At 10:03 AM 6/22/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Sellam doesn't like the movie because he's an early Apple devotee, and the
>movie portrays Steve Jobs as an acid-dropping, drug-pushing, commune-living,
>personal-conviction-abandoning, illegitimate-daughter-fathering,
>beyond-workaholic, universally-disliked-yet-adored, employee-abusing,
>god-complex-nurturing, business-disrupting idiot whom one expects to have
>his employees drink hemlock-laden Kool-Aid at any moment.
>
>Oh, and Wozniak is portrayed as a small, fuzzy bunny.
>
>Does that about sum it up?
ROFL! Yeap! Except that you forgot to mention Bill Gates as the shyster!
Joe
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>Kai
>
>
>p.s. the Microsoft contingent gets off rather lightly by comparison, with
>Bill Gates shown as merely a shrewd, somewhat ruthless, absent-minded
>businessman with personal hygiene issues. Paul Allen is indistinguishable
>from Wozniak in the film, just standing in the background of shots, and has
>about 30 seconds of screen time. Steve Ballmer, however, is played by
>Krusty the Klown from the Simpsons.
>
> -----Original Message-----
>From: Sellam Ismail [mailto:dastar_at_ncal.verio.com]
>Sent: Monday, June 21, 1999 11:33 PM
>To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
>Subject: Re: That awful show on TNT
>
>On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Tony Duell wrote:
>
>> > I'm virtually apoplectic about this garbage that some of you may watched
>> > tonight on TV (I certainly did NOT watch it).
>>
>> For the benefit of those of us who don't get American TV, could you
>> please explain what this programme (show?) was and what it got wrong?
>
>Its a "story" (fictional) about the early days of Apple vs. Microsoft. I
>don't even want to talk about it really. Just know it was horrible in
>every way possible.
>
>If anyone dares to pipe up and say they actually liked it I swear to you I
>will unleash such a torrent of rage upon thee so please don't. Keep it to
>yourself for your own good.
>
>Sellam Alternate e-mail:
>dastar_at_siconic.com
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Received on Tue Jun 22 1999 - 14:10:27 BST