J.D. Salinger Articles

Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson Twilight Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga series has a number of elements in common with J.K. Rowlings' Harry Potter novels: both book franchises involve teens, mysteries, otherworldly creatures, and supernatural powers; both are worldwide bestsellers mostly aimed at young readers; and both are on the list of books most complained about by parents and educators. Well, at least a certain ilk of [...]

Robert Pattinson, Pierce Brosnan Remember Me Robert Pattinson – REMEMBER ME: More British Reviews Robert Pattinson fans, be forewarned: those last British reviews of Remember Me are for the most part quite negative. As usual, they see the film's finale as exploititive and compare Pattinson's Tyler Hawkins to James Dean. (I didn't set out looking for negative reviews; those are the ones I found.) For [...]

Robert Pattinson's Tyler Hawkins in Allen Coulter's romantic drama Remember Me (above, with Emilie de Ravin, Pierce Brosnan) has been compared to James Dean's characters in the 1955 classics East of Eden and Rebel Without a Cause. Created by Will Fetters, the early 21st-century Tyler feels he's misunderstood by his wealthy father (Brosnan), has a troubled relationship with a young woman (de Ravin), and is [...]

Upon learning of author J.D. Salinger's death at the age of 91, I immediately thought of Phil Alden Robinson's Academy Award-nominated 1989 drama Field of Dreams, in which Kevin Costner's character sets out to find a reclusive writer played by James Earl Jones. In W.P Kinsella's novel Shoeless Joe, the character is Salinger himself, but not surprisingly, the reclusive real-life Salinger refused to allow the [...]