-----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