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- Subject: Re: TOP TEN MOVIES, as of 23 December 1993
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- Date: 31 Dec 92 16:14:05 GMT
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- mattm@apple.com (Matthew Melmon) writes:
-
- >Malcom X, on the other hand grossed forty million. Halve that for
- >return to the studio. Subtract another ten for promotional
- >expenses. The movie's twenty million in the hole. And while
- >Dracula is a story that will sell overseas, do Europeans and
- >Japanese really care to sit for 3 and a half hours on the life of
- >a radical American black activist? I doubt it.
-
- That is the same as asking if Americans would sit for a long showing
- of the life of Stalin, or Ghandi. I wouldn't underestimate the effect
- that Malcom X had on this country and possibly on the world, where
- racism is concerned.
-
- --
- -Brian V. Hughes
- "I am the terror that flaps in the night!
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- I'm Darkwing Duck!!"
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