RoR: Forum

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Monday, January 15, 2007 - 9:48am

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Here's the missing link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/14/movies/14brow.html?_r=1&em&ex=1168837200&en=ad1a9d5a84cd8c60&ei=5087%0A&oref=slogin

All tremendously interesting, especially this nugget, news to me:

She vowed that Warner Brothers would not be permitted to adapt Atlas unless the studio recut The Fountainhead, returning the edited line to its rightful place, said her biographer Jeff Britting.

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Monday, January 15, 2007 - 11:59am

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The fact that Randall Wallace is writing the screenplay is terrific. Hopefully it will come off as well as Braveheart!

Jim

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Monday, January 15, 2007 - 12:46pm

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TWO hours?????? sorry, am VERY skeptical.......... PERHAPS three and half - even the truncated Fountainhead was two and half.......

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Monday, January 15, 2007 - 12:53pm

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Robert M,

If they are planning what they said they were planning at TOC's Summer Seminar, it's going to be a trilogy.

Jim

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Monday, January 15, 2007 - 1:12pm

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~ Since we're not talking TV here, maybe by '2-hrs' they meant 'sorta 2-ish hrs' which can allow to 2-hrs/29 mins (not counting credits.)

LLAP
J:D

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Monday, January 15, 2007 - 1:30pm

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From the article:

She vowed that Warner Brothers would not be permitted to adapt Atlas unless the studio recut The Fountainhead, returning the edited line to its rightful place, said her biographer Jeff Britting.

What line got edited? Does anyone have an "is" and "ought" comparison?

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Monday, January 15, 2007 - 1:44pm

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The story is told in Barbara Branden's The Passion of Ayn Rand, where the line is quoted. (But I don't recall anything said about an ultimatum.)

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Monday, January 15, 2007 - 2:16pm

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The line, as I recall, was the last line of Roark's court speech...

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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 - 1:47am

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Though I know that everybody will disagree, here are my personal favorites for the main characters of the "Atlas Shrugged" movie or TV-Series:

Hilary Swank as Dagny Taggart (she�s a woman of great character, else she would not have been selected by Clint Eastwood for "Million Dollar Baby")

Russell Crowe for John Galt (a great actor with a striking face - which is required for a character such as John Galt - and excellent play performance, though I deeply hate his manners and behavior)

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Wednesday, January 17, 2007 - 8:21pm

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I hated the sneering tone of this article. Ruddy comes across as a complete prat.

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Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 9:15am

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That's because that is exactly what Ruddy is. I found him to be a self-inflated, self-serving jerk whose every anecdote had himself as a hero.

When we met, his condescending attitude toward Rand bothered me, and I had zero confidence in the accuracy of his stories about her -- especially when I found him to be two-faced and duplicitous about other matters.

In the absence of comments by the current producers, the reporter found an easy interview in Ruddy, because he tends to be quotable. But the fact is that Ruddy has absolutely nothing to do with the current production, and in fact knows NOTHING about what's going on with it. That alone renders all his commentary worthless.

If you simply delete all passages about Ruddy from the piece, you get a better sense about what's been going on.

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Friday, January 19, 2007 - 12:42am

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     Uh-h, yes Robert; but, other than that, what was wrong with this negatively-biased article by a purposefully ignorant anti-Rand narcissist? I mean, within his self-limited framework he was 'fair', right?

     Ok; joking aside, we know that many more arrows from the blind-and-deaf-who-demand-the-'right'-to-stay-blind-and-deaf (and demand that others compensate them for it, literally as well as metaphorically), will...

     Well, as Johnny Carson's show use to say... (who's not aware of that saying?)

LLAP
J:D

(Edited by John Dailey on 1/19, 1:31am)