Subject: Re: Why Time Begins on Opening Day
From: jason varsoke (jjv@caesun.msd.ray.com)
Date: Tue Apr 04 2000 - 17:07:25 EDT
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Tim O'Connor wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 03:52:23PM -0400, jason varsoke wrote:
>
> > Tim, you must (if you haven't) see _WonderBoys_. Among the movies many
> > wonderful little aspects is that the writer who hasn't published a darn
> > thing in some time doesn't have writer's block; he has writers diahriahha
> > (sp!). His novel is 2621 pages long, amost as long as "Hapworth."
>
> I read the book, right after reading Martin Amis's THE INFORMATION,
> about a different kind of failed writer. (Amis is cruel in a way only
> Kafka would appreciate. People who read the character's manuscript
> develop incurable headaches, physical eye damage, you name it, it
> happens!) The Wonder Boys as a book was funny but depressing too. I
> mean, I enjoyed it, but the guy was such a loser, I though. (I haven't
> seen the movie. Yet.)
Didn't come off as a 'loser' to me. Or maybe that's a great reflection
on how good my life is. The movie was an intellectual version of
_Nobody's Fool_ with Paul Newman. If there is one reason to see the
movie, rather than read the book, it's for this black guy they got for a
bit part. He's hilarious! I don't know how long they searched for this
guy, but damn he's perfect.
-j
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