Happy Fiftieth Birthday To Kill A Mockingbird!

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“To Kill a Mockingbird” turns 50 this year, and all over the country Americans are turning out to reread and honor the story of Atticus Finch, Scout, Boo Radley, Tom Robinson " and race and justice in the pre-Civil Rights era South.

“To Kill a Mockingbird” was a bestseller and a Pulitzer Prize winner in its day.

The movie, with Gregory Peck, was a national event. The book’s author, Harper Lee, is still alive " though she hasn’t spoken publically in years. And the book itself " the story " sells on and on, and still moves.

This Hour, On Point: “To Kill a Mockingbird” at fifty.

http://www.onpointradio.org/2010/06/to-kill-a-mockingbird

I might attend this author reading:

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Writers on Writers: Harper Lee & To Kill a MockingbirdWhen: Monday, June 14, 2010
7:00PM - 11:00PM Where: Barnes and Noble
150 East 86th Street, New York, New York
Mary Murphy, author of Scout, Atticus and Boo and Wally Lamb discuss Harper Lee and her classic To Kill A Mockingbird as part of the Barnes and Noble Writers on Writers series.

http://tokillamockingbird50year.com/event/117048971667080
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=117048971667080

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For many years I thought that novel was older than that. By the time I knew about it, it was already a classic.

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@tsarstepan,

Love dat book. Love dat film.

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@dlowan,

It's one of the really rare books being assigned during my high school career I loved. I hated 19 out of 20 books assigned to me back then. The only other book I can fondly remember being assigned back then was George Orwell's Animal Farm.

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"To Kill a Mockingbird" was a bestseller and a Pulitzer Prize winner in its day.

I dont know why.....I caution all that if you really do have a bird problem buy a cat as the book is very scarce on the details of killing birds. Alfred Hitchcock's movie "The Birds" is far more practical.

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@Ionus,

Well everyone knows you then have to get a dog to get rid of the pesky cat and so on and so on.

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@tsarstepan,

I read it years ago & really enjoyed it, tsar.
I was wondering though, whether it might feel a bit dated now?
Hard to say, without reading it again.

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@dlowan,

dlowan wrote:

Love dat book. Love dat film.

Same here. More than one Boo Radley hangin' out in these threads!

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@Eorl,

Eorl wrote:

dlowan wrote:

Love dat book. Love dat film.

Same here. More than one Boo Radley hangin' out in these threads!

Boo was ok.

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@msolga,

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I read it years ago & really enjoyed it, tsar.
I was wondering though, whether it might feel a bit dated now?
Hard to say, without reading it again.

Oddly, I re-read it just recently.

It's more of a period piece, but it's still bloody good.

It was set in the past already, so evokes another age.....well, kind of, the civil rights struggle was hotting up when it was written.

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Wonderful book, wonderful movie.

I wonder what could be done with a remake?

Should be be done in the same original time period, or today?

Who would be a good picks for Atticus Finch, the father of the "molested" girl, the black man on trial, Boo Radley?

Impossible now of course, but wouldn't the late Dennis Hopper be perfect for the bigoted white trash farmer?

Omar Epps for the accused?
Christina Ricci for the white trash girl?
Johnny (stop being Tim Burtons puppet) Depp for Atticus? Or Kevin Spacey?
Spacey would be an excellent choice for Boo.

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I watched another Greg Peck movie in which he was a great father, "The Yearling." I was like scout in many ways, I love TKAM.

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@dlowan,

'course he was! Not sayin' he weren't.

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@Eorl,

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'course he was! Not sayin' he weren't.

How could I have doubted you!!!??

So...who's Boo here?

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@dlowan,

Probably all of us to a greater or lesser extent.

First to mind would by my earliest impressions of OmSigDavid; vastly different to my current impression, but also quite likely vastly different to what I would see in his house.
(Hope he's not offended by that)

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@msolga,

So having never read it and it being the anniversary and all, I read it over the weekend. Rather than being dated, it's become more like historical fiction. I could feel my grandmother in the characters. The morals are just as pertinent. I really loved it. Thanks for bringing up the thread.

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