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From: iroderic@alfred.carleton.ca (Ian Roderick)
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 15:28:30 GMT

In <1992Sep11.182957.8093@nntpserver.chevron.com> jjdti@usho77.hou281.chevron.com (J.D.Tilander) writes:

>Somebody mentioned Golam-Globus(sp) in this vein, and I don't know if this 
>was one of theirs, but for some reason I remembered my most embarassing:

>BOLERO with Bodacious Bo Derek.  WHat a piece of trash.

>-- 
>Janet Tilander
>Chevron Exploration and Production Services Co.
>San Ramon, CA


Don't forget _Tarzan,_the_Ape_Man_.  Gee John, just how many times are
you going to get Bo to fall in a river or pour water on herself?  A
very subtle filmic device for getting Bo's white shirt transparent.

BTW I'm told John Derek has a fixation about painting naked women with
whitewash.  Apparently it was also alluded to in one of his earlier
films, or so I'm told.  Can anyone verify.

Ian

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From: al@iris.claremont.edu (Aotearoa)
Subject: Re: sex in movies
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Distribution: usa
Date: 11 Sep 92 18:07:15 GMT

aldavi01@orion.spd.louisville.edu (Arlie Davis) writes:

>quenelle@netcom.com (Chris Quenelle) writes:

>>-- I wish there were more *significant* sex scenes in most movies,
>>   because I think it would help bring about a more mature attitude
>>   on the part of the general public.

>Agreed!  Like, for example, a *well-done* scene about someone's first
>time: Perhaps for the virgin it's not so great eh?, or embarrassing,
>or just plain funny??

Heh.  This reminds me of my favorite sex scene to date, contained in
the movie _The Tall Guy_.  Absolutely hilarious.

-- 
6 to 7 he'll be all alone                            Michael L. Medlin
so he turns on television                          al@iris.claremont.edu
doesn't even notice as the hour rolls by
gets lost inside the screen
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From: rhm3@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Robert H Morrison)
Subject: Re: "Dead Again" question
Reply-To: rhm3@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Robert H Morrison)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 20:30:09 GMT


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From: jason@ab20.larc.nasa.gov (Jason Austin)
Subject: Re: Dune, embarrassing?
Reply-To: Jason C. Austin <j.c.austin@larc.nasa.gov>
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
	<BuAnor.E4t@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
	<1992Sep9.144813.27448@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 21:22:20 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.144813.27448@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> ren@Turing.ORG (Karen Prestemon) writes:
-> 
-> Can someone PLEASE tell me what those big whales floating around in space
-> were?  Its been a while since I've read the book or seen the movie, but
-> tha one aspect of the film kind of stuck with me.  Weree the whales in 
-> Dune in any way related to that huge salami that came for all the whales
-> in Star Trek IV?????
-> 
-> What gives??
-> 
-> --Karen

	It's been a little while since I've read the book, so this may
not be exactly right.  They are members of the space guild who use the
spice to mentally bend space and transport ships from place to place.
Since the guild has a monopoly on space travel, they have a great
amount of power as long as the spice keeps flowing from Dune.
--
Jason C. Austin
j.c.austin@larc.nasa.gov


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From: horen@rs.com (Jonathan B. Horen)
Subject: Re: Altman
Reply-To: horen@rs.com
Organization: Renaissance Software, Inc.
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:37:21 GMT

In article 1928meINNd0e@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu, cb366@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark B. Bendiksen) writes:
>
>Robert Chao writes:
>
>>I have heard that Robert Altman is considered a god, almost. Is this
>>because MASH was revolutionary in its style? Is it because of other
>>achievements, like Nashville and McCabe and Mrs. Miller?
>
>It's because of _Popeye_.... :)

I'll vote for his "Wedding" (also Lily Tomlin's screen debut)


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From: ant@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (Anthony Murdoch)
Subject: Highlander III Question
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 04:49:34 GMT


Hi there,

I've seen a fair bit of conjecture on the upcoming Highlander III, but I
haven't seen anyone ask the really important question;

	Will Connor's unbelieveably successful pick-up-line keep
	it's 100% success rate?

	I'm Connor McLeod of the clan McLeod, I am 400 years old, I am
	immortal and I can not die (Brief sigh, followed by woman
	leaping at him and straight into sex scene).

