Where's Thomas?

[Sherwood, Harrison]

>From: 	Gary L. Thompson
>
>I like this--literary version of Where's Waldo!
>
>So far, several candidates mentioned. I assume that he's still fairly 
>tall, right? And the _New York_ article w/ photo showed some longish 
>hair. That would suggest the guy in the red jacket walking away from the 
>camera (they didn't say they showed his face in the crowd, did they?). 
>
>I don't think CNN could have telegraphed it any more clearly: It's the only
>isolated shot of one individual that matches the physical description, it
>looked like the camera crew had been waiting to ambush its subject, and the
>subject looked like he was about to cross the street to get away: The
>shambling aging hippie in the red gimme cap. I studied hard to dope out the
>artwork on the cap, but my VCR doesn't have much clarity in pause mode. I had
>to give up. I'm guessing a CNN logo.
>
>Kinda snappy dresser, in a ramshackle cazh sort of way.
>
>On reflection this morning, the "Where's Waldo?" portion of the piece had a
>kind of Pythonic "Spot the Loony!" flavor to it: The crowd scenes go by, and
>it's "geek, pseudo, pinkboy, housefrau, poser, bozo, DING DING DING FAMOUSLY
>RECLUSIVE AND ECCENTRIC AUTHOR, pachuco, troll....
>
>I'm also curious about their choice of on-camera critics--any insight on 
>this?
>
>In particular, who was the R. Crumb character they billed solely as "Pynchon
>Reader"? Why's _he_ get to be the token Cobwebby Four-Eyed Obsessive? I know
>_fifty_ CFEOs who coulda done that job!
>
>(Somebody's going to tell me CNN found him draped langourously over an
>armchair at the MOMA cafe, _Mason & Dixon_ casually arranged on his knee...)
>
>John Laroquette is, of course, God. I forget: What was the word he
>mispronounced? Outre? Oeuvre? Omelette? Something like tha'.
>
>Harrison
>