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From: leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (m.r.leeper)
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Subject: Re: Charley (Flowers for Algernon)
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Date: Fri, 18-Oct-85 12:09:06 EDT
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Incidentally, the name of the film is CHARLY, and if possible, the L
should be backwards.  It was based, supposedly on the novelet by Daniel
Keyes, not the novel.  I liked the novelet, but novel immediately
became one of my favorite books of all time.  So much so that I was
really disappointed by the film.  I did remember, however, lines from
the film that I had heard before and thought about as a young kid.
This convinces me that I did see the TV play "The Short Life of Charley
Gordon" when it was first broadcast in 50's.  I must have been pretty
young at the time.  Cliff Robertson starred in the TV play also (which
was why he always wanted to do the film).  The worst thing I ever saw
on Broadway was the musical CHARLEY AND ALGERNON.  Never heard of it?
Good, count yourself lucky.  The play made Gordon's great achievment
as a genius taking Alice Kinian to bed.  It was horrible.

				Mark Leeper
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