Paris Hilton in 'Gatsby' Remake (Signs of the Apocalypse)

Fox News ^ | Thursday, September 09, 2004 | Roger Friedman

[Xenalyte]

The only reason I've ever finished a Fitzgerald book is to see if the awful characters get their comeuppances. I root for major casualties.

[GOP_Raider]

Ok, so naturally my question after reading that was if the film would be shot entirely in night vision?

[akorahil]

He was boring, uninspired, and had a prediliction for writing about girls with issues (for obvious reasons). I say "Bleah".

And I am FROM St. Paul, so I should be totally bought into the FSF lovefest, well, I always have been a little different....

[dangus]

Ahhh, that was the upside of bouncing around the tracking system: Twice the Shakespeare, none of the early-20th-century proto-beatnik sh!t.

Heck, I don't even know those books... although Babbitt sounds familiar... Was that plagiarized or something?
(/obscure political humor)

[utahagen]

I'm with you on that. The Apocalyptic Age has begun.

[cyborg]

Okay *lol*

[oyez]

Reading James Joyce is a running reminder that my attention span isn't what it used to be. Hmmm. Maybe it was to great in the first place.

[akorahil]

Oooh...tough call.

Well, coming from the Land of 10,000 F. Scott Fitzgerald freaks, I will vote for him, with the understanding that I am biased...

[elbucko]

That book sucked.

I agree! I must say that I am relieved that I am not the only one to think so. The "Left" believes it to be the "Great American Novel". It's only a soap opera about excess wealth put to print, and a poor one at that.

[Xenalyte]

Check out this thread - and while you're over there, wish it a happy second birthday!

[Trillian]

That would be more fitting for her..

[Argh]

I read recently that Joyce's Ulysses is so abstruse because Joyce got the preliminary print back from the publisher and scribbled a bunch of notes to himself all through it: these were later incorporated into the first printing as well as the editor could guess because for some reason, Joyce never got another crack at re-editing. I dunno, I wasn't there. I had to read Portrait in college and the only thing I remember now is that the protagonist refused to scratch himself when he got itchy...

[presidio9]

White men who even THINK the "N-word," no matter what the context, are evil evil EVIL!

[ozzymandus]

Is this from The Onion? Wasn't Daisy a spoiled, clueless heiress? That's certainly accurate typecasting, but I can't picture a movie Daisy whose only dialog is "Like, oh wow!", and "Ew, gross!".
Seriously, I liked the book, and the 74 movie version was the only good role I've ever seen Redford in. He was perfectly cast as a complete phony who ended up dead in his own swimming pool. Wasn't Bruce Dern the mechanic who plugged him?

[Xenalyte]

Hell, at an English class at Houston Baptist University in 1989, I was told by a classmate that "Huck Finn" promoted homosexuality because of one line: Jim saying to Huck, "Come back to the raft, Huck honey."

He objected to our having to read the book on those grounds. Fortunately, since it was a private school, the professor laughed at him.

[presidio9]

Sounds like the nitwit on a thread about the David a few days ago who claimed that the fact that Michelangelo created the most beautiful male nude in history and wrote sonnets to male friends PROVED that he was a practicing homasesshule.

[Flashman_at_the_charge]

I must confess to feeling a little smug myself when I read about some insufferable ass getting his just rewards in life.

[Xenalyte]

Schadenfreude is a decent motivator for reading Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner.

[Flashman_at_the_charge]

Well you're a braver soul than me. Why waste your time on mediocre literature when you could be up the pub having a pint?

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Nick, what madness is this?

Wasn't Mia Farrow enough of an insult?

"So we beat on, boats against the current, born back ceaselessly into the past."