World Watch OnLine: The Buckaroo Banzai Mailing List
#  11  (31 Aug. 96)
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hello Monkey Boys(& Girls)
Re: World Watch OnLine 10 - 17 Aug. 96 (4)
Alright, sign me up!
BB sequel
The Banzai Institute

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Greetings,

Another issue, to get you all through the three day weekend.
(and for those without a 3 day, well, maybe this'll help
you through that, too)
Clancy Brown fans, remember that the Director's Cut of "Highlander"
is coming out officially on the 3rd of Sept, even though some places have
it out already. And listen for him in the upcoming Superman animated series.
(Lex Luthor, wasn't it?)

Have a great weekend and be safe,
Chris

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<< note: the following from relayer is cobbled together from several msgs, 
which accounts for the choppy tone >>

Subj:	revisions
Date:	96-08-18 18:56:12 EDT
From:	relayer@ecentral.com

Blue Blaze Station #23
bbs.annex.com/relayer/bbanzai.htm

hi all...
   finally got done annotating Larry Doering's excellent transcription
of TABB, adding  the missing scenes and dialogue cut from the
working/director's cut. It's under "The Script" from the World Watch One
page... 

 also added is a page with a briefing on Hanoi Xan gleaned from Interpol
files.

added too is a large section of the Garage relating information on 
"Rockit88" and its significance.

most people seem to be in favor of the new look to the Station (black bg)
though i still have the colored logo bg's on file...

... i realize that the Conference Room takes a while to load with the whole
file of "Since I Don't Have You"; i HAD put just a clip of it up there, but
got a lot of letters asking for the whole thing! Darned if you do; darned if
you don't...
But that's the slowest-loading of the lot, and would be faster if i could
afford a real T-1 backbone server... anyone want to mirror 

rafterman's script is way cool, check it out...

testing indicates that MS Explorer 3.0 WILL deliver the midi files and all
the rest of the stuff... 

btw, this mailing list is Chris' World Watch One, which is NOT at the same
place as Blue Blaze Station #23, which is NOT the same place as Sean's
(figmentfly). Just to keep confusion straight <g>

finally, i am trying to decide whether to render the Institute in VRML...
whaddaya think?

reason i asked is, its very slow, balky and prone to crash your system <g> i
have tried at least 10 plug-ins, and i guess you have to be running a SPARC
to make it really boss. But experimenting with it is fun.
   i think i will offer it as an alternative. I finally got a balance
between browsers so that at least people can access most if not all of the
station.
   do ya like the tunes? i got a great letter - "all dimensions need tunes"
- that i have taken as one of my mottoes.

and that letter-writing campaign...
   hollywood told me that things went on almost DESPITE 20th's involvement;
like they wanted to bury it...
   in fact, a prime motivation for the Station was to try to see if i was
crazy, or if TABB was one of the neatest book/film concoctions to come
along...
   i have been trying to find EMR or Rick Richter on the net and have them
take a look... so far no luck. 
   i would really like to have more BB material to read; i know EMR had TONS
of notes and storylines for the HKC's. Hopefully, he might release the
characters...

i would like to see the HKC characters opened up for
licensing... i dunno if Mac will write more books; i sure hope so... but i
think he wanted to be a screenwriter anyways. 

also, i get lots of letters, as i see you do, regarding availability of
headbands, t-shirts and whatnot. What do you know about Starland? They are
still offering those items... 

one of the problems with rights was that Begelman committed suicide, mostly
because of financial misdealings and the accompanying scandals... so after
his death, the rights were tied up in the estate, which was fought over by
many creditors; one of the reasons Credit Lyonnaise picked it up was to
liquidate the rights and recover some dimes on the dollars to pay off said
creditors. CL is a big property liquidation company that does a lot with
estates and liens.

after adding the section to the Garage on
"Rocket 88"  and the page on Hanoi Xan, i am not sure what next, though i AM
trying to find some info/graphics on the Maserati Borer for the Garage...
and Peggy's Wyvvern...

regards,
relayer


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-Subj:	hello Monkey Boys(& Girls)
Date:	96-08-18 10:41:32 EDT
From:	csims@mindspring.com (Chuck Sims)

Hmm, where to start.  I like so many people saw BB on Video back in
84-85.  For the past year I have been desperately trying to find it on
video but to no avail.  Now the rumours abound about a re-release.
This would be great.  

It's funny that the main thing that people remember about it is the
theme.   Why is that?.  I love it to.  I find myself whistling it
every once in a while.  I guess it's just so darn catchy.

My collectibles are few and far between.  My most favorite possession
is of course the headband.  I bought it for about $12 sometime in the
late eighties.(breaks you heart to think that they were given out for
free  at one time) I have a movie poster and a cloth bag with the
Adventures logo on it.  

Since finding the web page I now have the adventures logo as my
background.  

