Harper Lee

And isn't Harper Lee also in Other Voices, Other Rooms?

isn't there a crazy (sexist) rumor that Capote actually wrote To Kill a Mockinbird?

yes, but i prefer the rumor that lee actually wrote "in cold blood."

it's a pretty persistent rumor.

has anyone done that statistical prose analysis on the book. obviously that sort of thing is far from definitive, since even if some dominant similarities were to be found, lee could have been influenced by capote... or if few similarities could be found, capote could have been consciously trying to write in a different style. but it'd be interesting, perhaps.

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I've only seen the movie once, in sections, while at school and didn't enjoy it

^^ for me too, though it may also have been the old VHS tape which meant Scout's high-pitched voice was blurred into incomprehensibility that didn't help

Once, in sections, at school, on VHS seems like the worst way to watch anything.

Add in teachers unable to work out how to switch TVs onto the VCR-in channel, so each segment was preceded by 10 minutes of loud white noise and snow

all movies are unsalvageable at school, most books too tbh

(so jd otm that tkam has something going for it)

I've never read To Kill the Mockingbird.

all movies are unsalvageable at school, most books too tbh

What about the Romeo buttocks movie?

had forgotten about olivia. powerful point.

We had to fast forward through a breastfeeding scene in "Clash of the Titans," iirc.

we had a cardboard box held over the screen during a sex scene in the fishburne othello. (irene jacob!) smothering's fine tho obv.

can't remember what we did and didn't watch during the 400 class periods we spent on apocalypse now but even if we saw every second of the redux bunnies i still want my life back

wtf crazy schools are these where you watch ray harryhausen movies and apocalypse now

we were doing conrad, see

we didn't see clash of the titans :( BUT we did see jason+the argonauts, in the same ancient greece unit where we also watched spartacus because the teacher thought it was about the spartans. (in his defense he was a substitute and this was a summer makeup class i had to take cuz i failed freshman history.)

in fairness i did have a science class where we watched day of the triffids, earthquake, soylent green, and star trek IV

i think my teacher had a pretty good defense for the scientific relevance of all of them except the last one

our school opted for a new & exciting "local author" program the year we were supposed to read To Kill A Mockingbird

>:(

assumed last one was marine biology unit xp

Time travel unit, probably.

wtf crazy schools are these where you watch ray harryhausen movies and apocalypse now

We watched Threads, which was pretty soul-destroying

We watched Goodbye Lenin in French class for some weird reason.

french class was a cool grab bag because basically anything went as long as it had been dubbed into french

like kissing?

totally played footsie during la petite sirene

in my driver's ed class we were shown the car crash parts of FACES OF DEATH

sometimes our Latin teacher fast-forwarded through the longest sex scenes in I CLAVDIVS

I'm sure eventually Capote wrote a line of dialogue as hamfisted as "Stand up, your daddy is passing by," but I haven't read it.

we saw Mockingbird in high school... and The Pawnbroker, with BREASTS

I thought Rod Steiger's problem was bad accents.

has anyone done that statistical prose analysis on the book. obviously that sort of thing is far from definitive, since even if some dominant similarities were to be found, lee could have been influenced by capote... or if few similarities could be found, capote could have been consciously trying to write in a different style. but it'd be interesting, perhaps.

No it wouldn't. Why would someone do such thing on the basis of those idiotic rumours?

There is this piece on the book:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/feb/06/to-kill-mockingbird-harper-lee-overrated-sequel-go-set-watchman

I haven't read since school. Too long and its not the kind of thing I'd pick up again.

Its been too long for me to recall my impressions of it, is what I meant.

sometimes our Latin teacher fast-forwarded through the longest sex scenes in I CLAVDIVS

― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Friday, 6 February 2015 03:10 (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's just gonna skew the kids' future expectations!

Is Dr. Manhattan going to be in this Watchman book y/n?

more likely cool fan fiction about what The Comedian did between Korea and 'Nam.

wasn't really looking forward to any of the inevitable thinkpieces that try to blow your mind by arguing that a beloved classic is actually, wait for it, overrated!

there was an interview on NPR the other day with one of Lee's close friends who visits her in her assisted living facility and he said she has no diminished mental facility, but she is almost blind. But he doubted that she could be manipulated into signing anything. Who knows.

The Guardian's arts coverage has gotten so random lately (for inst "reviewer" of Scientology doc decides that victimization by C of S=comedy), that I'm taking indefinite leave from their thoughtful clickbait.

Sarah C doesn't overdo on her opinion and says she is looking forward to the bk anyway so considering this is The Guardian it wasn't too bad.

Thanks! I'm sure they'll lure me back to clickpieces one of these days.

in my driver's ed class we were shown the car crash parts of FACES OF DEATH
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Friday, February 6, 2015 3:04 AM

that sounds kinda screwed up! but i've never seen that movie myself

it's like the worst benny hill episode ever

Better than DEATH OF FACES---worst Behind The Music-based TV movie ever.

Harper Lee to nosey journalist: "Go away!"

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/05/harper-lee-journalist-go-away-to-kill-a-mockingbird-sequel-go-set-a-watchman?CMP=fb_us

never read the new one but it's hard to overstate the impact that mockingbird had on american culture

wait really?

aw man :(

RIP

:(

rip harper

what a fiasco with go set a watchman. such a blemish, horrible to see her be taken advantage of like that

my son's 7th grade English class just did a whole multi-week segment on To Kill A Mockingbird and connections to the civil rights movement.