JDS Film and TV
Graham Preston (ac109@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca)
Sun, 09 Nov 1997 20:50:01 -0600 (CST)
Hi.
I was recently viewing the Burt Lancaster picture, "The Swimmer". It
struck mevery "Catcher" like. The protaganist, Ned, is this rich old
business man in Conneticut who is swimming home. He is swimming pool by
pool to his house. He picks up a 20 year old woman and they start wimming
and have fun. He says stuff to her about "protecting her" and she runs
off. He meats various charcters along the way and ends up running home
after being called "a joke".
The story line isn't that connected but Ned's speech to the girl about
protecting her in the city sounds very much like Holden's speech about
being in the field of rye catching kids who are about to go over some
"crazy cliff". Anybody else seen it? It took a ton of patience to sit
through its endless shots of Lancaster in a swimming suit running with
horses or jumping over things with the girl and swimming.
I had a JDS dream a few nights ago, that I'd think I'd want to share.
Well, it was one of those Oprahs when its about her book club and JDS is
to be featured and how "Hapworth" is the book that she'll talk about. JDS
comes on and looks to be very mad and all. He starts going on these rants
about how he hates Chicago and how he hates phonies (very Holden like) and
how phonies killed Seymour (very Buddy like). Then, he starts burning his
book on stage (very Jimi Hendrix a la Monterray Pop Fest like). Oprah
starts to scream and call him a phony and then he takes over the show.
JDS renames it "Jerry" and has engaging interviews with movie stars and
how he says to Richard Gere that Gere is on the 1st level of
enlightenment. JDS quits TV and moves to the Great White North where he
kicks Mordecai Richler's bottom and starts writing engaging columns in
Prarie newspapers. That's all. Any comments?
By the way, is anyone here reading "Barney's Version"? I like to think of
it as Holden grown up in the 1950s (the dates seem to match) and smoking
cigars and in Montreal.
I bought "Mason and Dixon" in July and are still wading through it.
(During that time I read 'The English Patient' and 'Gravity's Rainbow'.)
I'm finding it to be very funning and interesting in parts but plodding
and long winded in others. Anybody else have these feelings about M&D?
Graham
"Say Meg, I'm stuck on yer' shape. It's outta sight."
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