And about the World Crime League, It would be great if it were finally
made, but more than 200 people are going to be needed for a campaign to
get it made.  I don't think the studio can justify making it for only
200 people.  

Glad to be on the mailing list,
BBI csims 


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Subj:	Re: World Watch OnLine 10 - 17 Aug. 96
Date:	96-08-18 18:04:24 EDT
From:	rhurd@fast.net (Rich Hurd)

Here's another BB Irregular weighing in...  I never saw or heard of BB
until I saw a copy of the video in a store, and picked it up and watched
it.  It's now on my favorites list, and my son (age 5) is enjoying it too,
but he's watching it primarily because all the Hong Kong Cavaliers have
guns when they penetrate Yoyodyne and he's a big gun fan.  <s>

You were asking about favorite characters... it's a shame because they
can't use him any more except in pre-Overthruster episodes, but my favorite
character is Rawhide.  He seems to me to be the embodiment of the true
Renaissance man. 

There's a quote from Robert A. Heinlein that goes (imperfectly)  "A human
being should be able to cook a meal, conn a ship, change a diaper, plan an
invasion... fight heroically, die gallantly.  Specialization is for
insects."  That's how I see the HK Cavaliers and especially Rawhide.  He's
obviously at home either behind a microscope ("Here; you're keen on bugs,
what do you make of that?") or in the saddle ("He'd jest as soon kill you
as go fishin.")  Even to the end, as he is dying gallantly, he doesn't make
anything of his own doom, but exhorts his brothers to keep going ("You're
still on the clock... let's saddle up!")    He definitely dies gallantly
and too durn soon.  I can see a lot of development that can take place in
the Rawhide character.

On other matters, I have a semantic point to clean up.  Is it true that the
name is "Blue Blaze Irregulars" and not "Blue Blazer Regulars?"  Not having
seen any written copy from the movie, I would've thought that listening, it
was the latter.  I bow to everyone's superior knowledge in this matter,
however.

Secondly, I'd like to echo Eric Knight (cybrix@juno.com) and ask if anyone
has the music from the credits that is at the end of the movie?  I'd love a
wav of that, no matter how long it may be.  <s>

Someone mentioned that Mike Okuda worked on BB and on Star Trek... that
would account for the elliptical references I see everywhere in ST... one
plaque of a starship shows that it's engines were fabricated by Yoyodyne
Propulsion Systems, another has "No matter where you go... there you are"
as a ship's motto.  I thought it might have been more than just admiration
for a cult classic, and it seems that it is.  <g>

I'm glad this mailing list is here.  I'll stay tuned to WorldWatch One for
info about an alt.buckaroo newsgroup; I think an alt. newsgroup is easy but
I don't know how to do it myself.

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Subj:	Re: World Watch OnLine 10 - 17 Aug. 96
Date:	96-08-19 02:45:02 EDT
From:	synth@swcp.com (Vince Mora)

charlie@pbfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us (Charles Smith) writes:

> As World Watch One is approaching 200 members, it may be time to start
> thinking of a not-to-distant letter-writing campaign to 20th Century Fox.
> I'm sure that getting, oh, 200 or so letters from Banzai fans would make
some
> of the executives at 20th Century Fox finally consider making the long
> overdue Buckaroo Banzai sequel.

It would be a nice effort, but I doubt 200 letters would impress them.
What we need to do is get in touch with the directors of the original
Fan Club -- Denise Tathwell, Dianne Wickes, and others.  They undoubtedly
still have their large roster of original members, which could be 
contacted to help with the letter-writing campaign.  Now that, plus us
here on the Net, might amount to a bit of muscle.

> And does anyone have any particular strategies for such a
> campaign that might make it highly effective?

I'd say if we can get one of the original fan club directors in on this,
they can offer invaluable guidance -- they coordinated the original
letter-writing campaign back in '86 or so.  They probably know just how
we should handle this.

However ... last I heard talk of a sequel was already being tossed around.
Does anyone have this info on their website?


Rafterman writes:

> ps- Anyone who has any experience with usenet newsgroup creation, please
>     contact me. I'd very much like to get "alt.fan.buck.banzai"  created!!!

There's tons of info available on Usenet and the Web about how to create
a newsgroup.  Look in the group news.answers or try these URLs of Usenet info
archives:
 
    List of USENET FAQs
    http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/FAQ-List.html

    IPL Usenet Reference
    http://aristotle.sils.umich.edu/ref/RR/INT/usent-rr.html

    Usenet Info Center Launch Pad
    http://sunsite.unc.edu/usenet-i/

One thing I can tell you about naming newsgroups, though:  the dots in
the newsgroup names are intended to establish a "heirarchy" -- everything
in the "alt" heirarchy (like alt.tv stuff, alt.fan stuff, etc.), then
everything within alt.fan (like alt.fan.dennis-miller and alt.fan.mozilla),
and so on.  Thus alt.fan.buck.banzai would be incorrect because it implies
there are various group under an "alt.fan.buck" heirarchy, which doesn't
make sense.  What you want is "alt.fan.buck-banzai" with a dash, since
you're proposing a "buck-banzai" group within the "alt.fan" heirarchy.
The FAQs on newsgroup creation will explain this as well.


j.jaguar@slip.net (Patrick Macias) writes:

> Praying for a director's cut of BB on LD. . . .

