what ever happened to the film version of Winchester's The Professor and the Madman? It was supposed to be released in 2001; I haven't heard a thing since, and googling has proved unsatisfactory.
Anyone know anything?
And someone wants to film a man turning his penis into an elongated misshaped thing through compulsive masturbation, whilst fantasising about etymologies? I can see that this will be the new Titanic.
Nah, shanks. That bit would only be referred to occasionally, as comic relief.
My memory (
) of the book tells me he cut it off. So therefore, wouldn't he be comic sans?
and who's the straight man?
Well, not him, obviously!
I want a straight [sic] answer
tsuwm, you who have an inside track to said dictionary, help me out here.
okay, okay -- I'll send a query to Jesse.
in the meantime, here's a chat with Winchester wherein he mentions the movie rights.
http://snurl.com/32yp
I love this line from the Chat:
The two crucial sources were the previously secret files at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum in England, and St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington D.C. Plus a lot of U.S. Army records, Civil War records, and the amazing archives at Oxford University Press (which preserve such things as the tail of a mouse found among the dictionary slips -- and filed under the letter T, not M, a matter that offended some linguistic pedants).
(Italics mine)
They's plenty 2001 references to it. It seems to have since fallen off the face of cyberspace.
Jesse's response:
> "What ever happened to the film version of Winchester's The Professor
> and the Madman? It was supposed to be released in 2001."
>
> Do you know anything?
No; it's "on hold", or whatever the movie term is. Don't know when or if it will be coming out.
Best,
Jesse
[N.Am. editor, OED]
And that's what I like about this place - the quality of the name-dropping. :)
the quality of the name-dropping
Not to mention reporting that one has asked Jesse Sheidlower if he knows anything.
Not to mention reporting that one has asked Jesse Sheidlower if he knows anything. Snort! [fanning self e]
You can read more about who he is here:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/lexicography020627.html
And that's what I like about this place - the quality of the name-dropping. :)*LMAO*, Max!
And thanks, tsuwm. If Jesse (ahem) doesn't know "anything", who do?