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Subject: re: THE LAST UNICORN
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Date: Sat, 17-Mar-84 05:17:33 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 17 05:17:33 1984
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	I finally saw THE LAST UNICORN a couple of months ago on cable. Maybe
it's because I haven't read the book, but I really enjoyed the movie (I'm some-
what a sucker for Japanese animation).
	Note to Betsy Perry: Hanna Barbera did *not* produce the film. Rankin/
Bass, who, as someone else pointed out, did the made-for-TV animated feature of
THE HOBBIT and THE RETURN OF THE KING, produced it, though they contracted the
job of actually doing the art/animation to a japanese company.
	Second of all, as a note to someone else (I forget who -- sorry), I
don't believe that all of the songs were written by Jimmy Webb, but only those
sung by the principal characters. There were other "incidental" songs that were
written and performed by the almost-forgotten rock group America. Even the Webb
songs I didn't mind; the real problem was that Jeff Bridges (who supplied the
voice for Prince, and is an actor I admire) couldn't sing to save his life.
	People should also note, before they start pissing off about how awful
an adaptation of the book the movie was, that Peter Beagle *wrote the screenplay
for the film himself*.

				  --- jayembee
				      (Jerry Boyajian, DEC Maynard)
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