pesciphiles- >I was recently viewing the Burt Lancaster picture, "The Swimmer". It >struck mevery "Catcher" like. The protaganist, Ned, is this rich old >business man in Conneticut who is swimming home. He is swimming pool by >pool to his house. He picks up a 20 year old woman and they start wimming >and have fun. He says stuff to her about "protecting her" and she runs >off. He meats various charcters along the way and ends up running home >after being called "a joke". i also saw this movie (not the whole way through) i thought the beginning was really cool... how he was going to swim all the way home through all those swimming pools... >The story line isn't that connected but Ned's speech to the girl about >protecting her in the city sounds very much like Holden's speech about >being in the field of rye catching kids who are about to go over some >"crazy cliff". Anybody else seen it? It took a ton of patience to sit >through its endless shots of Lancaster in a swimming suit running with >horses or jumping over things with the girl and swimming. i had the same impression (though i found the lancaster speech bordered on disturbing in a couple of parts... can't say why really... you have to watch the scene to get the vibe) i thought the movie became rather lame soon after lancaster meets the girl... it started out all right though... this is probably due to the endless shots of lancaster running around... i did like the scenes where he stops and talks to the pool owners though... there is a cool tension there... >I had a JDS dream a few nights ago, that I'd think I'd want to share. >Well, it was one of those Oprahs when its about her book club and JDS is >to be featured and how "Hapworth" is the book that she'll talk about. JDS >comes on and looks to be very mad and all. He starts going on these rants >about how he hates Chicago and how he hates phonies (very Holden like) and >how phonies killed Seymour (very Buddy like). Then, he starts burning his >book on stage (very Jimi Hendrix a la Monterray Pop Fest like). Oprah >starts to scream and call him a phony and then he takes over the show. >JDS renames it "Jerry" and has engaging interviews with movie stars and >how he says to Richard Gere that Gere is on the 1st level of >enlightenment. JDS quits TV and moves to the Great White North where he >kicks Mordecai Richler's bottom and starts writing engaging columns in >Prarie newspapers. That's all. Any comments? imagine catcher discussed on a talk show like oprah's.... (the horror the horror) -----------------------------////////////////////////////// Marco 'the crab' Cabassi hater of all things .sig related (especially quotes) My unremarkable home page: http://www.cris.com/~stenmark ////////////////////////////------------------------------