Subject: JDS: Chicago Tribune Article (#2)
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Date: Mon Mar 10 1997 - 06:06:24 GMT
--[An inset article in the Tempo section of the Chicago Tribune, dated
Wednesday, February 26, 1997, page 7]--
Title: 'Jerry' Salinger: Film Buff
by independent journalist John Blades
Considering how his short story, "Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut," was trashed
and travestied in the 1949 Susan Hayward--Dana Andrews soaper, "My Foolish
Heart," it's hard to reconcile J.D Salinger's alleged affection for Hollywood
films.
But corroborating testimony came from Larry Swindell, a columnist for the Ft.
Worth Star-Telegram and biographer of John Garfield, Carole Lombard, and Gar
Cooper, who may be the last journalist to have had a casual conversation with
the author. This was in the late 60's, a few years after Salinger had gone
into seclusion.
It was during a Katharine Hepburn film retrospective at Dartmouth, Swindell
recently recalled, that he found himself at the Hanover Inn, seated at a
table with three men, one of whom was identified only as "Jerry". "We
proceeded to have dinner and talk movies, movies, movies," said Swindell,
"until we got into a trivia contest. I finally realized who he was because of
an oblique refrence to "Uncle Wiggly".
"My eyes didn't pop or anything like that, and I thought I covered myself
very well. There was nothing about him that seemed reclusive. He was very
gregarious. Everybody kept calling him Jerry, so, heck, I called him Jerry
too.
"And he's quite a movie trivia expert, which is surprising when you consider
he wouldn't allow his work to be filmed after "My Foolish Heart".
"I finally let him know I knew who he was by saying, 'I'll bet I can tell you
where you got the name Holden Caulfield (from the marquee of a movie theatre
playing a 40's William Holden--Joan Caulfield comedy). When dinner broke up,
he said we should stay in touch, and we exchanged addresses. After a few
months, I wrote to him. I never got a reply."
[End of article]
hope you enjoyed it.. i'm off to bed.
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