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   From: madkevin@golden.net   
      
   "Calvin Rice"  wrote in message   
   news:22680de.0402251900.ba0029b@posting.google.com...   
   > Heynony  wrote in message   
   news:<250220040621347463%nospam@noway.com>...   
   > > Calvin Rice  wrote:   
   > >   
   > > > You might just as well claim that Mel Brooks was 'ripping off' Hitchcock   
   > > > movies in High Anxiety   
   > >   
   > > I don't know if anyone else has ever noticed this, but now that you've   
   > > pointed it out it's really blatant. What a ripoff!   
   >   
   > You totally missed my point.  Of course everyone knows that High Anxiety is   
   > a parody of Hitchcock.  My point was that everyone ALSO knows that Stardust   
   > Memories is full of references to Fellini.  Triumphantly pointing out   
   > the references to Fellini, as if Woody Allen is 'ripping off' Fellini and   
   > has just been exposed, caused me to say you might as well claim that Mel   
   > Brooks was ripping off Hitchcock.  It's really hard to believe you couldn't   
   > follow that.   
      
   So hard to believe, in fact, that I assumed - as, I'm guessing, did many other   
   people who aren't you - assumed Heynony was making a joke.   
      
   Kevin "Don't Let That Stop You" Cogliano   
      
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