Spoilers: correcting a movie incident

Keith Brecher Keith_Brecher at brown.edu
Wed May 21 20:02:11 CDT 1997


At 11:24 AM 5/21/97 -0400, KENNETH HOUGHTON wrote:
>     Right idea; wrong movie.  It's a Bergman film that he refuses to see, 
>     just after belitting Andrew Sarris; he suggests _The Sorrow and the 
>     Pity_ (whose opening credits are notably not in Swedish) instead.
>
Kenneth--
Reading your post I had a sinking feeling maybe analogous to what Paul
DiFillipo felt when he found out that Jackson in M&D's dedication referred
to TRP's son and not to money. Because, goddamnit, you're right. I
apologize in advance to anybody crazy enough to depend on me for accurate
information. I'm wrong about 67% of the time. One thing I am right about,
however, is that William T. Vollmann's name has two n's at the ennd, a
mistake I've been seeing somewhat frequently around here lately, though,
frankly, who really cares since it's great to see Vollmann discussed here
at all. He's the original sort of writer that that blasted DFW can only
aspire to in his wildest nightmares.

Keith  





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