The guy who did all the noises on Police Academy is doing a live score to Silent Films

This sounds cool. The underground cinema appreciation group Cinefamily is hosting an evening with Michael Winslow, Man of 1000 Noises.

You know him best as Officer Larvell Jones, the irrepressible burbling, beep-borping human Foley machine that was a mainstay character in the Police Academy repertory company. Be it helicopters, electric guitars, cop sirens, the inner workings of robots, barking dogs, squishing soggy sneakers, roaring jets, spine-tingling scratches on a chalkboard, screaming guitars, cell phones, kung fu dubbing--he is truly the man of a thousand noises, at the very least. He captured the juvenile fascinations of a generation with his uncanny talent for imitation, and tonight, Winslow takes the Cinefamily stage to embark on a new venture: a never-before attempted challenge that only he could possibly fulfill. Yes, Winslow will be providing a live music-and-effects track to a varied sampling of classic and not-so-classic shorts from the silent era. Not so silent anymore.

It's happening tonight in Los Angeles. If any of you happen to attend let me know what it was like.

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World's Greatest Dad - Bobcat Goldthwait directs Robin Williams...wait, it's meant to be pretty good.

Here's another film that was shown at the Sundance Film Festival that sounds pretty cool.

As the saying goes, be careful what you wish for. In World’s Greatest Dad, a wickedly funny dark comedy, Lance Clayton (Robin Williams) discovers that what he covets most in life may not be what makes him happy, and being lonely is not necessarily the same as being alone. Lance is a high school poetry teacher who dreams of becoming a rich and famous writer. A single father, he tries desperately to connect with his teenage son, Kyle (Daryl Sabara), an insolent, hormone-raging smartass who defies his dad at every turn. Lance exercises his own hormones with Claire (Alexie Gilmore), a painfully adorable art teacher who may have her eyes on a bigger prize. After a freak accident, Lance suddenly faces both the worst tragedy of his life, and the greatest opportunity. Determined to make lemonade from life’s lemons, Lance treads a path that could land him everything he’s ever dreamed of, as long as he can live with the knowledge of how he got there. Alexie Gilmore is cheeky and Daryl Sabara is droll incarnate but it’s the outstanding performance by Robin Williams that propels World’s Greatest Dad. Writer/director and longtime-comedian Bobcat Goldthwait returns to Sundance with another lusciously perverse, and refreshingly original comedy that tackles love, loss, and our curious quest for infamy.

Starring Robin Williams, Daryl Sabara, Alexie Gilmore, Tom Kenny, Geoffrey Pierson, Henry Simmons, Toby Huss

Bobcat Goldthwait wrote and directed Shakes the Clown, Sleeping Dogs Lie, and his latest film, World's Greatest Dad. He has also directed many television shows, including Chappelle's Show, The Man Show, and Jimmy Kimmel Live. As a comic, he had appeared on the David Letterman show by the time he was 20 and has had three HBO specials since then. As an actor, he has appeared in innumerable embarrassing movies and was very popular during the 1980s. He greatly prefers directing.

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Mahoney says Police Academy Whatever is Good to Go! Children weep at the horror

Moviehole have some amazing news that everyone out there has been waiting for - a new Police Academy movie is in the works and Steve "Waiting for an Oscar" Guttenberg is going to direct it.

Though he originally planned on reprising his role as Mahoney for the film the actor said he probably won't wear the badge again.

Guttenberg later today The Sun that “We are doing a new movie and it is going to be great fun," adding. "A script is being written and so far it is really great, everyone from the original movies who is still around will return.”

The actor said he's hoping Kim Cattrall and Sharon Stone can be coaxed into reprising their roles from "Police Academy" and "Police Academy IV : Citizens on Patrol", respectively, too.

“I know Kim and Sharon have been asked but they haven’t said yes yet. It would be really great to have them onboard.”

In 2005, Producer Jerry Weintraub and Warner Bros confirmed plans for an eight "Police Academy" - one that would reunite the original cast. Weintraub had since announced that the film wouldn't be happening though.

Who wants to see a new Police Academy? Can it work without Mahoney? Can it work with Mahoney? Do you think he has any chance of getting Kim and Sharon to star in it?
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