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Politics : The TRUTH About John Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Michelino who wrote (1390)	5/11/2004 6:50:42 AM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1483

It is extremely common for big companies in the entertainment industry to be short-sighted about artistic works. Warner Bros was one of many that refused to distribute the original "Star Wars". However, the big companies continued to put seed money into Zoetrope to see if "anything sticks to the wall". Something finally stuck enough for 20thCF to persue it further. If Lucas had whined that Warner Bros. was "censoring" him, it would have been silly. But that shouldn't stop Moore. Lucas was just a little more mature about business reality. And anyway, Miramax operated independently of Disney interests to the extent that Dis dumped them on the selling block not long ago. One might conclude that continued Miramax funding, therefore, was not explicitly "Disney" funding. Selling Miramax is likely a "strictly business" decision over some years of performance evaluation. Or, for the more sinsister-minded, maybe it's conservo-fascist punishment for this one movie? <gg> Orson Welles, Terry Gilliam or George Lucas may rightfully chalk it up to the inherent politics of the studio system without making a vast right-wing military industrial complex conspiracy out of it.