Not 30 minutes ago I left a movie in which personal ads played a small part: Sweet Emma, Dear Bobe. It's a Hungarian film and was playing in St. Louis only because of the film festival here. Not a fantastic film. And quite a downer. Not worth going out of your way if your main interest is the personal ads... How are you, Donna? How did Mildred Pierce go? Rick ______________________________________ | Rick Francis | "...The present era grabs everything that was ever | C47805NF@WUVMD | written in order to transform it into films, TV | Dep't of Comp Lit, | programs, or cartoons. What is essential in a novel | Box 1107 | is precisely what can only be expressed in a novel, | Washington Univ. | and so every adaptation contains nothing but the | St. Louis, MO | nonessestial. If a person is still crazy enough to | 63130 | write novels nowadays and wants to protect them, he ______________________| has to write them in such a way that they cannot be adapted, in other words, in such a way that they can- not be retold. " (From "Immortality" by Milan Kundera)