[log in to unmask] writes: >It's such a mystery, not Mozart's death, but how two such European artists >as Forman and the playwright Peter Shaffer could produce this convoluted, >contrived, overblown Hollywood "spectacle." I don't know how much Shaffer had to do with the film, but his original play was on a different level altogether, serious and thought provoking, especially with Paul Scofield as Salieri and Simon Callow as Mozart. I saw it three times. Paul Silverthorne