(Fwd) Re: M&D truthtelling, history & I.F. Stone(WAS Publishe

[calbert at pop.tiac.net]

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From:     Self <calbert>
To: "davemarc" <davemarc at panix.com>
Subject: Re: M&D truthtelling, history  & I.F. Stone(WAS Publisher's  Wee
Cc: pynchon at waste.org
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 21:13:38


> 1)  They were veterans of live performances years before they performed in
> movies that were often based on plays written by the likes of George S.
> Kaufman?

Many scripted by S. J. Perelman, the most celebrated satirist of the 
time. 

> Sojourner might want to consider the early films by the Lumiere brothers. 
> Many were literally motion pictures--moving photographs. 

Or much of Kurosawa. Particularly Derzu Uzala with its 5 pages of  
dialogue.

similarly aghast,
cfa