QUOTE(CharlotteWebb @ Wed 1st September 2010, 9:38pm)
QUOTE(Daily Mail article)
The rules of its licence mean it can only be performed once outside the West End each year, allowing for the identity of the murderer to stay secret.
These terms seem to ensure I'll live the rest of my life without seeing a performance of this play or
any film adaptation thereof. How many royalties could they possibly be losing?
In other news, check out the earliest edits to
The Crying Game, circa Sept. 2001. This came up on the mailing list in the last big argument about "spoilers".
"I see dead people...." They don't know they're dead. Some of them are editing wikipedia.... (IMG:
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The Sixth Sense film is a case where you have to see it again even after you've seen it once. Spoilers remove only part of the fun.
I saw
The Mousetrap in London in 1977, and it had been running for many years before that. I'd see it again today, as that was so long ago I don't remember a damned thing about it, except that it had an O. Henry style ending. Which don't tell me, as I may be in London some time again before I die (you see, I'm not yet sick of it (IMG:
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