Subject: Ulysses: The Movie
Omlor@aol.com
Date: Wed Jun 26 2002 - 08:23:08 EDT
Hi Tim,
I agree, of course, with your concern and your warning about the current move
towards giving up precisely that which separates us from those we are
supposed to be fighting against. In order to beat them it seems, we've
decided we need to be more like them. Somewhere, Santayana is smiling. I
could have predicted Scottie's balancing response, too, although I am not
convinced that the FBI reviewing library and bookstore records without even
having to meet the standard for probable cause is actually going to help stop
terrorism or make our lives all that much safer (the way, say, bombing the
hell out of the people in Afghanistan obviously did) -- and we certainly do
know the charming history of the Bureau and its corruption. There are still
plenty of people around who met up with HUAC thanks to these sorts of
"investigations" and, frankly, visions of J. Edgar late at night, in slip
and frills, getting all red and sweaty listening to the tapes he had made of
Martin Luther King having sex are enough to fill me with doubt about the
wisdom of such trends in public policy (that, and the fact that Ashcroft is
obviously an obsessed and twisted fetishist himself, no doubt spending his
evenings pounding and thumping a big old Bible and reading all the "juicy
bits" until finally falling into delirious dreams of Revelations -- rather
than wearing Chanel and collecting houseboys while ferreting out "perverts
and communists" like King and Bobby Kennedy).
In any case, that's an endless argument that will go nowhere in a forum such
as this.
I did want to mention that there was a film version of *Ulysses* made back in
'67. I have never seen it, and people tell me that it is not very good or
very useful. But it does exist. It was directed by a guy named Joseph
Strick and stars Milo O'Shea as Bloom and Maurice Roeves as Stephen and
Barbara Jefford as Molly.
Milo, you might remember, was Father Donnelly in *The Purple Rose of Cairo*
(and Friar Laurence in Zeffirelli's *Romeo and Juliet*).
Someday, I will have to watch it.
All the best.
--John
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