From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!peri!russ
Newsgroups: net.movies
Title: Casablanca vs Modern Hollywood
Article-I.D.: peri.156
Posted: Wed Dec  8 12:36:17 1982
Received: Thu Dec  9 06:52:11 1982


I recently saw an interesting story involving Casablanca on the tube.
Some hollywood type wanted to see if the current
hollywood moguls could spot a classic.  He took the script to Casablanca,
changed the name to Everyone Comes to Rick's, and sent it out to a number
of the people who read such things.

Has anyone heard of this and remember the numbers?

My own foggy recollection follows.


approx 160 went out

approx 80 returned because unsolicited scripts are not read.

33 spotted it as Casablanca. (* I remember this number.)

approx 40-odd returned it with comments ranging from

This is a good script but you need something like a Smokey and
the Bandit if you're a new writer

	to

Too much dialogue for the action.

	Russ Wolf
	floyd!peri!russ