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From College Press Service
Calvin and Hobbes, Bart Simpson
and Ronald McDonald have
found a college student who will
fight for their rights.
Andrew Starr, takinix a voar off
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from his statistics studies at Harvard
University, recently turned in
Harvard Dining Services for adopting
names for its breakfast entrees
? the MacEgg and Bagel Mac ?
that mirrored those of some of the
McDonalds Corporations'
concoctions.
McDonalds called Harvard in
late September and asked it to
change the names.
Harvard dining services Director
Frank Weissbecker said he
changed the names voluntarily after
being approached by a McDonalds
representative at a
conference.
"It was not a pressure decision
at all," he said. "We're pretty
small people for McDonalds."
It is not the first time Starr has
volunteered to police copyrights
around classmates.
In May, Starr told 20th Century
Fox, which owns the copyrights to
The Simpsons cartoon characters,
that students at Dunster House, a
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Harvard dormitory, had printed Tshirts
featuring Bart Simpson
drawing on a blackboard.
"It's against the law," Starr said.
"I feel it's like plagiarism. They're
using someone else's work."
Fox wrote to Dunster House and
told them not to sell the shirts, resulting
in a $900 loss for the
dormitory.
"If someone were robbing a
bank, I'd turn them in too," he
said.
Starr has witnessed other copyright
crimes.
In the past, he also has informed
Universal Press Syndicate, owner
of the trademark for Calvin and
Hobbes; Paramount Pictures, pro
ducers of Star Trek; and the Boston
Symphony Orchestra about illegal
T-shirts around Harvard.
"Most of the places seem to
want to protect their copyright,"
Starr said.
Besides the warm feeling of
good citizenship, Starr has gotten
some material benefits from his efforts.
McDonalds sent him a book
of gift certificates and Paramount
Pictures sent him some Star Trek
memorabilia.
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their copyright even if they
don't need the money."
To sustain his resolve, Starr carries
a clip from the Internation
Herald Tribune in which Simpsons
creator Matt Groening expresses
"mixed feelings" about the popularity
of bootleg Bart Simpson Tshirts.
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when you're getting ripped
off," Groening said in the article.
"I don't like these smokestack factories
belching out bootleg Simpson's
T-shirts. It's a huge
business."
Starr said he may transfer to the
University of Utah next year.
While he wants to focus on his
coursework, he said he might follow
up any copyright infractions
he happens to see in Salt Lake
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The Planetarium ? Planetquest
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The characters themselves are
mostly cardboard characatures,
each played by actors who seem to
be trying to give their worst performance.
David Andrews as the
hero, John Hall (not the main characature
in the book) is OK, but the
rest of the cast acts as if they're
reading their lines from cue cards.
As far as scares, this film serves
up the usual "Boo" scenes where
something pops up out of nowhere.
None of these are particularly terrifying,
and the background music
(played apparently by the Farmdale
Elementary School Philharmonic
Orchestra) usually warns
the audience when someone is going
to be gobbled up, rendering
this fluff totally flightless.
The special effects are also a
disappointment. In the short story,
one gets the impression that the
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oriented than the previously jazz
influenced solo recordings. Stinj
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band is composed of guitaris
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World Party and King Swamp)
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tour band). Release is set for late
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to. Their Pete Buck-produced
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evil. But in the movie,
they look like ticked-off muppets.
All in all, this movie pales to
King's short story. The way King
tells his stories is vital. It is his
style that makes his books top the
best sellers1 list He has the ability
to scare the heebie-jeebies out of
the reader. When a film maker
tries to duplicate it, he is telling
the story the way he thinks it
should be told. There are few film
makers who can mix words as
good as King and hardly any who
can conjure up visuals as scary as
the ones King makes the reader
conjure up in his own mind. As a
result, one ends up with a movie
like Graveyard Shift, merely a pale
imitation that is similar u) the original
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reportedly showing how a really
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on the music scene. It's a
lot of new and fresh ideas from a
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