In a message dated 12/29/1999 10:32:45 PM Central Standard Time, pariah1980@yahoo.com writes: << I mean I guess I can see how someone could get like that, but it's just sad that many people know "Catcher in the Rye" as just some book that an obsessed fan carried with him before killing John Lennon. >> Wasn't there some really bad Mel Gibson movie where he played some schizophrenic and he had like twenty copies of CITR in his apartment, along with other things paranoid schizos like to have lying around the place? I don't recall Mel Gibson actually describing the book or anything, so the presence of the book in respect to his craziness wasn't really significant in any way, shape or form. This is, I think, still putting the book in a negative light. Maybe I should make a movie about Mother Teresa, make everything aspect of the movie false (except for the whole selfless devotion to humanity and all), and make her favorite book CITR. She could carry it around in that thing she would always wear on her head. That would be some positive publicity for our dear Holden Caulfield, don't ya think? ...andrew