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Books You Are a Phony and I Am Suing You
Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 5:36 PM
The author of that sequel to The Catcher in the Rye that I wrote about a few weeks ago has been sued by J.D. Salinger. We'll see if this is the thing that will actually drive the author out of seclusion.
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Bleargh. I don't even think the Catcher in the Rye was as brilliant and revolutionary as many seem to, but I was pretty repulsed by the proposed sequel. I mean, a 76-year-old retirement home escapee? I smell madcapped antics and wacky hijinks ensuing! Gross.
Salinger seems pretty litigious...I wonder if we could find a way to get him to sue the assholes who are remaking the Rocky Horror Picture Show, for some reason?
Salinger seems pretty litigious...I wonder if we could find a way to get him to sue the assholes who are remaking the Rocky Horror Picture Show, for some reason?
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I want to hear about Holden Caufield when he's middle aged.
He would either be a successful businessman who embodies all the "phonies" he ever criticized, but would have clad himself in sufficient logical armor to justify his life, or, he would be a decadent hipster, the Grandstand Foolosopher, taking potshots at everyone and every thing.
I want to hear about Holden Caufield when he's middle aged.
He would either be a successful businessman who embodies all the "phonies" he ever criticized, but would have clad himself in sufficient logical armor to justify his life, or, he would be a decadent hipster, the Grandstand Foolosopher, taking potshots at everyone and every thing.
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