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"Salem's Lot" had already been ruined in the late 1970s as a TV mini-series, directed by Tobe Hooper (he of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" fame) and was badly handled, turning the major villain of the book into a "Chiller Theatre" vampire with no real menace at all thus destroying the entire premise.

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And I hope you'll come with me on my basic premise that words matter, that they shape the way we understand ourselves, the way we interpret the world and the way we treat others.

You know, it basically uses as its central premise Greek mythology.

And it's based on the premise that there are certain things that are easy for people, but really difficult for computers.

Now as seductive as the idea of control sounds, it's a false premise.

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