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>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