Re. the Buckaroo Banzai writer

[Vaska Andjelkovic]

Thanks to everyone who's taken the trouble to look up Earl Mac Rauch -- lazy
of me not to have done so myself.  

A little bit of mystery remains, however.  Here's some interesting
chronology plus a movie-novel allusion that goes both ways: _The Adventures
of Buckaroo Banzai_ was released in 1984; _Vineland_ came out in 1990. The
movie opens with the following bit of text, scrolling down the screen:

Buckaroo Banzai, born to an American mother and a Japanese father, thus
began life as he was destined to live it . . . going in several directions
at once.  A brilliant neurosurgeon, this restless young man grew quickly
dissatisfied with a life devoted solely to medicine.  He roamed the planet
studying martial arts and particle physics, collecting around him a most
eccentric group of friends, those hard-rocking scientists, the Hong Kong
Cavaliers. 

Never mind the martial arts bit; it's "those hard-rocking scientists, the
Hong Kong Cavaliers" that still keep me wondering.  Because right there on
page 78 of the Little, Brown hard-cover edition of _Vineland_ there is a
passing reference "to the music of Eddie Enrico and his Hong Kong Hotshots."

Even for a "kute koincidence," it's a bit much.  Any further thoughts on
this, anyone?  I just hope I'm not succumbing to a Pynchon-induced episode
of readerly paranoia. . . . 

Vaska 
vaska at geocities.com