Re: Moviegoer


Subject: Re: Moviegoer
From: David Trotter (dtrotter@HRW.COM)
Date: Tue Jul 20 1999 - 11:40:44 EDT


That's what I was thinking, that Robbins is too old for the part. It's been
awhile since I read _The Moviegoer_, but isn't Binx in his twenties? Or am I
confusing his and Will Barrett's age in _The Last Gentleman_?

Incidentally, I think I might have forgotten to reintroduce myself this time
around. My name is Dave Trotter, and I used to be a member of this list when I
was still living in Mississippi last year. Since, I've moved to Austin and am
working as an editor at an educational publishing company.

I'm kind of in limbo, deciding whether to commit to more school. I've been
reading Percy since grad school (at Mississippi State), but only _The Last
Gentleman_, _Lancelot_, _The Second Coming_, _The Moviegoer_, and most of
Signposts.

And for the most part, I'm a lurker.

To give you some idea of my sense of the context of this list, the last time I
was here, EZ Ed Manier was still posting regularly. Has he come back? Ed?

Thanks,

Dave T.

David Alan Beck <dabeck@IUPUI.EDU> on 07/20/99 09:50:59 AM

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Subject: Re: Moviegoer

Isn't Robbins a little old for Binx? (Maybe I'm confusing the name with
someone else.) BUT Julia Roberts as Kate???!!! Please. I'm already
disappointed.

David Beck

"I am inclined to deny that any work is
philosophical if we cannot discern in it
what may be called the sting of reality."
                                -Gabriel Marcel
                                Creative Fidelity

On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Brian Holofchak wrote:

> According to the Avenue Pictures (production company) web site, _The
> Moviegoer_ , currently under production and to be released by Tri-Star, will
> be starring Tim Robbins as Binx and Julia Roberts as Kate. The book has been
> adapted to the screen by Terence Malick. If Malick's work on _The Thin Red
> Line_ is any indication of his ability to adapt a novel of interior dialogue
> to the screen, then I have much confidence in his treatment of _The
> Moviegoer_. Andie McDowell is not mentioned as being involved in the picture.
>
> please excuse if any of the list members have previously posted this info.
> cheers,
> BHolo
>



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