The Tale of Tyrone's dick
Meg Larson
mgl at svsu.edu
Tue Aug 5 09:10:13 CDT 1997
> From: Henry Musikar <gravity at nicom.com>
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: RE: The Tale of Tyrone's dick
> Date: Tuesday, August 05, 1997 1:30 AM
<snipped some stuff about Barth>
Has the list ever ripped into Altman's "The Player"?
> I'll venture a valued extremity and put in my two cents: I think it's
> great. Sure it's slick, self-congratulatory, and perhaps not as
> smart as it as it wants to be, but I like it, yes I do. Altman rocks.
>Would this be the movie based on Michael Tolkin's novel? Yes I
agree--Altman's good, especially when he's in the self-patting-the-back
mode . . .
Tolkin's tale was in good hands, IMHO, and if we're talking about the same
work.
M.
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