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Re: Video Biographies
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Mimi Ezust <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 14 Jul 2000 19:17:51 -0400
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Renato Vinicius wrote:

>'Death in Venice': a masterpiece of L. Visconti on the masterpiece of
>Thomas Mann; Aschenbach was inspired on Mahler.

Slight correction.  While the movie is a masterpiece, and Mann's story
is a masterpiece, and the music of Mahler used in the soundtrack is a
masterpiece, the story HAD NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH THE LIFE OF
MAHLER, AND I'm SHOUTING BECAUSE IT DISTURBS ME that people keep making
that assumption.

Grrrrr.

Mimi Ezust <[log in to unmask]>

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