Re: [Geekdom] More Screenplays in the Sea of Time

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Ken Arromdee <arromdee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>In article <fug7lp010bb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Avoid normal situations. <byend.removethisbityousillyperson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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.).
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>A lot of Ranma is based on parodies and exaggerations of martial arts
>movies and Japanese culture.  Hollywood decades ago would care about and
>understand neither of these.

True, and it would have to be modified somewhat.  <thinks>
Perhaps a Western, with a tomboy cowgirl who can out-ride and
out-rope all the boys?  A collection of shape-changing pools
somewhere out in the lone prairee, found and lost _ad libitum_
like ghostly gold mines, would fit right in.

Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]