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Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society
Club Notice - 11/28/97 -- Vol. 16, No. 22
MT Chair/Librarian:
Mark Leeper MT 3E-433 732-957-5619 mleeper@lucent.com
HO Chair: John Jetzt MT 2E-530 732-957-5087 jetzt@lucent.com
HO Librarian: Nick Sauer HO 4F-427 732-949-7076 njs@lucent.com
Distinguished Heinlein Apologist:
Rob Mitchell MT 2D-536 732-957-6330 rlmitchell1@lucent.com
Factotum: Evelyn Leeper MT 3E-433 732-957-2070 eleeper@lucent.com
Back issues at http://www.geocities.com/Athens/4824
All material copyright by author unless otherwise noted.
The Science Fiction Association of Bergen County meets on the
second Saturday of every month in Upper Saddle River; call
201-933-2724 for details. The New Jersey Science Fiction Society
meets on the third Saturday of every month in Belleville; call
201-432-5965 for details. The Denver Area Science Fiction
Association meets 7:30 PM on the third Saturday of every month at
Southwest State Bank, 1380 S. Federal Blvd.
1. URL of the week: http://www.bibliofind.com. A used-book search
that tells you who has that hard-to-find SF book (or any sort of
book), and lets you order over the Web or call the store directly.
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2. We are restarting an old tradition, the Leeperhouse Film
Festival. Some of our members will remember an old out of hours
activity of the Science Fiction Club. Starting with the 50th
anniversary the release of KING KONG back in 1983 we began having
showings of science fiction films on video in our home for members
every two weeks. Eventually we eliminated the requirement the
films be science fiction and the restriction to members, and then
the showings became fewer and further between. At times we had had
over twenty people show up to see and discuss films. Eventually
the festival petered out to having only one person show up,
occasionally not even that. But lately I have been hearing
murmurings that people would like to see the Leeperhouse Film
Festival start again.
Maybe the reason it died before was that members were young and had
families to raise and did not want to take the time. Now those
darling little children have grown up and are dying they hair
orange. They are getting tattoos and body piercings in places their
parents would rather not know about. (At least the worst places
don't show. At least not legally.) And those members are being
told by their childrens' analysts that the reason the kids are
rebelling that the parents stifled the children when they were
growing up. The parents should have given the children a little
freedom and responsibility. Those parents should have gone out in
the evenings occasionally for a good movie and some good
conversation. Well, I knew this was going to happen. I tried to
help out with my film festival, giving parents a place to go.
Those of you who still have children, it may not be too late. Come
to the rebirth of the Leeperhouse Festival. Hide the hole punches,
staplers, and power drills in your home, and come to the
Leeperhouse Film Festival.
On Thursday night, December 4, at 7:30 PM the festival starts
again. Directions to the Leeperhouse and/or a map available on
request. We will be showing a film that appears to have
disappeared and which as been much requested. It seems that in
1980 the Public Broadcasting System was building insidious pledge-
break traps and baiting them with their own film version of Ursula
K. LeGuin's novel, THE LATHE OF HEAVEN. It was directed by David
Loxton and Fred Barzyk and I am told it was fairly accurate to the
book. It starred Bruce Davison as a man whose dreams come
true...literally. Kevin Conway plays the psychiatrist who wants
to exploit his patient's peculiar power. I will be frank enough to
say that I am not wild about the film, but it has gained a
reputation as a lost gem and I frequently hear people who are
anxious to see it. Maybe if people are interested in this, I could
be persuaded to show the BBC's super-faithful and well-produced
version of John Wyndham's THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS. [-mrl]
Mark Leeper
MT 3E-433 732-957-5619
mleeper@lucent.com
Convictions are more dangerous enemies
of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche