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westbook <[log in to unmask]>
Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:49:42 -0500
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Huck Finn, the novel, is too long and complex to be a regular movie, anyway. 
My only experience with movie making was functioning as an extra in two full 
length films made by Paramount and 20th Century Fox. in 1974. But, if I had 
charge of this project and an unlimited budget, I'd have Huck do a first 
person voice-over (as in The Old Man and the Sea), and I'd make it about a 
five-part mini-series for TV, as was Lonesome Dove.
Tim Champlin
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ballard, Terry" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 8:15 AM
Subject: Re: Here we go again: another Huck makeover by Hollywood


> Try this one:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/6wjjv6p
>
> Love the word "reimagine." Sounds like a euphemism for a lot of other 
> terms=
> in my vocabulary that would not be as sympathetic. As far as I'm 
> concerned=
> , the Will Vinton Twain movie had a few good minutes of Mysterious 
> Stranger=
> - otherwise the only decent adaptations of Twain on film were done in the 
> =
> 1930s.
>
> Terry=20
>
> Terry Ballard
> Assistant Director of Technical Services for Library Systems
> New York Law School, Mendik Library
> 185 W. Broadway
> New York, NY, 10013
> Telephone: 212-431-2106
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Twain Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of westbook
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 10:51 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Here we go again: another Huck makeover by Hollywood
>
> Ben, I must have missed something or this link isn't working properly.
> Tim Champlin
> ----- Original Message -----=20
> From: "Click, Benjamin A" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 8:22 AM
> Subject: Here we go again: another Huck makeover by Hollywood
>
>
>> http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/mark-twain-huck-tom-paramoun=
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>> Ben Click
>> Professor/Chair, English
>> Director, Twain Lecture Series on
>> American Humor and Culture
>> St. Mary=3DB9s College of Maryland
>> 240-895-4253=20 

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