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Title:	Arcana Caelestia
Notice:	Directory listings are in topic 2
Moderator:	NETRIX::thomas

Created:	Thu Dec 08 1983
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1300
Total number of notes:	18728

854.0. "HEAVY METAL" by FASDER::CRUSSELL (Antic the Fearless) Tue Jan 23 1990 15:48

    
    I just noticed that Heavy Metal is showing this month on
    cable on Cinemax.  Why has it taken this long to show up?
    I remember seeing it back when I was in college, but I
    haven't heard or seen anything since.  I've looked for it
    in video stores, but I can never find it.  Some people
    have told me that they found it in some video stores,
    other people tell me that it was kept from video stores
    by ongoing lawsuits between the producers and the rock
    groups that performed.  Does anyone have the real scoop
    on why it's taken so long for such a good movie to show
    up on cable?
    

					~chris

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
854.1		RUBY::BOYAJIAN	Secretary of the Stratosphere	`Wed Jan 24 1990 06:15`	19
	re:.0 HEAVY METAL has been on cable quite a few times. I taped it off of one pay-movie-channel back about six years ago. And it was on Cinemax back last summer. I'm sure it's been on cable at other times. It's never been released (legally) on videocassette for exactly the reason you mentioned: rights issues over some of the soundtrack numbers. The licenses for the songs did not cover video releases, and some of the artists involved wanted to renegotiate for substantially larger sums of money. If you have access to the right sources (no, don't ask me how to get access to them), you can acquire copies of a Japanese videotape release (in English, with Japanese subtitles) but this is not a legal release. --- jerry
854.2	Heavy Metal - the magazine.	SWAPIT::LAM	Q ��Ktl��	`Fri Mar 09 1990 17:08`	8
	I'm not sure if this is the right place to discuss this but I'll mention it and the moderators can move it to an appropriate topic or conference. Does anyone still follow the comic magazine _Heavy_Metal_ at all? Its one of the few comic strip collections that have serious SF stories in it. I havent seen it in a long time and I'm wondering if its still available? Does anybody have any opinions about this magazine?
854.3	Pointer to COMICS conference	PROXY::CANTOR	Eat any good books lately?	`Fri Mar 09 1990 17:46`	3
	There is a Comics conference. Hit KP7 to add it to your notebook. Dave C.
854.4	Still Around, But	DRUMS::FEHSKENS		`Wed Mar 14 1990 11:36`	6
	HM went quarterly so long stories wouldn't have to be serialized. As a side effect, it seems to have become harder to find on newstands/ magazine racks. len.
854.5		ANOVAX::JWHITE	Right to keep and bear my opinion	`Thu Mar 15 1990 13:11`	9
	I subscribe to HM. Have for 8 years. Great mag. Liked it better as a monthly, instead of a quarterly. I will post thier address later in case anyone wants to write them to subscribe. Joe
854.6		LEZAH::BOBBITT	megamorphosis	`Fri Jan 31 1992 10:44`	22
	there will be a double feature of "Heavy Metal" and "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" at the Worcester Artist Group, in Worcester, Massachusetts, Friday night January 31st. I believe the double feature will play once at 8 p.m. - recommended donation, $5 I think. I have heard rumor the movies will play again at midnight...but I'm not certain. For more thorough information, Please call 508-754-0545. Very Rough directions as follows: Take 290 to Lincoln Street (290 crosses Lincoln Street (rte 70) twice in Worcester). If you're on Lincoln Street heading from Lincoln Plaza towards Worcester Center, you will see a road come in to the right at a set of lights after Hahnemann hospital and burncoat street. The road is "Harlow Street". Take Harlow Street until it takes a 90 degree left turn. The warehouse along the road just before that corner houses the Worcester Artist Group on the second floor.