[bnalexan at umich.edu: Re: The Phone Company]

[Paul DiFilippo]

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    From: bnalexan at umich.edu ("Bryan A. Alexander")
    To: ubik at netcom.com (Not Insane)
    Cc: pkd-list at wang.com
    Subject: Re: The Phone Company
    Date: Fri, 11 Aug

    
    THE PRESIDENT'S ANALYST (1967) is indeed a fine film.  It begins with a 
    pompous warning that the movie's fictitious agencies, the FBR and the 
    CEA, are not to be taken as slurs upon the fine reputations of any extant 
    government agencies.  Coburn gets recruited tobe the executive shrink by 
    a demented CEA agent.  But he can't handle the pressure, so he runs away, 
    pursued by an ever more ludicrous set of enemies.  Definitely worth seeing.
    
    
    
    Bryan Alexander
    Department of English
    University of Michigan
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    On Fri, 11 Aug 1995, Not Insane wrote:
    
    > >IMO, another device that I'm *conciously* aware of promoting more use of itself
    > >is the very Net that we're using right now. Doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad
    > > thing....or does it ?  Do networks serve us, or is it the other way round?
    > > Paranoid ? moi ?
    > > 
    > > Waiting for a big phone bill, and wishing I owned a piece of the phone co.,
    > > 
    > >         Robin
    > > 
    > > ps - I suddenly remember a movie on tv years ago where it turned out that
    > > TTC (The Telephone Company) was the controlling villain of the piece.
    > > Anyone remember?
    > > ----Robin Beckford
    >  
    >  
    >  
    >   The one you are thinking of is the President's Analyst, starring James
    > Coburn.  Quite the Dickian moment when they discover that The Phone Company
    > is not only behind all the Machiavellian manuevering, but also that its
    > representitives aren't even human.  Well worth the viewing for Coburn at his
    > least Flint-like.
    > 
    > K.Z.Anderson
    > 
    > 
    > 
    
    

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