Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site nbires.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!ut-sally!nbires!jsc From: jsc@nbires.UUCP (Steven Carnes) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: never cry wolf - correction Message-ID: <277@nbires.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 11:14:39 EST Article-I.D.: nbires.277 Posted: Thu Feb 9 11:14:39 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 07:16:13 EST Organization: NBI, Boulder Lines: 15 one person says the movie is set in Antarctica; wrong. another says Alaska. wrong again If you've ever read the book (very funny, quite touching at times), you'd know that it is set in the Barrens area of Canada, north and west of Churchill. As a postscript, I'd always thought that the book was very truthful, and that Farley Mowat must be universally thought well of. Hah. In a recent interview, he said that not only was he not alone on the trip, but he had his wife with him. In fact, he was fired from the job because of alleged improprieties, such as flying his wife at government expense in order to do some shopping. Also, many Canadians feel him to be quite a pain in the ass. Still, it's an outrageous book and well worth an evening.