, which means it >MUST be good:-) > >Also, for funny movies, we cannot forget the Australian trifecta of funny >movies from the early '90s: Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; Strictly >Ballroom; and Muriel's Wedding. No common theme here, except that they are >all Australian, and are all ROTHLMAO funny. > >As for sad movies, two that really touched me are The Year My Voice Broke >(a coming-of-age story that has some humour in it, as well), and Boulevard >of Broken Dreams, about a movie producer dying of cancer. He goes back to >his native Melbourne to make amends with everyone. (best part is Tom >Traubert's Blues, a song title I could have found a LOT easier if Amazon >didn't have the IMdB so screwed up, later done by Rod Stewart). > >Just a few more that you may not be familiar with. Watch them if you can. > >Regards, > >--Mel > > >--Mel Eperthener >president, Gowanna Multi-media Pty > >email: bcassidy@usaor.net > gowanna@australiamail.com > >http://www.webz.com/gowanna > >419 Butler Street >PO Box 95184 >Pittsburgh, PA 15223-0184 >(412) 781-6140 >(412) 781-6380 >1-888-45-GOWANNA -- TOLL FREE >(1-888-454-6926) >____________________________________________ >"Mulder, if you had to do without a cell phone for >two minutes, you'd lapse into catatonic schizophrenia" > >--Dana Scully >______________________________________________ > > >[ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] >[ movies (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: 29 Sep 98 12:12:19 +0100 From: "ABYRNE.IE.ORACLE.COM" Subject: [MV] Private Ryan I saw this film at the weekend. It is not as good as all the hype, but it is a good film. Some nice scenes. And what is the name of the actor who played the sniper that was praying as he shot people? He was pretty good. Never seen him before. And Will Patton in Armageddon was a very good actor too! Thanks & Regards, ****************************************************************************= ** ****************************************************************************= ** Anto Byrne Net:abyrne@ie.oracle.com Oracle E.M.E.A. Fulfillment Dept. Unit 14 Phone:8031461 Airways Industrial Estate Fax:8031541 Cloghran email:abyrne Dublin 17. Ireland ****************************************************************************= ** [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Sep 98 08:17:39 PDT From: Wade Snider Subject: RE: [MV] Ronin review -Reply -Reply SPOILER goes on. >--- On Mon, 28 Sep 1998 15:09:29 -0700 "Romero, Leticia" wrote: >SPOILER About Ronin >by the way, am I the only one who was upset that Sean Bean's character was a >throw away role?! I kept expecting him to reappear later in the movie, and >when he didn't I felt that the filmmaker wasted Sean's time! (Except for >the scene following the gun exchange...) who can agree with me? >(although it's rare anyone does...) I was a little annoyed by that, too. I didn't care too much that he not show up, although that might have been another interesting twist to it. I was annoyed that the guy started out as a nervous sort, and he seemed to become progressively more jittery til they got rid of him. All of these characters were top notch spies or whatever, and the irish went to great lengths to get these guys, so it seems a little odd that they picked a guy who was such a bag of nerves like him, unable to handle this pressure. He seemed a little "immature" for this team. It probably would have been more interesting if he was less a headcase. It may be for simplicity sake that since the KGB guy turned on them, and then the pryce character decided to do things himself by the end... that the writers/producers felt that too many bad guys would confuse things. I don't think it would have myself, but that is my guess at a rationalization for it. I, too, wondered, though not too much, where Bean's character was. He sure seemed to wooss out on them when they let him go. FIgured he at least would have put up some sort of fuss. Wade > -----Original Message----- > From: Bruce Bridges [SMTP:Bruce@SABAN.COM] > Sent: Monday, September 28, 1998 9:45 AM > To: movies@lists.xmission.com > Subject: Re: [MV] Ronin review -Reply -Reply > > Hi Guys, > > I am still discussing a scene from Ronin that may be a spoiler so... > > > Early in the movie DeNiro "accidently" spills some coffee and while > wiping up the mess he knocks over a mug. The german guy (can't > remember his name) instinctively grabs it mid-air. There is some > banter about reflexes never leave you. This seemed to be a test that > DeNiro intentionally played in that scene. > > Anyway, DeNiro evidently used the coffee mug for some purpose in the > later scene in which the coffee spills. I didn't get it. > > bb > > [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] > [ movies (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] - ---------------End of Original Message----------------- - -------------------------------------------------------- W. Snider Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. - -Kierkegaard - -------------------------------------------------------- [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 23:47:02 +0900 From: Honwa Chau Subject: [MV] Ryan and morale Bruce wrote: Is it worth it for 8 men to die in order to save one? No. Is it worth is for 8 men to die in order to promote badly needed morale in an army and nation at war? Unfortunately, I think yes. The reality of war sometimes is that seemingly idiotic decisions are based on legitimate reasoning. bb How does sending eight men to save one boost morale in the