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Subject: Re: Flowers for Algernon
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Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 08:08:17 EST
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[Hi, Leah!]

> >About five years ago a town in Arkansas banned the novelization of "Flowers
> >for Algernon"...

> 	"Flowers for Algernon" wasn't a novelization.  That is, the movie,
> "Charley," was made from the book, not vice versa.
> 	That seems odd today, but it really used to happen!

Well, the novel *was* a novelization of the short story (novelette, novella,
whatever) "Flowers for Algernon," though, as Leah points out, *not* a
novelization of the film CHARLY.  (Note spelling, please.)

					Evelyn C. Leeper
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