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- From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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- Subject: Re: WORDS-L TP: Ruth's Entertainment Question
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 04:37:21 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU () says:
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- >"Who starred in the movie 'The War of the Worlds'?"
- >
- >I had to look this one up, Ruth. Gene Barry starred in the 1953 George
- >Pal version. I don't think I've ever seen it, but the Leonard Maltin
- >TV-movie guide gets quite excited about it. Won the Oscar for best special
- >effects. Sounds worth tracking down.
- >
- Maybe, but who watches movies?:-) I catch one about once every three months,
- and that includes the ones on videotape.... Maybe, eh? It does ring a few
- bells....
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- >Now, who was Gene Barry? My generation remembers him as "Bat Masterson";
- >how about yours?
- >
- I remember him not at all.:-( The name means absolutely nothing. I barely
- know what a Bat Masterson was, and have to guess at that.... It was some kind
- of western whosit, wasn't it? Gunsmoke, maybe? I'm absolutely clueless
- about pre-1965 TV.
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