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Why do modern actors and directors love classics?

Tue, 17 July 2001, 05:38 pm
Walter Plinge19 posts in thread


Answer: Because the writer is dead and probably doesn't have a trust fund!

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RE: Why do modern actors and directors love classics?

Mon, 23 July 2001, 07:50 pm
Walter Plinge


Vagabond Jo vouched valiantly:
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Some times they are simply used as a fund raiser so that original works can be promoted at a later date.

True- just not very often. All too often companies will either rest on their laurels with the success of a known work, and/or be lured by the prospect of an easy dollar.

Eliot

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