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From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: a different(?) vein of Humor
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Date: Sat, 15-Feb-86 06:07:30 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 15 06:07:30 1986
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Keywords: Judicious Comments at the Flicks
Summary: mild Pretty Baby spoiler

>>    Ah yes, the judicious comment at just the right time in
>> a movie. The difficult part is saying something funny enough
>> so that people won't get angry at you.
>> 
>  . . .
>> 					-Jim

It was once very easy at a showing of "Pretty Baby" at Princeton
when the sound track broke.  They kept showing the movie anyway,
and so a lot of adlibbing took place.  Someone was playing his
cello--yes, someone really had brought his cello--for background
music.  At one point, they had a replacement bulb, so they then
rewound it for us, with the film still showing.  This included
the scene where Brookie jumped up and down and broke the bed.  On
the reply a lot of people were shouting "Oh no!"  But then the
sound track broke again.  They kept going.  When she and the photo-
grapher got married, and somebody was taking information down first,
some one shouted "Father's name?"  Then the projector broke down
for good, and to this day I have never found out what happened
afterwards.

ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720