Re: JD is caught
Kay/Bill Burbidge (burbidge@mb.sympatico.ca)
Thu, 23 Jul 1998 19:01:19 -0500
wishy@nettaxi.com wrote:
>
> >Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 10:31:50 +1000
> >From: Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@geocities.com>
>
> >> Hmmm.....I thought there would be some list activity on this thread.....
>
> >I certainly would be a lot more excited if I saw the great JD in the flesh
> >(granted, the last picture I ever saw of him was in about 1953 so I
> >probably wouldn't recognise him unfortunately ...) how would I have been
> >able to resist not giving him my laptop and saying ... buddy, this is for a
> >lot of things ... (:
>
> Have you never seen the -angry- pic, then? Dunno who took it and for
> what paper, but it must have been within the last few years ('cause
> he's changed some). Certainly I've seen it within the last few years.
> >From (poor) memory, an angry old geezer, clearly unwilling to be
> photographed, just about to attack the photographer.
>
> Sad and a little bit funny at the same time - you know, it's probably
> what he would have wanted.
The picture to which you are refering is a new york post (I'm 95% sure
on this one) photo from about, oh, 6 to eight years ago. The story goes
as follows. JD had not been photographed in quite some time so the arts
editor told 2 photographers to get a shot of him ,at all costs. They
followed him for quite some time, hid around a corner while he bought
groceries. when he came out of the store they popped up from around the
corner and got the incriminating photo. He thought he was being shot
at, just about had a heart attack.
The photo made the front page of the new york times
A little subplot here, Don DeLillo was so disgusted it gave him the
premise for Mao II, which he said in an interview in germany was based
on the famed photo.
G.