Re: Actor Roy Scheider dies at 75

Howard Brazee wrote:

> 
>>> Okay, in still trying to unpack the incrutable rubric, I'm guessing 
>>> you're saying that Spielberg looked at a book that was supposed to be
a 
>>> pessimistic "Allegory of chaos theory", and saw his own upbeat
"Personal 
>>> childhood tribute to 70's Disneyland"...
>> 
>>> ...Would it clear things up if we just put it simply like that?
>
> >>No.  I don't think Speilberg ever looked at the book at all.  His
>>> interviews where he claims to have pretty much prove he didn't.  

>>I think a bunch of people that never looked at the source sat around 
>>saying stuff they liked in other dinosaur movies, and somebody said "you

>>know what I like, the Chevron dinosaurs, they were cool!" 
> 
> What's a Chevron dinosaur?

An animatronic dinosaur that's featured in a neato ride at post-1964 
Disneyland, which people of Spielberg's age would've remembered as 
fondly as Mr. Toad's Wild Ride or "Journey Into Inner Space".

Derek Janssen (o/`"Mira-cles in mole-cules...")
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