McGoohan was good - very good. Thanks for passing on the news. Andrew
2009/1/15 Gerald Schwartz <[log in to unmask]>
> No: Patrick McGoohan, "Number Six" escaped
> The Village of life yesterday.
>
> Seeing The Prisoner in its first run at an early age,
> I thought then, as I do now, it was probably the best
> allegorical televion to come along.
>
> As Randolph alluded to, there's a re-make in the wings...
> coming up this spring on the AMC (American Movie Classics)
> channel, the same people who brought us "Madmen".
>
> I suspect The Village of our world now (of renditions and
> Gitmo and God know what else...) would in no way be
> so quaint. After all, how does a corporate-totalitarian employer
> retire a "Jack Bauer". Perhaps the good folks at Blackwater
> could chime in...
>
> Anyway, back when it ran, while other kids were outside
> playing "Vietnam", I was in front of the box routing for # 6.
>
> --Gerald S.
>
>
> GS Is this autobiographical?P
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Gerald Schwartz
>> Sent: 14 January 2009 23:40
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Number Six...
>>
>> has at last
>> escaped.
>>
>> Gerald S.
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>> 14/01/2009
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--
Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
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