White Noise by Don DeLillo is one of my favorite books. It's pretty good, an interesting story. Maybe it would make a great movie. One of my favorite scenes in the book is when Jack, an East coast bohemian-type college professor at a small liberal arts university with 3 marriages, is interviewed by a doctor at the disaster relief center:
Doctor: So, have you ever smoked?
Jack: No.
Doctor: And have you ever had alcoholic beverages?
Jack: No.
[the doctor passes on to the next person]
It is just so amazing what is going on in modern medicine. Thematically, it follows Seinfeld's approach to the medical profession in some ways. Of course, this White Noise movie would be experimental in nature, and the fans of the book who would be involved probably don't have the kind of money it takes to deal with a 2-hour film production. I am sure that the big studios don't necessarily want to have some artistes fooling around with their time and reputation like some crazy person trying to fix a car - remember that episode of Seinfeld, with George's neighbor?
This project will always be a Greenwich Village cinema grail. New York Times Book Review dynamite. A macadamia for the academia.
And what would the title allude to? A pillar of salt? Artificial heroin? The sound of the rain? Titanium dioxide? Safe to say that its a puzzle.
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