Don Satz asks me:

>I found Amadeus much better than the recent movie about Beethoven which
>I thought was paced poorly and was simply a bad movie.  I couldn't even
>sit through the whole thing.  Steve, what did you think of that film?

In general, I agree.  As a movie, it was worse than Amadeus.  But not
any sillier.  Yet, there was one delicious moment when Beethoven's nephew
starts quoting the theme of the Ninth's choral finale as proof that the old
man was going around the bend.

As long as I'm confessing, I must say I found Shakespeare in Love
unwatchable as well.  Since I think Stoppard the current best playwright in
English (not that I know that many), I was disappointed.  Perhaps I should
give it another chance.  It occurs to me that Stoppard is trying to produce
a modern equivalent of Twelfth Night.

Steve Schwartz, eager to catch Mystery Men and American Beauty