Norman Schwartz on Amadeus: >I sense a much greater accuracy than just the "time period". We know from >WAM's letters that he did make numerous scatological comments and leaned in >the direction of obscenity. From a modern point of view, yes. From the point of view of the 18th-century, he was no more crude or obscene than most people in court circles. He learned his manners, in short, from the aristocracy, not from the evangelical middle class. >He was also browbeaten by his father, who was always giving him direction, >and to whom he would continuously have attempt to justify his actions. >Leopold strenuously objected to his marriage to Constanze and the Weber >matriarch. He was so browbeaten by his father that he gave up the violin AND married Constanze, both over his father's strenuous objections. >... A comparison, or mentioning Amadeus in the same sentence with "Dumb >and Dumber" has got to be the dumbest! Well, I never claimed to be smart. And, just to stir the waters a little, I also hated Shakespeare in Love, for much the same reasons. Steve Schwartz