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? 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 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@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: 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(a)siconic.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Don't rub the lamp if you don't want the genie to come out. Coming this October 2-3: Vintage Computer Festival 3.0! See http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details! [Last web site update: 05/25/99]