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Hollywood Beats the Clock, Andy Dunkley, Hot n' Happenin', M-16 Water Pistol
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1$E OArR Lssf, REPOR P.O. Box 22LL3 NOFTEN TJV ERROR - NEVER IN DOUBTO SF CA 94122 I SepL. r85 HOLLYWOOD BEATS THE CLrcK - RAMBO AND THE NEWCINEI,IA REVISIONE Back to Schoolt DATELINE RMBOVILLE - Let's take a break fron the belt-driven v. cLip-powered autonatic weapon debate and consider the hottest use of cinema slnce Patty Hearst was fiTned shootl-ng up the Hibernia Bank. Itts Cinena Revisione - the nanipuTation of seTf-inage through the cel-7u7oid aJ-teratl-on of hLstory. And if you don't think it's a real trendt check out the box office receipts for Ranbot Red Dawnt Terninator and Back to the Future. To fu77y understand it - we've got to go back to pre-sound HolLywood to the work of Anerica's prenier fiLn genius - the redneck cinema poet D.W. Griffith. D.W.G.'s revisione Birth of A Nation was a re-te77Lng of the CiviT War with one odd twist - at the end of the fiTn BTack Anericans were shipped back to Africa. Despite the fact that this cinenatic postscrLpt produced race riots (and eventuaTTy had to be cut fron the tiTn)t that didntt stop Prexy Vloody WiTson fron procLaining that Ehe fTick was TLke nhistory written with Tightning.; Dig Itl And doubTe ditto on the flashback! It's fron seeing First Bloodt Part II to procLain he situation (Assuning that Stal-Lone couLd fit it it about these flicks that get heads of state Continued on Page 4 1985 and Prexy Ronbo Reagan energes knows what to do l-n the next hostage into his shooting schedule). Yo, What is deLirious? CouTd it be Vse they know FF,OM th6 Editor Did our forefathers rea77y intend to protect l,IotTey Crue when they drafted the First Anendnent? See our forthconing essay on pop nusic reguTations - oDeviT in a BTue Dress: fs Lyric Censorship Enough?n RETAILERS we DO 7isten! In response to conpLaints about the dispTay size of the A&R 'Hot & Happening' chartst wetve it"*" 'en up and separated thei'fronThe re"t .t i cause our chatts dontt l-ie! Fron the 'IF EVERYBODY HAD AN rcEANn Dept. - Brian WiTson is headed for the bestseLTer charts with a book that conbines two of the hottest trends in pubTishing - a Monny Dearest tel-7-a77 (about his gTass-eyed Pop) and a diet book detaiTing Brits dranatic weight 7oss. Working titTe -nl'm StiL7 Bugged At My O7d Man But I Lost 200 Poundsn - Gary Buseyts been inked to pTay the ex-ro7y-po7y one in the nade-for-TVer. And speaking of video - $-hungry producers are pLanning to cash in on the Jane Fonda exercise ctaze by re-cutting her o7d fTicks with nore exercise action. I-aok for video reLease of | (Running) Barefoot In The Park, , ,The g to 5 Workout, and ,Coning Hone (In Less Than 20 Minutes). Can You Hold Pl-ease? 900 styled teTephone voting has gone over so btg on TV that phone booths nay becone voting booths. The White House has reportedTy hired consul-tants to l-ook into the potentiaT of hol-ding the '88 prexy eLection via phone. - ti7 next ish.
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Page 1: September 1985

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REPORTP . O . B o x 2 2 L L 3 NOFTEN TJV ERROR - NEVER IN DOUBTO SF CA 94122

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SepL. r85 HOLLYWOOD BEATS THE CLrcK - RAMBO AND THE NEW CINEI,IA REVISIONE Back to Schoolt

DATELINE RMBOVILLE - Let's take a break fron the belt-driven v. cLip-poweredautonatic weapon debate and consider the hottest use of cinema slnce Patty Hearst wasfiTned shootl-ng up the Hibernia Bank. Itts Cinena Revisione - the nanipuTation ofseTf-inage through the cel-7u7oid aJ-teratl-on of hLstory. And if you don't think it 's areal trendt check out the box office receipts for Ranbot Red Dawnt Terninator and Backto the Future.To fu77y understand it - we've got to go back to pre-sound HolLywood to the work ofAnerica's prenier fiLn genius - the redneck cinema poet D.W. Griffith. D.W.G.'srevisione Birth of A Nation was a re-te77Lng of the CiviT War with one odd twist - atthe end of the fiTn BTack Anericans were shipped back to Africa. Despite the fact thatthis cinenatic postscrLpt produced race riots (and eventuaTTy had to be cut fron thetiTn)t that didntt stop Prexy Vloody WiTson fron procLaining that Ehe fTick was TLkenhistory wri t ten with Tightning.;Dig I t l And doubTe di t to on the f lashback! I t 'sfron seeing First Bloodt Part II to procLain hesituation (Assuning that Stal-Lone couLd fit itit about these flicks that get heads of state

