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From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: City On The Edge Of Forever
Message-ID: <3058@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 4-Nov-84 18:41:09 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov  4 18:41:09 1984
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In article <3989@cbscc.UUCP> swc@cbscc.UUCP (Scott W. Collins) writes:
>	* From the staging of the moves and the facial expressions, it would
>	  appear that Harlan Ellison has a surrealistic streak in him.  I
>	  have only read one of his works, so pardon me if I am mistaken...

What does Harlan Ellison have to do with these things?  He wrote the
original teleplay, which was rewritten a great deal, but even that
doesn't matter.  The comments above refer to the work of the DIRECTOR
and the actors.  By this time in the filming of the episode, Ellison had
already stopped working with them in disgust at what they did to his
story.

It is interesting to read Ellison's original teleplay, by the way.  It
is in a collection entitled something like "6 Short Science Fiction
Plays."
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    Barry Margolin
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