Re: Catcher movie...

• Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ]
• Next message: XCRUSHx@aol.com: "Re: (no subject)"
• Previous message: denis jonnes: "apple-eater's query"

ABRA wrote:
> 
> Erinn wrote:
> 
> > I've just been thinking about this and if a movie were to be
> > made of Catcher, I would think it impossible because most of its charm
> > is narrative. And although we've discussed this, who would play Holden? 

Jerry Lewis pleaded with Salinger to let him play Holden in a movie
adaptation of Catcher. I read somewhere that he drove up to Cornish
several times to persuade Salinger. . .but of course, he was holding out
to play the part himself, if anyone were to play the part at all.

-- 
M.E. Pierce
Dept. of English, SFASU
http://TITAN.SFASU.EDU/~f_pierceme/
"I loaf and invite my soul. . ." Uncle Walt

• Next message: XCRUSHx@aol.com: "Re: (no subject)"
• Previous message: denis jonnes: "apple-eater's query"