[672] in Humor
HUMOR: Lowest common denominator
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Tue Jan 17 12:52:59 1995
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 12:49:46 EST
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 10:28:35 -0500 (EST)
From: Steve Berczuk <berczuk@space.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 95 11:54:57 EST
From: Royce Buehler <buehler@sybil>
In article <Xsamuel-goldwynURae7_5JD@clarinet.com>, C-ap@clarinet.com (AP) writes:
> SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- What do kings and movie sequels have in
> common? Roman numerals, much to producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr.'s
> dismay.
> Goldwyn insisted the numbers be dropped from the title of
> British playwright Alan Bennett's ``The Madness of King George
> III'' before turning it into a movie.
> ``They were frightened that people would think they had missed
> `The Madness of King George' and `The Madness of King George II,'''
> Bennett said in a recent interview.
> In Bennett's story, a stage hit in London and New York, King
> George III has lost both the American colonies and his mind. His
> incapacity leads to conniving for power by Parliament and the
> Prince of Wales.
