PYNCHON IN PULSE

[David Denomme & Jamie Lupton]

At 20:49 96/06/03 +0200, Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt wrote:

>That was The Commitments - and a very good little flick it was, too. 
>(I remember the band's manager motivating his band, and his choice of 
>Soul, something like this: "The working class are the niggers of 
>society and the Irish are the niggers of Europe, so say it out loud, 
>I'm black and I'm proud") The guy who played the lead was in the news 
>recently for making rude gestures (vomiting, etc.) at the cameras while 
>Michael Jackson was performing 'Earthsong' on stage.
>
It was a very good little film, and anyone making rude gestures at MJ is OK
in my book.  But for the record, I don't think the "n-word" was used in the
film -- my recollection is that the passage goes "the Irish are the blacks
of Europe, the Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland", u.s.w.  One wouldn't
want politically incorrect nastiness attributed to Roddy Doyle, now, would one?

DLD