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From: phillips@cisden.UUCP (Tom Phillips)
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Subject: Re: Thomas Pynchon (V)
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Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 12:51:00 EST
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In article <1204@brl-smoke.ARPA> wmartin@brl-smoke.ARPA (Will Martin ) writes:
>This was brought to mind by the mention of Pynchon's "V": We all heard,
>back when the movie was released, how the producers of "Blade Runner"
>paid that book's author (or copyright holder) for the use of that title
>on the movie, which was made based on a different novel (Dick's "Do
>Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", of course).
>Well, then: Did the producers of the TV series "V" pay Pynchon (or his
>agent, or the copyright holder) anything for using that title, since his
>book, "V", had come out long before that? Anybody ever hear anything
>about that?
If I remember what I saw correctly, the TV drek was an "adaptation" of a
book by (BIG uncertainty) Karel Kapek (sp) of RUR fame.  The book was
titled something like _The_Invasion_of_the_Salamanders_.  Details could be
off, but I'm sure that it was not a reference to Pynchon.

-- 
						Tommy Phillips
From the banks of the great grey-green greasy Limpopo River,
all set about with fever-trees.

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