i hope you will all see the film of the woman chaser - it is
just making the festival rounds now so isn't 'out' yet, but i
was fortunate enough to see it on the sly, and it's very
good, true to willeford and the spirit of the time in which
it's set.
At 07:56 PM 2/7/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>Having just gotten a bit more serious about reading
Charles Willeford's
>backlist, I just tonight completed THE WOMAN CHASER,
a wonderful and odd
>little book. But one thing that immediately occured
to me upon completion
>was the total mistitling of the novel. For instance,
(A) there were few
>women characters in the book, (B) the main characters
certainly wasn't
>"chasing" them, and (C) unless I missed some very
very VERY subtle subtext
>in the book, "chasing women" wasn't high on our
self-absorbed, sociopathic
>filmmaker's To Do List...while spewing his bitterness
toward his fellow
>man - and indeed his own life - on celluloid
certainly was.
>
>I know there have been other books whose titles are
misleading but this one
>sure took the cake for me.
>
>Ron Clinton
>
>
>
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