Re: How did you find out that there were other conlangers?
| From: | Elyse M. Grasso <emgrasso@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 15, 2007, 16:10 |
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On Monday 15 October 2007, Roger Mills wrote:
> Adam Walker wrote:
>
>
> > --- Mia Soderquist <happycritter@...> wrote:
> >> I recently went looking for the title of a
> >> made-for-TV movie I saw in
> >> 1978 when I was 7 years old and found it by Googling
> >> "giant turtle
> >> movie",
> >
> > Would that be the one based on the Ursala K. LeGuin
> > novelette which was filmed here in Dallas because of
> > our atrociously ugly city hall?
> >
> Oh wow-- "Lathe of Heaven" ?-- aired on PBS (and re-run some years back),
> not a bad adaptation. But Dallas? Who'da thunk??
>
> But please please, Hollywood people, do "Left Hand of Darkness" quickly,
> before there's no more icy places to film in......
>
'Lathe of Heaven' just came out on DVD within the past year or so. Just be
sure you get the good PBS version (which Ms. LeGuin was involved with) rather
than the mediocre version SciFiNetwork did more recently. (Ick)
--
Elyse Grasso
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