From sun rob and his arkestra Sent Tue, Mar 9th 1999, 15:20
> >"Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned > >to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb," a satire about an American college > >professor who rises to political power. > i'm sorry, but that must be one of the most inaccurate film synopsii i've > ever read. methinks cnn.com snagged this from some comprehensive page about the film, and omitted the rest. apparently this is the early form the story took, when terry southern and kubrick were still hashing it out as more of a terror-drama, but got dropped in favor of the bigwigs and military men when it became a black comedy. props to john baxter's recent "kubrick: a biography" for the info. quite a comprehensive and fascinating book on the man, and on how movies really get made and what one has to go through to impose any sort of artistic vision on them. hmmm...idm content...oh, anybody got an addy for jeff or phillipa at ninja tune? i can't seem to find any old posts from them. i'm curious as to whether we're going to get any new amon tobin material this year. "permutation" is still tops! rob