Hip pioneers or hacks?
HARRAH from Page 12
sheet.”
Tama always makes the gossip
columns and the celebrity press loves
to show pictures of her with her flowing
mane, slitted eyes, vampy outfits and
her two doggies, LuLu and Beep Beep,
who pose with her on the cover of
“Slaves.” She’s not just a writer —
she’s a glamour goddess with two funky
little pooches who has lunched quite
’often with Mclnerney and the late Andy
Warhol.
C here’s really nothing wrong with
a writer getting the same treat
ment as a film star. Writers work
just as hard as actors — sometimes
harder. However, it becomes difficult
to value the veracity of these novelists’
angst when they continue to wallow in
the self-indulgent hedonism they pre
tend to eviscerate in their books.
Perhaps the main glitch in the Inev
itably Hip fabric is their dated themes
and trite streams of wealth that induce
guilt. And the venues themselves. We
already know that New York and Los
Angeles are intense and demandingly
salacious, so why do we need these
writers to tell us that once more? How
about a novel about the ‘‘sleazy nether
world” of Peoria and Omaha? No. The
Midwest isn’t hip, the Tama Janowitzes
of the world think.
Jack Kerouac exposed his genera
tion and got it some publicity, but he
never condescended to it.
And as for originality, are the Inevit
ably Hip truly genuine pioneers of the
underground? Their prose may be
dolorous and cumbersome, snaking
a ong the gutters of stream of con
sciousness anti-socialism, but their
demons just aren’t all that interesting
when you compare them to William
Burroughs, Tom Robbins, Kathy Acker,
Kurt Vonnegut and similar roe.
Janowitz’s New York and Ellis’ Los
Angeles just don't seem as intriguing
as Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin
Armistead Maupin’s ISan Francisco or
Dorothy Parker’s New York, which is
mu* h more satirical than Janowitz’s
cartoon camp sketches of the Big Apple
could ever hope to be.
The Inevitably Hip are talented,
but is their work literature? In a
dorm-room world of parties, yes,
uut m the terms of substance, no.
They’re glossy, but peel back all the
overdone dramatism, band names,
designer anguish and art deco sets and
you 11 find Harold Robbins begging to
be included on intelligentsia reading
lists.
But leave it to Hollywood to tell the
real truth about the Inevitably Hip
society. Michael J. Fox, a bubble gum
guru in a bubble gum world, is slated to
star in the lead role of the film version
of “Bright Lights, Big City.’’ Or is it the
film version of “Less Than Zero”?
It seems that their hip demons are
really angels after all under all those
literary klieg lights.
Harrah is a senior news editorial and
English miyor and Daily Nebraskan night
news editor.
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