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From: padpowell@wateng.UUCP (PAD Powell)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: STAR-LOST
Message-ID: <1857@wateng.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 09:42:46 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 14 09:42:46 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 15-Jan-85 01:34:57 EST
References: <212@topaz.ARPA> <100@uwvax.UUCP> <663@uwmacc.UUCP>
Reply-To: padpowell@wateng.UUCP (PAD Powell)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

In article <663@uwmacc.UUCP> rick@uwmacc.UUCP (Rick Keir) writes:
>In article <100@uwvax.UUCP> derek@uwvax.UUCP (Derek Zahn) writes:
>>Is this that same television show that Harlan Ellison was talked into writing
>>for in Canada...
>	Yes.
>	The show is too bad even to be worth seeing for camp value.
>The production of the TV show (as opposed to the subject of the TV show)
>has also been satirized by Ben Bova, in "The StarCrossed."
>After reading it, one can only assume that Bova didn't get sued for
>libel by those involved because of the fear that a court would rule
>that they were indeed as idiotic as they are portrayed in the novel.
>-- 
>Rick Keir -- MicroComputer Information Center, MACC
>1210 West Dayton St/U Wisconsin Madison/Mad WI 53706
>{allegra, ihnp4, seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!rick

I have been involved with CBC, and other production companies, and when
I read the book, I just about died laughing.  Even the CBC exec's who
read the book enjoyed it.  I think even Harlan ("The Teeth That Talk, The
Jaws That Froth") Ellison enjoyed it.

At least we can laugh at ourselves...

Patrick ("Artistic Merit?  Didn't he used to work for Children's Television
	Workshop?") Powell