Re: film & reality
Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Mon, 20 Dec 1999 23:24:08 -0500
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 11:59:12AM -0300, Diego M. Dell'Era wrote:
> Absolutely true. Last night I was chatting with my old friend
> Pooh, and he was telling me how dissapointed he was with
> Disney. "I may be a bear of Very little Brain, but they have no
> right to modify the original books. They were properly written
> books and conveyed exactly the way it was".
> He sounded a little bitter over the phone but, you know, it was
> a very poor conection. He doesn't have a decent phone at
> hand in the woods.
I am grievously wounded to see that a Major Studio has made a movie of
E.B. White's STUART LITTLE. On the one hand, I think nothing can do
justice to Garth Williams's illustrations. On the other, my beloved
dachshund, Fred [named after EBW's "ghoulish" dachshund Fred] sort of
looks like Stuart Little, which ruins it for me doubly.
But I'm a traditionalist about my classic cartoons....
--tim