In this issue: Re: CHAT: Hornblower sails alongside Marryat Re: CHAT: Hornblower sails alongside Marryat Today in History - April 6 Re: Etext avail: five old etexts resurrected and Wister Re: Etext avail: five old etexts resurrected and Wister Re: Etext avail: five old etexts resurrected (Correction) Spot running Weird Victorian science conference Re: Weird Victorian science conference Carlson's "Adventure" pastiche <WAS: WWW etext avail: Not the Sherlock Holmes page> Etext avail: Adeler's "A desparate adventure" Today in History - April 7 Re: Carlson's "Adventure" pastiche <WAS: WWW etext avail: Not the SherlockHolmes page> Etext avail: more Sherlockian parodies <FWD> Come join us CHAT: Author Assistance Needed Raintree County website Today in History - April 8 RE: Etext avail offlist: Futrelle's "Mystery of Room 666" RE: Etext avail offlist: Futrelle's "Mystery of Room 666" about those duelling dinosaurs ... Re: Raintree County website "A Desperate Adventure" Re: Today in History - April 8 Re: about those duelling dinosaurs ... Re: about those duelling dinosaurs ... Re: CHAT: Author Assistance Needed -----------------------------THE POSTS----------------------------- Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 12:05:36 -0700 From: Patricia Teter <PTeter(at)getty.edu> Subject: Re: CHAT: Hornblower sails alongside Marryat I watched the first Hornblower episode last night with great delight. The spirit of place and time was captured in every scene, and the battles, considering this was a television production, not on Titanic budget, were well done. I have never read the Hornblower novels, however, if they are at all close to this televised version they owe a great deal to Captain Frederick Marryat's early 19th century naval fiction, down to the little speech on equality, which could easily have sprung from the mouth of Marryat's Midshipman Easy, better known to his shipmates as "Equality Jack." Luckily, Marryat's novels are currently being reissued by both Holt's Heart of Oak series and McBooks Press Nautical Fiction series. An amazing coincidence occurred just last week, while I was editing a group of British auction records from 1826 to 1829 -- I work in the Getty Provenance Index which researches the history of collecting and the provenance of paintings primarily during the 16th to 19th centuries -- Capt. Frederick Marryat's name appears, buying and selling a large number of paintings! He amassed a rather large collection of Dutch and Italian paintings which he then sold in 1829, just prior to taking the post on the Ariadne. I have unearthed and researched a good number of startling facts during my years here, but this was by far the most fun. My longest search, at about ten years now, has involved a Danish plenipotentiary, Tiepolo's St. James, Raphael's Alba Madonna and the Peninsular war, which marks the beginning of my interest in the Napoleonic era. best regards, Patricia Patricia A. Teter PTeter(at)Getty.edu
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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 12:20:55 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com> Subject: Re: CHAT: Hornblower sails alongside Marryat > which marks the beginning of my interest in the Napoleonic era. It's interesting to find a beginning. I know that your interest in stories, subject as been this era and I was wondering what the connection with your work at the Getty it might have been. Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 13:27:08 -0600
From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org>
Subject: Today in History - April 6
1814
Granted sovereignty in the island of Elba and a pension from
the French government,
Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates at Fountainebleau. He is allowed
to keep the title of
emperor.
1830
Joseph Smith and five others organize Mormon Church in
Seneca, New York. Trailing
the Mormons.
1862
Confederate forces attack General Ulysses S. Grant at Shiloh,
Tennessee.
1865
At the Battle of Sayler's Creek, a third of Lee's army is cut
off by Union troops pursuing
him to Appomattox.
1903
French Army Nationalists are revealed for forging documents
to guarantee a conviction
for Alfred Dryfus, an officer accused of giving plans for
France's defense to Germany.
1909
Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson become the first
men to reach the North
Pole.
1917
The United States declares war on Germany and enters World
War I on Allied side.
