Strange Journeys

[LBernier at tribune.com]

     Uh, not that this has ANYTHING to do with Pynchon, but . . .
     
     What is the deal with this "Trainspotting" thing?  I saw a book with 
     that title, I've seen the mentions of the film here on the list, and 
     this weekend, I was thumbing through "Rolling Stone" magazine 
     (definitely no longer worth the $3 investment) and saw a huge ad 
     saying "Coming to America . . . Trainspotting."  I couldn't tell if it 
     was advertising a movie, or some hagged up american version of the 
     movie (like what they did to Ab-Fab) but what it really looked like 
     was some 90's cinematic version of the Young Ones; one of the guys in 
     the ad is a dead ringer for Rik Mayall.  A-and didn't THOSE guys 
     already do some toilet thing way back in the 80's anyway?
     
     Huh?
     
     Jean.


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Subject: Strange Journeys
Author:  "Steven Maas (CUTR)" <maas at cutr.eng.usf.edu> at Internet_tco
Date:    7/1/96 8:31 AM


To return to a thread of a week or two ago. . .I don't recall any mention 
of this film. 
     
Just saw previews of a British film called "Trainspotting" or something 
similar.  The movie looked only moderately interesting, until a scene 
where one character made a journey down a toilet to a large body of water 
and back.  I don't know anything else about it.