Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!bbncca!rrizzo From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: Where to get Amory's Loon trilogy Message-ID: <1491@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 10:28:51 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncca.1491 Posted: Tue Jul 16 10:28:51 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 03:30:09 EDT References: <221@bbnccv.UUCP> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 34 The first book was made into a male porno flick with all the sex taken out (paradoxical, isn't it?) around 1970 in (would you believe?) Utah. In fact, the film bears the seal of approval of the Utah state censor! The film is so bad it's hilarious, one of the funniest I've ever seen. There are lengthy & earnest discussions on the banks of a river right out of a Coors beer ad about the symbolism of arrows & arrowheads, with the connotations thudding to the ground like a herd of buffalo on the hoof. Orgasm is visually euphemized into dreamlike segments of freefall through pastel-colored space with suitable muzak as an accompaniment. The climactic scene takes place in a cave where the two protagonists have gone to obtain metaphysical advice about their relationship from its resident medicine man, who bears a striking resemblance to Harvey Milk in a war bonnet (I noted this out loud--in the Castro Theater a few months after Milk's assassination--& immediately got a few score of very dirty looks from other audience members). At the height of his invocation of whatever, the sage raises his arms to heaven and in a measured & portentious voice intones: Nam, myoho, renge, kyo Nam, myoho, renge, kyo...... [For you yahoos, it's a Japanese buddhist chant much favored by Soka Gakkai, a neofascist movement in postwar Japan that recruited heavily in North America in the 1970s among exjunkies & hippie burnouts.] At this, the audience shrieked in disbelief & exploded in laughter. Great fun, but not like the book. Kawabunga! Ron Rizzo