js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag) (01/15/85)
While vegetating early one Saturday afternoon, I found on the tube a movie
which I think they had titled: "Witches Brew". It was the second movie I've
seen based on Fritz Lieber's "Conjure Wife". I checked out the credits at the
end of the movie thoroughly, and while they listed a couple of 'writers', they
gave Fritz absolutely no credit. How can they get away with this?
In case some of you haven't seen this book (WARNING: SEMI-SPOILER
APPROACHING!!), it's about an anthropology professor who accidently discovers
something which ALL women have been keeping secret from men since the dawn of
time: they're all witches. Once you've gotten over accepting this improbable
premise (I was trained in this at an early age.), it's a good read, about as
good as most of Fritz's stuff.
--
Jeff Sonntag
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"Aye, Captain, and at warp 11 we're going nowhere mighty fast!"ecl@ahuta.UUCP (e.leeper) (01/15/85)
REFERENCES: <517@mhuxt.UUCP> > While vegetating early one Saturday afternoon, I found on the tube a movie > which I think they had titled: "Witches Brew". It was the second movie I've > seen based on Fritz Lieber's "Conjure Wife". I checked out the credits at the > end of the movie thoroughly, and while they listed a couple of 'writers', they > gave Fritz absolutely no credit. How can they get away with this? Nope, the third movie--don't forget WEIRD WOMAN (1944). My suspicion is that Leiber was paid but asked to have his name kept off the credits. Of course, since the thing has run only on cable (as far as I can tell), they may not have paid him. If so, I'm sure the lawyers are hacking it out now. WITCHES' BREW is an okay film as a parody of BURN WITCH BURN (I haven't seen WEIRD WOMAN--it seems to be semi-lost), but it you haven't seen BURN WITCH BURN or read CONJURE WIFE, skip it. Evelyn C. Leeper ...{ihnp4, houxm, hocsj}!ahuta!ecl