Re: What's the big fuss?
Pierrot65@aol.com
Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:45:27 -0500 (EST)
I know that Soul Asylum's Dave Pirner (who used to go out with Winona Ryder
before Matt Damon came along) once bought her a first-edition copy of
"Catcher" for something like $2000. I can think of a lot of people I dislike
more than Danes, Ryder and Paltrow. I still don't want to think what a
"typical" Hollywood producer would do to the idea of either Salinger or his
fishes. It's not because I think it's too precious for film, and it's not
because I underestimate the power of film as an art form. It's because I don't
trust or need anyone to fix it to celluloid. I've got enough of a mental
picture as it is. (And what good would this list be if Salinger were incapable
of even providing vivid images to go with his stories? We would be worshipping
a hack. Thank God it's not so.) I would rather see those named do something
completely different, something which could still be "inspired" by Salinger
(his hurt characters, his dreamy poets, his sharp eye for adolescence, his
precocious kiddies, whatever) without jumping all over the little material we
have. I say leave it alone.
rick