From: glen mccready 
  To: Dead Beef <0xdeadbeef@substance.abuse.blackdown.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 18:58:11 -0400

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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 18:05:06 -0400
From: Keith Bostic <bostic@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
To: /dev/null@python.bostic.com
Subject: Braveheart:corporate infighting in all of its gory, beautiful detail.

Forwarded-by: anneli@sybase.com (Anneli Meyer)
From: cuccia@motherhouse.Talamasca.COM Wed Jul  5 10:07:17 1995

This week's SysAdmin at the Movies:
	"Braveheart", starring and directed by Mel Gibson

Braveheart is a touching and heartwarming story about a renegade IS
manager at a large multinational organization.  Bill, a user suffering
from the trauma of having his parent and peer processes terminated (with
extreme prejudice), is taken under the wing of Argyll, who teaches him
the fine points of system administration.

Once his apprenticeship has completed, he returns home, and after some
preliminary tests of his skills, is generally welcomed by both his
customers and fellow systems administrators.  Soon, however, one of his
best customers was mercilessly sacked, forcing Bill to challenge the
corporate hierarchy.  Bill finds that he's wildly successful, ultimately
winning the admiration of his division's users and his fellow
administrators, and the grudging respect of the senior management of his
division, even succeeding at gaining the support of IS groups in other
divisions.

When senior management fails to address the grievances he and his
colleagues have raised, he and his colleagues take their issues directly
to corporate, with some success.  However, his activities distract the
CEO from his merger and acquisition efforts and cause him to worry about
the post-retirement chain-of-command.  The CEO, troubled by the chaotic
state of affairs, ultimately has Bill escorted to his office, finally
terminating him.  Unfortunately for the CEO, his actions come too late;
Bill has sown the seeds of reform amongst his supporters at corporate,
and his divisional senior management finally realize that their fortunes
are best sought by splintering off of corporate and striking out on their
own.

Mel Gibson is brilliant as Bill, and the images he directs show the
corporate infighting in all of its gory, beautiful detail.

Nick-Bob Gives Braveheart four root-prompts.

Next week on SysAdmin at the Movies:
	Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita, starring Anne Parillaud.