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From: jeff@ISM780.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: long version of 'Dune'
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Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 01:07:34 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 16 01:07:34 1985
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Nf-From: ISM780!jeff    Jan 14 15:54:00 1985

> Here's a direct quote from an interview with Frank Herbert (in the LA
> Weekly) concerning the long version of "Dune":
> "The only way the movie could have been made was if they spent
> megabucks on it...."

Um, isn't a megabuck $1,000,000?  Didn't it come in at $46,000,000?
Just checking for more entries to the "list of words that don't mean
anything anymore": "superstar", "megabuck", "bestseller".