Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!decwrl!rhea!akov68!boyajian From: boyajian@akov68.DEC Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: re: THE LAST UNICORN Message-ID: <6283@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Sat, 17-Mar-84 05:17:33 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.6283 Posted: Sat Mar 17 05:17:33 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Mar-84 08:04:16 EST Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 23 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) UUCP: (decvax!decwrl!rhea!akov68!boyajian) ARPA: (decwrl!rhea!akov68!boyajian@Shasta)