Born on April 6
1483
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio), Dutch painter (Sistine Madonna)
1866
Joseph Lincoln Steffens, muckraker journalist who exposed
city corruption in "The
Shame of the Cities."
1874
Harry Houdini, famous magician and escape artist
1905
W. Warrick Cardozo, physician and pioneer researcher on
Sickle Cell Anemia.
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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 15:55:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Re: Etext avail: five old etexts resurrected and Wister
Like Patricia, I'm glad Stephen has "recycled" "La Tinaja Bonita," which
is one of those beautifully told stories--tragic though it is--that stays
with you (as it has with Patricia) long after you read it.
Patricia asks about other stories by Wister. Here are some book titles
and their contents:
_Red Man and White_ (1896)
"Little Bighorn Medicine"
"Specimin Jones"
"The Serenade at Siskiyou"
"The General's Bluff"
"Salvation Gap"
"The Second Missouri Compromise"
"La Tinaja Bonita"
"A Pilgrim on the Gila"
_The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories_ (1900)
"The Jimmyjohn Boss"
"A Kinsman of Red Cloud"
"Sharon's Choice"
"Twenty Minutes for Refreshment"
"The Promised Land"
"Hank's Woman"
"Padre Ognazio"
_When West Was West_ (1928)
"Bad Medicine"
"Captain Quid"
"Once Round the Clock"
"The Right Honorable the Strawberries"
"Lone Fountain"
"Absalom and Moulting Pelican"
"Skip to My Loo"
"Little Old Scaffold"
"At the Sign of the Last Chance"
Bob C.
On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Patricia Teter wrote:
>
> Stephen, thanks for resurrecting the five texts,
> three of which I never read the first time around.
> I still vividly remember Wister's "La Tinaja Bonita"
> thanks to Bob Champ. Bob, did Wister write
> many short fiction westerns such as this? The
> Virginian was a full length novel, but was it
> originally published in serial form?
>
> Patricia
>
>
>
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lovely, whatever things are of good report, if
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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 13:21:39 -0700 From: Patricia Teter <PTeter(at)getty.edu> Subject: Re: Etext avail: five old etexts resurrected and Wister Bob, thanks for the Wister short story titles; I had no idea he wrote that many! Perhaps before the year is out we should add another Wister story to Gaslight? In the meantime, I'll save your message and seek out copies to read. best regards, Patricia
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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 15:23:40 -0600
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Re: Etext avail: five old etexts resurrected (Correction)
John H. points out that I mistyped the direction to get Wister's "La tinaja
bonita" in plain ASCII. Thanks, John.
Here it is properly.
To retrieve the original plain ASCII file send to: ftpmail(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
with no subject heading and completely in lowercase:
open aftp.mtroyal.ab.ca
cd /gaslight
get bonita.sht
Stephen D
mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 18:39:22 -0400 From: Linda Anderson <lpa1(at)ptdprolog.net> Subject: Spot running >The good LPA has writ:-- > > <<See other "Lost Worlds". See other interpretations of the >canonical >stories than one done by Jeremy Brett. See Spot Run. See Jane run thru >forest in "Lost World" by TNT. >> >***************************************************** >Lascar no see TNT "Lost World." But if Jane run through forest in >dishabille, then me want to see Jane run, not Spot! > >Lascar (whose love of dogs does have limits). > >=============== Jane run thru forest with leafs keeping censors from heart attacks. Other female whatevers run thru forest with not much else. Only excess baggage female with expedition has more clothes. except for the scene "Where is madame X?" early on. dere ain't no leafs dere in da watter. made this geologist female cringe as that one looked at "minerals" in the cave. sigh.... and dis dog do howl dat da men don't do no scenes inna watter with no leafs. sigh. Discrimination! dat's what it is! Peter whosis as Challenger was no prettier this week in "Hercules" as Odin. Voice just as bad, clothing worse. or too much clothing, as the case may be. I sure hope someone from the Doyle estate is making money from Ted Turner's idiocy. other than Jane. Who if she were in the movie in leafs would have escalated the movie's er, um, uh, literariess by leaps and, er, bounds. the curly haired spaniel who only peaked at the swimming scenes as they didn't have no naked males in them
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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 18:10:11 -0600
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Weird Victorian science conference
Will anyone on Gaslight be attending the following conference?
