Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hou2h.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!hou2h!hhs From: hhs@hou2h.UUCP (H.SHARP) Newsgroups: net.women,net.movies Subject: _The Color Purple_ (The Movie) Message-ID: <986@hou2h.UUCP> Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 20:02:34 EDT Article-I.D.: hou2h.986 Posted: Wed Jul 17 20:02:34 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 20:33:00 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 5 Xref: watmath net.women:6465 net.movies:7074 I have read that Steven Spielberg is producing a movie version of Alice Walker's _The Color Purple_. I read this in the Washington Post. Has anyone got any information on this? And why Spielberg?