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   "Joseph Nebus"  wrote in message   
   news:nebusj.1241728515@vcmr-86.server.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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   If it shows up on Turner's schedule I'll post a reminder.   
      
   Oh, by the way, Turner will be running Twelve to the Moon in July (20th I   
   think).   
      
   Tom Carberry (#45505, and meantime you can work on your "Cliff Beefpile"   
   list)   
      
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