TRP by ALW [was Re: Cinco de Mayo]

[still lookin 4 the face i had b4 the world was made]

On Wed, 7 May 1997, Peter Giordano wrote:
> 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!

Hey, TRP's Books are filled with good Lyricks.  I'd rather see a Pynchon
Musical (not necessarily by A.L.W.) than a Pynchon Movie, methinks,-- the
Elements of Live Performance and of Implied, rather than fully Realized
Setting, lending the Former a Charm best suit'd to Thom.'s Writings.

What say thah' on't?

Max

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