A la Recherche du Temps Perdu

[bgannon]

Economist this week provides a very complimentary obit of Anita Hoffman.
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From: Sebastian Dangerfield <sdangerfield at juno.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Date: Tuesday, January 12, 1999 2:41 PM
Subject: A la Recherche du Temps Perdu 


>I'm sure all of you were as delighted as I was to see that NBC is
>a-fixin' to serve us up a TV-movie rendering (see all definitions of this
>word) of 'The Sixties.'  (February 9, Prime Time).
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>Since the sages at NBC have fortuitously undertaken thus to make sense of
>that wacky decade, we all should tune in and perhaps even devote a VLVL
>postmortem session to the new wisdom thereby revealed.  I also suggest
>that we temporarily suspend all discussion and debate on 'the Movement'
>until the definitive word comes down from our betters at General
>Electric.  
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>I did not catch the cast of this Televisual Event of Global Proportion,
>but am sure that the casting will be accomplished with the strictest
>verisimilitude in mind.  I would expect something like the following as
>possible candidates:
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>Skeet Ulrich as Mario Savio
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>Harry Dean Stanton as Dave Dellinger
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>Ben Stein as Henry Kissinger
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>Sean Penn (with a wicked dye-job) as Abbie Hoffman
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>Samuel L. Jackson as Huey P. Newton
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>Cameron Diaz as Jane Fonda
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>In his last cinematic role, the Maestro, William S. Burroughs as LBJ
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>Can't wait!!
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