Re: documentary on salinger?

From: Jim Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu>
Date: Mon Nov 11 2002 - 14:09:15 EST

There's a new Virginia Woolf movie out (or coming out) called The Hours,
and the actress playing VW actually looks a good bit like her. I want to
see that, and Nora, just to see what kind of narrative decisions they made
to turn these people's lives into a movie...

Jim

Kim Johnson wrote:

> --- Tim O'Connor <tim@roughdraft.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Anyway, I stupidly bought an audiobook that
> > contained some Hemingway
> > voice recordings, but also The Old Man and the Sea
> > and a few stories
> > read by Charlton Heston. It was agony to hear
> > Santiago's story
> > through the lips of old Moses himself.
>
> jds, in the whit burnett tribute:
>
> "In this nutty, exploitive era, people who read short
> stories beautifully are all over the place--recording,
> taping, podiumizing, televising--and I wanted to tell
> Faulkner, who must have hear countless moving
> interpretations of his work, that not once, throughout
> the reading, did Burnett come between the author and
> his beloved silent reader."
>
> personally, i could never stand, nor now seek out,
> readings of texts i care about. that other voice
> later faintly echoing in the head, in addition to my
> own, would be disconcerting. even the author's
> reading of his own work is problematic. isn't there
> something about each reader's individual silent voice
> which carries the words to the center of one's self?
>
> and don't get me started on movie adaptations of
> books. nothing could be more repulsive than an actor
> playing a character who is perfectly formed in my (and
> every reader's) mind's eye.
>
> second 'and': and as bad is the movie bio about
> writers and artists. when i conjure up van gogh, kirk
> douglas get the hell out of there. can't imagine
> sitting through a pic of jeremy irons as kafka, or
> nicolle kidman as woolf....
>
> kim
>
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