Stephen D
mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
VICTORIA Digest - 24 Feb 1999 to 25 Feb 1999
4. Weird Science in Victorian Literature (Conference)
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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 10:31:08 +0000
From: "Willis, Martin" <M.Willis(at)WORC.AC.UK>
Subject: Weird Science in Victorian Literature (Conference)
To All Victorianists:
UPDATE:
WEIRD SCIENCE:
ALTERNATIVE WISDOMS IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE
A One Day Conference at University College Worcester
Saturday April 17 1999
The conference programme is now complete and registration is
invited. Places are limited and filling fast so please enquire for
details as soon as possible. Cost is 15 pound sterling (or 10 pounds
sterling for students) and includes all conference lectures,
registration, refreshments and lunch. Below is an illustrative list
of participants and themes:
Plenary Speakers:
CLIVE BLOOM on seances
JENNY BOURNE TAYLOR on psychology
Other papers include:
ANGELIQUE RICHARDSON on science and sexuality
TONY PINKNEY on Morris and seances
JOHN SCHAD on darwinism
as well as papers on the following themes:
MESMERISM
DETECTIVE FICTION
SPIRITUALISM
EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
GHOSTS
HAVELOCK ELLIS
JEKYLL AND HYDE
BRAM STOKER.
All enquiries to:
Dr Martin Willis
Dept. of English and Drama
University College Worcester
Henwick Grove
Worcester
WR2 6AJ
email: m.willis(at)worc.ac.uk.
BOOK NOW!
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End of VICTORIA Digest - 24 Feb 1999 to 25 Feb 1999
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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 19:10:00 -0600 (MDT) From: "p.h.wood" <woodph(at)freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> Subject: Re: Weird Victorian science conference I shan't be able to attend, but if the organisers plan to publish the proceedings I should be most interested in receiving a copy of them. Details would be most welcome. Peter Wood 25, Bellevue Crescent, St. Albert, AB, Canada, T8N 0A5
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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 19:46:21 -0600
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Carlson's "Adventure" pastiche <WAS: WWW etext avail: Not the Sherlock
Holmes page>
Patricia T. asks:
>Jerry, this is a Holmes pastiche? What is the title of your
>excellent Brigadier Gerard pastiche and is it still on Gaslight?
>If so, may we link it to the Napoleonic page alongside
>the Doyle Brigadier Gerard? You are certainly a worthy
>successor to ACD!
and Stephen intercedes:
It's actually the Brigadier's grandson which is how the story takes place
during a certain private consulting detective's career.
"The adventure of the white plume" is available on Gaslight as whitplum.sht
or on the website at whitplum.htm
Stephen D
mailto:sdavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 19:50:01 -0600
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Etext avail: Adeler's "A desparate adventure"
From: Stephen Davies(at)MRC on 04/06/99 07:50 PM
To: Gaslight-announce(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
cc:
Subject: Etext avail: Adeler's "A desparate adventure"
despadvt.sht
This week we'll discuss an old etext on Gaslight, "A desparate adventure"
(year?) by Max Adeler. Can anyone date this story?
To retrieve the plain ASCII file send to: ftpmail(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
with no subject heading and completely in lowercase:
open aftp.mtroyal.ab.ca
cd /gaslight
get despadvt.sht
or visit the Gaslight website at:
http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/despadvt.htm
Stephen D
mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 09:38:07 -0600
From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org>
Subject: Today in History - April 7
1862
General Ulysses S. Grant defeats Confederates at Battle of
Shiloh, Tenn. Over on the
Mississippi, Union troops take Island No. 10, Missouri.