Army? Do the grunts say, "Geez, I'm glad I didn't get stuck with a lousy death sentence like the poor suckers with Captain Miller. Hmm...I think I'll fight harder"? And if I found out that the Army sent eight men to save one, I'd say my Army was full of idiots. itchy [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 17:13:16 +0100 From: Adrian.Marley@o-tel-o.de Subject: Re: [MV] Private Ryan I, too, really enjoyed this film, but why oh why did Spielberg have to use the overly-sentimental prologue & epilogue? The guy nearly ruined "Schindler's List" for me by doing something similar at the end. Still, that quibble aside, "Saving Private Ryan" is his best film since "Jaws". Adrian. [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 08:26:00 -0700 From: Bruce Bridges Subject: RE: [MV] Ronin review, Ryan etc RONIN SPOILER--- I think the entire purpose of the Bean character was to point out the real professionals from the wannabees. It struck me that Bean was probably a guy who read more Soldier of Fortune magazines than actually doing the work. This was what DeNiro picked up on immediately and confirmed later. Although I half expected his character to reappear in the film, I think it would have undermined the his role in the film, that being to emphasize the nature of the team members as described in the opening. As far as the Private Ryan debate is concerned, thousands of men died on D-Day simply because the Allies felt it imperative to make a huge advance in order to rally the public and troops in the war. A lot of people felt that it was an absolute waste of a lot of boy's lives. No matter where you fall in the argument the fact is that the invasion did have a huge positive effect. So my point is that the idea of sacrificing lives for the larger good was not an idea new to Private Ryan and I'm sure will continue as long as there is war. I agree with the complaint about the prologue and epilogue of Ryan. As mentioned before, its a shame that Spielberg can't resist inserting the sentimentality. Oh, and I agree that Swimming with Sharks is great. bye, bb [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 09:36:45 -0600 From: jkrudy Subject: RE: [MV] REVIEW: OUT OF THE PAST Being a former student at East High School, I'd be interested to know if this documentary was actually filmed there or not, and also where would it be possible to see this film, is it a video release? If anybody knows, I'd sure like to know. JAMES K. RUDY - -----Original Message----- From: Scott Renshaw [SMTP:renshaw@inconnect.com] Sent: Sunday, September 27, 1998 7:30 PM To: renshaw@inconnect.com Subject: [MV] REVIEW: OUT OF THE PAST OUT OF THE PAST (Inverted Pictures) Featuring: Kelli Peterson, Barbara Gittings, narrated by Linda Hunt. Writer: Michelle Ferrari. Producer: Jeff Dupre. Director: Jeff Dupre. MPAA Rating: Unrated (could be PG-13 for adult themes) Running Time: 65 minutes. Reviewed by Scott Renshaw. People will probably misinterpret the documentary OUT OF THE PAST as much as the controversial event which is at its center, which is irony enough. It would be even more ironic if they misinterpret it in exactly the same way: without any direct knowledge, because they are already convinced they know what it's about. Such tends to be the case when you are dealing with the perpetually volatile subject of homosexuality. It happens even more frequently when the suggestion is proferred that gays and lesbians are human beings with much to contribute to the world. That, and that alone, is the fierce conviction behind OUT OF THE PAST. The story which serves as its jumping-off point is the tale of Kelli Peterson, an "out" lesbian who attempted during her 1995-96 senior year at Salt Lake City's East High School to start a student club called the Gay-Straight alliance. Its purpose, according to Peterson, was understanding -- understanding between gay students that they were not going through the difficult experience alone, understanding between gay and straight students that gays were not aliens to be feared or hated. Local school board members, legislators and parents in conservative Utah, however, believed the club was an unwholesome influence promoting the lifestyle of homosexuality, and wanted the club eliminated. Faced with the federally-mandated choice between permitting all extra-curricular clubs -- including the Gay-Straight Alliance -- and banning all clubs, the school board opted for the latter. That story alone would be compelling enough to make for a solid piece of documentary film-making. Peterson emerges as a determined, remarkably mature young woman with a surprisingly wry sense of humor about the uproar she never meant to cause. It's fascinating and entertaining simply watching her calm determination in the face of parents who announce their concerns in board meetings that exposure to homosexuality will be a dangerous influence on impressionable teenagers. The issue for the forces in opposition to the Gay-Straight Alliance isn't just their undoubtedly sincere belief in the immorality of homosexuality. They desire nothing less than the invisibility of homosexuals, believing perhaps that if no one talks about them, they will simply go away. That widely-held societal belief drives even more fascinating secondary story in OUT OF THE PAST -- a series of biographical vignettes intertwined with Kelli Peterson's struggle. The vignettes describe individuals I was embarrassed and angry to discover that I had never heard of, gay Americans who contributed to the arts, political thought and social justice. The most intriguing