No apologies made for the exact wording or spelling, it's been a while
since I've seen the movies, but I'm sure you get the idea.

ant
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From: RIPBC@CUNYVM.BITNET
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Marx brothers: a question
Date: 11 Sep 92 17:22:48 GMT
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center

I wonder if anyone can help me with the following query.  There is a short
dialogue which goes (roughly) as folows:

The MB are looking for something, perhaps a treasure and someone suggests
that it may be in the house next door.  At this, someone says "but there
IS no house next door" to which the response is, "then we will build one".
Which movie does this occur in and aproximately where?

Thanks much,
Rohit Parikh
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From: lew@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (lewis.h.mammel..jr)
Subject: Re: Most Maddening Movie(Cape Fear Spoilers)
Organization: AT&T
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 21:04:36 GMT
Summary: Incest theme in Cape Fear

In article <1992Sep4.174052.6344@news.acns.nwu.edu>, bart@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bart Gold) writes:
>             Without a doubt- the new Cape Fear **SPOILERS FOLLOW**
> 
> 
>             If the father had just been honest for christ sake the daughter
> wouldn't have been lured to the 'theater forest scene'. 


The central theme of this movie was the father's repressed
sexual feelings for his daughter. These feelings were reified
by DeNiro's character. Note that he ( DeNiro ) had been "sent
away" by the father, but came back. Note the parallelism between
DeNiro's ( incomplete ) seduction of her, and the father's later
interogation. Recall that the father referred to the woman from
his office as "just a child". In the end, the bad character is
once again submerged, but note the wife and daughter's ambiguous
response to their reunion with the father.

The father's reluctance to discuss the issue with his daughter
is understandable because doing so would bring into the open
the very feelings he's repressing.

Scorsese's treatment brings this theme to the fore, but it would
be interesting to view the original with it in mind. The theme
is, after all, implicit in the plot. 

Lew Mammel, Jr.
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From: escr@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (elizabeth)
Subject: Re: Single White Female review wanted
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 02:23:05 GMT

the book is tons better.....
elizabeth

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From: trm@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Tara R. Marchand)
Subject: Comments on _Siesta_?
Reply-To: trm@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US (Tara R. Marchand)
Organization: Sacramento Public Access Unix, Sacramento, Ca.
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 92 07:29:04 GMT

I just finished watching _Siesta_, which stars Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne,
Julian Sands, and Jodi Fostr.  Isabella Rosselini, Martin Sheen, Grace
Jones, and Alexei Sayle also appear.  The film chronicles te disorientation
a woman experiences after waking up alone in the desert.  Bit by bit, she
remembers the events of the past few days, wandering around in a daze.  She
is helped along by some other foreigners and finally manages to recall all
that transpired. 

I enjoyed the film; I found it similar to something David Lynch might make.
I was wondering about other people's opinions of the movie.  Did you like
it?  Why or why not?  What were the best and worst parts of the film? 

-- 
 |-----------------------| "I've had days, and some were better, |------------|
 |     Tara Marchand     |         And some were worse,          | |--------| |
 | trm@sactoh0.sac.ca.us |      And some just like today."       | |--------| |
 |-----------------------|    -Two Nice Girls, "Only Today"-     |------------|
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From: gbradley@uks197.Berkeley.EDU (Gary Bradley)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Keywords: n
Date: 14 Sep 92 15:43:32 GMT
Reply-To: gbradley@uks197.Berkeley.EDU (Gary Bradley)
Followup-To: rec.arts.movies

In article <1992Sep2.144028.12817@hou.amoco.com> zklf0b@gs144.uucp
(Fergason) writes:

>What's wrong with 'Hardware' ??? Ok the FX wasn't state of the art, but
>this movie had a low-budget. The atmosphere in the movie is great, and
>and the music, man. The music ...

   I really liked it too, but I thought I was the only one!!! The only
problem was that this ultra high-tech killer droid ended up using knives
and bludgeons. I would have preferred more sophisticated weapons akin to
the hallucinogenic injection. I guess the droid had to make do with what
it had. Enjoyable otherwise!

