Mike comments: " If I am not mistaken, the "Expanded" version of David Lynch's "DUNE",which has only been shown on television is credited to Mr. "Smithee". I have never seen any written explanation of this credit so I always figured that Lynch had nothing to do with this version and made Universal credit it to Smithee." That's about right. When my wife and I went, with much anticipation, to see DUNE and it opened with about 10 minutes of voice-over narration by the princess explaining the various races and roles they play, we turned to each other and said, at the same time, "Uh-oh!" Nonetheless, there are some very neat things in DUNE, which is why I require any critic that I am going to respect to have at least one or 2 kind words for it. But then Universal recut it for tv and video--and made the intro. *worse*! Lynch was right. --Don Larsson, Mankato State U., MN