Tiny Human Ferret <ixnayamspay_klaatu@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Scipio wrote:
> > On 23 Jun 2004 02:49:00 -0700, freddy_nerk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Freddy) wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Cory Bhreckan <CBhreckan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>
> >>>Randy Cox wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>"John De Gennaro" <rhadts1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> >>>>news:EpXAc.17810$Y3.10231@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>>>
> >>>>>Moore Film Title Angers Author Bradbury
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>June 19, 2004 12:17 AM EDT
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>LOS ANGELES - Ray Bradbury is demanding an apology from filmmaker
Michael
> >>>>>Moore for lifting the title from his classic science-fiction novel
> >>>>>"Fahrenheit 451" without permission and wants the new do***entary
> >>>>>"Fahrenheit 9/11" to be renamed.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Does it not embarrass you extremists that your attention span is so
short.
> >>>>You can take in three very short words. Two medium short words, but
only
> >>>>one long 50 cent word like "Fahrenheit".
> >>>>
> >>>>Breathe in Breathe out! Oxygenate that brain. Ready? Now let me
explain
> >>>>it to you. "Fahrenheit 451" is not the same title as "Fahrenheit
9/11"
> >>>
> >>>Even if Mr. Moore had called it Farenheith 451 Bradbury couldn't do
> >>>anything about it. Titles can't be copyrighted. this isn't
actionable.
> >>>Bradbury wouldn't look so stupid if he stopped whining.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>I suspect Bradbury had nothing to do with this claim. If he did, he
would
> >>>>be senile and currently STUPID!
> >>>>
> >>>>Sober up, John!
> >>>>
> >>>>Randy R. Cox
> >>>
> >>>Farenheight 451 was a third rate book and a third rate film from a
third
> >>>rate author (but not a third rate film maker). Let him thow his hissy
> >>>fits all he wants. It just that much more publicity for Mr. Moore.
> >>
> >>
> >>Wasn't Bradbury the guy who said that he could "out-create" 100
> >>"sonsof*****es" equipped with computers using only a pencil and a
> >>notepad? The guy is a wacko.
> >
> >
> > This remark, relatively meek though it is, may go in the Top 10 List
> > of the most uncultured utterances I've ever read on Usenet.
>
> Anyone slagging on Bradbury without an accompanying very-literate and
> incisive critique should be considered uncultured and probably a
hooligan.
>
Just because the guy may be a good writer, doesn't mean he isn't also a
wacko.
I'm just saying that he doesn't always think before he opens his mouth.
> In any case, I do believe it was Harlan Ellison who made a remark
> similar to that alleged, and made it as a bet, and won it, televised.
Not according to the references I've seen.
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