Re: Conspiracy Thoery
Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Fri, 08 Aug 1997 23:45:02 -0500
>buys copy at barnes and noble when book is scanned by cashier computers
>register the buy and government agency knows location of subject it is also
>mentioned at one point that lee harvey oswald and john hinkley jr had copies
>of catcher and there were pics of john lennon on main characters wall but
>that maybe too much of a strech then again maybe not anyway catcher turns
>out to be a major plot device in a decidedly noncerebral movie it also
>botherd me i have numerous copies of catcher also.
Based on those guidelines, most of this list's 200 subscribers would
probably rounded up. Let's watch out for those men in black!
(Seriously, the movie caught my attention for that element and also because
the publicists, a few weeks ago, started sending copies of Catcher out in
unmarked, unexplained envelopes, a tactic that backfired in a couple of
ways. One, Salinger had forbidden the use of the book as a marketing
gimmick. Two, it was done so slyly that it made a LOT of recipients very
uneasy; they felt they were being stalked, and when they heard the
explanation, they were hostile to the notion of the movie because of that
marketing gimmick.)
--tim o'connor