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Paul DiFilippo wrote:
> 
> caught "Men In Black" last week and
> recommend it highly as a rare SF film with some thought and wit
> behind it.  And of course could not help thinking of TRP
> throughout, esp. when Tommy Lee Jones is trying to extract
> important info from a talking dog.  

reminds me--saw buckaroo bonzai for the first time (!) a week ago and
was most impressed. also, was intrigued by yoyodine propulsion
laboratories and certain aspects of plot and character (he's a jet-car
driver, quantum physicist, comic book hero, video game eponym, surgeon,
rock star, etc)--which begged the question: is the fellow who penned the
screenplay, something Rauch (which means smoke in german, and think of
all the german names in V.) a huge pynchon fan, a pynchon pal, or trp
himself? searched for hours online and found lots of camp-trash
movie-worship, but no mention of trp. any puzzle pieces in your hand? as
a tangent, do you know if pynchon invented yoyodine (which i've heard is
a pseudonym for boeing-sp?-or some such, where he worked before becoming
the great invisible genius-savior of fiction)?
ray

afterthought (forethought?): men in black is definitely worth the 5
bucks i paid to see it (5 bucks is now a matinee price, damnit!)