Yet more casting tips...

Fri Feb 3 01:17:08 CST 1995

Somehow...okay, some real life people that got transplanted into mind-movie
of GR:
   Slothrop = pynchon himself (at least, how he looked at 17...a lot like
              WWI flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker)
   Pirate   = Bryan Brown (F/X, Cocktail, etc.)
   Katje    = that girl who plays Jane on Melrose Place
   Enzian   = Paul Robeson
   Tantivy  = Terry-Thomas
   Bloat    = Ernest Borgnine
   Blicero  = Donald Pleasence
also I tended to cast Tchitcherine's sidekick, Dzaqyp Qulan the teenage Kazakh
dope fiend, as this guy who was in my seminar.  Couldn't place Roger Mexico 
for the life of me....face-wise, I mean.  I'd substitute Prentice's, usually,
since he prefigures Roger at middle age.
just a thought.

marshall