Re: Stuff of the Year - a personal choice.

On 5 Dec, 07:27, nog <m...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 14:28:24 +0900, Frank A Muller wrote:
That reminds me of an Alan Alda film in which he plays a novellist whose book is
being turned into a movie. Towards the end, he complains that the only word left
in the script from his original novel was the word "the".

Is that the one where his recreational women all give themselves away by
using his method of de-heading lettuce?

Yes, indeed.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092035/

The review slams it but I remember it being pretty good fun.

J.
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