Re: can you answer CHICAGO question?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 Mike Kohary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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.

And he's preventing the original from being made available.  That's 
another significant difference between Star Wars and SIASL.  The uncut 
SIASL didn't displace the original published version.  But Lucas is 
determined that his new and improved version be the only one available.

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