Re: JD is caught

WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Fri, 24 Jul 1998 08:10:40 -0600 (MDT) 

Yes G, the connection to _MaoII_ is quite strong, and the photo was
published on the front page of the NY Post on April 21, l988.
will

On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Kay/Bill Burbidge wrote:

> 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.
>