of these is Bayard Rustin, a member of Martin Luther King Jr.'s inner circle of advisors who was the architect of non-violent civil resistance and the primary organizer of the march on Washington. Rustin became a lighting rod for opposition, both from segregationists like Strom Thurmond and from other black political leaders. Like many others, he has been excised from history books because of his sexual orientation, contributing to the continued invisibility of gay Americans as role models. Like many "talking head" documentaries, OUT OF THE PAST does have its slow patches, and not all the biographical sketches are uniformly enlightening. Ultimately, however, the film does what it sets out to do: it places Kelli Peterson in a historical context, validating the legacy which she had been denied. It was the societal denial of that legacy which made a Gay-Straight Alliance necessary in the first place; it was the search for heroes that turned Kelli Peterson into one. On the Renshaw scale of 0 to 10 alliances: 8. - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit Scott Renshaw's MoviePage http://www.inconnect.com/~renshaw/ *** Subscribe to receive new reviews directly by email! See the MoviePage for details, or reply to this message with subject line "Subscribe". - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 10:02:40 -0600 From: jkrudy Subject: [MV] Pre 90's funny movies / depressing movies I just watched Jumping Jack Flash over the weekend. It was hilarious. If you watch it look for Jon Lovitz and Phil Hartman (credits have him listed as Phil E. Hartmann), if I'm not mistaken this was before SNL for them, or at least before they were well known. Also back to depressing movies, I tried to rent "Threads", but the video store didn't have it, so I rented "The Day After" because I remember how bad it scared me when I was a kid. As an adult with kids of my own now, it scared and depressed me even more than when I was a kid. JAMES K. RUDY [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 10:51:46 -0600 (MDT) From: Scott Renshaw Subject: [MV] REVIEW: ANTZ ANTZ (DreamWorks) Voices: Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Sylvester Stallone, Jennifer Lopez, Christopher Walken, Anne Bancroft. Screenplay: Todd Alcott and Chris Weitz & Paul Weitz. Producers: Brad Lewis, Aron Warner and Patty Wooton. Directors: Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson. MPAA Rating: PG (profanity, violent situations) Running Time: 83 minutes. So DreamWorks' ANTZ gets to be first out of the gate in the Computer-Animated Insect Sweepstakes, beating Disney/Pixar's A BUG'S LIFE to the screen by a good two months. The folks at DreamWorks probably felt that meant they could set the standard and avoid comparisons, but that's not entirely true. Disney's 1995 TOY STORY became the first, best standard-bearer, a wonderfully witty adventure which established that no amount of visual virtuosity could push aside the power of a great script. There was little doubt that three years of technological innovation would make ANTZ more spectacular to look at. The question was whether these anthropomorphized insects would be asked to carry a story that felt like twenty times their body weight. It looks like the film-makers behind ANTZ learned the right lessons from TOY STORY. ANTZ may not be in TOY STORY's league when it comes to charm and ingenuity, but it's a clever and appealing piece of work in its own right. The oddly spelled title actually refers to the story's protagonist, a lowly and unfulfilled worker ant called Z (Woody Allen). Trapped in the ant colony's rigid caste system, Z longs to find his own destiny, which might even include romancing the unapproachable Princess Bala (Sharon Stone). In order to catch Bala's eye, Z switches places with his soldier ant pal Weaver (Sylvester Stallone), unwittingly setting off a social revolution. Even more unwittingly, he discovers that head soldier General Mandible (Gene Hackman) has sinister plans for the colony. The goofy socio-political overtones of Z's struggle for individuality are good for a few chuckles, though it's not entirely clear from one moment to the next what the "message" is. Sometimes it's a treatise on the triumph of personal will over stultifying conformity (nowhere more humorously than in a bar scene where line dancing becomes metaphorical fascism). At other times, the needs of the many are shown to outweigh the needs of the few. And that's not the only place where the story feels less than cohesive. Sub-plots abound, many of which fill time without moving the story anywhere. The ideas for individual scenes play much more effectively in the moment than they do upon reflection, where they don't feel completely unified. Then again, it's hard not to be caught up in the moment while watching ANTZ. The visuals are nothing short of spectacular, in terms of both scale and individual detail. When thousands of ants form a wrecking ball or a column to serve a unified purpose, thousands of individual limbs and antennae waving, the effect is dazzling. There are also some effectively creepy images of a war between ants and acid-spewing termites (the kind which might spook youngsters). Perhaps even more breath-taking are the facial expressions created for the characters. The movements and reactions are so complete that every ant becomes real on the screen. With so much attention lavished on giving the characters personality, ANTZ never feels merely showy, as impressive as it is from start to finish. Not that the animators were solely responsible for