Cross-purposes purposefully crossed (was Does TRP watch TV? (was: First Leni...))

[davemarc]

At 08:39 PM 7/19/96 +0200, hag wrote:
>davemarc, too generous to remember yesterrday's salad, sez:
>
>> This well-received Goldie Hawn vehicle (featuring Michael "Billy Pilgrim"
>> Sacks and Ben Johnson) is on a double bill--not with THE BLUE LIGHT (so
>> similar to those atop SUGARLAND EXPRESS's police vehicles) or TRIUMPH OF THE
>> WILL (so similar that the similarity need not be commented upon) or even
>> WOODSTOCK (that unforgettable tribute to statist militarism), but (much more
>> puzzlingly) with director Peter Bogdanovich's cut of THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
>> (1971), which also featured Johnson. 
>
>Makes you think, doesn't it?
>
>Ok - question: In the Vineland Papers ___ (forgot his name) sez that 
>TRP employs researchers. So when Andrew mentioned recently that he 
>doesn't watch any TV I thought what if TRP doesn't either? Maybe his 
>Vineland rendition of pop culture is based on serious research rather 
>than hours in front of the tube? Wouldn't this be more in tune with 
>the Pynchon of GR and before?
>
Talk about food for thought!

Goldie Hawn won an Oscar for her role in CACTUS FLOWER (1969).  Both Ben
Johnson and Cloris Leachman won Oscars for their performances in THE LAST
PICTURE SHOW (1971).  Leni Riefenstahl has not won an Oscar (yet), but she
did receive a tribute (and a share of booing and hissing) at the Telluride
Film Festival in 1974--the same year that Steven Spielberg made his
cinematic debut with THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS, the Pulitzer Prize committee
blew off Thomas Pynchon, and Professor Irwin Corey accepted the National
Book Award on behalf of the elusive author.  Spielberg won an Oscar for
SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993).  Hawn, Johnson, Leachman, Riefenstahl, Spielberg,
and Corey have all appeared on television.  Pynchon has not--at least not
"officially"--but he is widely thought to have developed a strong bond
(perhaps through reruns) with THE BRADY BUNCH, which originally ran on ABC
from September 1969 through August (you guessed it) 1974. No cast member of
THE BRADY BUNCH has won an Oscar (yet).  Nor have Corey (yet) and Pynchon
(yet)--at least not "officially."  

So now we can see how everything inter-relates. Pynchon, Riefenstahl,
Spielberg, Hawn, Corey, Johnson, Leachman, Henderson, Reed, McCormick,
Plumb, and even Ann B. Davis:  all interlinked by the Tube.

davemarc