From: kfl@KeithLynch.net   
      
   Hal Heydt wrote:   
   > Dorothy was once told, by someone in the business, that the sole and   
   > exclusive purpopse of a studio Research Department was to answer   
   > one--and only one--question:  Can this get us sued?   
      
   I'd think that for historical fiction, the answer is always no.  Under   
   our system, nobody can sue when a dead person is defamed.   
      
   Otherwise, the heirs of Gus Grissom would have sued the producers of   
   The Right Stuff into the poorhouse.   
   --   
   Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/   
   Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me.   
      
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