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From:
http://www.ew.com/article/2…
"In truth, nobody was supposed to see Zyzzyx Road at all. The Dallas screening was never meant to be a real theatrical run. Instead, it was set up to fulfill a Screen Actors Guild agreement, which permits low-budget films to pay actors a lower rate as long as the film gets a domestic

They specifically wouldn't rent anything rated NC-17 or X or "Unrated." I think studios were fine with making R-rated cuts of those films, since they also ended up selling them in Walmart.

I rented from Kim's Video once or twice right before they closed, and their collection was impressive.

I just looked this up: a "tie-in novel" is a novel based on a show, but not an adaptation of an episode. So he was saying there were tie-in Psych books, and tie-in Eureka and Monk books too. But sadly no crossover books, which would've been insanely great.

There's a difference between audience laughter that may have been "sweetened," and a laugh track though. A "laugh track" is for shows that were shot without an audience, and canned laughter later added. Think of one-camera shows like MASH.

Barris has said that some of Kaufman's changes aren't "true" but he didn't care about any of them except for Kaufman writing a scene where Barris kills a contestant. He had them remove that.

To be fair, that's a French film adaptation, not featuring any of the original cast of the TV show. I don't think anyone really considers it an "official" movie. Also, Wikipedia's article on the show lists this upcoming film under the "Film" subsection, while the French film gets a brief paragraph under "adaptations."

Funny enough, there was a Windows 3.2, it was specifically for the Chinese market, fixing some bugs that came up when using the Chinese character set.

You mean the first problem of many.

I went and looked, and Armond White gave the movie Rage a positive review, which one positive review out of 6 means it has a 17% rating:
http://www.rottentomatoes.c…

Darin Morgan actually got a three-picture deal with TriStar Pictures straight out of film school, and he wrote some film screenplays, all unproduced. I can't imagine how strange they must've been for TriStar to not make any of them,

Am I the only one that thinks Citizen Kane can be pretty funny at points?

He basically rationed the protein in the meal packs, using the potatoes as filler. The movie make a quick reference that the first supply probe they launch to him was full of protein packs instead of the standard meals because they knew he had the potatoes at that point.

I started with "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?" because of Blade Runner, then read Martian Time Slip next. They're both solid PKD books, but not as trippy as some like Ubik or VALIS.

The Transmigration of Timothy Archer is great, he basically just finished writing it before he died. Radio Free Albemuth is also a good read, although it retreads a lot of the same ground as VALIS.

The rover was probably CGI, given that you see it removed from the landscape plate.

It's funny, because PKD had 11 of his 44 novels published posthumously, largely consisting of his non-sci-fi, aka "general fiction" novels that publishers rejected when he was alive. He wanted to be taken seriously as a writer, but all anyone wanted from him while he was alive was more sci-fi.

That's almost more of a "best of" than a primer. Also, "Valis Trilogy" is a bit of misnomer because nobody can agree what the 3rd book is (it was originally going to be An Owl in the Daylight).