My son had to watch The Graduate for a high school film class-interestingly enough-the only comedy or film where no one dies or gets killed. After we watched and discussed it I found my wife's copy of the novel on our bookshelf-which I had never read. In the course of the next 3 hours I read the novel and found to my amazement that Charles Webb's dialogue was lifted verbatim from the book to the novel; and here I had always thought Buck Henry had written the cleverly paced and frustratingly banal words that are devastating for Benjamin to hear. Okay-Buck did come up with the "Plastics!" and " are you here for an affair?" lines; as well the sight gags of the smoke Ann Bancroft exhales after the first kiss and the car skidding on the sidewalk at the mention of the Taft Hotel-and of course the 3 main Paul Simon-aka "Mr. Alienation"-songs used in the film. I remember seeing the film the first time and telling my Buds at school they had to see it after Christmas break. and Katherine Ross-the epitome of 60's middle class student beauty.
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The Graduate
(1967)
"Remember me to one who lives there, she once was a true love of mine."
31 May 2010
Warning: Spoilers
Saga of Sonora
(1973 TV Movie)
A lost Classic Indeed
5 May 2006
Dear Skoyles-
Bless you and the Internet for this memory which I started to look up today. The Vince Edwards sites I visited had no mention of this. he was the perfect bland straight man for the zany group that surrounded him. I started watching this one Sunday afternoon at the tender age of 24? (what was I doing at my parent's home- probably Sunday dinner). I have never mentioned it to anyone, but remember it better that some blockbuster movies of the same era. It hurts to think that 4 years later, Zero Mostel died in the city and hospital I was at. Does anyone else remember it. It certainly looked like a bit of fluff put on by the NetWorks-but somebody spent time putting this together. The good-byes at the end were unique, and posthumous, as I recall. Another tragedy, of the pre-VCR era.
Bless you and the Internet for this memory which I started to look up today. The Vince Edwards sites I visited had no mention of this. he was the perfect bland straight man for the zany group that surrounded him. I started watching this one Sunday afternoon at the tender age of 24? (what was I doing at my parent's home- probably Sunday dinner). I have never mentioned it to anyone, but remember it better that some blockbuster movies of the same era. It hurts to think that 4 years later, Zero Mostel died in the city and hospital I was at. Does anyone else remember it. It certainly looked like a bit of fluff put on by the NetWorks-but somebody spent time putting this together. The good-byes at the end were unique, and posthumous, as I recall. Another tragedy, of the pre-VCR era.
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