Picturing Bianca

[Henry M]

The only relationship I can imagine between Brooke in "Pretty Baby"
and Bianca <get you mind out of the gutter, kids> is that they are
both children raised as sexual and in sexual situations. I can't even
say that they are similarly "objects."

Yes, saw the movie. Brooke Shields greatest moment, in fact. 
But, please explain how my suggestion and explanation that Brook
Shields has very little to do with Bianca isn't relevant to your post.
Sorry if you didn't like the critique, but "no relationship?"

> Date:          Thu, 6 Mar 1997 11:57:36 -0400 (EDT)
> From:          "Steven Maas (CUTR)" <maas at cutr.eng.usf.edu>
> Reply-to:      "Steven Maas (CUTR)" <maas at cutr.eng.usf.edu>
> To:            Pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Subject:       Re: Picturing Bianca

> I wrote:
> [snip]
> > > I guess if I was to picture Bianca it would
> > > maybe be as Brooke Shields in _Pretty Baby_--a _very_ disturbing
> > > movie that presented, unfortunately, apparently commonplace true
> > > facts. 
> > 
> To which HenryM responded:
> > Brooke Shields! Bianca is described as not having fully outgrown
> > her babyfat; Brooke was bred and raised to never have any. Maybe
> > you like the way she looks, but she was never "cute." Brooke was
> > never a child and she was never sexual. I think part of what
> > people find disturbing about Bianca is that she Is a child A-and
> > is sexual.
> 
> Henry, your observations about Shields seem to have no relationship
> to my post.  Have you seen the movie I mentioned? (At least I
> _think_ it was her in that movie...is my memory that bad?)
> 
> 	Steve Maas

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