giving the characters personality. ANTZ boasts an impressive cast of voice talent, from Hackman as the eugenically-inclined dictator-in-waiting to Christopher Walken as he morally ambivalent henchman, from Stallone deftly playing good-natured lug to Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin as a pair of WASP-ish wasps named Chip and Muffy. But the star of the show is Woody Allen, bringing his inimitable, anxiety-ridden nebbishness to Z. Some of his lines are pure vintage Woody (on whether he "laughs in the face of Death": "Actually, I generally...make sarcastic remarks behind Death's back"), which makes it even more of an incongruous pleasure thinking of him as a romantic action hero. His voice performance is one of several reasons ANTZ is plenty of fun, if often in an inside-jokey, over the head of kids kind of way. As a story it's uneven, but it still satisfies; it may not be TOY STORY, but few things are. And it has succeeded at setting a reasonably high bar for the next computer-generated bug film to jump over with all six legs. On the Renshaw scale of 0 to 10 maiden ants: 7. - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit Scott Renshaw's MoviePage http://www.inconnect.com/~renshaw/ *** Subscribe to receive new reviews directly by email! See the MoviePage for details, or reply to this message with subject line "Subscribe". - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 13:12:09 -0400 From: MARSHALLK@lucas.lbe.edu.on.ca (Kevin Marshall) Subject: Re: [MV] Pre 90's funny movies / depressing movies I watched "The Elephant Man" (a David Lynch film) just a few days ago. It is definately one of the single most depressing films I have seen. It also happens to be one of the best. :) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kevin Marshall "It was the last time street guys were given anything that valuable." - - Casino - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 11:34:57 -0600 (MDT) From: The Reporter Subject: [MV] Movie News - 09/29/98 Leonardo DiCaprio didn't disappoint anyone this weekend -- fans, film festival-goers or even the paparazzi. Attending the opening of the New York Film Festival Friday for the premiere of Woody Allen's "Celebrity" -- in which Leo's character lampoons bad-boy movie star behavior by trashing a New York hotel room while beating up his girlfriend (played by Gretchen Mol) before heading off to a druggy Atlantic City orgy -- DiCaprio posed for photographers when he arrived at Lincoln Center, stayed throughout the movie and attended the official fest reception at Tavern on the Green after the screening. All that was more than Woody Allen did. He was elsewhere in town, shooting a new movie. * "Celebrity," which opens to the public Nov. 13, drew a mixed response. It contains some Allenesque gems, including the entire DiCaprio sequence, Bebe Neuwirth instructing Judy Davis on how to improve her lovemaking skills, and Kenneth Branagh (who mimics whiny Woody to perfection) on an ill-fated date with the luscious ubermodel Charlize Theron. But the film's 114-min. length and its blunted attack on today's star culture as it retreads over familiar Allen territory -- the adventures of an oversexed, neurotic loser who mistreats women -- dilute the movie's pleasures. -=> * <=- Nathan Lane, whose NBC sitcom "Encore! Encore!" debuted Tuesday to poor ratings and reviews, will star in a feature movie version of the critically acclaimed play "Mizlansky/Zilinsky or 'Schmucks.'" Lane starred in the Jon Robin Baitz play during its limited run at the Manhattan Theater Club earlier this year. It concerns two washed-up producers who try to salvage their careers with one last screen deal. The film version will be written by Baitz and directed by Joe Mantello, who directed the play and whose last stage-to-screen adaptation was "Love! Valour! Compassion!" Lane starred in that play, too, but dropped out of the movie. Jason Alexander took his screen role. -=> * <=- The Jackie Chan-Chris Tucker cop movie "Rush Hour" dominated an adventure-filled weekend box office that also saw strong debuts of Robert DeNiro's "Ronin" (which took in $12.3 million) and the horror film "Urban Legend" ($11 million), estimates showed Sunday. The family drama "One True Thing" ($4.4 million) lost about a third of its audience to fall into a fourth-place tie with the resilient gross-out comedy "There's Something About Mary" ($4.5 million), which crossed the $150 million mark in its 11th week. * In its second week, "Rush Hour" collected $21.1 million in ticket sales for a total of $63.9 million, exceeding all estimates. The film played well everywhere except in South Florida and Louisiana, said a spokesman for its distributor. "And that was because of the hurricane." -=> * <=- HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - Sophisticated New Yorkers appeared to be the only moviegoers lured by "Lolita," whose much-anticipated theatrical debut turned out to be more sizzle than steak at the weekend. The French-produced update of the controversial man-meets-girl story grossed a tepid $105,000 in 15 locations in the greater New York and Los Angeles areas. Its average of just $7,000 per screen is not exactly fiery, given the massive amount of ink devoted to the picture. The film did find some audiences in New York, selling out shows at the downtown Angelika and the Upper West Side's Lincoln Plaza, where it was tracked to gross a hefty $28,000. But grosses were a fraction of that in Los Angeles and in suburban runs on both coasts. 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