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   From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   "Paul Duca (tomservo56954@comcast.net)"  writes:   
      
   >Sadly, this message is about a half-century too late.   
      
   	Ah, but since the show was cancelled a decade ago it's really   
   only forty years too late.  Or something like that.   
      
      
   >I was watching Turner Classic Movies, offering a feature called THE   
   >RAT RACE, starring Tony Curtis as a young musician trying to make it   
   >in the New York jazz world. It has a 1960 copyright, but I would   
   >presume location shooting was done in the calendar year 1959.   
      
   	You know, I keep *thinking* that I've seen The Rat Race, but   
   every single time I realize what I'm actually thinking of -- and that   
   I actually *have* seen -- is The Apartment.   
      
      
   >After arriving from his home in Milwaukee, Curtis' character checks   
   >into a hotel off Times Square (the Mecca for jazzbos). A couple of   
   >doors down from his new residence is a theater offering the twin bill   
   >of THE KILLER SHREWS and THE GIANT GILA MONSTER.   
      
   	That's a killer of a combination, certainly.  Was there anything   
   left alive after the lethargic efforts of the various heroes in the two   
   movies there?  Were there killer giants?   
      
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   								Joseph Nebus   
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