― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 5 June 2003 21:58 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 5 June 2003 22:01 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 5 June 2003 22:03 (twenty years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 5 June 2003 22:14 (twenty years ago) link
― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Friday, 6 June 2003 03:34 (twenty years ago) link
― the bellefox, Saturday, 26 November 2005 14:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Saturday, 26 November 2005 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link
keep meaning to rerereread "tender is the night"
― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 26 November 2005 14:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Saturday, 26 November 2005 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link
I liked the first third a LOT but not the second third. maybe the last third would have been different, again
― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 26 November 2005 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 27 November 2005 11:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 27 November 2005 11:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― jeffrey (johnson), Sunday, 27 November 2005 15:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 27 November 2005 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 27 November 2005 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 27 November 2005 18:10 (eighteen years ago) link
What a great formulation, from N.!
― the bellefox, Sunday, 27 November 2005 19:04 (eighteen years ago) link
yeah, like three times. what i meant was unfilmable in the sense that it wouldn't make a very good film.
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 27 November 2005 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 27 November 2005 23:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 27 November 2005 23:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 28 November 2005 00:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 28 November 2005 00:42 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.whitehouse.gov/holiday/thanksgiving/photoessay/images/c18535-18-398h.jpg
Is that you in the middle, Ned?
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 28 November 2005 00:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 November 2005 00:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 28 November 2005 00:52 (eighteen years ago) link
the later jack does, but i think JN c. chinatown could've pulled it off - gatsby needs to have that spark of obsessiveness, which robert redford couldn't really do.
plus now that i've mentioned it i can't imagine anyone but JN not sounding silly saying "old sport."
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 28 November 2005 01:58 (eighteen years ago) link
Nicholson could never pull this off. His penchant for injecting irony into the most commonplace of utterances would give the game away.
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 28 November 2005 02:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Monday, 28 November 2005 02:41 (eighteen years ago) link
has anyone seen the 1949 version with alan ladd?
imdb on the 1926 silent version: "No prints of this film are known to survive. Check your attic."
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 28 November 2005 07:25 (eighteen years ago) link
With respect, Alfred, 'thusly' is a 'ly' too far. I am reminded of the Amises' dentist: 'Open widely'!
For a moment I thought that J.D. was saying not that only JN could pull off Gatsby, but that ... only JtN could!
― the bellefox, Monday, 28 November 2005 15:08 (eighteen years ago) link
They'd have to have harassed him Kubrick-style, making him say the lines so many times he dropped the Nicholson affectations. Even then, I'm not sure he'd have been the best pick. Redford was reasonable, but the main problem was he looked like he belonged with the prestige and money. Gatsby was supposed to be more suspicious.
― mike h. (mike h.), Monday, 28 November 2005 15:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 28 November 2005 23:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx weaves a daisy chain for... SATAN!! (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:09 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.3-x.nl/images/front/25873.jpg
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx weaves a daisy chain for... SATAN!! (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:36 (eighteen years ago) link
With Tim Hopkins as Gatsby?
― the bellefox, Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― the bellefox, Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:24 (eighteen years ago) link
I went looking for my copy of tender is the night to run through that another (a sixth? a seventh?) time but I must have given it away again (the sixth time? the seventh time?)
must pick it up again today
I read 'the last tycoon' a while back and it read as you'd expect: a touch bitty and piecemeal, not entire
a dizzylingly great writer
― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 15 December 2005 10:15 (eighteen years ago) link
But Gatsby: a classic, a masterwork, etc. I had to read it in high school then again for a college course, but haven’t revisited it since. Will have to correct that.
Something interesting that a college prof pointed out when we were studying Gatsby was the fact that Fitz endlessly employed the word “careless” and its variations to describe Daisy.
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 15 December 2005 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― gershy, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 07:49 (sixteen years ago) link
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 07:52 (sixteen years ago) link
New movie version by...Baz Luhrmann. Hm.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 December 2008 23:20 (fifteen years ago) link
i've really been meaning to reread this. can't imagine it making a good film, though.
― J.D., Friday, 19 December 2008 05:25 (fifteen years ago) link
oh goody it'll be a campy genre-bending epic
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 19 December 2008 06:21 (fifteen years ago) link
I reread it every couple of years and it's different each time, if you know what I mean.
― Meat ROFL (suzy), Friday, 19 December 2008 08:43 (fifteen years ago) link
obv Hugh Jackman will be Gatz, right? Musical or not?
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 14:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I couldn't help but picture Robert Downey Jr. in the role when I read it.
― SongOfSam, Monday, 12 April 2010 19:56 (fourteen years ago) link
which role?
― Mr. Que, Monday, 12 April 2010 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Daisy Buchanan.
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 April 2010 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Gatsby = RDJ
Tom Buchanan = Puddy from Seinfeld
― SongOfSam, Monday, 12 April 2010 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Also unperson says the author is actually previously published by an actual publisher? Which is the most surprising thing.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 4 January 2021 16:56 (three years ago) link
it could be good if it punctures the smooth facade/babe in the woods schtick he and many other narrators use, like uncover some buried rage that he studiously evades in his narration of 'gatsby.' probably bad though.
― treeship., Monday, 4 January 2021 17:04 (three years ago) link
The summary reads like the pitch was "I've got it, I'll turn this Fitzgerald character into a Hemingway one."
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 4 January 2021 17:06 (three years ago) link