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From: "Kenny, Glenn" <gkenny@hfmus.com>
To: "'Vladimir Nabokov Forum'" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 10:54 AM
Subject: RE: VN in His Own Movie
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> My own impression-gleaned, if I'm not mistaken, from a reading of a
library
> copy of Alfred Appel Jr.'s quite-sadly-out-of-print "Nabokov's Dark
Cinema"
> (holy geez! I see from Amazon that I can buy a used copy-for 80 bucks
> minimum!)-is that Nabokov was game to do the cameo, and that the 1973
> edition of the "Lolita" screenplay was, in fact, the version that Kubrick
> deemed "unfilmable." (Had he tried to film it, he would have ended up with
> something like a four hour picture!) The screenplay is fascinating for
VN's
> attempts to expand his literary devices cinematically-he has Humbert
dressed
> as Edgar Allen Poe in one sequence, as I recall.
> But back to the cameo-agreed, it would have been lovely, and in fact would
> not have been terribly out of place in the film Kubrick eventually shot.
> This entry reminds me of the information that during his days in Berlin,
VN
> and Mrs. N. occasionally found employment as film extras, and of the
> apocrypha attached to that data (people thinking they've spotted a young
VN
> in a crowd scene in some forgotten UFA production, and so on).
>
> > ----------
> > From: D. Barton Johnson
> > Reply To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
> > Sent: Monday, April 7, 2003 1:30 PM
> > To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> > Subject: Fw: VN in His Own Movie
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Phillip Iannarelli" <iann88us@yahoo.com>
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> > > I just read VN's revised, l973 "Lolita" screenplay. In
> > > it he himself appears as a butterfly hunter who gives
> > > directions to Humbert. I wonder if this episode was in
> > > his original l960 screenplay and if he entertained the
> > > wonderfully marvelous idea to appear in the movie as
> > > himself, a la Hitchcock? That would have been a
> > > brilliant touch we could enjoy forever.
> > >
> > > Phil Iannarelli
> > >
> > > __________________________________________________
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> >
> >
From: "Kenny, Glenn" <gkenny@hfmus.com>
To: "'Vladimir Nabokov Forum'" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 10:54 AM
Subject: RE: VN in His Own Movie
> This message was originally submitted by gkenny@HFMUS.COM to the NABOKV-L
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> the explanations you are now reading will be removed automatically. If
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> other hand you edit the contributions you receive into a digest, you will
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> to remove this paragraph manually. Finally, you should be able to
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> author of this message by using the normal "reply" function of your
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> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (43
lines) ------------------
> My own impression-gleaned, if I'm not mistaken, from a reading of a
library
> copy of Alfred Appel Jr.'s quite-sadly-out-of-print "Nabokov's Dark
Cinema"
> (holy geez! I see from Amazon that I can buy a used copy-for 80 bucks
> minimum!)-is that Nabokov was game to do the cameo, and that the 1973
> edition of the "Lolita" screenplay was, in fact, the version that Kubrick
> deemed "unfilmable." (Had he tried to film it, he would have ended up with
> something like a four hour picture!) The screenplay is fascinating for
VN's
> attempts to expand his literary devices cinematically-he has Humbert
dressed
> as Edgar Allen Poe in one sequence, as I recall.
> But back to the cameo-agreed, it would have been lovely, and in fact would
> not have been terribly out of place in the film Kubrick eventually shot.
> This entry reminds me of the information that during his days in Berlin,
VN
> and Mrs. N. occasionally found employment as film extras, and of the
> apocrypha attached to that data (people thinking they've spotted a young
VN
> in a crowd scene in some forgotten UFA production, and so on).
>
> > ----------
> > From: D. Barton Johnson
> > Reply To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
> > Sent: Monday, April 7, 2003 1:30 PM
> > To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> > Subject: Fw: VN in His Own Movie
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Phillip Iannarelli" <iann88us@yahoo.com>
> > > ----------------- Message requiring your approval (14
> > lines) ------------------
> > > I just read VN's revised, l973 "Lolita" screenplay. In
> > > it he himself appears as a butterfly hunter who gives
> > > directions to Humbert. I wonder if this episode was in
> > > his original l960 screenplay and if he entertained the
> > > wonderfully marvelous idea to appear in the movie as
> > > himself, a la Hitchcock? That would have been a
> > > brilliant touch we could enjoy forever.
> > >
> > > Phil Iannarelli
> > >
> > > __________________________________________________
> > > Do you Yahoo!?
> > > Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more
> > > http://tax.yahoo.com
> >
> >