Re: can you answer CHICAGO question?

On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 00:07:33 -0700, 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?
>> 
>> I don't know enough about the book to render a judgement on that.
>
>Does one have to know anything about it?  It was published in 1959 and 
>won the Hugo for best novel of the year.
>
>Some 35 or so later, it was republished, but with material that had been 
>omitted from the original publishing.
>
>That makes it very analogous to the situation with Star Wars.

No it doesn't.  George Lucas created *new* material for Star Wars, not
merely insert old material that didn't make it the first time around.

Mike
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