FOLC Central
Newsletter #99
April 21, 1999
In This Newsletter...
What's New?
Awards Contest!
Tanya's
Column
Random Thoughts
The Obsession Connection
Trivia
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What's New?
*Thanks to everyone who has sent in surveys for our 100th newsletter! The
newsletter itself will come to you THIS WEEKEND!
*The SuperStore accounts have been
updated.
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*~*~AWARDS SHOW QUIZ!*~*~
Win a hot color
L&C 8x10 photo and get an entire Diva Factor column written about you,
provided by the Diva herself, Karen! This is a very cool deal! Answer as many of
the following questions as you can. You can look up many of the answers on the
Internet. And one question is a trick question, so beware:) Have fun and good
luck! Please send your answers to me or to LadyFOLC@aol.com!
1. Who
was the first president of A.M.P.A.S. (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences)?
2. Last year at the Oscars, Titanic tied the record for most
nominations as well as the record for most wins. Name the films it tied with.
3. Last year at the Golden Globes, Ving Rhames gave his award to Jack
Lemmon. Name the category of the award, and the nominated work both actors
did.
4. What was the first film to win the Best Picture Oscar? (Bonus to
anyone who picks up the catch in this question)
5. What musical has won
the most Oscars?
6. What film did Audrey Hepbrun win a Best Actress award
for? (Bonus if you can name the other films she was nominated for)
7. Who
designed Jennifer Lopez's dress at the Oscars this year?
8. Usually, the
Best Director Oscar is awarded to the director of the winner of Best Picture.
Not this year, with the Speilberg/Shakespeare In Love split. When's the last
time this happened - name the year, and winning director and picture.
9.
This year, Fernanda Montenegro was the second South American thespain to receive
an Oscar nomination (for Best Actress). Who was the first - name the person,
year, and film it was for.
10. Who holds the record for most ACTING Oscar
nominations?
11. Who holds the most Oscar nominations of any living
person?
12. What foreign-language film holds the record for most Oscar
nominations?
13. Before Life is Beautiful, what was the last foreign
language film to receive a Best Picture Oscar nomination?
14. Shakespeare
in Love is the sixth film ever to earn 13 Oscar nominations. Name the other
five.
15. What film did Alfred Hitchcock receive a Best Picture and
Director Oscar nomination for?
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Tanya's Column
by Tanya
(Tanya_Walsh@hotmail.com)
Hi everybody.
You know what ? I
was in a chat room the other day, and I said something along the lines of
"That's so deprived." The person I was speaking to answered back "Or depraved..
but they're really the same thing anyway."
I almost died. !!! NO !!!!!
She was so wrong !! Deprived and Depraved are totally different things, and I
thought maybe I'd enlighten you on the subject. You've probably noticed I say
deprived a lot... maybe not. But anyway, I feel like writing about it today.
First of all, I'd just like to give you a bit of history on the
subject.
"Tanya, if you want to be cool at school this year, say
deprived. It's the "in" word."
These words came to me over the telephone
lines from my then best friend, Gemma, at the beginning of
1998.
"Deprived." I repeated, for the first time ever. I liked the sound
of the word.
So I started using "deprived" more and more. Soon
everything was "deprived". At one stage I got so tired of saying it I invented a
new word - "depro" - a shorthand version of "deprived". It's kind of fazed out
now, but it lives on in the memory of some of my friends =). Speaking of which,
they all say deprived now as well ! (But nowhere nearly as much as I say it !!)
The first word I taught my Japanese exchange student, Hitomi was "deprived". (Ok
so maybe she's not really *MY* exchange student but that's besides the
point.)
And then, one day I was innocently chatting on ICQ when my good
friend Jess came up to me and said "Tanya, is depraved the past tense of
deprived."
Well, this opened up a whole new can of worms. I'd never heard
that word before and looked it up in the dictionary. (Advice - Keep one near you
when chatting on the internet. People use really weird words sometimes, and if
you're used to sounding stupid in real life, maybe, with the help of a
dictionary you can sound half intelligent on the net.) And this is what I
found.
"Deprave" (it didn't have depraved obviously) - To render bad or
worse, especially in morals, corrup, pervert.
So basically if you're
depraved you're some sick pervert.
Now here's the meaning for
deprived.
"Deprive" (Doesn't have deprived) -
1. To take something
away from, divest.
2. To keep from acquiring, using, or enjoying
something.
3. Lacking what is needed for well-being,
underpriviledged.
Translated directly into the way I USE deprived I guess
the one closest to my useage would be number 3.
But of course, I can
still LIKE some things but think they're deprived. Like if somebody makes a
really bad joke I can call it deprived but think it's funny.
Since
chatting on IRC I've used deprived more than ever. The words that can be used
almost interchangably with it are "sux, blows, gay" which are not really
acceptable in some chat rooms, and when talking to adults etc. Deprived is a
weird word, but at least you won't get in trouble for using it.
If you
still don't know how to use deprived, just pay attention to the way I use it =)
You'll pick it up soon. Maybe we can work together for a more deprived world
!!
--Tanya
**Who is thinking maybe "The Deprived Side" could be a good
name for her column.**
P.S - Lois and Clark is on in 20 minutes (Remember
how I was telling you that the mean network TRICKED me by saying it was on when
it wasn't... well the next week they put it on.)
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Random Thoughts
by Rachel
(Scardno007@aol.com)
My friends, Rachel M. has just gotten
the chance of her lifetime. I'm afraid if I pass this up, I'll never forgive
myself. Just what is she talking about this time, you may ask?
