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So how did Catriona MacKenzie end up with that online nickname? Well the Movie part is pretty self-explanatory, but what about Cat? Well people soon found that it's easier, and quicker, to type than Catriona (she would have a Gaelic name). Plus, as well as being movie-mad, our Webmaster (she hates the term Webmistress)/Forum Manager is cat-daft! Well maybe just daft... Have you seen the logo mascot for the Pad? Cat says it was the other staff that persuaded her to keep it, but we wonder if it's just an excuse to leave paw marks all over the place and to explain the scratches on the Swooning Couch...

Where in the world is she? In the UK, Scotland to be precise. Just whatever you do, don't mention Brigadoon to her. It's the proverbial red rag to a umm... cat! As a former teacher, Cat is well used to helping people out (did I just hear someone say "bossing them too"), so she's happy to answer any questions members have. She rose from being a 'mere' member of a CompuServe movie forum to becoming the Forum Manager of both it and it's sister video forum.

See what we mean? Bossing people about, it's in her blood! Just watch she doesn't get her claws into you ;-) Don't let that put you off though, Cat really is quite harmless - honestly! She loves talking online to fellow film addicts from all over the world, and thinks "The Internet was made for Movie Fans"

According to her mother, Cat became a movie fan a month before she was even born! This is what happens if you go to see The Sound of Music when you're over eight months pregnant. The hills have been alive with Cat wittering on about films ever since. As a small child she'd be avidly watching old black and white movies while her friends screamed at her to change channel to the cartoons. They didn't know what they were missing! Luckily, or should that be unluckily, she's now well past the 'goo goo ga ga' stage of movie reviewing. The older generations of her family complain she knows more about the movies of their youth than they do.

Cat's home suffers from that problem common to movie addicts - lack of space. It appears as though every room in her house contains part of her video collection. She gets the feeling that now she's got a DVD player things are going to get 'worse'. After all she's already got multiple copies of some films on video (in Pan and Scan, Letterbox, Restored Print, Special Edition, and Collectors Box Set), and we bet that soon the DVD's will be added to the pile. Then you've got to add the shelves full of movie reference books to the equation.

So if Cat says she's away to look out a video, or a book, and never returns, a safe bet is she's got swallowed up by the movie mountain. We'll find her some day, clutching a book of movie quotes between her paws with one claw pointing to the line "There's no place like home".

Cat's Movie Likes and Dislikes 

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