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From: ughenry@sunybcs.UUCP (Henry Neeman)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: There was an intermission in 2001
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Date: Wed, 5-Jun-85 17:52:16 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  5 17:52:16 1985
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> > From: kevin%bach.DEC@decwrl.ARPA
> > MGM is currently distributing ``2001'' WITH AN INTERMISSION built into it!
> Well, I saw 2001 when it was first released (lo these many years ago, sigh), and
> it had an intermission back then, too.  It came just after the scene where HAL
> reads Bowman's and Poole's lips through one of the pod windows.
> As I recall, it gave people a chance to become apprehensive about what HAL might
> be up to, though I guess nowadays it isn't so important.
>     Jim Sasaki (jts@cornell, {decvax|ihnp4|uw-beaver|vax135|...}!cornell!jts)

  As a matter of fact, I recall hearing some t.v. reviewer (Roger Ebert?)
telling about how the hippies used to hang around movie theatres (this was
'69, I believe) that were playing 2001 and wait for the intermission.  Then
they'd sneak into the crowd, go into the theatre with the rest of the
folks (unnoticed), walk down to the front of the theatre, *lie down* on
the floor in front of the screen and drop some acid.
  By the time the Stargate sequence began, they'd be really tripping.
  Oh, by the way...did anyone remember that the teaser slogan on the 2001
posters was "The Ultimate Trip"?

-- 

                     Henry J. Neeman (ughenry@buffalo)

  "Well, no, we don't have _Rarnaby_Budge_ by Charles Dikkens with two
k's the famous Dutch author, and perhaps to save time I should add that
we don't have _Carnaby_Fudge_ by Darles Chickens, or _Farnbarous_Snudge_
by Miles Pickens or even _Stickwick_Stapers_ by Tharles Wickens with
four "m"'s and a silent "q"!  Why don't you try W. H. Smith's!"
  "I did.  They sent me here."
  "Did they."