Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:12:27 -0500
From: Eva Whitley <eva.whitley at gmail.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Movie complaint
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Michael Walsh wrote:

>>ejablow at cox.net 1/23/2006 10:28:30 PM >>>
>>John Derbyshire, of "National Review Online", has this
>>complaint about a current film:
>>
>>----
>>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?
>
As opposed to all those Asimov fans who went to see "I, Robot"? --Eva