Re: young salinger's movie tude
WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Sat, 28 Feb 1998 10:45:28 -0700 (MST)
"A Young Girl in l941 with No Waiste At All" in the May, l947 Mademoiselle
might be as much as you can know about mr. salinger's brief cruise ship
work. Letters suggest as much, anyway, will
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Brendan McKennedy wrote:
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> >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
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> >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
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Brendan
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