1914
British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule Bill.
Born on April 7
1770
William Wordsworth, English poet laureate who wrote "The
Prelude" and "Lyrical
Ballards."
1837
John Pierpoint Morgan, U.S. businessman who owned U.S. Steel
and International
Harvester.
1859
Walter Camp, father of American football.
1860
W.K. Kellogg, cereal magnate and health guru.
1897
Walter Winchell, American newscaster and newspaper columnist.
1915
Billie Holliday, jazz and blues legend who sang "God Bless
the Child."
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Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 08:49:06 -0700 From: Patricia Teter <PTeter(at)getty.edu> Subject: Re: Carlson's "Adventure" pastiche <WAS: WWW etext avail: Not the SherlockHolmes page> Stephen thankfully intercedes: <<It's actually the Brigadier's grandson which is how the story takes place during a certain private consulting detective's career.>> Ah, now I remember... three or four years is a long time for a memory to retain perfect details when a million other less important details are crowding and pushing and overlapping and crunching everything else to bits, and isn't odd how the most trivial stuff always takes up the most room! Life is cruel that way! <grin> going out for a much needed double strength espresso, Patricia (but, hey! I did remember that Raphael is Italian rather than Dutch ... right?..........;-)
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Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 11:40:54 -0600
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Etext avail: more Sherlockian parodies
From: Stephen Davies(at)MRC on 04/07/99 11:40 AM
To: Gaslight-announce(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
cc:
Subject: Etext avail: more Sherlockian parodies
(JOLNES.HTM) (Fiction, Chronos)
O. Henry's "The adventures of Shamrock Jolnes" (1911)
(PARODY.HTM#Picklock) (Fiction, Chronos)
R.C. Lehmann's _The adventures of Picklock Holes_ (1893/94)
jolnes.sht
In addition to the previously released "The sleuths", O. Henry
mocked the Holmesian style in "The adventures of Shamrock Jolnes".
Both stories were collected in _Sixes and sevens_ (1911)
holes01.hum
holes04.hum
holes05.hum
Here are three episodes of the series from _Punch_ by R.C. Lehmann,
called _The adventures of Picklock Holes_ in 1893/4, and, after Holmes
had returned from the dead, _Picky back_ in 1903/04. These are files
first released in 1994 on Gaslight.
To retrieve all the plain ASCII files send to: ftpmail(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
with no subject heading and completely in lowercase:
open aftp.mtroyal.ab.ca
cd /gaslight
get jolnes.sht
get sleuths.sht
get holes01.hum
get holes04.hum
get holes05.hum
or visit the Gaslight website at:
http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/parody.htm
Stephen D
mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 12:15:33 -0600 From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA Subject: <FWD> Come join us - ---------------------- Forwarded by Stephen Davies/Academic/MRC on 04/07/99 12:15 PM --------------------------- Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 12:45:14 -0500 From: MyShelf <myshelf(at)marlownet.net> Subject: Come join us We have a historical mystery list going at Onelist.com. Come join the readers and authors already there. It's a fun list with lots of opinions and reading influences. ENDEARING....BEWITCHING! EVERYONE, EXCEPT THE CORPSE, SEEMS TO HAVE A GOOD TIME... ON CRIME THRU TIME AT ONELIST." http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/CrimeThruTime use this url to join. Thought you might be interested. Back to lurking.
