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From: mac@allegra.UUCP (Jim McParland)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Forbidden Planet was original???
Message-ID: <2181@allegra.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Jan-84 09:03:43 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan  6 09:03:43 1984
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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	Now, don't get me wrong - I love Forbidden Planet.  I have
	a videotape of it.

	But the story was far from original.  Ever read Shakespeare?
	The original script (published once in a special issue
	of CINEFANTASTIQUE, I believe) was a direct steal of THE TEMPEST.

	Jim McParland
	AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
	allegra!mac