A Pynchon on the Tube

[hankhank at ccwf.cc.utexas.edu]

On Thu, 19 Sep 1996 LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU wrote:

> As someone posted earlier, there's a new sitcom this season, PEARL, which
> features a character named "Pynchon."
> 
> Not much relationship to Our Hero.  This P is one *Stephen* Pynchon, an
> arrogant Humanities (!) professor, played by Malcolm MacDowell, squaring
> off against a "non-traditional" working-class student, played by Rhea Perleman.

And one of the heroine's fellow students is named Mr "Spivak".

Heikki