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|    Joe Fineman to Leebehr    |
|    Re: Productions of 1984    |
|    21 Jun 10 20:10:27    |
   
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   From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   Leebehr writes:   
      
   > I just got my hands on a double disk set of 2 versions of 1984. One   
   > is the 1954 BBC version with Peter Cushing as Winston and the other   
   > is the 1956 version with Edmund O'Brien. Neither disk has any   
   > extras-- just the movies but that's not important.   
      
   Thanks very much for mentioning the existence of the former. I'll try   
   to look it up.   
      
   > Goldstein retains his original name, and we hear of all THREE   
   > traitors. In the later version instead of Goldstein we have   
   > "Kalador", no Aaronson   
      
   I noticed that with some disdain. Evidently the intent was to remove   
   all trace of antisemitism -- from a satire on 20th-century   
   totalitarianism!   
   --   
   --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   ||: People use music to cover up the silence, and sex to cover :||   
   ||: up the Silence. :||   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   
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