Re: Actor Roy Scheider dies at 75

Anim8rFSK wrote:

> In article <4votj.185$MY2.174@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>  Derek Janssen <ejanss1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>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".
>>(o/`"Mira-cles in mole-cules...")
> 
> No no no no no no no no no
> 
> The Chevron dinosaurs were a very popular series of animated commercials

> for, yes, Chevron, done by the same people that did Mr. DNA.

(Oops, right, it was Ford who sponsored the 60's World's Fair/Disneyland 
ride...Me bad.) -_-

Derek Janssen (but it was still Spielberg who turned Richard 
Attenborough from
a commercializing entrepreneur into Uncle Walt)
ejanss1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]