IVIV some very spoiler-ish reader response/cultural context for Doc: Philip Marlowe

[Paul Mackin]

I also was probably an anti-tv snob but like Robin often would see it 
anyway.

Would come home to finda bunch of neighborhood kids along with our own 
watching Dark Shadows.

P
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robin Landseadel" <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: IVIV some very spoiler-ish reader response/cultural context for 
Doc: Philip Marlowe


> On Aug 22, 2009, at 5:43 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
>
>> NOT I, said the guy with his Beckett allusion who was an anti-TV snob.
>>
>> --- On Sat, 8/22/09, John Carvill wrote:
>>>
>
>>> Ok, hands up, who watched 'Dark Shadows'?
>
> I remember seeing "Dark Shadows" out of the corner of my eye when it  was 
> an ongoing concern. Never really caring all that much for soap  operas or 
> the Gothic atmosphere of "Dark Shadows," it left little  impression other 
> than simply being odd. It strike me that the current  interest in 
> vampires—True Blood, anyone?—indicate it's high time for a  revival of 
> Dark Shadows. Which in fact it turned out to be: A Tim  Burton movie of 
> Dark Shadows starring Johnny Depp is in the pipeline.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/nykx9u
>
>