From: msnsc21@yahoo.com   
      
   OK to send to newsgroup, I'll send to Ephemeral and Gossamer, thanks!   
      
   Title:  This Week in Entertainment, 2112   
   Author: ML   
   Email: msnsc21@yahoo.com   
   Feedback: Love to hear from you   
   Archive: Please drop me a line if you'd like it.  Thanks.   
   Spoilers: I know nothing about the new movie, and I don't want to   
   know until I see it on the screen.  But there's this picture that's   
   been making the rounds...and I couldn't resist looking at it.    
   Rating: Suitable for all ages.  Your humor level may vary.   
   Disclaimer:  Mulder and Scully are not mine; this is just to occupy   
   my time until the movie comes out.  I promise I'll buy a bunch of   
   tickets, you won't lose anything by me!   
   Further Disclaimer:  the opinions of Grebe Retro are not necessarily   
   those of management.   
      
   To the Posse, who poked me until I wrote something.  Be careful what   
   you ask for..   
      
   x-x-x-x   
      
   This week in Entertainment: December 1, 2112   
   "All the fun that fits, and then some!"   
   By Your Intrepid Entertainment Sleuth, Grebe Retro   
      
   Hello Vid Fans!   
      
   This is an auspicious time of year for many reasons.  For one, it's   
   the official start of the Solstice/Hanukkah/Eid/Christmas/Kwanzaa   
   season, or SHECK, as some like to call it.  It's also the anniversary   
   of a Very Important Event, but we'll talk more about that in a    
   minute.   
      
   First, let's talk about original work.   
      
   OK, had you going, didn't I?  There's no such thing any more.  Most   
   of us folks in the entertainment world would give up our vid   
   privileges for at least a season to see something truly original.    
   But that would be self-defeating, wouldn't it?    
      
   Anyway, 90% of you don't know or care what original is, and wouldn't   
   watch a vid if the title didn't have IV or XIII at the end (and why   
   are we still using Roman numerals?  That's so last century!).  All   
   hail the never-ending stream of remakes, sequels, and continuing   
   stories!   
      
   OK, .  I'm just doing my bit.  You'd worry if you    
   didn't see me complaining about something, wouldn't you?  You    
   might think I'd been replaced by one of those SS's that your    
   mom used to scare you with.  I can't disappoint my audience!   
      
   At any rate, we have the usual holiday fare being served up.    
   There's at least one remake of a beloved holiday story for every   
   taste, and reissues of the classics.  You know all of them, and   
   criticizing any one of them is sure to offend one group or another,   
   so I'll leave it to you to decide for yourself.   
      
   Besides, I know what you really want me to talk about.  The Remake   
   of All Remakes, at least for the next twenty years or so.  It seems   
   that every generation wants the story re-made for their own time, and   
   especially this year, to mark the 100th anniversary of the event that   
   made it possible for me to be here today to tell you all about it.      
      
   Yes folks, it's the Mulder and Scully Saga, re-imagined for a New   
   Age, coming to a vid screen near you!  And for the first time, it   
   won't just be in 3-D, but in Holo-Vid.     
      
   Yes, I know that the older flix have been re-mastered, but they've   
   never been as good as the flix that have actually been made with the   
   proper equipment.  What other reason would there be to go see the   
   same old story that we, our parents, grand-parents, and great-grands,   
   grew up on?   
      
   And as promised, I have, here on this site, the first exclusive   
   holo.  I know that the identity of the actors has been kept a    
   secret -- after all, there's got to be *some* mystery kept for    
   a story that everyone grew up with and knows better than their    
   own life history -- or at least, think they do.  So click on    
   the little "x" icon to get the holo.   
      
   I have it running on my desk right now -- you can, too, if you have   
   the Holo-tastic (TM) program installed.  I'm sure within minutes of   
   this release, the holo-ficcers will have created their own manips of   
   Our Heroes doing any number of things that don't bear thinking about.   
   As you watch this, there are new flix appearing on YouHolo, or the   
   unauthorized holo-fic sites.   
      
   But I digress.  I know what you really want to know.  How does this   
   compare to your favorite version?  How much does it venture off the   
   track of Known into the Unknown, Speculative, Non-Official History?   
      
   In a word, it's fab-u-lous. You can see from the holo (don't forget   
   to sign up for Holo-tastic (TM) so you can see it too) that much care   
   was taken to find -- or create, if the rumors are true -- actors who   
   look strongly like Mulder and Scully.  Although the sound recordings   
   we have from back in the day are scarce and primitive, they even   
   sound like them.   
      
   As far as the story line goes, everyone knows what happens and how   
   it ends up.  The fun is in reliving all the well-known moments: the   
   Reunion with their son.  The discovery of the anti-virus.  The coming   
   together of all the warring peoples of the Earth to conquer the Gray   
   Menace.   
      
   Okay, that's actually from another, fictional movie.  But you get   
   the idea.   
      
   As to what other aspects of Our Heroes' lives this one covers, I've   
   been threatened by the makers Not To Reveal Anything.  For some   
   reason, that's a question everyone wants answered: Do They or Don't   
   They?  You know what I'm talking about.  Other than one X-rated,   
   bootleg indy-vid that somehow made it into the MUFON Film Festival   
   about fifty years ago, no one has ever done more than hint.  Believe   
   me, I've seen them all, and I know.  I do not want to get into   
   another discussion of the whys and the wherefores -- remember how   
   ugly it got the last time we did that?  What I'm interested in is   
   Entertainment -- and yes, that's with a capital E, for those of you   
   who are watching rather than reading the text crawl -- and for those   
   of you who don't know a capital from a column.   
      
   Does it seem true to the legend that Mulder and Scully have become?    
   As time goes on, it's harder and harder to know the real story.  This   
   part of history has become larger than life for most people, though   
   there will always be invasion-deniers among us, mostly those who   
   weren't alive during those dark times.     
      
   Descendants, adherents, and hangers on -- anyone who has the   
   slightest claim to being related to, or knowing someone, or being   
   related to someone who knew someone who was there when the Gray   
   Menace was quashed for all time -- no one can tell you *exactly* what   
   happened.  Even people who were there had widely different   
   recollections of events, and the two who were in the thick of it were   
   the least likely to talk about it.  Someone once said (or maybe I saw   
   it in a vid), "when legend becomes fact, print the legend!"  Well,   
   that's what this is all about:  keeping the legend alive.   
      
   There are those who say that Mulder and Scully were all about the   
   truth, and I am not about to tell you different.  But they've passed   
   into legend now, and those who are left to tell their story will put   
   their own spin on it, regardless.  It's up to you, dear viewers, to   
   decide for yourselves what to believe.     
      
      
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