Crumb & GR (Was: P-list Lawyer)

[Keith Brecher]

At 11:28 AM 3/19/97 -0500, Eric Lorenzo wrote:
>Keith_Brecher at brown.edu writes:
>> It seems to me that Crumb was either a
>> major influence on GR or the similarities between Crumb's comix and GR are
>> the result of that craazzy '60's zeitgeist. Think about all those dancing
>> tubes of toothpaste, appliances, and animals in certain Crumb comix, then
>> picture Webley's Busby Berkeley-like dance scene with the lab rats in GR.
>
>I'm not terribly familiar with Crumb - my only knowledge of him comes
>from the movie, which I watched some time last summer.
>
>But I specifically remember seeing in the movie a Crumb strip that
>involved a black woman being made by white men to crawl halfway down a
>toilet.  Recent comparisons of the Trainspotting and GR toilet scenes
>brought this to mind.  (And to tie in to yet another thread, wasn't the
>Crumb movie made by David Lynch?)
>
>Eric
>
>Eric--
Unfortunately, the Crumb movie was not made by David Lynch, but had he made
it, CRUMB would have been a helluva movie. I guess Kyle McLachlan would
have been cast as R. Crumb, Jack Nance (were he still alive) as one or both
of the brothers, Fran Drescher as Crumb's wife....