TRP by ALW [was Re: Cinco de Mayo]

Peter Giordano Peter.Giordano at williams.edu
Wed May 7 13:27:23 CDT 1997


Somebody said:
>> If Mason & Dixon sold as many copies as the number of beers sold at Cinco
>> de Mayo bashes last weekend in the U.S., there would be M&D T-shirts, M&D
>> hats, M&D Beer, and an M&D miniseries on TV, to be followed naturlich by
>> the M&D sitcom, "Thomas Pynchon's Mason and Dixon: The Movie," and
>> "Dixon! Mason!" the Andrew Lloyd Weber Broadway musical.
He said:
>Personally, I'd rather see ALW's version of GR, appropriately titled,
>"Tyrone!" the entire book condensed down to three hours, with
>intermission, and lots of flash and flare - that giant rocket that flys
>across the audience, the White Visitation choir, tapdancing
>schwartzcommando, and, of course, the orgy boat scene....
I say:
The above made my day!!!  I knew that this list was made for something -
The scary
thing is that ALW would do all of the above in a minute!

Peter Giordano
Williams College
Williamstown, MA





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