Re: young salinger's movie tude

Brendan McKennedy (suburbantourist@hotmail.com)
Fri, 27 Feb 1998 22:43:05 -0800 (PST)

>Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 22:37:49 -0700 (MST)
>From: WILL HOCHMAN <hochman@uscolo.edu>
>Subject: young salinger's movie tude
>To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>Reply-to: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>
>In several letters to Whit Burnett, it seems as though a young salinger
>was fairly eager to dip his hand into hollywood's pot of gold...sure
>surprised me but then again, the glass family loves to perform...will
>
>


I read once that Salinger had a short, unsuccessful venture as an 
"entertainer" on a cruise ship.  I'm not sure what "entertainer" means, 
but I was startled beyond expression.  

Beyond the mystery of his motives, that bit of trivia is interesting to 
me because of a possible link to "Teddy".   What happened on Salinger's 
cruise?  Did he watch someone dump oranges over the side, or did he 
interview a young Buddhist Holy Man who related the experience to him.

Of course, Salinger's motives are the ultimate focus of interest here to 
me, but every time I begin to wonder, my brain shuts down.  I simply 
can't process it.  It may have something to do with any lack of 
knowledge of Salinger as a person, but as a writer--particularly as a 
writer of what he *wrote*--the entire thing is simply bizarre.

Brendan

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