Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0004946, Tue, 28 Mar 2000 12:09:56 -0800

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Fw: American Beauty / The Eye
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From: JGlick4@aol.com <JGlick4@aol.com>
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>Dear list,
>Those of you (like myself) with nothing better to do on Sunday evening will
>have heard American Beauty's screenwriter (Ball, I think) attribute that
>film's windswept plastic bag to one he genuinely saw blowing in the street.
>
>That appears to somewhat sever the proposed connection (mentioned on the
list
>a month or so ago) between that plastic bag and the one in The Eye. I
hadn't
>gotten a chance to go back to either source yet to compare, but I can't say
I
>wasn't looking forward to it. Oh well....
>
>Had anyone else compared? Is anybody convinced enough to suggest that Ball
>was tossing out a red herring? Then again, whom among the film industry
could
>he expect to catch it?
>
>-John
>