Babe (was Crying)
Craig Clark
CLARK at SHEPFS2.UND.AC.ZA
Thu Jan 16 09:02:15 CST 1997
David Andignac <davida at caps.com> corrects me...
> Actually Gordy hit theatres about the same time (if not slightly before
> Babe) was apparently inferior and disappeared quickly. I think it was the
> same sort of Hollywood phenomena that puts out several movies on the same
> topic at once. See the flood of Jane Austen novels or the four "fresh
> takes" on Shakespeare that appeared last year. (Not that I'm complaining,
> most of those have been good movies). In this same vein, there are three
> volcano movies coming out in the next month - Dante's Peak, Volcano and a
> TV movie Volcano, Fire on the Mountain.
Coincidence? I think not... There's Something Going On in Hollywood
that we don't know about...
Apropos IG Starbucks/Blockbuster/etc, I had a pizza from Debonair last night. Quite
good pizza but the service sucked...
Craig Clark
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