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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (62306)	8/21/2004 3:23:36 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793905

We used to think that FAHRENHEIT 451 was science fiction. The Dems have started to kindle the flame as of today....SCARY!!! The Repubs have said next to nothing about any of the 527 ads....and books....and Moore....and Dean,Daschle,Byrd,Kennedy,Pelosi,Gore, etc.....against Bush. BUT Let a little group of Vets who oppose Kerry as Unfit to Command, and not necessarily are for Bush (some voted for Gore last time)... THEN Kerry's Campaign and the DNC file to censor/eliminate/remove/ their book.... Even evidently have called some of the book distributors.... The whole thing they are attempting to do simply has me stunned. NEVER in my life did I think I would EVER see such a thing in the United States of America. 88888888888 FAHRENHEIT 451 - by Ray Bradbury - 1966 amazon.com Editorial Reviews Amazon.com essential video The classic science fiction novel by Ray Bradbury was a curious choice for one of the leading directors of the French New Wave, François Truffaut. But from the opening credits onward (spoken, not written on screen), Truffaut takes Bradbury's fascinating premise and makes it his own. The futuristic society depicted in Fahrenheit 451 is a culture without books. Firemen still race around in red trucks and wear helmets, but their job is to start fires: they ferret out forbidden stashes of books, douse them with gasoline, and make public bonfires. Oskar Werner, the star of Truffaut's Jules and Jim, plays a fireman named Montag, whose exposure to David Copperfield wakens an instinct toward reading and individual thought. (That's why books are banned--they give people too many ideas.) In an intriguing casting flourish, Julie Christie plays two roles: Montag's bored, drugged-up wife and the woman who helps kindle the spark of rebellion. The great Bernard Herrmann wrote the hard-driving music; Nicolas Roeg provided the cinematography. Fahrenheit 451 received a cool critical reception and has never quite been accepted by Truffaut fans or sci-fi buffs. Its deliberately listless manner has always been a problem, although that is part of its point; the lack of reading has made people dry and empty. If the movie is a bit stiff (Truffaut did not speak English well and never tried another project in English), it nevertheless is full of intriguing touches, and the ending is lyrical and haunting. --Robert Horton --