Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site randvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!amd!pesnta!twg!trwrb!sdcrdcf!randvax!jim From: jim@randvax.UUCP (Jim Gillogly) Newsgroups: net.movies,net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: BANZAI INSTITUTE MESSAGE (re-sent) Message-ID: <2299@randvax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Feb-85 16:36:21 EST Article-I.D.: randvax.2299 Posted: Sun Feb 10 16:36:21 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Feb-85 05:46:17 EST References: <242@olivee.UUCP> Reply-To: jim@rand-unix.UUCP (Jim Gillogly) Organization: Gillogly Software Lines: 33 Xref: watmath net.movies:5659 net.sf-lovers:6114 --------- It was wonderful ... I went to the opening of Buckaroo Banzai at the Nuart in West Los Angeles last Friday, and you would have loved it. It was a midnight showing, and was on the big day of our recent 2.5" rainfall here. We were all standing out in the pouring rain, some with umbrellas, waiting happily. Really bizarre. Unfortunately I got there too late for the freebie Team Banzai head-bands that were passed out earlier. It was bizarre. When they let everybody in (10 minutes after the movie was supposed to start) it was like a big party. I saw two guys in Perfect Tommy costumes, one dressed as Reno Nevada, three with a red cowboy shirt with detachable front like New Jersey's, and one guy with a silver coat JUST LIKE John Parker's (the black Lectroid who looked like a Rastafarian). They delayed the start of the movie for another 1/2 hour (about), giving everybody a chance to see all the other weird drenched people around them ... we were all standing by our seats looking around. During the movie, people were generally good about letting people hear it. However, during favorite lines a number of people would chime in: "Laugh-a while you can, Monkey Boy." was done in excellent unison, while "It's not my god-damned planet. Understand, Monkey Boy?" was almost universally botched by people who forgot the "Understand". However, the audience was universally unified for Lord John Whorfin's marvelous harangue, and responded correctly in the litany: Where are we going? Planet 10! When? Real soon! You had to be there... -- Jim Gillogly {decvax, vortex}!randvax!jim jim@rand-unix.arpa