You pick up the
baseball. The corn rustles and you see…
Kevin Costner!
"You're not an M.
Knight Shamalamadingdong Alien cow." you point out.
"No," He says. "No sir I am not. I'm Kevin Costner from Field of Dreams"
"Well, apart from the usual Kevin Costner factor, what's horrible scary
Halloweeny about that?" You query.
"A lot more than you know. See, 'Field of Dreams' was a pretty
mainstream movie, and most people don't know it was based on Canadian
avante garde novelist WP Kinsella'S novella "Shoeless Joe Jackson comes
to Iowa"
...an obscure, but far
more worthy work, which this movie butchered way more ruthlessly
than any alien ever mutilated a cow.
The James Earl Jones
character? In the book, that's reclusive one time major author J.D.
Sallinger, with whom Kinsella, who's both the actual author and the main
character, feels an artistic relationship with, and who's sudden
disappearance from the literary field and public life in the late
sixties remains an unacceptable mystery of American letters."
"Wow!" You say, "That's really, really obscure. I'd say there's a fair
chance anyone reading this particular page has no idea what you're
talking about."
"That's because it's the wrong answer," says Costner, and he sticks a
corn in your eye and you die from it.
