Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 Fluke 8/7/84; site fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!fluke!moriarty From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Brother from Another Planet - Interpretations of the Ending (spoiler!) Message-ID: <97@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 00:34:32 EST Article-I.D.: vax2.97 Posted: Mon Dec 3 00:34:32 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 23:45:19 EST References: <620@houxe.UUCP> Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Everett, WA Lines: 26 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. UUCP: {cornell,decvax,ihnp4,sdcsvax,tektronix,utcsrgv}!uw-beaver \ {allegra,gatech!sb1,hplabs!lbl-csam,decwrl!sun,ssc-vax} -- !fluke!moriarty ARPA: fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA