Re: can you answer CHICAGO question?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 Michelle Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>  Mike Kohary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > That's all beside the point.  Dick has it exactly right - if Lucas had
> > originally wanted Greedo to shoot first, he would have done that.
> > Instead, he didn't.  That scene is proof that Lucas is revising
> > post-fact, not revising to complete an original vision.  He came to
> > regret that Han Solo shoots first *later*.
> 
> So, I guess you think that the uncut version of Stranger in a Strange 
> Land shouldn't have been published in the 1990s?

Non sequitur.  Heinlein created an uncut version.  An edited version was 
published.  Thirty odd years later his original version was published.  
In addition to the earlier published edition.

But that's not what Lucas has done.  He's rewriting his work long after 
its original release, changing decisions made at the time.  And now 
wants to declare that his new, kinder and gentler version is the only 
edition anyone should be able to get.

He may have the legal right; I suppose he does.  I still think it stinks.

Oh and by the way, I found the uncut SIASL to be interesting and 
entertaining.  But it's no improvement on the original published 
version.  Editing is often for the best.

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