On 1/3/06, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ach. With all the hubbub and disasters of the Holiday Hell Season now
> past, my partner and I finally got to open our gifts last evening.
>
> My stash consisted of four movies recently released on DVD ("To Kill
> A Mockingbird"<snip>To Kill a Mockingbird is one of my favourite movies of all time. IMHO, Peck's greatest performance (among many great ones). I always found it interesting that the young actors who played Jem and Scout never acted again (IIRC), as they were both very believable in their their roles. I really liked that (although they had to edit out large parts of the book for time) they took so much dialogue verbatim from the book. One thing I never could understand is why they changed the ending: in book, the narrator (Scout as an adult) said something to the effect, "We never saw Boo Radley again", whereas in the movie, she said "that was the beginning of the coming out of Boo Radley" (or words to that effect). Quite a difference! Anyway, I'm happy for you for all your presents, Godfrey, but especially that one. cheers, frank cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
