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From: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: small flame about trivia in reviews
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Date: Tue, 23-Jul-85 21:01:18 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 23 21:01:18 1985
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Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: Put the credits at the end

> > > Starring Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix and Jason Presson.
> > > Also starring Amanda Peterson and Dick Miller.

> > > [and on and on for a whole screenful in the original version]

> > Please!  Why is all this stuff included in a movie review?  

> I don't go to the effort to put it in, but I consider it valuable.

You're both right.  Look, Steven, you can make everybody happy very easily
by keeping the credits in the review but PUTTING THEM AT THE END.  Start
off the review with the title and a 1-paragraph summary.  How about it?

Mark Brader
P.S. Moviemakers, too, I think, would do well to observe the same principle.