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To: Sam who wrote (3336)	5/4/1998 12:35:00 PM
From: peter michaelson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9980

I have three of Mr. Worswick's books sitting on my desk right now. However, now that I know he is a criminal in addition to a doomsayer I may have to return them. Peter

To: Sam who wrote (3336)	5/4/1998 12:52:00 PM
From: Worswick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9980

My last screenplay I wrote, about Kiev in 1917, was a comedy. I then showed it to some an old "industry" friend and she said, "This is absolutely...the most terrible black, dark, pessimistic awful thing I have ever read. It makes me want to run to the kitchen and turn on the gas and...just....just light up." Now, this was a vehement reader. When have you gotten a reaction like this? The public. My public. Hives. I replied, "But it is a comedy. It really is a comedy....with a certain shading." "A comedy." The eyes on this person were like plates. "... yes, don't you see it's a light comedic piece. It's a comedy about a serial poisoner, insurance fraud, revolution... love. Didn't you understand it was also a love story?" This is how you loose friends Sam. The writer's lot is so hard. If I'd gone out and said this screenplay was a black, dark movie about the tortured innerworkings of an insurance company and fraud in Kiev; about an English mass murderer in pre-Revolutionary Russia, well then people would probably have thought it was a comedy given what is now happening in the world. We are all victims of our time I suppose. My best to you,