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From: jimc@haddock.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Dune
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Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 23:46:41 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 28 23:46:41 1984
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Nf-From: haddock!jimc    Nov 27 18:09:00 1984

I thank you, one and all, for submitting some great mail to me 
in response to my inquiry on Dune.  I can tell many of you have
both a very social attitude as well as a sense of humor.

I received one very informative response from one who works in
my company's headquarters, in Santa Monica, California.  Thank you
again, Steven.  Here is his message:


Date: 16 Nov 1984 1719-PST
From: Steven Mau
Sender: steven at ISM70
Subject: Re: Dune
To: jimc
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 Don't get your hopes up over Dune. The Los Angeles Times reported that
 recruited audience screenings of the film were very unenthusiastic.
 Supposedly the film is uninvolving. Esquire had a short column on the
 inside word on the Christmas releases a few issues back and reported (at
 that time) that there was absolutely no word on the Hollywood grapevine
 about the film, usually a sign that the film is in trouble. From Variety
 I've noted that Universal had to go to the trouble to schedule
 exhibitor screenings on November 9 for theatre owners, a sure sign to me
 that these rumors about the quality of the film are somewhat accurate.

 But all rumor and innuendo aside, here it is:

 DUNE

 Kyle MacLachlan (newcomer) is Paul
 Jurgen Prochnow (Das Boot) is Duke Leto
 Francesca Annis (Krull) is Lady Jessica
 Kenneth McMillan (Ragtime) is Baron Harkonnen
 Sean Young (Blade Runner) is Chani
 Linda Hunt is Shadout Mapes
 Max Von Sydow is Dr. Kynes
 Paul Smith (Midnight Express) is Beast Rabban
 Dean Stockwell is Dr. Yueh
 Patrick Stewart is Gurney Halleck
 Freddie Jones (Firefox) is Thufir Hawat

 Photography by Freddie Francis (Lawrence of Arabia)
 Production Design by Anthony Masters (art director, 2001)
 Editing by Antony Gibbs
 Visual Effects by Kit West (Raiders) and Carlo Rambaldi (Alien)
 Music by Toto (and a piece by Brian Eno also included)

 Produced by Rafaella DeLaurentiis
 Written and Directed by David Lynch (Eraserhead and The Elephant Man)

 From Universal Pictures. Opens December 14th.

 Check out the children's section of your local bookstore. It should
 have The Dune Storybook and The Dune Activity Book, both with pictures
 from the movie.
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					Jim Campbell
					INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation
					Boston