Remake

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Special thanks to Scott Kippen and Sheryl Beck and all the rest of the UNC Sigma Tau Deltans

and to my daughter Cordelia and her statistics classes

and to my secretary Laura Norton

all of whom helped come up with chase scenes, tears, happy endings, and all the other movie references.

I saw her again tonight. I wasn’t looking for her. It was an early Spielberg liveaction, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, a cross between a shoot-’em-up and a VR ride and the last place you’d expect tap shoes, and it was too late. The musical had kicked off, as Michael Caine so eloquently put it, in 1965.

This liveaction was made in ’84, at the very beginning of the computer graphics revolution, and it had a few CG sections: digitized Thugees being thrown off a cliff and a pathetically clunky morph of a heart being torn out. It also had a Ford Tri-Motor plane, which was what I was looking for when I found her.

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