Continued on Page 4

1985 and Prexy Ronbo Reagan energesknows what to do l-n the next hostage

into his shooting schedule). Yo, What isdeLirious? CouTd it be Vse they know

FF,OM th6 EditorDid our forefathers rea77y intend to protect l,IotTey Cruewhen they drafted the First Anendnent? See ourforthconing essay on pop nusic reguTations - oDeviT in aBTue Dress: fs Lyric Censorship Enough?nRETAILERS we DO 7isten! In response to conpLaints aboutthe dispTay size of the A&R 'Hot & Happening' chartstwetve it"*" 'en up and separated thei'fronThe re"t .t icause our chatts dontt l-ie!Fron the 'IF EVERYBODY HAD AN rcEANn Dept. - Brian WiTson is headed for the bestseLTercharts with a book that conbines two of the hottest trends in pubTishing - a MonnyDearest tel-7-a77 (about his gTass-eyed Pop) and a diet book detaiTing Brits dranaticweight 7oss. Working titTe -nl'm StiL7 Bugged At My O7d Man But I Lost 200 Poundsn -Gary Buseyts been inked to pTay the ex-ro7y-po7y one in the nade-for-TVer.And speaking of video - $-hungry producers are pLanning to cash in on the Jane Fondaexercise ctaze by re-cutting her o7d fTicks with nore exercise action. I-aok for videoreLease of | (Running) Barefoot In The Park, , ,The g to 5 Workout, and ,Coning Hone (InLess Than 20 Minutes).Can You Hold Pl-ease? 900 styled teTephone voting has gone over so btg on TV that phonebooths nay becone voting booths. The White House has reportedTy hired consul-tants tol-ook into the potentiaT of hol-ding the '88 prexy eLection via phone. - ti7 next ish.

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'Revisione' continued fron page 1

what Griffith knew back in 1918 - that cinena isdreanst we can alter historft we can then changecannot deaT with the BTack problen or Vietnan in

a drean Tanguage and that if, in ourout present view of our ourseTves. lrlereaLity, but we sure as heL7 can take

care of i t on f i7n.Over the years, Revisione thinking has spawned sub-schooTs of cinena: a Depression erahunanist schooT exenpTified by lt's A WonderfuT Lite (i.e. Tife is tough but Took whatit wouTd be Tike without you) i a Tate-fifties economic school which softened our viewof Gernany and Japan for trade purposes (e.g. The Young Lionst Run SiTent, Run Deep)iand a recent conservatively based futurist revisione schooT which proposes an avoidabTefascist future (e.g. Red Dawn and Terninator)The cTassic revisione technique created by Griffith is stiLT in existence, aTbeitupdated by First BToodt Part II. Rather than take Ranbo back in tine to Vietnan (i.e.Nan, The War Part I), Ranbo returns to present-day Indochina (i.e. Nan, The War PartII) to duke it out. The nessage is the sane - the point is the sane - No natter how theo7d generation screwed it up for ust the Pepsi generation is gonna nake it right (seeaTso Back to the Future).Who's behind a77 this? A burned-outt coked-out HoTTywood cabaT whose nunbers haveamassed econonic power and are paranoid about losing it. These guys aTready have theirgunst 4-whee7 dr ivest and hi- tech securi ty sysens. Now they're gonna se77 i t to you!Since novies se77 nerchandise and revisione sel- ls social- theory, then the'r ight 'revisione novies wi77 nanipuTate the younger end of the denographics into the finaTfrontier of nerchandising - designer weapons and Ticensed survivaT gear.Dig it! Fatigues by lfurjani, Ranbo-autographed sawtooth knivest Uzis by RaTph Laurenand conbat boots by lzod. When the Ruskies do 7and, your armored DeLorean' Stenautonatic and Coca-Cola sportshirt wi77 a77 be coTor coordinated. And why stop at CocaCoTa cTothes. What about Coca CoTa crossbows and 50 mm's. Like they say at Spago's - Imay not agree with what lou salt but I'77 defend to death your right to se77 it!Enjoy our fiTn essays? Get ready for our first coTTection nMondo Cane Anore: Cinenafron A to Rn soon to be pubTished by A&RCO (DeaTers contact us for buTk pricingtpJ-ease).

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