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[ralph beliveau]

Re: your list. Thought you should know that Mr. Pleasence is no longer 
among the living...just in case you hadn't heard.
-Ralph Beliveau 

On Fri, 3 Feb 1995, Marshall Joseph Armintor wrote:

> 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
>