Adaptations Where the Source Material is Ignored....for the Better

Diff’rent strokes, indeed. I hated the original movie version of Tootsie, and I hate pretty much all the characters, except Teri Garr’s. I’d avoid the musical if I thought it was anything like the movie.

My bolding. Exactly. The bomb was inside the Depository. The gold would be radioactive fallout, not irradiated bricks.

That line always bugged me. Radioactive? What the hell does that mean? We talking half-life, safe level, not even background, what?