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From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Brother from Another Planet - Interpretations of the Ending (spoiler!)
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Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 00:34:32 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  3 00:34:32 1984
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I saw the movie at The Seattle Film Festival last May, and Sayles was there
to introduce it (Seattle Snobbishness: we got to see it before *anybody*,
even Cannes -- Sayles has had good luck with the SFF).  He mentioned that
the heaven/hell space/earth thumb gesture was open... there were a lot of
interpertations to it.

It is always pleasant to think of the maker of a good, human picture as a
"nice guy (or gal)"; one of the great things about Sayles SFF appearance is
that he seems to be just that.  He answered an hours worth of questions with
no snide remarks, and was totally un-Joe Hollywood.  Would that Joe Dante
had taken lessons from his behavior.

Sayles mentioned that the fellow who played the Brother (I believe his name
was Joe Morton -- a really remarkable performance) starred in the soap
"Another World" for a while -- and around the set, the joke-title for the
movie was "The Brother from Another World"!

                                "Oh, intercourse the penguin!"

					Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
					John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
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