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Re: [DL] Manitou Name



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>> Possibly, I never could stand the Three Musketeers :-)
>> 
> Did you ever read the original (by which I mean an English translation of
> the original French)?  But then it was written in 1845 as a play.
>
> While the 1973 movie was enjoyable and "reasonably" accurate, the Disney
> movie (1993) was total crap (I did enjoy Oliver Platt).  In any event the
> last one can't be used to judge the story and certainly not the book.
>
Was that the one with Gene Kelly, or the one with Michael York? 'Cause one
was good and the other not (and I'm not saying which ;-).

You *could* call the manitou Milady if it's a female manitou -it's a
sinister name even if you don't know its literary implications. Or Richelieu
if it's male... or not *g*.

Daphné
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