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To: Rambi who wrote (11219)	6/25/1998 7:27:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

The book by David Brin is quite good. I haven't seen the movie. But if it is at all like "Waterworld", I'm not sure I want to. Costner seems to have a fairly dark opinion of human nature.

To: Rambi who wrote (11219)	6/26/1998 12:20:00 PM
From: Thomas C. White	Respond to of 71178

And that doesn't even count the previews. I wonder how long it will be before KC gets anybody to front him a hundred mil or so to do another one of these yawners. Although I hear he's lobbying to do a redo on Cleopatra, with himself as Mark Antony and Michelle Pfeiffer as Cleobaby. Only in this version, Antony doesn't gut himself on the ol' Wilkinson, no way, he pontificates for a half hour and then ruminates into the Egyptian sunset. Now what a movie that was!! I saw it when I was seven and I thought it was GREAT!! It was the first movie that was so long I didn't have to stay to see it twice. Mothers loved dropping their kids off for that one. I was interested to find out that it ended up having six consecutive directors, the first being Alfred Hitchcock. Only he took a powder when he started seeing that this gobbler was something he was just not going to put his name on.

To: Rambi who wrote (11219)	6/26/1998 12:46:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Spouse had her hand on the Fast Forward button, bringing the total time to a much handier two hours. The two things that got timewarped were 1) all that nastiness and 2) the long slow meaningful interstitial stuff. She complained that there were a lot of these twenty-second scenes of Kevvie-dear just walking down a road or something. I offered that he was trying to establish atmosphere. Spouse responded with a remarkably compact Anglo-Saxon phrase which effectively communicated to me that she did not share KC's sense of the dramatic.