Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!bbncca!sdyer From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Shaffer's "Amadeus" vs. Pushkin's "Mozart and Salieri" Message-ID: <989@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Sat, 6-Oct-84 13:10:10 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncca.989 Posted: Sat Oct 6 13:10:10 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 7-Oct-84 02:42:18 EDT References: <954@bbncca.UUCP> <10000098@uiucdcsb.UUCP> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 11 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 {decvax,linus,ima,ihnp4}!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbncca.ARPA