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

[Greg Montalbano]

On Fri, 19 Jul 1996 18:27:11 -0400 (EDT) you said:
>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
>
>
Well, hell -- *I'M* convinced.
(you DO have a lot of free time, don't you?)