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From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Shaffer's "Amadeus" vs. Pushkin's "Mozart and Salieri"
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Date: Sat, 6-Oct-84 13:10:10 EDT
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I have always wondered why the existence of Pushkin's work hasn't
been better publicized, given the amount of press around Shaffer's
play and movie.  Naturally, "borrowing" a theme is such an established
tradition in the theater that cries of plagiarism are completely out
of place.  Still, whenever I read a review which credits Shaffer with
the "ingenious" idea of pitting refined mediocrity against foul genius
I cringe.  
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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