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To: Erasmus
I think this flick was the inspiration for “Casablanca.”

I thought you were crazy so I looked it up on TCM. You are sane.

It took no less than six writers to transform Murray Burnett and Joan Alison's un-produced play 'Everybody Comes to Rick' into Casablanca, taking a conventional exotic romance (patterned after Algiers (1938) and Only Angels Have Wings, 1939) and investing it with a subtle, richly-textured brand of drama all its own.

8 posted on 07/20/2008 7:24:44 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson (For events that occurred in 1938, real time is 1938, not 2008.)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
I thought you were crazy so I looked it up on TCM. You are sane.

Don't be too quick on the trigger regarding that last part there.

<}B^)

9 posted on 07/20/2008 7:55:55 AM PDT by Erasmus (I invited Benoit Mandelbrot to the Shoreline Grill, but he never quite made it.)
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