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From: robertsl@stolaf.UUCP (Laurence C. Roberts)
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Subject: Re: _The Color Purple_ (The Movie)
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Date: Thu, 18-Jul-85 08:53:48 EDT
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> I have read that Steven Spielberg is producing a movie version
> of Alice Walker's _The Color Purple_.  I read this in the
> Washington Post.  Has anyone got any information on this?
> And why Spielberg?

I've been hearing this rumored for several months, and when it turned up
in Time's article about Spielberg, that pretty much confirmed it.  Why
Spielberg as director?  Well, you know how his movies are all the same?
He wanted to do something different.  Why he chose this book to (probably)
murder, I don't know.  Sort of makes me mad.

I'm afraid he's going to go for sentimentality. It'll be one of those movies
that manipulates its audience.  I really wonder what Alice Walker thinks
about all of this.  By the way, I'd advise anyone who hasn't read the book
yet to do so.  

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			Laurence Roberts
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		If we didn't have so many polls, how could
               we be expected to all think the same things?