Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!ima!ISM780!jeff From: jeff@ISM780.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: long version of 'Dune' Message-ID: <34@ISM780.UUCP> Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 01:07:34 EST Article-I.D.: ISM780.34 Posted: Wed Jan 16 01:07:34 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 17-Jan-85 04:39:43 EST Lines: 8 Nf-ID: #R:ucla-cs:-314000:ISM780:18000043:000:405 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".