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   From: jhXaYrknessZ@sympatico.ca   
      
   On 8 Jan 2004 16:15:50 -0800, oscwr@netscape.net (Calvin Rice) wrote:   
      
   >"madkevin"  wrote in message news:...   
   >> There is little critical consensus that "Stardust Memories" is somehow a   
   >> masterpiece, unless by masterpiece you mean "the one that rips off Fellini   
   more   
   >> than Bergman".   
   >> Kevin "Vitelloni" Cogliano   
   >   
   >I'm not afflicted with critical consensusitis.  I just calls um the way I   
   >sees um.  This movie is consciously, overtly Felliniesque.  So I don't   
   >think 'rip-off' is the word, because it has a connotation of 'should not   
   >have done it'.  Woody Allen made a wonderful and original great movie, and   
   >to me that means masterpiece.  Just because he meant for you to think of   
   >Fellini, and you did, doesn't lessen his achievement.   
   >   
   >-cr   
      
   Just because scene after scene is lifted straight out of 8 1/2...   
      
      
   John Harkness   
      
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