Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 11:34:13 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Movie complaint
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> ejablow at cox.net 1/23/2006 10:28:30 PM >>>
>John Derbyshire, of "National Review Online", has this
>complaint about a current film:
>
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>Warning to Robert A. Heinlein fans: the current movie
>Glory Road is not based on Heinlein's novel of the
>same name. There is no time travel, no heroic quest,
>no Igli (my favorite character in the book), and no
>topless heroine with... Well, if you're a Heinlein fan,
>you know the attributes his women were generally
>endowed with. Sorry. The movie version of Heinlein's
>Glory Road is still unmade. Although, considering what
>Hollywood did to Starship Troopers, this may be a blessing.
>----
>
>I think I see a future Capclave panelist.  Don't you, Ernest?

Surely Heinlein fans are not that dim that they would pay money to see
a movie based solely upon the title?

mjw