+---------------------+------------------------------------------+
| Gary Bradley        |   "You receive a love letter from me and |
| ORACLE Corp, UK     |                  you're f*cked forever!" |
| Edinburgh, SCOTLAND |        - Frank Booth ("Blue Velvet")     |
+---------------------+------------------------------------------+
| "God damn the censor man"                                      |
+----------------------------------------------------------------+
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From: sasse@netcom.com (Ellen Sasse)
Subject: Re: great voices
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 01:45:03 GMT
Organization: Not
Distribution: usa

Jonathan Pryce has one of the most amazing voices I've ever heard. Anyone
who can inter-mingle colloquial English threats with Shakespearean verse and
pull it off (as he did as Mr. Dark in "Something Wicked This Way Comes")
has got to be amazing in my book. I was also thrilled by his voice in
"Jumpin Jack Flash" (he's the voice speaking the computer lines representing
the "overseas spy" she is talking to, and the person whom she finally gets
to meet).

I agree with everyone about James Earl Jones, but I am so sick of
that sound byte CNN playes every commercial break (and there are a lot
of them!)

Also Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins, Richard Harris.

For women, how about Glenda Jackson (as in the series "Elizabeth R",
for one), Penelope Keith, Barbara Feldon.

For another unusual entry, I love William Shockley's voice (so far
I've only seen him as the motorcycle-riding father of the redhead
kid on on Good and Evil, a guest role on Aliennation as a sleazy friend
of Matt Sykes' who was trying to pick up on Matt's neighbor Cathy,
and as a cynic in Howling 3 or 4 or 5, forget which, it was the only
one I'd ever seen part of. It had a lot of scenes in a castle)

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From: le01167@portal.lasc.lockheed.com (Ron Nadel (x2025))
Subject: Re: filmmakers who didn't go to film school
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Co. - Rye Canyon
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 15:51:16 GMT

In article <BuFvty.D0C@well.sf.ca.us>, rchao@well.sf.ca.us (Robert Chao) writes...
> 
>What filmmakers never went to film school? The two I know of right
>now are Woody Allen and Stanley Kubrick, who started out as a
>photographer.

I'm going to take a stab in the dark and say that most filmmakers
did not go to film school.  There are exceptions like Spielberg and
Lucas, of course.

Ron
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From: kaufman@eecs.nwu.edu (Michael L. Kaufman)
Subject: Re: Anthony Perkins: Aids: Died yesterday.
Keywords: aids,physcho
Organization: EECS Department, Northwestern University
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 02:57:59 GMT

In article <190ts1INN1jl@agate.berkeley.edu> peterme@ocf.berkeley.edu (Peter Merholz) writes:
>>
>>Not at all. Off hand, I can only think of Brad Davis, but there have been many
>>others.                                   ^^^^ ^^^^^
>Brad who? I think that's the point of the first post, which is that
>Perkins was a bona fide movie star (if for nothing beyond Psycho, which
>is definitely plenty)...

Brad Davis, star of _Midnight Express_, _A Small Circle of Friends_ and others,
was also a bona fide movie star.

Michael

-- 
Michael Kaufman | I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on
 kaufman        | fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in
  @eecs.nwu.edu | the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be
                | lost in time - like tears in rain. Time to die.     Roy Batty 
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From: reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Peter Reiher)
Subject: Re: TOP TEN MOVIES, as of 9 September 1992
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 19:43:30 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.120740.60105@uvmark.uucp> scholl@uvmark.uucp (Kathryn Scholl) writes:
>In article frankm@microsoft.com (Frank R.A.J. Maloney) writes:
>  >Following is a list of the top-ten grossing movies in the U.S. as of 9
>  >September 1992 (source: Seattle P-I, 9 September 1992).
>  >
>  >5     DEATH BECOMES HER                    3.2      50.6
>
>
>So, did this movie succeed?  There was alot of talk about whether these
>two "older female leads" could carry a 'big' movie, as well as whether Bruce
>Willis was going to again appear in a bomb.
>
>I don't know if $50 mil is good, beyond the studio's expectations, or not
>so good.
>
>I hope it is at least considered mildly successful...even though I thought
>the movie was only amusing, I like both Goldie and Meryl and hope that
>they collaberate again.

This film is considered a disappointment, at least, though probably not
an out-and-out bomb.  It was hideously expensive to make, what with the
effects, three pricey stars, and a big-name director.  As a result, $50
million doesn't come close to breaking even.  When it opens abroad, and
the video revenues come in, and the cable and network TV sales are made,
I expect the studio will make a modest profit.  But it certainly wasn't
what they were hoping for.

