\Weird Al\" Yankovic" UHF what is UHF? Yankovic starred in a full-length feature film, co-written by himself and manager Jay Levey, and filmed in Tulsa, Oklahoma called UHF.
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How was the film UHF with Weird Al Yankovic received?
In 1989, Yankovic starred in a full-length feature film, co-written by himself and manager Jay Levey, and filmed in Tulsa, Oklahoma called UHF. A satire of the television and film industries, also starring Michael Richards, Fran Drescher, and Victoria Jackson, it brought floundering studio Orion their highest test scores since the movie RoboCop. However, it was unsuccessful in theaters due to both poor critical reception and competition from other summer blockbusters at the time such as Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Lethal Weapon 2, Batman and Licence to Kill. The failure of the film left Yankovic in a three-year slump, which was later broken by his inspiration to compose "Smells Like Nirvana". The film has since become a cult classic, with out-of-print copies of the VHS version selling for up to $100 on eBay until the release of the DVD in 2002. Yankovic occasionally shows clips from the film at his concerts (to which MGM, the film's current owner, initially objected in the form of a cease and desist letter). In an apparent attempt to make it more accessible to overseas audiences, where the term UHF is used less frequently to describe TV broadcasts, the film was titled The Vidiot From UHF in Australia and parts of Europe. UHF shows the creation of Yankovic's signature food--the Twinkie Wiener Sandwich. The snack consists of an overturned Twinkie split open as a makeshift bun, a hot dog, and Easy Cheese put together and dipped in milk before eating. Yankovic has stated that he has switched to using tofu hot dogs since becoming a vegetarian, but still enjoys the occasional Twinkie Wiener Sandwich. CANNOTANSWER
The film has since become a cult classic,
How Is Your Fish Today?, also known as Jin Tian De Yu Zen Me Yang?, is a 2007 Chinese film written by Xiaolu Guo and Hui Rao.  It was directed by Xiaolu Guo. The film is a drama set in modern China, focusing on the intertwined stories of two main characters; a frustrated writer (Hui Rao) and the subject of his latest work, Lin Hao (Zijiang Yang). How Is Your Fish Today won 4 international awards and was well received by critics, but was not commercially successful.

Cast
 Hui Rao as himself
 Zijiang Yang as Lin Hao
 Xiaolu Guo as Mimi
 Ning Hao as Hu Ning

Reception
How Is Your Fish Today? was consistently given good ratings by reviewers, but still remains fairly unpopular.

Critics
On its release, How Is Your Fish Today? was received well by critics, who applauded the film as an impressive debut from Guo.

Awards
 "Grand Prix" at the 2007 Créteil International Women's Film Festival
 Special Mention at the 2007 Fribourg International Film Festival
 Special Mention at the 2007 Pesaro International Film Festival of New Cinema
 NETPAC Special Mention at the 2007 Rotterdam International Film Festival

Nominations

 "Tiger Award" at the 2007 Rotterdam International Film Festival
 "Grand Jury Prize" in the World Cinema/Dramatic categories at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival

References

External links
HOW IS YOUR FISH TODAY? site for Independent Lens on PBS 
 
 
 

2007 films
Chinese films
Mandarin-language films
Films directed by Xiaolu Guo How the West Was Won may refer to:
 How the West Was Won (film), a 1962 American Western film
 How the West Was Won (TV series), a 1970s television series loosely based on the film
 How the West Was Won (Bing Crosby album) (1959)
 How the West Was Won (Led Zeppelin album) (2003)
 How the West Was Won (Peter Perrett album) (2017)
 How the West Was Won, a 2002 album by Luni Coleone
 "How the West Was Won", a 1987 song by Laibach from Opus Dei
 "How the West Was Won", a 1996 song by the Romo band Plastic Fantastic

See also
 How the West Was Fun, a 1994 TV movie starring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen
 How the West Was One (disambiguation)
 "How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us", a 1997 song by R.E.M. How to Sleep is a short comedy film written by and starring humorist Robert Benchley. Filmed and released by MGM in 1935 (as part of their "Miniatures" series), it features Benchley as a narrator as well as film subject, discussing four parts of sleep - causes, methods, avoiding sleep, and waking up.

The production was inspired by a Mellon Institute study on sleep commissioned by the Simmons Mattress Company. It was filmed in two days, and featured Benchley as both the narrator and sleeper, the latter a role Benchley claimed was "not much of a strain, as [he] was in bed most of the time." The film was well received in preview screenings, and promotions took over, with a still from the film being used in Simmons advertisements. The only group not pleased was the Mellon Institute, who did not approve of the studio mocking their study.

The early success of How to Sleep prompted MGM to rush two more short films featuring Benchley, How to Train a Dog, a spoof of dog-training techniques, and How to Behave, which lampooned etiquette norms. How to Sleep was named Best Short Subject at the 8th Academy Awards in 1935, while the latter two shorts were not as well received.

The film is included as an extra on the DVD of the 1935 Marx Brothers feature film, A Night at the Opera, and is also available on the DVD set The Robert Benchley Miniatures Collection.

See also
 List of American films of 1935

References

Notes
 Billy Altman, Laughter's Gentle Soul: The Life of Robert Benchley. (New York City: W. W. Norton, 1997. ).
 Nathaniel Benchley, Robert Benchley, a biography. (New York City, McGraw-Hill, 1955).

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