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>, David Goldfarb
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>In article <9IWdndhMxJGYKZbVnZ2dnUVZ_oLinZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>mark <whitroth@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>Avoid normal situations. wrote:
>>> I'd bet on _Ranma 1/2_. A man who changes into a woman when doused
with
>>> cold water is a concept that would fit right in in one of those light
>>> fantasy/comedies that old Hollywood often did well (_Topper_, _The
Ghost
>>> and Mrs. Muir_, et al.).
>>
>>Anybody ever make a movie of Thorne Smith's Turnabout?
>
>A quick google turns up one made in 1940, and a few decades later
>a television series with the same premise.
>
His family still owns the US rights to his work; a couple of years ago I
wanted to publish a Thorne Smith RPG, which would have included his
works which are out of copyright in Europe - since I would have been
sending disks to the USA I needed to get their agreement, to avoid legal
problems.
Having battered my head against this brick wall for nearly a year before
I gave up, I suspect that there is not a snowball's chance in hell that
there will be any more films / TV shows based on his work until after
the US copyright finally expires, unless someone waves implausibly large
amounts of money at them. It's possible that some of the TV shows might
be revisited, as happened with Bewitched, but a lot of other writers
were involved and I very much doubt his estate still owns much in the
way of rights - so it won't do them much good.
I have the fiction on line on my UK site, but don't look if you're in
the USA, that would be very naughty...
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/forgottenfutures/smith/smith.htm
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