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Filename: E2-MORE-AJCD0908-AJCD created: Sep 7 2006 Username: SPEED10 AJCD0908 Friday, Sep 08, 2006 MORE 2 AJCD 2 Cyan Magenta Yellow Black E2 Friday, Sept. 8, 2006 4 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ajc.com 2 Cyan Magenta Yellow Black AJCD Filename: E2-MORE-AJCD0908-AJCD created: Sep 7 2006 Username: SPEED10 Dear Mr. Smithee, I am by the amount of DVD sales there are. I understand people buying them. Do they watch them over and over? I seem to be interested in seeing a more than once with a few exceptions.

Are there any you would look at twice or three times? TED CORNELL Wellington, Fla. Dear One Who Must Not Own Any Books Either, I am by the number of people who collected Beanie Babies, but that mean I go around questioning their resolve. Or intimating that something clinically wrong with them even when one would have to conclude there probably was. What possesses some people to own 10 different kinds of balsamic vinegar? And while considering possession, not miss an opportunity to wonder why even though Jessica Simpson is a lovely-looking young lady, who in their right mind would actually buy her overly produced musical gunk? I own more DVDs than anyone might deem normal. Well, let me correct that, because my esteemed sons, D.W.

and Cecil are each certainly someone, and they each own more DVDs than I do. Part of the obsession is the opportunity to actually own something that when viewed was personally and intensely Pardon me if we DVD owners also want to share with others, lending them out as good friends and good citizens are wont to do. I rewatch all my DVDs over and over again, but I do, at times, that my thoughts go back to certain scenes. Just this week, I had a hankering to see the bicycle chase in The a great sequence. So I put the DVD in and went straight to that very scene.

Then, later, I was thinking about the of the attack in Guess what? The DVD went in, and I watched it. I rewatch some movies to see if they hold up. of Yes. No. certainly enjoyed multiple DVD viewings of many movies.

Some that come to mind: of Thin Red Three Burials of Melquiades and Force (hey, being honest here). ALAN P.S. You get an T-shirt and an Alan T-shirt. Dear Mr. Smithee, I am 71 years old, overweight, underexercised, and will probably die soon.

This is a craven attempt to become the owner of an Alan Smithee T-shirt before that occurs. not asking to be given one for nothing. In exchange, I offer the following suggestion: a remake of starring Minnie Driver and Yanni and directed by M. Night Shyamalan! If this appeal to your sympathy fails, I would be willing to humbly beg! MARY ELLEN ISPER Snellville Dear, Trust Me, You Had Me at Hello, was bad enough the time. But I mind hearing the line Yanni, consider a few other potential remakes: Freddie Prinze Jr.

as Ratso Rizzo; Paul Walker as Joe Buck. Like It Seann William Scott as Daphne; Ashton Kutcher as Jessica Simpson as Sugar. and (if they died, instead growing older) Kevin Costner as Sid; Judi Dench as Nancy. Martin Lawrence as Heath cliff; Kim as Cathy. ALAN P.S.

You get crossword puzzles and most an Alan T-shirt. Dear Mr. Smithee, I enjoy your column and usually agree with your picks, but you left out two movies from your noir selections My (1944) and (1947). Both were directed by a man credited with starting the noir style, Edward Dmytryk. MICHAEL MCKINNEY Duluth Dear Lucky You, I realize that I am practically perfect in every way, but I was indeed forthcoming about my lack of noir expertise.

Truth is, I have not seen your Maybe if some nice person sent them to me on DVD. ALAN P.S. You get an T-shirt and an Alan T-shirt. For some fans of lms, once is never enough ASK ALAN SMITHEE THE MOVIE GUY Answer man Alan Smithee resolves all sorts of reader movie questions every Friday in Movies More. Is there really an Alan Smithee? one he answer.

But he does allow that a name used for crediting purposes when directors want to disassociate themselves from a movie that, well, stinks. Have a question for Mr. Smithee? E-mail him at or go to accessAtlanta.com and click on Movies. Please include your name, city and daytime phone number. Mr.

Smithee reply to every request, but inquiries chosen for publication will receive movie-related prizes. For previous Ask Alan Smithee columns, go to accessAtlanta.com and click on Movies. MOVIES MORE By STEVE MURRAY The unsolved (or, well, still mysterious) death of George Reeves is the subject of (opening today), starring Ben as the down-on-his-luck former TV Superman. If looking for a less, well, Hollywood-style take on the story, the Biography Channel will include the death as part of its week, starting Sept. 18.