"Death Becomes Her" opened very strong, but dropped very quickly.  That's
a sign of a film with strong audience interest (due to stars, subject,
ad campaign, etc.), but that doesn't much please its audiences.  They
don't come back to see it again, and they don't recommend it to their
friends.  Oddly, this is not such bad news for the stars, since they
can argue that their fans all came to see the film at once, and it's
not their fault it was unsatisfying to most of them.  So it won't do
Willis', Hawn's, and Streep's careers any harm.  What really hurts is
a film like, say, "Crisscross", a Hawn vehicle from late spring, that
opened and closed with less than $10 million in business.  It's a strong
suggestion that people don't go to a movie because Hawn is in it, or,
at least, that she's only a draw in certain kinds of movies.  Unlike 
Harrison Ford, say, who can pretty much guarantee a big opening in almost 
any kind of film.

--
		Peter Reiher
		reiher@wells.cs.ucla.edu

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From: ricko@ee.uts.edu.au (Rick Jelliffe)
Subject: Re: Film with the fe/malest cast
Organization: University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 12:19:09 GMT

I don't know if this has been posted, but Come Back to the Five and Dime,
Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean by someone called Altman (who has a big future 
ahead) has an almost all female cast. The one man in it is played by
a woman most of the time even.

And I think his Streamers has an all male cast, too.

Aliens III arguably has an all male cast too.

-ricko
From: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: An annoying thing about Blade Runner
Date: 15 Sep 92 17:36:35 GMT
Reply-To: bd%fluent@dartmouth.EDU
Organization: Fluent Inc., Lebanon NH


geigel@seas.gwu.edu (Joseph Geigel) writes:

>Now don't get me wrong, I think that Blade Runner is one of the
>best science fiction movies ever made...however, there is this one
>annoying point brought up on a panel at the World Science Fiction
>convention this past Labor Day weekend that sort of bothers me.
>
>The movie is a story of this cop who has to kill these replicants
>who are all going to die in a week anyway.  Decker could have just
>sat in a Dunkin Donuts for a week until the replicant's life span
>ran out.  (Then, I suppose, we wouldn't have much of a movie, would we?).

Nice try, Joe.  Doesn't track, though.

If the police used this argument/justification, then there is no 
reason why they would try to track down _anyone_, since everybody 
dies eventually.

I think the problem is the amount of damage they could cause before 
they run down, the same with dangerous criminals who are human.

-- 
   Brice Dowaliby, Fluent Inc., 10 Cavendish Court, Lebanon, NH  03766
                         bd%fluent@dartmouth.edu        
             I don't speak for them, they don't speak for me
                              DoD # 0698
From: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: movie ratings report
Date: 9 Sep 92 05:50:44 EST
Reply-To: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

CM>    Subject: Movie Ratings Report
CM> *    .....21211       7   7.7  Unforgiven, The

     Let's straighten out one little problem:  the name of the movie is
     simply "Unforgiven."  "The Unforgiven" is an entirely different movie,
     from 1960 and having more to do with rival families and Indian battles
     than one old gunfighter's return from retirement.
---
  SLMR 2.1a  Spaceballs the Tagline!
--
Channel 1 (R)   Cambridge, MA

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From: nichols@math.umn.edu (Preston Nichols)
Subject: TRIVIA:  Potemkin quotations
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 00:01:41 GMT

I have been for some years been accumulating a list a movies which quote or  
pastiche (part of) the very famous "Odessa steps" sequence from Eisenstein's
masterpiece "The Battleship Potemkin". (To jog memories:  soldiers descending  
the steps abreast, firing into the crowd as they go; a man with glasses shot in  
the eye; the baby carriage rolling down the steps)

The Untouchables (Brain de Palma)
Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
The Monitors (U.S., about 1970, director unknown to me)

I have this feeling that I used to know of another one, but have forgotten.

Can anyone add to this list?
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From: rnmg1200@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (A Lady and her Walrus)
Subject: Re: What happened to rec.arts.cinema?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 21:49:01 GMT

In article <1992Sep8.093646.2429@cs.joensuu.fi> jpehko@cs.joensuu.fi (Juha Pehkonen) writes:
>Hiya,
>
>  how come I can post an article to r.a.c but if I try to read the articles
>of that group, nn simply says 'newsgroup is empty'.
>I'd like to see r.a.c alive again.

