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Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 19:42:36 -0600
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From: Peter Green <peter-green-1@uiowa.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

The recent populist TV version ran Chabrol pretty close.

PMG


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