The Reeves episode will air 8 p.m. Sept. 20, focusing on the widespread belief that, despite the verdict of suicide, the actor was shot to death by one of two disgruntled lovers. Other stars getting the treatment? Clark Gable, Elizabeth Taylor, Francis Farmer and Ingrid Bergman. Schedule: www WHEN FALL FILMS COLLIDE: In honor of the fall movie season, we offer you a few if-only mash-ups (royalty edition) the Little Fed up when her lover (Jude Law) becomes enmeshed with Willie (Sean Penn) political shenanigans, Kate Winslet leaves Louisiana for New England where she has an affair with married man Patrick Wilson.

Infamous Reluctant to display public grief at the death of Lady Diana, Queen Elizabeth II (Helen Mirren) is visited by the ghost of Truman Capote (Toby Jones) who persuades her to give a fabulous speech to the masses. Co-starring Sandra Bullock as Fergie. Last Marie Antoinette of Kirsten Dunst plays the lover of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker), a delusional young woman who believes herself to be the queen of France. GET YOUR GORE ON: The music-TV cable channel Fuse and the splatter-happy Fangoria Entertainment have joined to create the Fangoria Chainsaw Awards, to be held Oct. 15 in Los Angeles and broadcast by Fuse on Oct.

22. Nominees for Killer Movie (aka, scariest) are Hills Have and But more interested in the category called Most Thrilling Killing. Up for the honor: The grisly head-lopping in the face-in-the-fan-blade drive-through death in Destination the super-splattery train-track suicide in the arm-stuck-in-a- box-of-blades of and naturally the on a scene wherein a fellow in the airplane bathroom makes the fatal mistake of not checking out the toilet bowl before unzipping DIRECT TO DVD: Remember when M. Night Shyamalan announced his new movie, then renamed it because another movie with the title was already in production? Well, that happened waaaay back in 2003. Now, Lucky follow-up to his cult hit arrives on disc Oct.

3. Starring Agnes Bruckner the tale of a 1960s girl sent to a private boarding school in, yes, the woods, where weird things happen under the stern eye of headmistress Patricia Clarkson. Bruce Campbell of fame, has a small role as dad.) The movie wants to be a new the 1977 Dario Argento shocker about a coven of murderous witches at a ballet school. Mojo has seen Trust Mojo: It is no TEASE OF THE WEEK: Though it open in the States until December, we get enough of images from Guillermo del The latest from the writer-director of (2001) once again him telling a spooky tale set during the Spanish Civil War. the story of a young girl who retreats into a fantasy world when her mother marries a vicious in army.

The Atlanta-based Web site Cinematic Happenings Under Development (CHUD) has the latest teaser: www.chud.com/demo/pantease.html. Warner Bros. Television George suicide (or not) is the subject of a TV special. A Super-size Hollywood mystery Bridge of San Luis (2004): Bridge-failure with Robert De Niro and F. Murray Abraham.

5 FREEZE FRAME TREND-WATCHING AT THE MOVIES From here to there Stephen Colbert of Comedy Colbert has announced pulling the plug on his online campaign to get Hungary to name a new bridge after him. In honor of his effort and why not? Toby new movie, (opening today), here are 10 spanning all kinds of movies: 1 Bridge Too (1977): Bridge- capturing with Robert Redford and Sean Connery during World War II. 2 Lovers on the (1991): Bridge-living with young disillusioned Parisians. 3 Bridge at (1969): Bridge-blowing up with George Segal. 4 Eleanor Ringel Gillespie and Bob Longino Bridge on the River (1957): Bridge-building with Alec Guinness during World War II.

Raise the Bridge, Lower the (1967): No bridge, just a lot of Jerry Lewis. 9 (1981): Bridge-documenting with Ken Burns. 6 Bridges of Madison (1995): Bridge-romance with Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep. 7 (1940): Bridge-suicide with Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor. 8 Mrs.

(1990): No bridge, just a lot of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward (much preferable to immediately above). 10 Warner Bros. Pictures In Bridges of Madison a romance develops between a photographer and a housewife. Tears in the wartime romance a boom in construction by prisoners of war in Bridge on the River LFUPT.U#*PJ&S 5(D NFGTF PH I I(FR (FN UJ (F HT)IP 615.