From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   "Tom Carberry"  writes:   
      
   >Thank you.  I did--an excellent review of a really bad movie.  I forgot to   
   >mention Lee Van Cleef's dancing routine.  It kind of reminded me of the   
   >Seinfeld episode of Elaine's lack of dancing skill.   
      
   	Ah ... wow.  All right, I thought I had been pretty well braced   
   mentally regarding the film and its rough outline of contents, but a   
   dance routine throws me.   
      
   	I have been vaguely interested in seeing it, but haven't got   
   Netflix and who knows when it'll pop up on Turner Classic Movies.   
   ('Ye Gods Night', perhaps?)   
      
      
   >Tom Carberry (#45505, and this must have been the 1956 edition of the   
   >Heaven's Gate-like cinematic fiasco)   
      
   	Well, Heaven's Gate managed to ascend beyond the ordinary   
   fiasco into something truly stupendous.  There's a book, and now I can't   
   think of the title, from one of the people who was head at United Artists   
   and ultimately kept giving Michael Cimino the approval to carry on [1]   
   instead of cutting their losses, and it's fascinating watching the   
   reasoning and how at so many steps of it things actually seem reasonable.   
      
      
   	[1] Cimino, the book reveals, hadn't particularly wanted to do   
   Heaven's Gate; he had his heart set on doing The Fountainhead.  A friend   
   I described this to said, ``Shortest career explanation ever''.  Perhaps   
   it is.  The author thought about that later on, certainly.   
      
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   								Joseph Nebus   
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