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   From: madkevin@golden.net   
      
   "Calvin Rice"  wrote in message   
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   > "madkevin"  wrote in message   
   news:...   
   > > ...(God only knows what you   
   > > mean by "distrust" - do you think that I was worried about lending him some   
   > > money?) ...   
   >   
   > You persisted in claiming that Woody didn't think anyone noticed all his   
   > references to Fellini.  You strongly implied that this near-plagarism was   
   > something he was trying to pull-off without being found out.  But you and   
   > others found him out.  That sounds like distrust to me.  I said from the   
   > beginning that I thought that all of the references to Fellini were   
   > intended to be noticed.   
      
   Well, C.R., you didn't notice them. Until it was pointed out repeatedly, you   
   had   
   no idea where he cribbed the opening from. So, it would appear that, in your   
   case, NOT all of the references were intended to be noticed, were they?   
      
   >   
   > I read plenty about movies.  I just don't form my views based on 'critical   
   > consensus'.  I'm well aware, to use a trivial example, that Citizen Kane is   
   > considered by many to be the best movie ever made.  I'm not ignorant of this   
   > bit of critical consensus.  But I've never been thrilled by that movie.   
   > It's interesting, of course, but not the greatest movie, by any means.    
   That's   
   > not ignorance of the critics, it's just being unaffected by them.   
      
   Or, in fact, being unaffected by any thought process whatsoever, it would   
   appear. I guess if "Citizen Kane" had ripped off Fellini more, you'd like it.   
      
   Kevin "Dolce" Cogliano   
      
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