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Re: Movie titles that didn't sell
Posted By: BurgerKing, on host 131.162.5.30
Date: Thursday, September 14, 2000, at 05:41:49
In Reply To: Book titles that didn't sell posted by Howard on Wednesday, September 13, 2000, at 18:20:11:

> I think I tried to do this from memory some time ago and my memory failed. Then I found a copy in some old files.
>
> Book titles that didn't sell
> Sometimes the original title of a book isn't good enough, and the publisher suggests to the author that a different title would make the book sell better. What famous books *might* have started out with the following titles?
>
> Little House on the Plains
> Around the World in Eleven Weeks and Three Days
> The Asparagus is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank
> Jonathan L. Seagull
> Gone with the Breeze
> The Magician of Oz
> Moby Richard
> Murder on the Orient Train
> A Farewell to Weapons
> A Trolly Named Desire
> Landing Field
> Up the Down Steps
> Grapes of Anger
> 20,000 Leagues Underwater
> Death of a Salesperson
> Hot Tin Roof with a Cat on It
> Bury My Heart at Wounded Leg
> Half-a-Minute over Toyko
> To Eternity from Here
> The Old Man and the Ocean
> Raisins of Wrath
> Who's Afraid of Mrs. Wolfe?
> How Green Was My Pasture
> (Sometimes I confuse movie, book, and play titles.)
> Howard

Hehehe. How about some movie titles, then?

Saving Private Müller
Canadian Beauty
Good Andrew Hunting
Sir Francis Bacon in Love
Apocalypse Soon
The Fifth Sense
Placid Bull
Mr. Smith Goes to Moscow
The Undergraduate
The Matrices
It's an Adequate Life

Well, that's all I can think of now.

Burger"Moby Richard...hehe."King

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