From: martin@address-in-sig.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 19:58:03 +0000, Martin Gregorie wrote:   
      
   > FWIW I rate the MASH book 1st, the film 2nd and the TV serial last by   
   > quite a long way. The film and TV are based on the book: its author,   
   > Richard Hooker, was a MASH surgeon in Korea and reckons everything in   
   > the book actually happened, though not necessarily to him.   
   >   
   I should have added that I thought the "Catch 22" movie was pretty much   
   garbage apart from the opening shot, which none of the rest lived up to.   
   But then again, it would have needed Fellini or Antonioni and a genius   
   script writer to film it and none of them were involved.   
      
   However, I must see Truffaut's "Fahrenheit 451" again: its plot was true   
   to the book and Truffaut added a nice twist: the only writing visible in   
   the entire film is numbers. Even the opening title and the final credits   
   are spoken.   
      
   Besides, Julie Christie had TWO roles in it.   
      
   There was no Mechanical Hound, which pissed me off at the time, but now I   
   realise that was a good thing because almost any attempt to do that   
   without digital graphical effects would have failed.   
      
      
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