http://www.metafilter.com/30426/Actuallania/ Comments on MetaFilter post Actuallania Sun, 28 Dec 2003 02:07:16 -0800 Sun, 28 Dec 2003 02:07:16 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/30426/Actuallania <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000647/bio" title="The imdb Biography of 'director' Alan Smithee.">T</a><a href="http://www.robertfulford.com/AllenSmithee.html" title="Robert Fulford's column about truly legendary director Allen Smithee... 'Directed by Allen Smithee provides fresh proof that nothing is so trivial that academics will decline to theorize about it'.">h</a><a href="http://www.atlantapoetsgroup.net/James%20Sanders/allen_smithee.html" title="Allen Smithee: an anatomy.">e</a> <a href="http://www.micosyen.com/smithee.php" title="'If you really know who Allen Smithee is, you might have an interest in this. The picture below was shot by famed Hollywood and celebrity photographer A.L. Schafer in 1946 to demonstrate the hypocrisy of the Hollywood movie business'.">A</a><a href="http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,4120,527768,00.html" title="Guardian article concerning 'a [not so, now] new book by Allen Smithee, edited by Jeremy Braddock and Stephen Hock, which examines the career of the pseudonym used by the Directors' Guild of America to denote authorship of films whose original directors, appalled at what they have wrought, want nothing to do with...'">l</a><a href="http://us.imdb.com/bottom_100_films" title="Spot the Smithees: The imdb bottom 100 movies as voted by users. Try not to cheat by looking at an...">i</a><a href="http://www.upress.umn.edu/Smithee.html" title="Allen Smithee Filmography.">a</a><a href="http://surgery-graphics.med.umich.edu/~matt/smithee/" title="The Smithee Awards Category Animations. Categories include 'The Most Ludicrous Premise Award', 'The 'Wanna Run That By Me Again?' Award' for the least comprehensible dialogue, and 'The Let's Up the Rating to R Award' for most inexplicable or inappropriate sex scene.">s</a> <a href="http://www.echonyc.com/~jhhl/Smithee/" title="The [non-]Films of Alan Smithee, celebrating Alan Smithee as a fictional filmmaker, and his...">M</a><a href="http://www.echonyc.com/~jhhl/Smithee/filmo1.html" title="...plethora of...">e</a><a href="http://www.echonyc.com/~jhhl/Smithee/filmo2.html" title="...(mostly) made up films, including 'Terror from the Galaxy of Fashion', 'Return of Satan's Cheerleaders', and 'Whorecestra'.">n</a>. post:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.30426 Sun, 28 Dec 2003 00:38:15 -0800 nthdegx film cinema allensmithee alansmithee http://www.metafilter.com/30426/Actuallania#605316 California sure is a strange place. Alan Smithee was in Destination Vegas (1995) with Richard (I) Lynch Richard (I) Lynch was in Happy Hooker, The (1975) with Nicholas Pryor Nicholas Pryor was in Collateral Damage (2002) with Arnold Schwarzenegger Alan Smithee has an <a href="http://oracleofbacon.org/cgi-bin/oracle/movielinks?firstname=Arnold+Schwarzenegger&game=2&secondname=Alan+Smithee">Arnie number of 3</a>. comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.30426-605316 Sun, 28 Dec 2003 02:07:16 -0800 alex_reno http://www.metafilter.com/30426/Actuallania#605343 Excellent post. comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.30426-605343 Sun, 28 Dec 2003 07:01:58 -0800 Prospero http://www.metafilter.com/30426/Actuallania#605353 Didn't they officially retire the Alan Smithee name, and switched to a bunch of other names that weren't so obvious a little while ago? comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.30426-605353 Sun, 28 Dec 2003 08:25:29 -0800 amberglow http://www.metafilter.com/30426/Actuallania#605361 [This is good] The first link explains the phenomenon, for the uninitiated. comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.30426-605361 Sun, 28 Dec 2003 08:50:20 -0800 zpousman http://www.metafilter.com/30426/Actuallania#605363 This <i>is</i> good, but still, I was expecting an expose on Michael Vartan and Victor Garber. Sigh. Smithee's cut of Dune was better than Lynch's, too. *runs* comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.30426-605363 Sun, 28 Dec 2003 08:56:18 -0800 WolfDaddy http://www.metafilter.com/30426/Actuallania#605457 Great post! -- Lynch's Dune sucked all around, both as a movie and as a supposed adaptation of the book. comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.30426-605457 Sun, 28 Dec 2003 17:17:57 -0800 tiamat http://www.metafilter.com/30426/Actuallania#605505 Who is <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0881265/">this guy</a>? I'm thinking its all a conspiracy of some sort. comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.30426-605505 Sun, 28 Dec 2003 22:33:54 -0800 mrhappy