[net.movies] long version of 'Dune'

jeff@ISM780.UUCP (01/16/85)

> Here's a direct quote from an interview with Frank Herbert (in the LA
> Weekly) concerning the long version of "Dune":
> "The only way the movie could have been made was if they spent
> megabucks on it...."

Um, isn't a megabuck $1,000,000?  Didn't it come in at $46,000,000?
Just checking for more entries to the "list of words that don't mean
anything anymore": "superstar", "megabuck", "bestseller".