OK, so it did get through ... anyway, what about this one (the formatting will suck, I already know that): Mattis Fishman wrote: > I liked the tone of the dialogue, and ironically it struck me > as Salingeresque, shades of Uncle Wiggly. But then the idea that > he was using real people and their names kept getting in the way. > I mean, if this is supposed to be an accurate retelling of the wit > and wisdom of these celebreties, then I felt as though I was reading > a literary gossip column. On the other hand, if it is imagination > projected onto the personae of the beautiful people, it looks like > name dropping snobbery. Well, I think it's a bit of all of those things. Capote would have been the first to admit he was a shameless media slut (:.Personally I think there is something very postmodern and clever about blurring the lines between those real and false personas and anecdotes- it asks a question of gossip itself, which is by nature a highly apocryphal,inaccurate, semi-fictional-semi-non-fictional form of communication. It asks us to remember that what passes into gossip folklore is notoriously unreliable and unverifiable, just as these stories are. And - like with real gossip - there is undeniable fun in the sport of separating the real from the false, or the puzzle of the `roman a clef' - trying to decide which fictional persona represents which real one. Which is, when you think about it, a play with very similar ideas to the ones Salinger plays with in the character of Buddy Glass. Camille verona_beach@geocities.com @ THE ARTS HOLE http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442 @ THE INVERTED FOREST http://www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com