Please,
let me enlighten you.
My friend, Amanda, who lives about an hour away
from us, will be going to college next year in...guess
where?
Malibu.
It's a nice Christian academy with a gorgeous
chapel, she says, and she continues to tell me that Mr. Dean Cain frequently
plays volleyball on the beach outside this particular academy, which you might
know as Pepperdine.
And how convenient that my dad takes regular
business trips out to California.
What do you think? Time for a Close
Encounter, huh?
I don't know...I guess we'll find out.
In the
meantime, pray to the Coincidence Gods that perhaps (coincidentally) I shall
meet Dean on some sunny day in Malibu...
-Rachel :)
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The Obession
Connection
Graffiti is bad--I know
that, okay? But on a certain city bus, on the very back seat, someone wrote
DEAN. Or maybe it really says OLEARI. I don't know, but I think it says DEAN. I
love to sit in that seat, now, when I ride the bus. I call the seat my Dean
seat. And, if I put my feet up on the metal foot rest, and the driver is a worse
driver than I am, then the bus ride feels like a roller coaster ride and that's
all fun.
"You're not afraid of roller coasters, are you, Miss
Lane?"
"I guess it depends on whose roller coaster it is."
Hey, okay,
so the quote goes something like that. It's late, I forget. Anyway, this begins
my tale entitled: The New Adventures of School.
There's the bus thing.
And then there is this film class I'm taking. We're watching John Ford movies
right now. In the first two movies we watched, they played "Battle Hymn of the
Republic" (nooooo!!!!!). Then we watched "My Darling Clementine", in which an
actor quotes "Hamlet". JUST LIKE IN "Best Men"! Remember the yummola Dean's cool
movie, where Sean Patrick Flannery is "Hamlet" and at the end, on the bus (did
someone say bus?), he quotes "Hamlet"? You see? Connections!
Then there
is my photography class. Darkrooms are scary. So I got to thinking about all the
L&C episodes where photography or darkrooms play a pretty big part (or hey,
even a small part) in the episode. Here are a few examples...
*Requiem
For a Superhero--Lois and Clark take pictures of Sam Lane's office
*The
Green, Green Glow of Home--Jimmy is sent to Smallville on his first photo
assignment
*Honeymoon In Metropolis--Lois takes pictures of the
Congressman Harrington across the street...from her hotel room bathtub...while
talking on the phone to a very amused Clark!
*Wall of Sound--When Clark
gets nominated for a Kerth Award, but Jimmy doesn't get a nod for the pictures
he's taken, he sets out to take some prize-winning pictures. Unfortunately, the
bad guys catch him and he gets tied up. But, hey, that's life.
*Operation
Blackout--Jimmy, armed with his camera, accompanies Lois and Clark to the
unveiling of the ATAS (All-Terrain Automated Soldier). But when the ATAS goes
Haywire (and Superman must save the day), Jimmy's pictures don't turn out so
good. Later, we learn he took a picture of his feet! Haha...
*Season's
Greedings--Perry threatens to send a high-on-rat-spray Clark to the darkroom.
*The Eyes Have It--We see Jimmy developing photos for a staffer who
has called in sick.
*The Phoenix--Clark recieves a photo of Nigel St.
John and Gretchen Kelly. He uses his zoom-in vision on the photo and realizes
that Sheldon Bender may be involved with those two naughty
villains.
*Return of the Prankster--Kyle Griffin's new device is half
camera/half photo freezer. He uses the camera part of it to take two polaroids
of Lois while she is carrying groceries...and completely frozen...kind of like a
90's version of that kids' game, Freeze Tag...are you on any type of medication,
Ma'am?
*Chip Off The Old Clark--Leigh Ann Stipanovich uses a photo
taken of her and Superman at the Ding Dong Motel in order to prove her case that
she and Superman were once an item. Yeah right--and Dean is married to
me!
*It's A Small World After All--Clark looks at Lois's yearbook
picture--nice hair, Lolo...
*Swear to God, This Time We're Not
Kidding--Ah, the wedding photo, where Mike the Angel smiles and freaks us out.
The question remains--just who took the picture?
*SoulMates--Tempus Tex
rigs his camera so that when it takes the picture, it sets off dynamite to kill
Lulu's parents. Naturally, Clark saves the day :)
*Sex, Lies, and
Videotape--A photo of Lois and--whoops, SUPERMAN (in a very steamy pose) gets
plastered onto every major tabloid. The whole episode revolves around this
photo, the too-eager photographer who keeps screwing up, and a shady little
place called Hank's Photo Lab.
And so...draw your own conclusions.
And
yes, I know I've left out many examples, but this is a newsletter, not a
novel.
Speaking of which, my novel, "Searching For Perfection: Dean"
is...not finished. I'm sure you're all really disappointed, too! :)
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Trivia
Last newsletter's trivia question was...
In what episode do we see Lois
popping some of those little plastic packing bubbles?
ANSWER: "The Ides of
Metropolis"
Yeah, that was a tough one, but two people got it--Cristin and
Jessi! And no, I didn't tell them the answer ;-) Congrats, you two get 50
superdollars since you're the only ones who got it right. Yayyyy!!! But thanks
to everyone who attempted this!
This newsletter's question is: In which
episode does Lois lose her bracelet in the garbage can?
Send your answers
to LoveLC@aol.com
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SuperThanks!
molly cristin rachel
jill cat maggie
karen jessi
tanya
cathy and erin
:)
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