Pinball Wizard An Embarrassment?

["Kevin O'Neal" <kevinandt@xxxxxxxxx>]

>From: "Scott Schrade"
>Subject: Re: Pinball Wizard An Embarrassment?
>
>Very good point, Alan.  By making Tommy a celebrated pinball champ,
>Pete is ironically poking fun at not just his own profession, but present-
>day society as a whole & its penchant for creating, sustaining, & finally
>discarding all types of trivial idols & heroes.
>
>Without the pinball aspect, we lose that entire dimension of the story.

All this, "on impulse" ......