Subject: Re: The Importance of Ernest Being
From: Doug Miller (millerd@STCL.TAMU.EDU)
Date: Tue Jul 20 1999 - 12:43:38 EDT
OK, now we get to some really deep issues: could MacDowell really play Kate to
Cusack's Binx? The ages aren't right, are they? I suppose if she owns the rights,
the age question is irrelevant.
Doug Miller
David Trotter wrote:
> I'll second the vote for John Cusack. It seems like I'd heard Tim Robbins was
> on board to play Binx at an earlier time, but that might have been before Andie
> MacDowell was set to produce.
>
> Dave Trotter
>
> Brannon Costello <BrannonC1@AOL.COM> on 07/19/99 12:55:54 PM
>
> Please respond to Walker Percy Literary and Philosophic Topics
> <PERCY-L@its1.ocs.lsu.edu>
>
> To: Multiple recipients of list PERCY-L <PERCY-L@its1.ocs.lsu.edu>
> cc: (bcc: David Trotter/HRW/AUS/HARCOURT)
> Subject: Re: The Importance of Ernest Being
>
> Thomas and List--
>
> I'm finding this Hemingway/Percy/Bellow thread fascinating--certainly among
> the most engaging since I've been lurking. A comment on Thomas's assertion of
> Percy's non-maturation as a novelist: I would probably agree that The
> Thanatos Syndrome's treatment of Kierkegaard's doesn't sufficiently advance
> The Moviegoer's, although to be honest what little I know of Kierkegaard
> comes mostly filtered through Percy, so I'm hardly an expert there. However,
> I think it's a mistake to automatically equate a (possible) failure to
> develop the Kierkegaardian aspects of his fiction with a complete lack of
> development over the course of his novelistic career. Although the
> dramatization of Kierkegaard's theories obviously plays a substantial role in
> Percy's fiction, there are, of course, other things going on there, other
> threads that, if followed, reveal a marked maturation from one novel to the
> next--race and racial identity, for instance, and I'm sure there are others
> as well. While he may not necessarily show a steady growth as a
> Kierkegaardian novelist (and again, I'm not particularly qualified to speak
> here--others who know more than I might be able to champion his
> Kierkegaardian credentials more forcefully), he definitely demonstrates
> growth as a novelist, no qualifying adjective. As far as how his work stacks
> up against Bellow's--I'll let the list hash that out :).
>
> I suppose I should give myself a proper introduction, now that I've left
> lurk-dom behind: I'm Brannon Costello, and I'll be beginning my PhD work in
> English at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville in the fall. I recently
> finished up my MA at the University of Southern Mississippi (in Hattiesburg,
> MS, that LITR's notorious Knothead refuge), where I wrote a thesis on (as you
> may have surmised) race and racial identity in Percy's novels, an important
> aspect of his fiction that has gone relatively unexamined. Other than that,
> life is pretty non-descript: one wife, two cats, lots of books :)
>
> And Jon Cusack should play Binx.
>
> Best,
> BC
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