Fw: Zimmy as Holden
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Wed, 09 Sep 1998 21:17:20 +1000
I hope WinBoogie doesn't mind me reposting this post from awhile back in
reply to Lomano's post ... (:
Camille
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> From: Win Boogie <WinBoogie@aol.com>
> To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
> Subject: Zimmy as Holden
> Date: Sunday, 26 April 1998 15:15
>
> Hey All,
> I was just reading a Bob Dylan biography sort of book that said there
was
> talk about Bob playing Holden in 1962. So let's see, Bob has been sought
to
> play Woody and Holden, I have an idea here; What if Bob went on the road
in a
> one man dinner theater show where he played, John Smith, Ben Franklin,
Abraham
> Lincoln, Mark Twain, John Dillinger, Woody Guthrie, Holden Caufield, and
then
> himself ( although maybe he would have to do some sort of epilogue as
Bart
> Simpson perhaps) I think this would be a huge success, giving people a
true
> picture of all these American heroes all done in a Oklahoma drawl by way
of a
> kid from Hibbing who heard a lot of Folkaways records. Hell, I'd go see
it.
> I know we played the, "Who would play Holden?" game just recently,
but I'm
> wondering if anyone has any thoughts on Bob Dylan as Holden Caufield. I
for
> one think that any similarities between an early 1960's Bob Dylan and
Holden
> Caufield are dispelled by the fact that Bob had a clue.
> Best,
> Robert