>Stephen Brody worried:
>
> Colleagues - Perhaps the most intelligent movie produced by
>mainstream Hollywood since "L. A. Confidential" is in danger of
>dying a premature death.  "Three Kings" did not do as well as
>expected during its opening weekend, October 1-3, and is widely
>rumored to have been dropped by Warner Brothers promotions, even
>though the studio paid $50 million for it.
>
        I was quite surprised to read such a plea on Screen-L.  And I
am not so sure I should "save" a film whose market value amounts to
$48 million.  Maybe my energies are best directed towards those indie
gems that die a premature death after showing for a week at an art
house in NYC's Greenwich Village -- as Godard put it: "in memoriam
small films."

        Gloria Monti

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department of audio/video/film
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10/12/1942: Attorney General Francis Biddle announced that Italian
nationals in the U.S. would no longer be considered enemy aliens.

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