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<blockquote data-quote="spiney" data-source="post: 280537" data-attributes="member: 192438"><p>Thur 5th October.</p><p></p><p>6 Million Dollar Man - Sharks, Ch5, 3.35pm.</p><p></p><p>A film length tv movie, made after the tv series ended. Not brilliant, but a nice nostalgia ride!</p><p></p><p>Older folk (like me!) might remember Steve Austin the "bionic" man, who was an astronaut crippled during a space mission, but - the famous catchphrase: "we have the technology, we can rebuild him" - he gets mechanical parts fitted, and becomes superhuman.</p><p></p><p>Each week he received a "mission", usually secret agent stuff sci fi stuff, but specially needing his bionic powers. Much fun was had watching him run in slow motion (supposedly, at "super speed"!), lifting up cars and lorries, jumping over 30 foot high walls, etc.</p><p></p><p>Lee Majors played the tv series part, but only directs this film.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/tv/drama/sixmillion.htm" target="_blank">http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/tv/drama/sixmillion.htm</a> .</p><p></p><p>The Children's Hour, More4, 4.05pm.</p><p></p><p>About Lesbianism, waif-like Audrey Hepburn and brassy Shirley Maclaine are secret lovers.</p><p></p><p>Although made almost 30 years after Lillian Hellman's heavily censored and changed play, this was still "the love which may not speak its name", hence the mature content references are there, but only as subtext, making the entire thing a bit muddled, but still fascinating.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s665hour.html" target="_blank">http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s665hour.html</a> .</p><p></p><p>The Scarlet Pimpernel, 5.15pm, film4.</p><p></p><p>Fine film, an early British talkie - play spot the microphone - stqrring Leslie, Howard, who's life got cut tragically short when his plane was shot down in 1943.</p><p>Also stars Nigel Bruce, who was later famous as a "bumbling" Dr Watson to Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.filmsofthegoldenage.com/foga/1999/winter99/lesliehoward.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.filmsofthegoldenage.com/foga/1999/winter99/lesliehoward.shtml</a> .</p><p></p><p>Scream, Ch4, 10pm.</p><p></p><p>Supposedly "spoofs" the horror genre. I don't much like it, but most other people seem to!</p><p></p><p>Fri 6th Oct.</p><p></p><p>The Way We Were, More4, 4pm.</p><p></p><p>About a long term man - woman relationship, starring Robert Redford and Barbara Streissand, both at the peak of their fame. Huge box office success. Also somewhat tedious.</p><p></p><p>Fanny by Gaslight, fim4, 4.50pm.</p><p></p><p>Remarkable for a stupendously inept title (changed for USA release), which meant the same back then! Otherwise, just one of many dull Gainsborough costume dramas, which mostly sent audiences to sleep. Possibly worth watching for silky voice James Mason playing a villain.</p><p></p><p>Sneakers, 10pm, ITV3.</p><p></p><p>Good sci fi plot, excellent cast.</p><p></p><p>Rob Redford is a former 1960s era computer hacker (slightly silly, though he could have been a "phone phreaker"), who runs a team of tech experts that test security systems for banks, etc. He gets approached by the CIA, to steal a new chip which can break all encryption codes, and hand it to them for national security reasons. Except, it wasn't the CIA, he's given the chip to crooks ........ how they get it back is a tense/funny adventure.</p><p></p><p>Sidney Poitier is good as an ex spy, Dan Ackroyd as the likeable conspiracy nutter, and cult actor River Phoenix appears but doesn't do much. Ben kingsley makes a fine "baddie".</p><p></p><p>The idea that all encryption can be broken by a "special chip" is nonsense, as cryptography relies on sound maths principles, though of course people are constantly working on the maths ......</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.telephonetribute.com/phonephreaking.html" target="_blank">http://www.telephonetribute.com/phonephreaking.html</a> .</p><p><a href="http://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/afs-paper/node3.html" target="_blank">http://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/afs-paper/node3.html</a>.</p><p><a href="http://www.sei.cmu.edu/str/descriptions/publickey_body.html" target="_blank">http://www.sei.cmu.edu/str/descriptions/publickey_body.html</a> .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spiney, post: 280537, member: 192438"] Thur 5th October. 6 Million Dollar Man - Sharks, Ch5, 3.35pm. A film length tv movie, made after the tv series ended. Not brilliant, but a nice nostalgia ride! Older folk (like me!) might remember Steve Austin the "bionic" man, who was an astronaut crippled during a space mission, but - the famous catchphrase: "we have the technology, we can rebuild him" - he gets mechanical parts fitted, and becomes superhuman. Each week he received a "mission", usually secret agent stuff sci fi stuff, but specially needing his bionic powers. Much fun was had watching him run in slow motion (supposedly, at "super speed"!), lifting up cars and lorries, jumping over 30 foot high walls, etc. Lee Majors played the tv series part, but only directs this film. [url]http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/tv/drama/sixmillion.htm[/url] . The Children's Hour, More4, 4.05pm. About Lesbianism, waif-like Audrey Hepburn and brassy Shirley Maclaine are secret lovers. Although made almost 30 years after Lillian Hellman's heavily censored and changed play, this was still "the love which may not speak its name", hence the mature content references are there, but only as subtext, making the entire thing a bit muddled, but still fascinating. [url]http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s665hour.html[/url] . The Scarlet Pimpernel, 5.15pm, film4. Fine film, an early British talkie - play spot the microphone - stqrring Leslie, Howard, who's life got cut tragically short when his plane was shot down in 1943. Also stars Nigel Bruce, who was later famous as a "bumbling" Dr Watson to Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes. [url]http://www.filmsofthegoldenage.com/foga/1999/winter99/lesliehoward.shtml[/url] . Scream, Ch4, 10pm. Supposedly "spoofs" the horror genre. I don't much like it, but most other people seem to! Fri 6th Oct. The Way We Were, More4, 4pm. About a long term man - woman relationship, starring Robert Redford and Barbara Streissand, both at the peak of their fame. Huge box office success. Also somewhat tedious. Fanny by Gaslight, fim4, 4.50pm. Remarkable for a stupendously inept title (changed for USA release), which meant the same back then! Otherwise, just one of many dull Gainsborough costume dramas, which mostly sent audiences to sleep. Possibly worth watching for silky voice James Mason playing a villain. Sneakers, 10pm, ITV3. Good sci fi plot, excellent cast. Rob Redford is a former 1960s era computer hacker (slightly silly, though he could have been a "phone phreaker"), who runs a team of tech experts that test security systems for banks, etc. He gets approached by the CIA, to steal a new chip which can break all encryption codes, and hand it to them for national security reasons. Except, it wasn't the CIA, he's given the chip to crooks ........ how they get it back is a tense/funny adventure. Sidney Poitier is good as an ex spy, Dan Ackroyd as the likeable conspiracy nutter, and cult actor River Phoenix appears but doesn't do much. Ben kingsley makes a fine "baddie". The idea that all encryption can be broken by a "special chip" is nonsense, as cryptography relies on sound maths principles, though of course people are constantly working on the maths ...... [url]http://www.telephonetribute.com/phonephreaking.html[/url] . [url]http://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/afs-paper/node3.html[/url]. [url]http://www.sei.cmu.edu/str/descriptions/publickey_body.html[/url] . [/QUOTE]
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