Just three more: I thought the movie version of “Hannibal” was better than the novel - especially the ending, which, in the book really stretched my credulity. I prefer the movie - but maybe that’s only because it’s the one I encountered first? Who knows what I’d have thought had I read the book beforehand? The movie of “Stardust” was different enough from the Neil Gaiman book that I almost consider them distinct works.

Some people (I’m not among them) think Kubrick’s “Clockwork Orange” was better than the Burgess novel.ĭitto for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” (Milos Forman and Ken Kesey, respectively - but whichever you prefer, Jack Nicholson’s brilliance as Randall Patrick McMurphy is undeniable. Peter Jackson did a fine job with Lord of the Rings (though I realize many disagree, especially w/r/t increasing the significance of the Arwen and Eowyn subplots, and changing how they handled the participation of the Ents).Īnd I thought the movie version of the John Grisham lawyer blockbuster, “The Firm,” was infinitely better than the book - much more clever and “lawyerly” resolution of the central problem.

Rodriguez wrote on his website that the baby was “kidnapped,” and suggested that the state and people involved in the case were engaged in “child trafficking” for profit.Respectfully (really, no snark) disagree. At the time, Meridian Police said medical personnel determined the child was malnourished and had lost weight, but the family maintained the child was healthy and needed to stay with his mother to breastfeed.īundy urged his followers to protest the hospital and at the homes of child protection service workers, law enforcement officers and others involved in the child protection case. The baby was temporarily placed in the care of the state, and returned to his parents after about a week.īundy and Rodriguez said the child was wrongfully taken from a loving family after he began experiencing episodes of vomiting after trying solid foods. The case arose from an incident two months earlier, when Rodriguez’ 10-month-old grandson was temporarily removed from family custody and taken to St.

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