From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: jimgysin@geemail.com   
   Subject: Re: Happy 30th Anniversary ST:TMP! - your memories?   
      
      
   Wickeddoll sent the following on 12/11/2009 5:13 PM:   
   > Jim Gysin wrote:   
   >> rikp@aol.com sent the following on 12/9/2009 5:16 PM:   
   >>>>> Nowadays with all of the spoiler sites online, they'd not only know   
   >>>>> where Spock was, but they would know how much he was making for doing   
   >>>>> the movie, and they would know about any and all demands for script   
   >>>>> changes.  And a whole lot more.  :)   
   >>> My favorite horror blogger asked Rob Zombie this question: "there's so   
   >>> much minutiae, you know, like "Rob Zombie ate a banana on the   
   >>> Halloween set today and we've got photos!", and I'm wondering if it's   
   >>> frustrating to you as a filmmaker, to have your every move   
   >>> scrutinized."  His answer was that people shouldn't be surprised that   
   >>> they're not surprised at a movie when they've read the script, how we   
   >>> used to go into movies knowing little or nothing about them -- like I   
   >>> posted above in my ST:TMP memory, though I know that even then some   
   >>> Trek fans had read the ST:TMP script way in advance.  I intentionally   
   >>> kept as much Trek-2009 away from myself as possible before its   
   >>> release, for a variety of reasons.   
   >> I have no interest in searching for spoilers for *anything*, and I'm    
   >> perfectly happy to go into a show or a movie relatively clueless about    
   >> anything beyond a vague plot outline and the usual thumbs up/down    
   >> scuttlebutt from the likes of Rotten Tomatoes.  To me, it's *much* more    
   >> fun to learn things in the context of the viewing experience itself, not    
   >> in an online article weeks or months ahead of time.   
   >>   
   > AMEN!   
   >    
   > No writeup will be totally objective, so the comments will taint your    
   > opinion, whether intentionally or not.   
      
   Yep.  And I really don't care what the stars do with their free time as    
   long as it's not over-the-top illegal or some such thing, so the rags    
   and TMZs of the world would go broke if they had to rely on me.   
      
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   Jim Gysin   
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