Re: holden hour

Florie Sommers (writeflorie@hotmail.com)
Mon, 22 Mar 1999 11:54:03 -0800 (PST) 

Hi Guys,

Well, I think I'm the new kid on the block because I have no idea where 
the thread is on this conversation.

Anyway, who's read "At Home in the World?" I never realized that when 
Salinger wrote Holden he was really writing himself. Salinger is Holden. 
Sadly, I'm finding I love Holden a great deal more than Salinger. It 
seems like great self exploration when your 16, but at 53 its just world 
hating. Please tell me what do you all think?

Florie

PS- I've never seen the movie but I'll put it on my list of must sees.

>From: WILL HOCHMAN <hochman@uscolo.edu>
>Reply-To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>Subject: Re: holden hour
>Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 10:48:12 -0700 (MST)
>
>
>
>On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Paul Kennedy wrote:
>
>> Will, you're gonna make me *BLUSH*....
>> 
>> I'm having SO MUCH fun chewing the Caulfield cud that it's udderly
>> impossible for me to imagine greener pastures....  (In fact, I don't 
expect
>> to experience anything like this kind of gratification until the Jays 
clinch
>> the AL East--sometime shortly after the All Star break....)
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Paul
>
>Well, if there's gonna be a "Holden Hour" it seems like there shold be 
a
>"Glass Family Show"--we could all behave as glass children on "It's a
>Wise Child"!  I will sell shoe shine wax of course.
>
>> 
>> OSO--I rented SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION over the weekend, to check 
out once
>> again the soliloquy about Salinger embedded therein....  It's 
probably been
>> a major thread here at least six (or more likely sixty!) times--so 
I'm
>> reticent to re-open an angry argument....  But WHAT A PIECE OF 
SHIT!!!!
>> Brilliant script..... Stunning performances (especially, ahem, 
Canadian
>> actor Donald Sutherland....)  And then what seems like an hour-long
>> monologue of idiotic drivel delivered--unconvincingly--by Will Smith 
in the
>> very middle....  Then again, what should we expect from a character 
who is
>> BY DEFINITION phoney?
>> 
>> 
>
>Didn't see the film but when I saw the play in NY shortly after it 
opened,
>the monologue on catcher worked brilliantly...I wish I could remember 
who
>the actor was, but it wasn't will smith...but I do remember loving it 
and
>generally it's all I can do to stay in my seat when I go to see 
plays...
>
>will
>
>

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