I think the Voyager Co. (makers of the Criterion Collection laserdiscs
which specialize in director's cuts, special editions and supplementary
material) were looking into this a few years ago but were stopped because
of Gladden Entertainment's chokehold on the rights to BB.  Now that those
rights are finally being re-negotiated (we really need a section of the
BB FAQ devoted to this saga, if it doesn't already exist), this might
change.  If you want to offer your support of a BB Criterion Edition LD,
you can contact Voyager Co. on the Web at http://www.voyagerco.com/ .

That's all for now.  Keep the faith,

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Subj:	Re: World Watch OnLine 10 - 17 Aug. 96
Date:	96-08-19 00:53:40 EDT
From:	GrooveX1

Saddle up boys and girls! Lets get that letter writing campaign off the
ground. The message of Buckaroo is that ANYTHING can happen. And ANYONE can
do it.
Lets mobilize the Blue-Blazers and kick some booty, -Or is that
Big-Bootaay?!?
-Charlie Eisenhardt
(GrooveX1) 
New York City Chapter


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Subj:	Re: World Watch OnLine 10 - 17 Aug. 96
Date:	96-08-20 19:38:09 EDT
From:	Taum

I would gladly participate in the letter campaign for a new movie - but I
would also suggest a LD LTX release effort too.  Also, did anyone put out an
all points bulletin to find the best copy (or original) of the director's LTX
edit version w/time codes?

BB still looks contemporary.  In contrast, Star Wars, a stupendous film,
seems dated in some way (I can't put my finger on it!)

... and then there's Ellen Barkin to boot! 


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Subj:	Alright, sign me up!
Date:	96-08-20 11:20:59 EDT
Reply-to:	0001140648@mcimail.com

My experience with TABB dates back to 1983, when a trailer of TABB was
shown at either Balticon or WorldCon (which was held in Balto. that
year)-- maybe both, memory fails me. People liked the trailer so much
that it was played repeatedly and people started clapping along with the
theme.

Mitch Hellman


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Subj:	BB sequel
Date:	96-08-22 22:18:49 EDT
From:	matcam1@fix.net (Matt Smith)

I just wanted to write and say that I totally agree and am behind
Charlie Smith's plans (WWO #10, see bottom of page) for a letter
writing campaign for a new Buckaroo Banzai movie. 
So how about all you BBI's out there?... What do you think? What do you
say? If a sequel of Escape from New York can be made then why not a
Banzai II? It all starts with the fans!
So if any of you are stoked on the idea let Charlie know so he can start
forming a battle plan. 
             Charles Smith <charlie@pbfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us>

Till lithium is available on credit,
Matt Smith




(originally from World Watch OnLine #10)

>> Hello World Watch members!

As World Watch One is approaching 200 members, it may be time to start
thinking of a not-to-distant letter-writing campaign to 20th Century
Fox.
I'm sure that getting, oh, 200 or so letters from Banzai fans would make
some of the executives at 20th Century Fox finally consider making the
long overdue Buckaroo Banzai sequel.  Of course, the campaign would have
to be well coordinated.  So, what do you Banzai-ites think about a
letter writing campaign?  And does anyone have any particular strategies
for such a campaign that might make it highly effective?  Yep, I think
it's time that we Buckaroo Banzai fans make the leap from just talking
about the "good ole memories " we have of the original movie and start
getting
pro-active!  Let's push for a NEW Buckaroo Banzai movie!

Charlie Orlando Smith
West Palm Beach, Florida <<


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Subj:	The Banzai Institute
Date:	96-08-24 20:57:59 EDT
From:	jmorgan@interlog.com (Jeffrey Morgan)

Greetings!

I was a member of the 'official' 20th Century Fox/Banzai Institute mailing
list back in 
1984 when such an enterprise was still in operation. If you happen to have a
copy of 
THEIR list of members, you will find my name with--I believe; I'm relying
from memory as 
I don't have my BB press kit in front of me--a Michigan c/o address (i.e.,
CREEM 
Magazine, for whom I was a contributing editor from 1974 to 1990).

Anyway, since I do still have my press kit containing some two years worth of
documents 
(not to mention my official Team Banzai headband), please place me on your new
list and 
keep me updated on what's going on, OK?

After all, no matter where you are..here I am.

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