So would I, but rec.arts.comics is being rmgrouped at the end of the month...

Oh, sorry, wrong newsgroup....:)

>Juha Pehkonen
>jpehko@cs.joensuu.fi

The Walrus



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From: cooper@cos.com (Gary Cooper)
Subject: Re: Best War Movies?
Organization: Corporation for Open Systems
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 02:45:32 GMT

In <BtH7r6.E9v@chinet.chi.il.us> katefans@chinet.chi.il.us (Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago) writes:

>>definately - along those lines would be _Courtmartial of Billy Mitchell_,
>I'm drawing a blank on this. The only think that comes to mind is a
>TV movie that starred Martin Sheen made years ago. If this isn't it,
>what is it? 

It's a 1955 movie starring, <drum roll!> - Gary Cooper - the one
with Martin Sheen was something like "The Courtmartial of Private
Slovik" or something like that.  Very good movie - about the only
american excecuted for cowardice in WWII.  Billy Mitchell was the
Army Air Corp visionary who not only predicted (during the 1920's)
that WWII would happen, he even, I believe, predicted the japanese
attack on Pearl Harbor.... 

>Thanks for the interest in _War Hunt_.

Thanks for the info - I'm still looking for it.... 
(I tried to answer your email, but I lost my account and folder
for a bit) 

>Good luck on finding a position!
thanks - I've got a few leads...

>Congratulation on finishing school!
best six years of my life! :> 


-- 
gary cooper (not the dead one)

                             Luddites Unite! 
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From: kenl@idacom.hp.com (Ken Loo)
Subject: Re: Film with the least actors
Reply-To: kenl@idacom.UUCP (Ken Loo)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, IDACOM Telecommunications Division
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 17:31:51 GMT

In article <BtrGJu.2Aw@cs.dal.ca> graham@ug.cs.dal.ca (Michael Graham) writes:
>In article <Btnv8x.K49@news.udel.edu> conrad@brahms.udel.edu (Jon Conrad) writes:
>>Breakfast Club?  Not even close.
>>
>>How about: 
>>
>>Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (4 leads, 2 walk-ons, 3 background people
>>for 2 seconds at the beginning).
>>
>>Images (dir. Altman).  Unless I'm forgetting a background person, there
>>5 leads, and 1 small part in one scene.
>>
>>Sleuth (I'm not giving away details here, but the total is less than 7).
>>
>How about Eraserhead? It's been a while since I've seen it, but...
>
>Characters: the guy, his 'girlfriend', her parents, woman in the radiator,
>	    a few others - the kid, the eraser maker...anyone else?
>

How about My Dinner with Andre?  Two actors, Andre and his dinner guest.

- Ken Loo

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From: takoosma@utkvx1.utk.edu (Toby Koosman)
Subject: Re: Howard's End
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 04:37:00 GMT

In article <18935jINN1oq@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, rod@cats.ucsc.edu (Rodrick Su) 
writes...
>	Howard's End should be a shoe in for a Oscar for best picture.  I was
>	astonished at how beautiful this film was.  At its heart, the one 
>	concept that leaps out at me was that of forgiveness.  Margarat's 
>	greatest stregth is her ability to forgave others for their fault.
>	And I believe that Henry Wilcox, at the end of the movie, finally
>	realized his mistakes, and was forgiven by her.  In contrast,
>	Charles, his eldest child did not come close to seeing his errors. 
Wow, either you didn't get it or I'm too cynical.  Perhaps someone was
coughing and you failed to hear Helen say (of Wilcox) "but we've
met so many more interesting people in London" to which Meg replies "yes,
but interesting people don't find one houses."  What did you think, she
married the bastard for love?  The questions I was turning over were, first,
whether Meg's affection for Mrs. Wilcox had been sincere, and second, whether
Wilcox's accession to her will at the end was the terms of her staying with
him, the terms of Helen's not testifying against Charles, or...I don't know
what.  Anyway, that was the fun of the plot wasn't it, trying to figure
out how much of Meg's charm and good humor was genuine, and how much was
manipulation.

Toby Koosman
University of Tennessee   Knoxville, Tennessee  USA
Internet: koosman@utkvx.utk.edu     Bitnet: koosman@utkvx
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