Re: I am Franny!!! / We love Bill

patrick flaherty (pfkw@email.msn.com)
Sat, 18 Jul 1998 23:21:45 -0400

-----Original Message-----
From: Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@geocities.com>
To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
Date: Saturday, July 18, 1998 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: I am Franny!!! / We love Bill


>Camille wrote:
>> >P.S. to everyone - `Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas' has finally come out
>> >here and it's getting absolutely bloody awful reviews. One reviewer
>> >described it as `the only movie in which an overdose would have been a
>> >positive plot development'
>> >
>Patrick wrote:
>> Johnny Depp couldn't act his way out of a wet paper bag.  Save yourself
>the
>> eight bucks and re-read the book.
>
>Oh, no, no - I think Depp's a fantastic actor. He's one of the actors I
>admire most - he makes such risky choices, but a lot of them are my
>favourite movies - `Edward Scissorhands' and `Ed Wood' for example. All
>accounts show, however, that he's really screwed up in this picture, which
>is a real shame because I hoped he'd finally get that Oscar nomination he's
>been deserving for some time.
>
>Oh well. Never really liked Bukowski anyway (:
>
>No comment on the praise for Depp.  An Oscar nomination?? Anyway, I must
say that a writer such as yourself who