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Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 14:21:27 -0500 From: "Richard L. King" <rking(at)INDIAN.VINU.EDU> Subject: CHAT: Author Assistance Needed Hello, Everyone! Can anyone help me track down information on the nonGaslight author Michael de Larrabeiti? He wrote THE BORRIBLES science fiction novels, and my personal favorite book THE PROVENCAL TALES. But, information about this author is hard to come by. Anyone know why? He using a pseudonym that causes the problems? I would like to find out how to contact the man, if possible. Standard library reference sources like CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS have zilch. Can anyone assist? Thanks. Richard King rking(at)indian.vinu.edu
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Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 18:48:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Raintree County website
Don't know if there are any fans of _Raintree County_ on the list, but
I thought I would mention that a new website devoted to the novel and
its author, Ross Lockridge, Jr., has now appeared. _Raintree County_,
made into a rather mediocre film starring Elizabeth Taylor, was the
attempt of a young man, Lockridge, to write the "Great American Novel." It
takes place on a single day in the 1890s, and tries to get in everything
about America from that vantage point (thus the frequent comparison
between Lockridge and Thomas Wolfe). The book was an enormous success
when it appeared, but the pressure became too much for the 33-year-old
author who, very soon after it appeared, took his own life. (There is
an interesting essay at the site by Lockridge's son Larry about his search
for the roots of his father's final act.
The URL for the website is
http://www.raintreecounty.com
If you'd like to read something about the book, its general plan, themes,
and characters you can start by visiting the following.
http://www.raintreecounty.com./charlee.html
Bob C.
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rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu
Editor, teacher, anglophile, human curiosity
Whatever things are pure, whatever things are
lovely, whatever things are of good report, if
there is any virtue and if there is anything
praiseworthy, meditate on these things
Philippians 4:8
rchamp7927(at)aol.com robertchamp(at)netscape.net
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Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 08:46:03 -0600
From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org>
Subject: Today in History - April 8
1832
Some 300 American troops of the 6th Infantry leave Jefferson
Barracks, St. Louis, to
confront the Sauk Indians in what would become known as the
Black Hawk War. [This
was the war, BTW, in which Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson
Davis led troops on the same
side - Lincoln as a captain of militia, Davis as a
lieutenant of Regulars. I'd say they fought
on the same side, but by Lincoln's own report all of his
battles were with the mosquitoes.
I've probably fought those mosquitoes' descendants - Black
Hawk and I were born only
about 5 miles and 194 years apart. I always found it
interesting, actually, that Black Hawk,
Napoleon, Wellington, and Andrew Jackson were all born that
same year.]
1864
In the Battle of Mansfield, Louisiana, Federals are routed
by Confederate Gen.
Richard Taylor.
1865
General Robert E. Lee's retreat is cut off near Appomattox
Court House.
1898
British General Horatio Kitchner defeats the Khalifa, leader
of the dervishes in Sudan,
at the Battle of Atbara.
1913
The Seventeenth amendment is ratified, requiring direct
election of senators.
Born on April 8
1893
Mary Pickford, silent film actress who starred in such films
as Poor Little Rich Girl.
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Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 11:10:52 -0400 From: Joyce Stowell <jstowell(at)smcvt.edu> Subject: RE: Etext avail offlist: Futrelle's "Mystery of Room 666" Stephen, could you please send me a copy of this? Thanks. Joyce Stowell jstowell(at)smcvt.edu > ---------- > From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA[SMTP:sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA] > Reply To: gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA > Sent: Monday, March 29, 1999 2:36 PM > To: gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA > Subject: Etext avail offlist: Futrelle's "Mystery of Room 666" > > We talked recently about Jacques Futrelle's "Mystery of Room 666", but I > couldn't produce an etext of it because a) I haven't a copy of the > original > publication and b) I have had very little opportunity to scan this year so > far. > > I have produced a workable etext of the story which I am prepared to > circulate > offlist to anyone who writes me asking for it. > > Stephen > mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca > >
