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...widely read after so many years. I can think of only two others that date from the same period that are still read by people with enjoyment, rather than any courses they might have to read them for. The other two are Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle. I cannot think of any others. Pynchon readers, I think, come mostly from courses studying contemporary literature...
...Kubrick about playing Napoleon, to Bernardo Bertolucci about being the Continental Op in a film of Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest. Milos Forman is waiting for him to finish Fortune, so he can start playing McMurphy in an adaptation of Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. At no time since the burnished '30s has Hollywood been so big-name conscious. "The system is geared toward overworking the stars," Nicholson points out. "There aren't that many stars around to haul the freight...
...least he wasn't alone. He knew that. Others had realized it long ago; Kesey in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," Pynchon in "V," Heller in "Catch-22." He had friends, people who took his side. He felt a common bond, even with the people he had never met. They, too, understood...
Dale Wasserman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest--at the New Theater just down the street--is another fine play with some similar strengths, about a Christ-figure getting himself crucified by the authoritarian Big Nurse and timid inmates of an insane asylum. I'd go with That Championship Season--it's more naturalistic and strikes even closer to home, I'd say--but maybe that's just my mood...
...Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Dale Wasserman out of Ken Kesey, is probably more absorbing than any of this, though, and it should also be enough to convince you not to go crazy just yet. 7:30 at the New Theater on Holyoke Street...