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From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
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Subject: Re: Romancing the stone (response which contains spoiler)
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Date: Sat, 28-Apr-84 04:22:42 EDT
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Posted: Sat Apr 28 04:22:42 1984
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Responses to Sid Shapiro:

     1)  Was Angelina the heroine of Wilder's books?  Was she  a  con-
     tinuing  character?   If not then who was she?  Was she the woman
     at the beginning of the movie?  If she was, and was  not  a  con-
     tinuing character, then how did Douglas know about her?  (Whew!)

Angelina was the continuing heroine of Wilder's books, and Jesse is the
continuing hero.  The woman in the opening sequence was Angelina, and
the man who saved her was Jesse.

     2) If Wilder was such a MAJOR writer of romance novels,  wouldn't
     she  have likely as been wealthy enough to just simply buy a damn
     boat for her and Douglas?

I haven't heard of too many writers who have become filthy rich just by
writing.  Perhaps if you produce many best-sellers you will come close.
She is very successful as romance novelists go, but that is not saying
much.  That was a pretty expensive boat.

     3) If someone lost his hand as Zolos(?) did, wouldn't  he  likely
     be in shock such that he coulnd't function like Zolos did when he
     attacked Wilder?

Oh, come one.  This is an adventure movie.  Where would adventure movies
be if the bad guys didn't keep coming at you after they got shot or had
their hands bitten off.  It's called "suspension of disbelief", and you
had to do it an awful lot during this movie.
-- 
			Barry Margolin
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