Re: Bye Bye, Life/Goodbye, Happiness/Hello Loneliness/I Think I'm Gonna Die

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James Nicoll <jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>In article <fosr41$ofp$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Michael Alan Chary <mchary@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>In article <fospqq$94d$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>James Nicoll <jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>In article <fospfl$g5b$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>Michael Alan Chary <mchary@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>In article <for9j4$omd$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>James Nicoll <jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>In article <foqh59$sul$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>Michael Alan Chary <mchary@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>>In article <foq773$43e$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>>James Nicoll <jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>>>	I also missed THE FRENCH CONNECTION and I think he was in that
>>>>>>>as well. Also SORCEROR, whose ads looked interesting when I was a
teen.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>It is interesting, but it's a remake of "The Wages of Fear."
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>	In the 1970s, we got to see one (1) film per year, so I missed
>>>>>>>a lot of the great films of that decade and I have not yet caught
up. 
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Well, the top ten since I assume you've seen the famous classics,
like 
>>>>>>Star Wars and Monty Python and the Holy Grail and The Rocky Horror
Picture 
>>>>>>Show and Chinatown and The Godfather
>>>>>
>>>>>	CHINATOWN I saw because I saw a lot of movies in the 1980s 
>>>>>and early 1990s and one of them was the TWO JAKES. That felt to me
>>>>>like the inferior sequel to a good film, so I tracked down the 
>>>>>original movies to see if I was right.
>>>>
>>>>And your verdict?
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>>>	I was right: the original is much better than the sequel.
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>>I agree, as it happens. 
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>>I might as well tell my only "The Two Jakes" story, because I can also 
>>pay tribute to an old friend. 
>>
>>I remember when "The Phantom Menace" came out. Our movie critic, Jim 
>>Gordon, God rest his dsoul, was trying to think of a hook for his 
>>reviewsaid to me "Hey, Mike, name another movie which had a sequel
twenty 
>>years later. "I said "The Two Jakes." 
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>	You know what could have had a sequel but didn't?
>
>	It's 1961, Sam Spade is 62 and Brigid O'Shaughnessy has just
>been let out of the slammer. Before he handed her over in 1941, he 
>said "if you get a good break, you'll be out in 20 years and you can
>come back to me then." She's going to take him up on it.
>
>	Unfortunately, while Mary Astor would have been available,
>Bogart was dead by 1961. 
>
>	Not that anyone ever suggested this but it could be an
>interesting movie. 

Maybe LWE will write a script.
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