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Andrew forgot to mention that Bill Murray in "Broken Flowers" appears as a guy called Donald Johnston. The little impudent nymphet plays with the surname "Johnston" and changes it to Donald Johnson - just like our former Editor´s name. A coincidence, just like the ones VN himself seemed to enjoy!
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... But it was the author William Burroughs who inspired the band's name Steely Dan. The Nabokov influence continues to grow elsewhere in Hollywood. Recent evidence for well-read viewers includes Jim Jarmusch's film Broken Flowers with an eye-opening early scene in unambigous homage to VN's nymphet. The latest Lolita is the daughter of a race car driver, a victim of the sport, and Sharon Stone, an old flame of Bill Murray's leading character, an out-of-service Don Juan. Alexis Dziena, 22, may well be the most visually youthful Lolita, and certainly the boldest. The cast also features a Mona, a Rita, a Carmen, much American highway travel, and numerous motel rooms. Broken Flowers shows Murray at his increasingly minimalist best, and the whole project seems to have a vague but probably unintentional debt to VN.
Andrew Brown
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----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Brown
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Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] [Fwd: Steely Vlad]
... But it was the author William Burroughs who inspired the band's name Steely Dan. The Nabokov influence continues to grow elsewhere in Hollywood. Recent evidence for well-read viewers includes Jim Jarmusch's film Broken Flowers with an eye-opening early scene in unambigous homage to VN's nymphet. The latest Lolita is the daughter of a race car driver, a victim of the sport, and Sharon Stone, an old flame of Bill Murray's leading character, an out-of-service Don Juan. Alexis Dziena, 22, may well be the most visually youthful Lolita, and certainly the boldest. The cast also features a Mona, a Rita, a Carmen, much American highway travel, and numerous motel rooms. Broken Flowers shows Murray at his increasingly minimalist best, and the whole project seems to have a vague but probably unintentional debt to VN.
Andrew Brown
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