RE: "The Good Girl" and Graduate School

I love The Royal Tenenbaums. I first heard of it becuase of the alleged
Salinger influence, but I don't think there's too much of one. I think it is
one of the best movies I've ever seen. That's not saying much though, I'm
not big on movies.

>From: "Murray, Miranda" <Miranda.Murray@isinet.com>
>Reply-To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
>To: "'bananafish@roughdraft.org'" <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
>Subject: RE: "The Good Girl" and Graduate School
>Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 09:53:53 -0400
>
>Amber,
>
>I would not suggest Pennsylvania State University...regarding the film "The
>Good Girl", I haven't seen it yet but it looks mildly interesting. How
>would you rate it? On the subject of Salinger influence in films, did
>anyone enjoy "The Royal Tenenbaums"? Any thoughts?
>
>Miranda
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Raley, Amber [mailto:araley@agnesscott.edu]
>Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 8:23 AM
>To: 'm e g h a n '; 'bananafish@roughdraft.org '
>Subject: "The Good Girl" and Graduate School
>
>
> Meghan et al.,
>
>You statements seem to almost describe the Holden character (Tom is his
>slave name) from the film "The Good Girl." Did anyone else see this movie
>and have any thoughts about the strong Salinger connection? It was a bit
>overboard in my opinion. Maybe that was the point?
>
>Thoughts?
>
>Amber
>
>P.S. Non-Salinger material to follow. I will (hopefully) be going into an
>Industrial/Organizational Psychology PhD program next year. To all of the
>resident academics are any of you familiar with the 'atmosphere' of any of
>my top 10 choices for Graduate school?
>1. Pennsylvania State University
>2. Bowling Green State University
>3. Saint Louis University
>4. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>5. University of Connecticut
>6. Colorado State University
>7. Portland State University
>8. Texas A&M University
>9. Rice University
>10. University of California, Berkeley
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: m e g h a n
>To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
>Sent: 9/3/2002 8:53 PM
>Subject: Re: intelligence of the author vs. intelligence of the characters
>
>
> >I actually feel the same way you do about Catcher and the Glass stories
>(I
> >get a lot more out of the Glass stories). . .just, if you want to judge
> >Salinger's influence, there's just no getting around or beyond Catcher.
>
>I agree also. What gets me about "Catcher" is that (this may be
>selfish)it's
>not Salinger's best work, yet it's taught in high schools, which gets it
>a
>lot of exposure. Then you have kids full of real or imagined angst who
>are
>like, man that book is me! I can relate! And they then credit Salinger
>as
>their favorite author.. without ever reading any of his other (better)
>work.
>It's just given too much credit. The selfish part comes in because I
>first
>read Catcher when I was 13, I had seen it in a bookstore and made my mom
>buy
>it. Fast forward three years, it's being taught in english and there's
>100
>kids or however many in my class saying how much they love it.. when
>they
>probably never would have read it on their own. I guess I should hope
>that
>someone reads Catcher in english class, and then reads Salinger's other
>work
>and falls in love with it like I did, and then I can thank Catcher for
>that.
>
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