chabot@miles.DEC (Bits is bits) (05/19/85)
In article <1925@topaz.ARPA> @RUTGERS.ARPA:Margolin.Multics@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA writes: >From: Barry Margolin <Margolin@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA> > > From: mtgzz!leeper@topaz.arpa (m.r.leeper) > Subject: GREAT SF STORIES (1939) > > ... There is > even a reference in the story to a similar story in the film THE MAN > WHO COULD WORK MIRACLES. ... > >Just to set the record straight, the film TMWCWM is based on the short >story of the same name by a relatively unknown author named H.G. Wells. Er, Barmar--you're kidding, right? Remember MIT Lecture Series Committee, and how once in awhile they show "Time After Time"? Remember the protagnist? Didn't everybody who had $4 go see this move when it came out? How about "The Time Machine"--another popular, if older, science fiction movie. See if I believe you next telethon. :-) L S Chabot ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot chabot%amber.dec@decwrl.arpa