I think an equally interesting question is will Catcher be made into a movie? I personally hope not. Here's Salinger's thoughts on a movie:
http://www.momentsintime.com/J%20D%20Salinger.htm
I think an equally interesting question is will Catcher be made into a movie? I personally hope not. Here's Salinger's thoughts on a movie:
http://www.momentsintime.com/J%20D%20Salinger.htm
I'll bet that a collector couldn't acquire that Salinger letter for $54K anymore.
I checked my e-mail early this morning and received a message from an old high school friend titled "In memory of Ackley's toenails." At the same time, one of the morning shows started running a short clip on Salinger. I caught on before clicking on the message. I loved the book.
"I am your child from the future. I'm sorry I didn't tell you this earlier." - Dylan Easton
Here's the obit from the Onion.
http://www.theonion.com/content/news...nies_mourn_j_d
Wear gaudy colors, or avoid display. Lay a million eggs or give birth to one. The fittest shall survive, yet the unfit may live. Be like your ancestors or be different. We must repeat!
From wiki:
The character Holden Caulfield first appeared in a short story that was written by Salinger and that was published in the New Yorker magazine in '46. Here are a few links for Slight Rebellion Off Madison:In the early 1940s, Salinger had confided in a letter to Whit Burnett that he was eager to sell the film rights to some of his stories in order to achieve financial security.[37] According to Ian Hamilton, Salinger was disappointed when "rumblings from Hollywood" over his 1943 short story "The Varioni Brothers" came to nothing. Therefore he immediately agreed when, in mid-1948, independent film producer Samuel Goldwyn offered to buy the film rights to his short story "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut."[37] Though Salinger sold his story with the hope—in the words of his agent Dorothy Olding—that it "would make a good movie",[38] the film version of "Wiggily" was lambasted by critics upon its release in 1949.[39] Renamed My Foolish Heart and starring Dana Andrews and Susan Hayward, the melodramatic film departed to such an extent from Salinger's story that Goldwyn biographer A. Scott Berg referred to it as a "bastardization".[39] As a result of this experience, Salinger never again permitted film adaptations to be made from his work.[40]
http://www.freeweb.hu/tchl/salinger/madison.html
(the story)
http://www.twentytwo.tinymenagerie.c...trebellion.pdf
(pdf version of the story)
and a 'film adaption' of the story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6achMxJ8iTI
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