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JANUARY 1, 2007
The officers of the CCC would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year and hope that 2007 finds everyone with a renewed sense of spirit and hope for a great year to come!
It’s been a while since our last newsletter was published, so there’s quite a bit of news to relay. As most of you know, elections were recently held for all of the CCC positions. Results are as follows:
Wayne DeGeorge (Bloodhound1941) re-elected President
Earl Shifflet (ply474) elected Vice President
Gwen Cairns (ggcairns) re-elected Secretary/Treasurer
Jeff Pozniak (Furyous J) re-elected Webmaster
Doug Hengstebeck (CQB_241) re-elected Historian
A big congratulations goes out to all of them. On a side note, it was great to see much better turnout from the club members than last year’s elections brought.
We are currently working on making additional CCC merchandise, particularly static cling and clear adhesive window stickers. Your input is needed as to what sizes you would like to see. Please make a post or contact one of the officers if you have any particular sizes in mind. We are also working on club key chains. Your input is also desired about what type of key chain should be designed. We are hopeful to grow the merchandise line into additional items, such as hats, pins, plaques, etc, in the future. If anyone has any creative, yet inexpensive, ideas for club merchandise, please contact one of the officers.
Tulsarama 2007 is quickly approaching! This will be our club’s very first opportunity to meet other members and have our first in-person meeting. Officers are still working out the arrangements for the club itinerary including a private viewing of our favorite movie! If you plan on attending and haven’t already made hotel reservations, it is strongly urged for you to act quickly. Hotels in the area are rapidly filling up for what plans to be an extraordinary event for all forward look lovers!
It has been decided that our club newsletter will be published quarterly (every 3 months). Included in this edition you will see a member feature, an article on car restoration tips and movie trivia. As always, if there is something that you would like to see published in the newsletter, please email one of the club officers. Remember, member input is what is going to keep this club thriving! And now on with the rest of the newsletter.
Until next time, keep “motorvating!”
Gwen
Now courtesy of our Club Historian, Doug, some facts and trivia to test your knowledge of Christine.
Ok first up, some biographies about important people from the movie and how they got into doing the movie. First edition is from John Carpenter.
Begins:
John Carpenter
"The first movie (my parents) ever took me to was 'The African Queen,' and what I remember most is Humphrey Bogart coming out of the water covered with leeches. But my monumental experience with film was in 1953, when I was 5. My parents took me to 'It Came From Outer Space,' in 3-D. You had to wear special glasses. The first shot was of the meteor. It came right off the screen and exploded in my face. I couldn't believe it! It was everything I'd ever wanted! After that, I was addicted to films. I made movies in my head. When I was 8, my dad gave me an 8mm movie camera. I got my friends from school together, and we made a movie called 'Gorgon the Space Monster.' I kept telling my parents that I was going to Hollywood to be a film director." - John Carpenter
Those are the words of John Carpenter, who, in 1968, came to California and enrolled in USC's highly acclaimed film school, thus fulfilling his promise to go to Hollywood to make movies.
"In 1968 the country was in turmoil," Carpenter says. "I could have gotten into political action, music, drugs...anything... but I started film school and for four years, 24 hours a day, all I did was learn about film."
John Carpenter, director of Columbia Pictures' "Christine," is also the director of "The Thing," director and co-author of "Escape From New York" and the co-producer and co-author of "Halloween II." These followed the back-to-back successes of his films "Halloween" and "The Fog."
"I was raised in Bowling Green, Kentucky," offers Carpenter, of his early years, adding, "My father taught music history and theory at Western Kentucky University there. We lived in a log cabin on the grounds of the university museum. There wasn't much call for a kid who wanted to direct movies back home, so I convinced my parents to let me come to California and attend film school."
It was at USC that he became involved with the short film, "The Resurrection of Bronco Billy," which went on to win the Academy Award as best live action short subject of 1970. It was also while at USC that Carpenter began directing his first feature film, "Dark Star," which he finished on a Hollywood sound stage four years later.
Carpenter followed this with "Assault on Precinct 13," another genre classic, which garnered tremendous critical acclaim in its European release. Carpenter not only directed the film but also wrote, edited and scored it.
Carpenter wrote the original screenplay for "Eyes," which, after extensive rewrites by other screen writers, became the film, "The Eyes of Laura Mars."
Then came the phenomenon known as "Halloween." Directed, scored and co-written by Carpenter (along with his partner, writer-producer Debra Hill), the film has ultimately become the most successful independent movie ever made, and firmly established the team of Carpenter and Hill.
Moving to television, Carpenter wrote and directed the television movie thriller, "Somebody's Watching Me," which was produced by Richard Kobritz, who produced "Christine". With this film, Carpenter met actress Adrienne Barbeau, perhaps most recognizable at that time for her role as Carol in the hit television series "Maude," and a relationship developed that led to their eventual marriage in January 1979.
Carpenter next undertook the critically acclaimed television biographical picture "Elvis." The three-hour ratings blockbuster enabled Carpenter to work with actor Kurt Russell, who went on to star for Carpenter in "Escape from New York" and "The Thing".
Returning to feature films, and because of the success of "Halloween," Carpenter and Hill were free to make the ghost story, "The Fog". Carpenter and Hill co-wrote the film, with Hill producing and Carpenter directing and scoring. "Escape from New York" marked the team's third collaboration. They followed with "Halloween II".
Why does Carpenter feel that horror is such a popular genre? "It has been throughout history. It is human nature to be fascinated by the horrible, the forbidden. We seek it out, and we challenge it. The horror film is unique because it is a shared investment; the audience feels common emotions. Ultimately, it's a test of ourselves."
END.
Next up, some Christine trivia. The goal of this is everyone reads the question -- PM's me their answer and I'll keep totals and tell who is in first place and what not. Here are the first 10 Trivia
Questions:
1. Chapter 1: Once the 1958 Plymouth had been red. Now what colour is it?
faded wash pink
bright autumn red
faded autumn red
scratched and faded green
2. Chapter 2: "His hands were sensitive and quick with machinery; it was only when he was around other people, particularly girls, that they got clumsy and restless, wanting to crack knuckles or jam themselves in his pockets, or, worst of all, wander up to his face and run over the scorched-________ landscape of his cheeks and chin and forehead, drawing attention to it." Fill in the blank.
3. Chapter 3: "We were coming up on the construction site now; the _____________ trailer was only two rises over." Fill in the blank.
Frankson Brothers'
Carson Brothers'
Roger Brothers'
Ricket Brothers'
4. In Chapter 4 "Arnie Gets Married", who does Arnie get married to?
5. Chapter 5: When Christine breaks down in front of that woman's house, her kids come out and talk with Arnie and Dennis. The boy says, "She's a Capricorn. I'm a ______." Fill in the blank.
Capricorn
Scorpio
Libra
Gemini
6. Chapter 6: "I turned the radio on to _________, where the Block Party Weekend was continuing, and got Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band singing 'Still the Same.' " Fill in the blank.
FM-104
106.9-FM
AM-104
FM-104.5
7. Chapter 7: During Dennis' first nightmare where Christine charges him, who is behind the wheel?
Himself
Roland Lebay
nobody
Arnie
8. Chapter 8: According to Elaine, who cheats more than Dennis in croquet?
Michael
her father
Regina
Arnie
9. Chapter 9: "I remember going to a city chess tourney in _____________ one day the year before and seeing something which, to me, symbolized my friend's schizo school life." Where was the tourney?
Squantic Hills
New York City
Chess City
Squirrel Hill
10. The nightmare at the end of Chapter 10 was about Christine again. Did Dennis scream when he woke?
Yes
No
Doug
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