On Sun, 09 Dec 2012 19:45:11 -0800, Stephen Black wrote:
[Snip]
Mike commented:
On 9 Dec 2012 at 11:33, Mike Palij wrote:
Where Prof.
Black got the idea that Milner was involved is/was a mystery
and
Turns out that the planned film (which as not yet been made)
was to be based on Suzanne Corkin's book on H.M.
First, it seems that Mike is unaware that Brenda Milner was the first
to appreciate the enormous importance of H.M. to neuropsychology and
the first to to initiate systematic study of his staggering memory
impairment (See Scoville and Milner, 1957).
[Snip]
Classic Black. Of course I know Milner's role in all this but the
information given in the popular media was that the movie was
going to focus on Corkin's years with H.M. Again, where Black
got the idea that Milner would be the movie or what role, if any,
she would play is a mystery. Or a product of his imagination.
If Black had looked at the article I linked to on the variety website, he
would have read:
|Studio has completed a deal for screen rights to a memoir that
|just sold to Scribner and which will be written by Dr. Suzanne
|Corkin, the doctor who worked with Molaison for 45 years.
|
|The plan is to develop a film about H.M. as seen through the eyes
|of Corkin, a professor of behavioral neuroscience in the Dept. of
|Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. Columbia and Rudin also
|acquired rights to Philip Hilts' "Memory's Ghost: The Nature of
|Memory and the Strange Tale of Mr. M," a 1996 book written about H.M.
No mention of Milner or any indication of what role she might play
in the film. Depending upon who ultimately writes the screenplay
and directs the movie, Milner may play a minor role or no role at all.
[Snip]
Finally, this nitpick from MIke:
(nor is it clear why he [that's me] though Rudin directed "No
Country for Old Men" when it was the Coen brothers who directed it).
Let the record show that in my old post to which Mike refers:
a) I correctly identified Rudin as the director of the new film on
H.M.
*eyes roll* I'd like to know what evidence Black has for this statement.
Rudin is a PRODUCER not a DIRECTOR as examination of his
IMDB record will attest to; see:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0748784/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Rudin has NEVER directed a movie and all of his future movies on
IMDB has him in the role of producer. The NY Times, using info
from another database, shows that Rudin is the producer and that
other roles have not been filled; see:
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/457686/Untitled-Columbia-Pictures-Scott-Rudin-Memory-Project/credits
b) I correctly identified Rudin as associated with the film "No
Country for Old Men"
c) I never said that Rudin was the director of "No Country for Old
Men".
Black wrote:
|But the director Scott Rudin (No Country for Old Men) is a heavyweight.
So let's see: Black calls Scott Rudin a director (even though he has never
directed any film) and provided the name of a film after his name, which
would invite the inference that the "director Scott Rudin directed the
movie 'No Country for Old Man' ". Since you didn't specify any other
role for Rudin outside of director, what role would Rudin play for the
Coen's brothers film?
So what was MIke going on about?
That, as usual, you don't appear to know what you are talking about.
-Mike Palij
New York University
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