another V.

[Dave Monroe]

I used to read HS compulsively.  The Family I don't
know.  And just when I've begun to juggle my
long-neglected SF alongside VL et al. ...

--- Don Corathers <gumbo at fuse.net> wrote:
> >
> > Today the post has brought me Vincent Bugliosi's
> > _Helter Skelter_. I wonder how different it will
> > be compared to Ed Sander's _The Family_.
> 
> Bugliosi = Brock Vond. Sanders = Zoyd.
> 
> I read the Sanders book years ago, and remember it
> being quirky and strange but reasonably insightful
> about the culture it was trying to describe.
> Bugliosi's is basically a really long epsisode of
> Dragnet, with Vince his own self in the Jack Webb
> role.

But anyone remember Tom Snyder interviewing Chas.
Manson in prison?  "What are you going to do if you
get out of prison, Charles?"  "I'm gonna play me a
little handball, a little gee-tar." "Get off the space
shuttle, Charles."  I once gave Mr. Snyder's Personal
Assistant directions as TS looked on from the
streetcorner.  Or that episode of Dragnet where Joe
Friday invites Frank and the missus over for steaks,
which he grills on a hibachi in his fireplace, all the
while fending off the partygoing neighbors?  Beats
even that comeback premier "Blue Boy" episode, in my
book.  Now THAT'S NP/NN/NFRW for you, David ...

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