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IMDB (1990)
Directed by: Col Needham
Writing credits: Jeff Bezos
Michel H.
Jon R.
Murray C.
Ron H.
Giancarlo C.
Peter S.
Oliver H.
Jake D.

Genre: Movies, TV, geeks, videophiles, one-line-aholics

User rating: * * * * * * * * 8.5/10 [643,044 votes]

Cast overview, first billed only:
Col Needham ... .rec.arts.movies

MPAA: Rated PG-13 for violent content, archaic GUI, and being free
Run time: 15 years
Country: International
Language: French / German / Italian / English
Color: Color : Techniolor
Certification: USA: PG-13

Trivia:

How do I break into show business?

Semi-famous actors (often people who've done a lot of commercials or character roles), writers and agents/managers with varying levels of scruples keep certain arts-themed publications filled with ads, week after week, promising to tell you the secrets... if you pay for their seminar, service or book. In fact, preying on the "wannabe" is a cottage industry in any field that puts up barriers to entry, be it the movies or publishing or the music industry. We look at these people much like the get-rich-quick gurus on late-night TV... it stands to reason that they make more money telling you how to get rich with their secrets than they do using them, otherwise they'd be too busy using them to have time to sell them to you for $49.95.

The best advice we can give you are these few points...

1. Don't quit your day job. It can take years and you'll need money to live. Harrison Ford quit acting and worked in construction for a few years before coming back and getting his break. Bruce Willis was a waiter and bartender while he tried to get stage work in New York. Even people who seem to be overnight sensations played bit parts and struggled before they suddenly burst onto the scene in a prominent role.

2. A real agent or manager will not ask you for money (be it an "up-front fee" or "seed money"). They make money when they get you a job. Also, in California, talent agents must be licensed and there are laws governing their relationship with clients. Go to the unions, preferably SAG (Screen Actors Guild) or AFTRA (American Federation of Radio and Television Artists) or WGA (Writers Guild of America), and ask for their "franchised agency" list. You can buy it for a nominal fee or in some cases get it online for free. These lists will contain licensed agents who have signed contracts with the unions to follow specific rules when representing clients.

3. Take classes. It may be hard figuring out whether the $10 per session class is as good as the $100 per session class, and we can't help you there, but classes give you two benefits. First, they help you hone and perfect your craft, whatever branch of show biz you want to be in. Second, they will help flesh out a weak resume. If you don't have credits, you need classes. If you're wondering about the credits of the person teaching the class, look them up in our database. Except for writers on individual TV show episodes, we keep pretty good records.

4. Until you're commanding $20 million per film, you're not entitled to have a big ego. Don't reject parts you think are too small or insignificant because you're too busy looking for your big break. Judi Dench won an Oscar for six minutes of screen time.

If you're looking for books on breaking into the business, you may want to check out Amazon.com's entertainment book section where you can find books about screenwriting, acting, directing, etc.

IMDb has a page for this

... but what about the hundreds of deceased actors.

Moe Howard
Loe Costello
Ed Wood

... but what about the hundreds of deceased actors.

Moe Howard
Loe Costello
Ed Wood

... but what about the hundreds of deceased actors.

Moe Howard
Loe Costello
Ed Wood

I don't agree with your points as I am a bit liberal on such huge sites and I better clear something since I am directly connected to some actor who is listed on IMDB site.

You can't post headshot of him/her even if you pay for it. It has to be done with his/her agency or the person him/herself.

There is always copyright involved in movie business, its one of the reasons. Photo is not a feature for fans, its for artist/agency.

quoting from imdb

http://www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?photossubmitwho

Who is allowed to submit photos?

First and foremost, FANS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO SUBMIT PHOTOS.

For People: You may submit a photo for yourself or an authorized representative may submit a photo on your behalf. Examples of authorized representatives include your agent, your publicist, your parent, or even a friend you asked to help you because you're no good with computers, just so long as they have your express permission. If you're submitting a photo for a person who is deceased, you must be that person's heir or have permission from their heir(s).

Why, the Hedgehog himself, of course!

... how The Man with the Smallest Penis in Existence and the Electron Microscope Technician Who Loved Him is not on the Top 250 movies of all time list?

Guess I should be on the lookout for "Legend Of Zorro" to be appearing here soon as well...

More than just top and bottom 250 movies http://www.imdb.com/Top/

http://www.imdb.com/interfaces
http://us.imdb.com/Licensing/structure.html
http://us.imdb.com/database_statistics

More than just top and bottom 250 movies http://www.imdb.com/Top/

http://www.imdb.com/interfaces
http://us.imdb.com/Licensing/structure.html
http://us.imdb.com/database_statistics

More than just top and bottom 250 movies http://www.imdb.com/Top/

http://www.imdb.com/interfaces
http://us.imdb.com/Licensing/structure.html
http://us.imdb.com/database_statistics

More than just top and bottom 250 movies http://www.imdb.com/Top/

http://www.imdb.com/interfaces
http://us.imdb.com/Licensing/structure.html
http://us.imdb.com/database_statistics

Reading IMDb's history, it is interesting to note that the site is owned by Jeff Bezos. I wonder if the advertizing revenue pays for the bills, or whether he supports this great service on a continuing basis.

At first, I thought it was the (talented) Australian actor of the same name http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0860233/. For a second, I though he may be Mickey Tompson http://mshf.com/index.htm?/hof/thompson_mickey.htm

Without this attention, he'd have remained a blip in the background noise...

The butler did it.

Kirk dies.

Data dies, but in a way where he can be resurrected.

