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At last the intellectual equivalent of the Beatles Anthology appears... a six-pack of tapes featuring LONG enticing excerpts and lectures by Marshall McLuhan. Even better, since about three fourths of the language is by McLuhan and 10% by Tom Wolfe (who wrote and narrated the series), one is served up a verbal feast by two of the finest wordsmiths of the century. The remaining dialog, by Norman Mailer, Malcolm Muggeridge, Woody Allen, et al, makes VIDEO MCLUHAN an audio feast. cheap hotel in HelsingorSince three of the tapes are complete lectures (or in one case a panel) by McLuhan, there is the deja vu sensing of Marshall actually returning to the planet as one sits in his presence. The other three give the sense of Tom Wolfe touring us through the biography and ideas of Marshall as he develops from Cambridge-educated professor of literature to household word corporate guru. Never at a loss for words, humor, striking insight and "percepts" (McLuhan preferred these to concepts), Dr. McLuhan is shown in seemingly long lost footage dazzling and shocking interviewers as different as Tom Brokaw, Ed Newman, and David Frost. Probably the most penetrating aspect of the no-longer-dated sage is that RETROFIT McLuhan actually fits the cyber world more perfectly than his own. Now the patron saint of WIRED world, he returns to parade the information highway as if he owns it. Stephanie McLuhan-Ortved, veteran New York and Toronto TV producer, has perfectly timed the anthology and discovered the ideal literary tag team, Wolfe and McLuhan.

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