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Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 17:06:04 -0800
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From: David Lupher <dlupher@ups.edu>
Subject: Re: carbingestion

Janice Siegel wrote:
>Alan Ladd's mother ate rat poison (lye) to off herself. That sort of
>>accomplishes the same thing, doesn't it?

She was obviously imitating Emma Bovary.  As far as I am concerned,
the *only* rewarding moment in the dismal Claude Chabrol film of
this (1991) was when Isabelle Huppert avidly scarfed the rat poison.
She should have shared it all around the set.

David Lupher
Classics Dept.
Univ. of Puget Sound


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