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#115804 - 11/13/03 12:56 PM Speaking of the OED,
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lower upstate New York 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?
#115805 - 11/13/03 01:41 PM Re: Speaking of the OED,
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London, UK 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.
#115806 - 11/13/03 01:45 PM Re: Speaking of the OED!
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lower upstate New York Nah, shanks. That bit would only be referred to occasionally, as comic relief.
#115807 - 11/14/03 01:25 PM Re: Speaking of the OED!
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Louisville, Kentucky My memory () of the book tells me he cut it off. So therefore, wouldn't he be comic sans?
#115808 - 11/14/03 01:48 PM Re: Speaking of the OED!
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Vermont and who's the straight man?
formerly known as etaoin...
#115809 - 11/20/03 01:27 PM Re: Speaking of the OED!
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#115810 - 11/20/03 04:08 PM Damn!
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lower upstate New York I want a straight [sic] answer
tsuwm, you who have an inside track to said dictionary, help me out here.
#115811 - 11/20/03 04:29 PM Re: Damn!
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this too shall pass 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
#115812 - 11/20/03 04:35 PM Re: Damn!
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Posts: 13,803 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)
#115813 - 11/20/03 04:39 PM movie futures, or moron the movie
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this too shall pass
#115814 - 11/20/03 05:14 PM Re: movie futures, or moron the movie
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Posts: 13,803 They's plenty 2001 references to it. It seems to have since fallen off the face of cyberspace.
#115815 - 11/20/03 08:44 PM my people will call your people..
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this too shall pass 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]
#115816 - 11/20/03 08:49 PM Re: my people will call your people..
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Te Ika a Maui And that's what I like about this place - the quality of the name-dropping. :)
#115817 - 11/21/03 12:08 PM Re: my people will call your people..
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Posts: 13,803 the quality of the name-dropping
Not to mention reporting that one has asked Jesse Sheidlower if he knows anything.
#115818 - 11/21/03 12:49 PM Re: my people will call your people..
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Louisville, Kentucky 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
#115819 - 11/21/03 03:29 PM Quality
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lower upstate New York 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?
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