Not Pynchon but A MOVIE! a Calif " detective" one

[Allan Balliett]

I concur.

A lot of incredible television has appeared in the last few years but
Aquarius is not part of the wave. (On the other hand, I think Duchovny's
recent rock lp is a lot of fun and has some clever self-penned lyrics (even
rhymes with "Leonard Cohen" at one point))

Treading water in anticipation of the new True Detectives (which better be
better than the damned trailers!)

On a separate note, I just got a fresh copy of ZARDOZ. How could I want for
more?

-Allan in WV

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 1:50 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> I've never seen it, but I definitely want to now.
>
> Speaking of California detectives, has anyone seen the new show Aquarius,
> about cops investigating Manson in around '68 or '69 (highly
> fictionalized). Anyway, to put it succinctly , it sucks.
> It's a standard-issue police procedural that's more Mod Squad than
> anything else. Very disappointing!
>
> Laura
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> >Sent: Jun 14, 2015 7:51 AM
> >To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> >Subject: Not Pynchon but A MOVIE! a Calif " detective" one
> >
> >Saw Bullitt again last eve for the first time since the Victorian Age.
> greatness in it, esp McQueen, but not
> >Totally, lame girlfriend non-role---just another and badly done "a cop's
> life ruins relationships cause they see evil all the time"---with however a
> verbal exchange which ought to be as famous as the great exchange which IS:
> " You work your side of the street and I'll work mine" .
> >
> >That exchange with Bissett is, She: " what does this mean for the future
> of our relationship?"
> >McQueen: " that time starts now"....
> >
> >But the lame reason I'm posting this is to ask our group mind THIS:
> >
> >Do you think the Rbt  Vaughn character is presented as possibly part of
> "the plot conspiracy"?  Mcqueen, of few words,  asks "Who else knew (of
> mobster in SF).  They used your name" and
> >" What kind of a deal did you make with him?" .....neither of which
> questions are answered.....but we see Mc queen as always right as he
> pursues his hunches and clues so......
> >
> >And then when mobster Ross is shot at the airport, Vaughn simply
> leaves...gets in back of the police car with the symbolic words---Support
> your Local Police---and opens his WSJ, the paper for an ambitious DA's
> hopeful " success" ...saying nothing more to McQueen or anyone. Why
> not?.....and that last scene of McQueen at the bathroom mirror?.
> >
> >( evidently the novel upon which it is based offers no answer)
> >
> >Ms Renata Adler, praising( in NYT) it for being a movie with " the way
> people talk and how organizations work"--as well as praising McQueen, says
> that the ending will please even those who like Camus ( resonantly
> mysterious ) ......but what might she be hinting at? ..
> >
> >Anyway, talk amongst yourselves out loud and O yes, is the Mc Queen
> character in this movie one of the best embodiments of " Keep Cool, but
> Care" that you have ever seen ( or read)?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Sent from my iPad-
> >Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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