She's a lesbian.

So's she.

Vader is a whiney teenager.

The butler did it.

Kirk dies.

Data dies, but in a way where he can be resurrected.

She's a lesbian.

So's she.

Vader is a whiney teenager.

The butler did it.

Kirk dies.

Data dies, but in a way where he can be resurrected.

She's a lesbian.

So's she.

Vader is a whiney teenager.

The butler did it.

Kirk dies.

Data dies, but in a way where he can be resurrected.

She's a lesbian.

So's she.

Vader is a whiney teenager.

The butler did it.

Kirk dies.

Data dies, but in a way where he can be resurrected.

She's a lesbian.

So's she.

Vader is a whiney teenager.

there are other benefits to this approach as well.... didn't u guys see the movie secretary? :P

Gary Johnston: Bak. Derk-derk-Allah. Derka derka, Mohammed Jihad. Baka sherpa-sherpa. Abaka-la.
Terrorist: Ohhh! Derka derka derka!
[Allows Gary into terrorist hideout]

Here's an imdb link....

http://imdb.com/title/tt0077078/

You can find the answer to this one by watching Labyrinth (1986)

Not Cheetos... Funyons.

The whole thing stinks of Labyrinth to me! Tis one of my favourtie films though, classic. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091369/

If this ever happens, the most expensive component of travel around the solar system would be for life support -- and inflight movies.

While we're at it, back in Forbidden Planet (1956), didn't they already talk about civilisations wiped out by "the monster from the id"? Also 50 years ahead of their time, truly +5 Foresightful, was that id as in RF-ID, by any chance?

Worked for John Travolta.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074236/

Dont cross the streams it would be bad

Or maybe a movie quote ;)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/quotes

In the future, when making jokes that refer to old movie plots, please avoid using sequals that nobody cared to watch. The movie you are looking for is The Absent Minded Professor.

As a bit of fun though, in the trivia section down at the bottom of the IMDB entry is the "recipe" for this amazing substance. I guess these resilin scientists are getting a little extravagent with their protein synthesis and genetically modified bacteria.

For the pathetic sibling posters here who obviously didn't get the joke

How is this different that Western guns, warplanes, and bombs being sold to repressive regimes? To paraphrase Captain Renault in Casablanca :

"I'm shocked, shocked to find that Western software is being used in repressive regimes!"

"Your liscencing fees, sir."

"Thank you very much."

Yeah, that whole microwave oven thing is vastly overrated. And the dweebs at college carrying around backpack computers, they're completely losing their nerdy minds over the idea that someday we'll all be using computers embedded in the simplest daily things.

Take a look around you at all the lasers you encounter. Played a CD lately?

Almost nothing's ever the panacea that real true believers think it might be, but if anything the pace of change is accelerating, "Connections"-style.

NOO NOO!! its all a sham!! A cover up i tell you!!

I'm curious what evidence you would like to see?
i know, live tv isnt real, its all in a studio
i think you've been watching to many movies.
But i can understand, these events never really happened either.

Snakes will fly... if you put them on a plane! See!

This sounds wayy too much like Son of Flubber!

What could be more simple than simply attibuting everything to God?

Gosh, I wish I recalled how it went but in "Contact" Jodie Foster when talking about Occam's Razor says something along the lines of if God exists then why didn't isn't there evidence. I'd add evidence that has only one explanation.

Falcon

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first Bionic Internet. Better than it was before. Better, stronger, faster.

...they knew what they were getting into. I say, let 'em crash.

Fair and balanced.

Really?

There's a brilliant documentry Outfoxed that looks into just how 'fair and balanced' fox is.

Amongst a myriad of damming evidence some of the most startling is probably the internal memo's sent out advising on how to slant coverage to fit the conversative/right-wing agenda.

There's no doubt that they secretly manipulate the news and that in turn they wind up manipulating people's perception of the truth.

Demented and sad, but social.

You quoted from the wrong movie. We're talking "The Princess Bride" here. Prepare to die.

wha?
It came out in 1987.
It is now 2005.

That's not even 20 years.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0093779/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107362/quotes

There's actually a modern reinterpretation of the Cinderella story that has some hilariously modern female roles.

It was called Ever After. A Drew Barrymore movie that didn't suck.

Personally, I'm waiting for "Snakes on a Plane: The Musical"...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417148/

Milena Gabanelli's Report on Rai3 (one of those transmissions so good you wonder how much time before they get censored) once had 2 hours about SIAE.

Turned out, the tune getting the most money from SIAE in Italy is the background music of Onda Verde (traffic condition broadcast) on radio. If you never heard any music at all, that's because it's so low you cannot hear it. But you are paying for it, of course.

In Rome, there are some "musicians" who daily organise concerts where no one goes, only because they agree with SIAE that they are getting support for "cultural activities". It's basically your average white-collar mafia.

As a lot of things in Italy, thieves with the right contacts pull the strings and get rich doing nothing useful for society. This is the Italian development model after all. If you wondered, no, serious musicians don't get a penny. The 99 Posse said they never saw a penny coming from SIAE, even if they wrote a song,Curre curre guagliò, that is in the soundtrack of Gabriele Salvatores' Sud, that ran a few times on national TV. That might have to do with the fact that 99 are not exacly government-aligned.

If you don't like the way it works, pack up and leave. Serious, I did and never looked back—it's a panacea for your liver. But I'll take a trip to Stockholm to vote for Tonino anyway.

Yeah, if you thought the coeliacs had trouble, wait and see what the catholics will do with these guys!