On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Scottie Bowman wrote: > > Why make films of Salinger's works at all ? > God knows why......we've had this discussion many times, and I've always felt it would be a truly sad day when and if a JDS book was ever Hollywood'ized. It's certainly not a good idea, for many of the reasons you listed in your post, and secondly it would seem awfully contradictory to the Salinger philosophy in general to 'go Hollywood'. --AK