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Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 11:39:37 -0400 From: Joyce Stowell <jstowell(at)smcvt.edu> Subject: RE: Etext avail offlist: Futrelle's "Mystery of Room 666" OOPS--sorry for sending this to the list. > ---------- > From: Joyce Stowell[SMTP:jstowell(at)smcvt.edu] > Reply To: gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 1999 11:10 AM > To: 'gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA' > Subject: RE: Etext avail offlist: Futrelle's "Mystery of Room 666" > > Stephen, could you please send me a copy of this? Thanks. > Joyce Stowell > jstowell(at)smcvt.edu > > > > ---------- > > From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA[SMTP:sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA] > > Reply To: gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA > > Sent: Monday, March 29, 1999 2:36 PM > > To: gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA > > Subject: Etext avail offlist: Futrelle's "Mystery of Room 666" > > > > We talked recently about Jacques Futrelle's "Mystery of Room 666", but I > > couldn't produce an etext of it because a) I haven't a copy of the > > original > > publication and b) I have had very little opportunity to scan this year > so > > far. > > > > I have produced a workable etext of the story which I am prepared to > > circulate > > offlist to anyone who writes me asking for it. > > > > Stephen > > mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca > > > > >
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Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 14:02:31 -0400 (EDT) From: "Peter E. Blau" <pblau(at)dgs.dgsys.com> Subject: about those duelling dinosaurs ... To clear up some of the confusion about the various versions of "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World": The first version with this title premiered on The Movie Network in Canada on Jan. 4 (the 93-minute film was produced in Canada and is set Mongolia in 1934); it was directed by Bob Keen and starred Patrick Bergin as Professor Challenger. The second version (same title) premiered on DirecTV on Feb. 1 (produced by John Landis in Australia for the Action Adventure Network and set in South America); it was directed by Richard Franklin and starred Peter McCauley as Challenger. This is the film (two hours including commercials) that prem- iered on TNT cable on Apr. 3, announced in TV Guide and some newspapers as the Patrick Bergin version. And this is the version that ends with all of the explorers alive and well and marooned on the plateau; a spin-off series of twenty one-hour televisions shows has been announced to debut on DirecTV in July and available for syndication this fall. And there was a report last year that Brian Blessed was working on a third version for the BBC, but this likely was no more than industry buzz. It's really difficult to make a dinosaur film now, since Steven Spielberg has set a standard difficult to match; neither of the new films begins to do justice to Conan Doyle's story, and the actors aren't up to what story there is, and the dinosaurs aren't much better than the actors. The real problem, perhaps, is that producers don't understand, and thus ignore, the humor in Conan Doyle's tale. || Peter E. Blau <pblau(at)dgs.dgsys.com> || || 3900 Tunlaw Road NW #119 || || Washington, DC 20007-4830 || || (202-338-1808) ||
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Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 16:51:26 -0500 From: "Richard L. King" <rking(at)INDIAN.VINU.EDU> Subject: Re: Raintree County website Thanks, Bob. RAINTREE COUNTY was one of my favorite books when I was a college student back in the 1970s at Indiana University, in Bloomington, where the author of the novel lived (he had already died when I was there, of course). I was once in his home, in fact. I wonder if Lockridge's work would still grip me today like it did then? I think I'll investigate that site this evening. Richard King rking(at)indian.vinu.edu
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Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 20:38:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: "A Desperate Adventure"
A fairy tale for adults, perhaps? Get a group of depressives together,
send them on a peaceful balloon trip, don't charge them anything, and
voila! everything in their lives changes. Just what they needed--not
therapy but a bit of fresh air. (Not that the author knew anything about
"group therapy"--which is too bad since his tale could then be read as
satire.)
A balloon trip does seem to have an effect, though, even in the real
world. Put two or more people in a small, enclosed space for an indefinite
length of time and they're usually at each other's throat within a very
short length of time. Yet if they are in a balloon, gliding along,
another element is engaged. Think of the recent attempts of balloonists
to circumnavigate the world. Fossett and Branson, for instance. Don't
you imagine those two have egos you would need a mack truck to carry?
But being aloft seems to have shrunk them to normal size. Maybe the
situation just calls for a dependence that will not brook ego-posturing.
Is this terribly outside the bounds of our tale?
