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- From: thaaang@cwis.unomaha.edu (John Dorrance)
- Subject: Re: Alladin
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:19:20 GMT
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- tovah@panix.com (Tovah Hollander) writes:
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- >In <thaaang.727317529@cwis> thaaang@cwis.unomaha.edu (John Dorrance) writes:
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- >>John, who had hoped that there would have been some kind of dedication
- >>to Ashman somewhere in the credits, but who didn't see any. Was there
- >>any such thing in the credits to B&B? I know there was an oblique
- >>reference on the soundtrack, but that's not the same...
-
- >(From memory:) "In memory of Howard Ashman, who gave a mermaid her voice
- >and a beast his soul -- we will always be grateful" -- in the credits to B&B
- >*and* on the audio cassette box. I'd hardly call that "oblique."
-
- Oh. Duh. Sorry, I remember that now (I knew it was on the cassette
- box, but wasn't sure about the film); I was just pissed that Disney
- didn't add a nice eulogy or something; having a scene that screeches
- to a halt as Beauty turns to the camera and proposes a moment of
- silence after talking about how horrible AIDS is and how bigotry and
- homophobia are killing hundreds of thousands and 'remember, kids,
- gay is GOOD!' and then Gaston comes on wearing leather peek-a-boo
- briefs and he and the beast wrestle in porridge and Beauty's dad
- jacks off watching and the Gaston fan club girls get narcisstic and
- Beauty wises up and takes up with Camille Paglia and... well, you know.
-
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