Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!mcnc!decvax!harpo!seismo!ut-sally!hitchens From: hitchens@ut-sally.UUCP (Ron Hitchens) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Roger Corman Message-ID: <138@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-May-84 19:45:31 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-sally.138 Posted: Mon May 14 19:45:31 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 16-May-84 07:22:45 EDT References: <12100001@acf4.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 31 [Oh my Gosh, it's the Giant radioactive Space Slug] >What other movies has Roger Corman done?? The name is very familiar, I >just can't place it. > >Altogether, low-budget, but kind of workmanlike and straightforward. More >like watching a play, not a slick production. > >-- Lars Ericson Shame on you, everyone should know that Roger Corman is the founder of New World Pictures, the inventors of "low-budget". New World is responsible for most of the "The That Ate " type movies. They (along with Hammer) also made most of the low-budget horror flicks running on the late-late-late show. They've been around since the 50's, but have only been doing "major" releases for the last few years (best known is probably "Battle Beyond the Stars"). Corman and New World discovered a lot of people who went on to be real heavyweights in "the biz". Jack Nicholson and Francis Coppola for example (Corman made a cameo in the Godfather II as a member of the Senate committe investigating Michael Corleone). New World provided a place where they could practice their craft a build a reputation. All the New World pictures have a great tongue-in-cheek attitude, "Big Bad Mama", currently running on Cinemax, is classic New World. They also made one called "Hollywood Boulevard" which was an hilarious spoof on New World itself. New World pictures is what gives meaning to Joe Bob Briggs' life. It's the real thing: high quality trash. I love it. Ron "Cut, we ran out of film" Hitchens hitchens@ut-sally.UUCP ------------------------------------------------------------------