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   From: psperson1@ix.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 15 Aug 2021 00:58:16 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"   
    wrote:   
      
   >Leif Roar Moldskred  wrote:   
   >>Your Name  wrote:   
   >   
   >>>I forgot, the other well-known Roald Dahl book turned into a recent-ish   
   >>>movie is "The BFG". For some reason (maybe it was too new at the time)   
   >>>that story isn't included in my old box-set of Dalh books.   
   >   
   >>I'd argue that "The Witches" is better known than both "James and the   
   >>Giant Peach" and "The BFG". There are also movie adaptions of "Danny,   
   >>the Champion of the World" and "Fantastic Mr. Fox." Dahl also wrote   
   >>the script for the movie "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."   
   >   
   >And You Only Live Twice, but I can't forgive him for killing Aki.   
      
   It's been so long I have forgotten whether Aki is in the book and, if   
   she is, whether she dies.   
      
   In the film this is necessary to clear the decks for his cover.   
   Traditional Family Values can be a bitch.   
   --   
   "I begin to envy Petronius."   
   "I have envied him long since."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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