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Date:    Mon, 28 Oct 1996 20:15:16 -0500
From:    Dennis McGough <Juvgfraaq@nby.pbz>
Subject: New Trend In Hollywood.

My good friend Jade Ed Dilettante, Pop Culture Critic for the Hollywood
Purporter, tells me that the new trend for the coming year in Hollywood
will be more movies and TV shows dealing with computers, e-mail, and the
Internet as Tinseltown belatedly catches up with America's love for
computing.  Here are just some of the announced projects we will be seeing
in the coming months:

Jody Foster stars as an Internet list owner who must delve deep into the
mind of a psychopathic e-mail maniac in an attempt to stop him from using
up her bandwidth with unwanted ads for fax services and other assorted
junk.  Jonathan Demme directs the disturbing tale, Silencing the Spams.

In an attempt to revive the big movie musical, Universal is producing a
timely tale about a bunch of students at the School for Computer Arts who
sing and dance their way through lessons about love, life, and torching
fellow list members in the big budget gala, Flame!

NBC TV announces their plans for a new half-hour sitcom about a Navy
experiment to produce a robotic Officer that goes wackily awry.  Tune in
every week for the adventures of that wisecracking ne'er-do-well,  CPU
Sharkey.

Robert Redford stars in a new film about an aging sixties radical who takes
on nefarious PC manafacturers who knowingly produce substandard audio
quality on their computers in Phil Alden Robinson's, Speakers.

Fox TV is producing the latest show from the twisted mind of Chris Carter.
 Thrill to the eerie and the unexplained on The Text Files.

Agents for the shadowy goverment agency A.C.R.O.N.Y.M. try to break the
mysterious codes of Internet users in the animated family film, The Secret
of IMHO.

Disney also tries its hand at a live action musical about a group of
ragamuffin computer neophytes in the song and dance filled Newbies.

A mad scientist builds a computer controlled shark the size of an Aircraft
Carrier.  Paramount Pictures asks: Can you escape the massive jaws of
Megabyte?

And finally, although shrouded in secrecy and only in the earliest stages
of preproduction, Oscar buzz already surrounds the latest Steven Spielberg
epic, Schindler's Listserv.

Dennis McGough
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