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This week marks a momentous occasion - the triple episode finale of Jericho, Season Two.
Whatever you do, Jericho fans, don't even THINK about doing anything that involves leaving the house on Thursday night!
It'll be something a little bit special in store, tinged with sadness (for the time being) but laced with hope. Check it out and keep the dream alive.
Jericho, triple episode season finale on Thursday, September 18 at 7.30pm. If you miss it, you can catch it Sunday afternoon, 5pm.
This week also sees the classic Tremors send a shiver through your feet as Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward come face to face with the ugliest human-munching prehistoric mutated worms that man has ever been eaten by - the Graboids!
This 1990 film is a stone cold schlock classic with plenty of humour and genuine thrills. Not to be missed for those who like their thrills cheap and their humour a little bit redneck.
Catch Tremors this Saturday, September 20 at 1.30pm and 10.50pm.
However, if you want thrills of the expensive variety, tune in for another Sci Fi classic on Sunday night - Terminator 2: Judgement Day!
Quite possibly the best sequel, ever (alongside Empire Strikes Back and Aliens) this groundbreaking Jim Cameron masterpiece comes fully loaded with ILM's amazing Oscar-winning special effects, a man-armed Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger in his finest filmic moment.
Revel in the glory, embrace the nuclearly inevitable and prepare mentally for the coming of Terminator: Salvation in the best possible way.
Book it in! Sunday, September 21 at 12.30pm and 10.50pm, and for those who like an exciting start to the week (and obviously don't have to rush off to work!) Monday September 22 at 9am.
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Six Degrees Of Bacon
I know this has been around for a while now (since 1994 to be exact) but I still think it's funny! In fact, once I started on my Bacon quest I became obsessed to find out more and more “Bacon numbers". Apparently it all started when Kevin Bacon, in a 1994 interview for the film The River Wild, whilst talking about his fame and career, commented that he'd worked with everybody in Hollywood or someone who's worked with them. A quick recap in case you've been living in the jungle for the last 14 years...Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is based on the concept that any actor can be linked through his or her film roles to actor Kevin Bacon. To get a bit nerdy, this is how the algorithm works: If the lowest Bacon number of any actor with whom X has appeared in a movie is N, X's Bacon number is N + 1. Kevin Bacon himself has a Bacon number of 0. The higher the Bacon number, the farther away from Kevin Bacon the actor is. For example Kevin and The King: Elvis Presley was in Change of Habit (1969) with Edward Asner Edward Asner was in JFK (1991) with Kevin Bacon Therefore Asner has a Bacon number of 1 and Presley has a Bacon number of 2. So what are some other famous “Bacon numbers” I hear you ask eagerly? Ronald Reagan has a Bacon number of 2. Reagan was in The Young Doctors (1961) with Eddie Albert and Eddie Albert was in The Big Picture (1989) with Kevin Bacon. Pope John Paul II has a Bacon number of 3. He was in Padre Pio – Tra cielo e terra (2000) with Giovanni Lombardo Radice. Giovanni was in The Omen (2006) with Vee Vimolmal, who was in Where the Truth Lies (2005) with Kevin. My original question to you all in this month’s newsletter was based on the six degrees of separation theory does that mean that a seventh degree of separation are Graboids (big wormy things that swim through the dunes in Tremors)? If so, Tom Cruise has a Graboid number of 2 – he was in A Few Good Men with Kevin and Kevin was in Tremors with the Graboids. Graboid numbers...this may just catch on! Check out the website http://oracleofbacon.org/ and tell me your theories and other interesting Bacon numbers. Cheerio Galaxy Girl
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