When it comes to stories created to make money, it is more respectable to pay homage to yarns spun by directors such as Stanley Kubrick or Robert Altman, stories written by Faulkner or Hemmingway or Tolstoy, and music by Bob Dylan or Beethoven than to invest lifetimes of money into films featuring John Saxon or directed by George Lucas, stories written by Danielle Steele or Tom Clancy, and music m