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From: nose@nbires.UUCP (Steve Dunn)
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Subject: M. Leeper's BRAZIL review (popularity)
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Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 12:01:57 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  7 12:01:57 1986
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>  A recent FILM COMMENT takes Universal to task for releasing STICK,
> JAMES JOYCE'S WOMEN, CREATOR, MORONS FROM OUTER SPACE, DREAM CHILD, WILD
> GEESE II, and HOLOCAUST COVENANT in 1985, while deciding BRAZIL was
> unreleasable.  Universal is absolutely right.  A film this good probably
> will not attract enough of the teenage audience to make it profitable.  It
> will play at your local art theater a week and then disappear, like SMILE or
> STUNT MAN.  And just like these films, people will be rediscovering BRAZIL
> for years to come.
> 
> 
> 					Mark R. Leeper
> 					...ihnp4!mtgzz!leeper

Uh, Well Clem, out here in Boulder Colorado its been playing for nigh on
a month and not at no high falutin' art theater either. Been at th' 
Commonweath theaters raht thar in th' shoppin' mall. Purty durn good
crowd when I went to see it too.

                -Steve "Shop K_MART, enjoy life!" Dunn