"A Desperate Adventure" is the second story we've read lately that offers
us a tongue-in-cheek author, the other being the tale of Lake Lametrie.
At least Adeler had the sense to be brief. This is the kind of work
that, once the central idea is grasped, won't bear much sustaining. I
mean ter say, you can't keep an idea like this afloat, once it has been
spotted. Entertaining stuff, though.
Bob C.
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rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu
Editor, teacher, anglophile, human curiosity
Whatever things are pure, whatever things are
lovely, whatever things are of good report, if
there is any virtue and if there is anything
praiseworthy, meditate on these things
Philippians 4:8
rchamp7927(at)aol.com robertchamp(at)netscape.net
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Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 22:42:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Donna Goldthwaite <dgold(at)javanet.com> Subject: Re: Today in History - April 8 Greetings, In Today in History it was written: > 1832 > Some 300 American troops of the 6th Infantry leave >Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, to > confront the Sauk Indians in what would become known as >the Black Hawk War. [This > was the war, BTW, in which Abraham Lincoln and >Jefferson Davis led troops on the same > side - Lincoln as a captain of militia, Davis as a >lieutenant of Regulars. I'd say they fought > on the same side, but by Lincoln's own report all of >his battles were with the mosquitoes. > I've probably fought those mosquitoes' descendants - >Black Hawk and I were born only > about 5 miles and 194 years apart. I always found it >interesting, actually, that Black Hawk, > Napoleon, Wellington, and Andrew Jackson were all born >that same year.] I recall an amusing story that Lincoln told on himself -- something he always seemed to do. He and his men approached a long fence, with a small gate the only entrance to a pasture on the other side. He couldn't remember the command to get his men into a file to proceed through the gate, so -- thinking fast -- he ordered them all to disperse (or whatever THAT command is) and reform on the other side. There is something mordantly funny (if you didn't laugh, you'd cry) about the fact that the Commander in Chief in, arguably, America's greatest war, was unable to command men in the field. Best, Donna Goldthwaite dgold(at)javanet.com
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Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 13:32:09 -0400 From: Connie Hirsch <Connie_Hirsch(at)HMCO.COM> Subject: Re: about those duelling dinosaurs ... Thanks for the explanation -- I wondered how TVGuide and all that could have been so wrong about who starred, et cetera.
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Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 11:55:39 -0600 (MDT) From: "p.h.wood" <woodph(at)freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> Subject: Re: about those duelling dinosaurs ... On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Connie Hirsch wrote: > Thanks for the explanation -- I wondered how TVGuide and all that could have > been so wrong about who starred, et cetera. I suspect that much of the typesetting for "TV Guide" is done using cut-and-paste from an existing database of films and previously-shown programs to save time and effort in preparation of each issue. I've noticed before that quite often film-titles are correct, but the actual film screened is a different version, sometimes old, sometimes new (OK, "sometimes borrowed, sometimes blue" is also appropriate). Peter Wood
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Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 14:25:44 -0400 From: Connie Hirsch <Connie_Hirsch(at)HMCO.COM> Subject: Re: CHAT: Author Assistance Needed You might try looking him up in _The Encyclopedia of Fantasy_ edited by John Clute and John Grant, which tries to be reasonably inclusive about all major authors in the fantasy genre. I know some people who wrote entries for it, so I've heard how they tried to get background on more obscure authors. Good luck! - -connie. connie_hirsch(at)hmco.com <<<<<< Hello, Everyone! Can anyone help me track down information on the nonGaslight author Michael de Larrabeiti? He wrote THE BORRIBLES science fiction novels, and my personal favorite book THE PROVENCAL TALES. But, information about this author is hard to come by. Anyone know why? He using a pseudonym that causes the problems? I would like to find out how to contact the man, if possible. Standard library reference sources like CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS have zilch. Can anyone assist? Thanks. Richard King rking(at)indian.vinu.edu ------------------------------ End of Gaslight Digest V1 #61 *****************************