Just for the hell of it, I watched the first couple minutes of the workprint, followed by the first couple minutes of the Miramax cut. Going from that haunting opening narration of the original to Broderick's shooting star narration made me want to kill myself. Those bastards at Miramax are evil. Why, why would they dumb down the narration like that? Freagin' christ. BTW, looks good so far--and it looks like your copy of the workprint is better than the one that oldskool upped at myspleen--a big thank you to him for making that available. One nitpick--in that first shot of the hands around the ball, is there any way to remove the fuzzy black around the workprint part of the screen and replace it with the clean black background? But I have to say, I'm really impressed at how cleanly you combined the shooting stars from the new release with the shot in the workprint. Nice work.

But no more Matthew Broderick man--that blew bigtime. I don't think I can watch anymore of the Miramax cut.

Edit: I read the following in Summer's article from the Eddie Bowers page:

Williams’ son said his father is retired and living on an island off the west coast of Canada...He refuses to speak to anyone about Arabian Knight.

I can't even imagine how the poor bastard dealt with what happened. It'd be nice if somebody in the know could forward a copy of the restoration to him. Might keep him away from the guns and the bottles of pills.