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From: kaufman@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: Plan 9 on TV next week
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Date: Thu, 3-Oct-85 15:44:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  3 15:44:00 1985
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> Gee, it's really hard to pick, but I'd have to say "Plan 9" was
> a little "better" than "Glen or Glenda", even if it(Plan 9) was meant 
> as a serious film!!!! The best part of "Glen or Glenda" was Bela Lugosi's(sp?)
> narration of the film, along with a couple of scenes of Bela trying to
> look ferocious, like in his "Dracula" films!!!

I had the good (?) fortune to see "Glen or Glenda" and "Plan 9" back to back,
and the question of which was worse is still very tough.  The highlight of
"Glen or Glenda" was not the subject matter or the way it was treated, but
rather what appeared inbetween.  Footage of stampeding buffalo, rush-hour
traffic, and lightning and thunder, the latter stolen from hundreds of B
horror films.  Meanwhile, the audience would be treated to Ed Wood's
tag-team narrator concept, featuring Bela Lugosi's redundant incoherencies.

I don't suppose we could lure Kelvin out of retirement to do justice to these
films, could we?

Ken Kaufman (uiucdcs!kaufman)
"Pull the string!  Pull the string!  Life has begun.  A story must be told."


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