jsr@talcott.UUCP (Steve Reznick) (02/05/85)
>Rick's homeless informant Alice alluded to Zonker and Uncle >Duke as her two connections to reality. Does anyone >remember if we've met Alice before and what her connection >is with Zonker and Duke? Thanks for the responses. Here is the story: In the early 70s Mike offers to drive Zonker to the West Coast. Along the way they are pulled for speeding and Zonker is busted for possession of one marijuana seed. His case is dismissed (the district attorney bugs Zonker's hotel room), but to pay the lawyer's fee of $300, Zonker gets a job tending bar at "The Jolly Beaver". He meets Alice P. Schwartzman--a garment worker and a regular, and they are friends for several weeks. She calls him Bonker, he participates in her birthday party where her fellow barflys give her a bowling ball, and the series ends with her visiting him at football practice. (See "What Do We Have for the Witnesses, Johnnie?", G.B. Trudeau, Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1973, 1975, for further details) A decade later, Duke is down on his luck, and while drinking wine on a park bench is welcomed to the neighborhood by one Alice P. Schwartzman. They share her newspaper and she tells him the DeLorean story suggesting that it would make a great movie. Duke picks up on the idea and she loans him a dime to call a production company. Things get rolling and she loans him $200 to fly to L.A. (in exchange for $250,000 up front, 15% gross after direct costs, and a sequel option). Unfortunately, the financing falls through and Duke tries to raise the money in DeLorean style and falls in with some FBI agents willing to oblige. (See "You Give Great Meeting, Sid", G.B. Trudeau, Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1982, 1983 for details). Steve Reznick Psych Dept Harvard University {allegra|ihnp4|cbosgd|ima|genrad|amd}!wjh12!jsr.UUCP jsr@harvard.ARPA jsr@harvunxw.BITNET (617)495-3885 33 Kirkland St. Cambridge, MA 02138