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From: donn@utah-gr.UUCP (Donn Seeley)
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Subject: Re: Re: Movies made where you live
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Date: Tue, 19-Feb-85 22:05:38 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 19 22:05:38 1985
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	Any Reedies out there who remember the films shot on Reed's
	campus in 1978?  I believe they were "First Love", starring
	Susan Dey, and some possession piece starring Joan Collins and
	James Farentino (Franciscus? :-)). ...

(It's curious how many Reedoids are on the net...  Is the IBM 1130
still there?)

The guys in the dorm where I was staying thought it was amazingly funny
that they would choose to shoot a movie named 'First Love' at Reed.
They would have been forced to rename it 'First One-Night Stand' or
'First Orgy' if they had based the movie on actual practices at Reed.
We had a lot of fun pretending to rewrite the script to make it more
accurate -- for example they apparently decided to shoot a love scene
using as an exterior the old toolshed in the field on the north side of
campus, which would have been a bit disgusting in real life...
('Honey, where are you?'  'Over here with the lawn mowers.' 'Ow!
Stepped on a rake.  Shit, it's dark in here.' 'You haven't seen any
spiders, have you?' etc.)

We decided that the hero would get so depressed when he got sticky
sheets back from the linen service that he would attempt to commit
suicide by diving off the bridge into the pond...  Of course he would
survive the fall, but (as the theme from 'Jaws' rises in the
background) the ducks would get him before he could escape.

Never saw the actual movie,

Donn Seeley    University of Utah CS Dept    donn@utah-cs.arpa
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