Re: will and plays

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WILL HOCHMAN wrote:
> 
> Matthew, I just meant that I generally don't sit through plays well...I do
> enjoy them but only rarely and only the best..

I usually just sit back and enjoy others' posts, but I can't resist a
quick note about "Six Degrees of Separation."  I checked out the book
from the library intending to read only the monologue about catcher, but
I simply could not stop reading. On a Saturday night no less, I sat
riveted to this play and did not stop reading until I turned the last
page.  I then immediately emailed the chairman of theatre here who is a
friend of mine to recommend that SFASU do this play.

However, I can't imagine the play as a movie. I like to see Will Smith
do his thing on screen, but he not right at all for this part which
demands a dark,twisted sort of demeanor.  The play is not a comedy--I
don't even want to think about how some Hollywood director has
prostituted this script by turning it into a comedy for the masses.

No wonder Salinger refuses to sell movie rights to his work anymore. . .
I'm not sure I'd even trust Speilberg to do Holden justice.  


-- 
M.E. Pierce
Dept. of English, SFASU
http://TITAN.SFASU.EDU/~f_pierceme/
"Are you a nobody too?" --The Belle of Amherst

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