To Kill A Mockingbird

One of my favories- my MySpace and Facebook page names are "Passthed***ham" after that book. (I use the full D-word as my page, but I did not want to offend...)

It would've given me the vapors.

Savannah wrote:

I don't know why Rock Hudson passed on the role - but I totally agree that he's too "leading man" for the part. James Stewart read the script and found it to be too liberal. He worried that it would be a controversial movie.

That's funny, Savannah, because I thought the movie Harvey was liberal
Ignore me, I get goofy sometimes, just the blonde coming out...this too shall pass!

I L-O-V-E To Kill a Mockingbird! I saw the movie first and then read...well...listened to the book. Sometimes I have the attention span of a demented squirrel Anyways, it's one of the few movies that my Grandmother and I have a common interest in; she grew up during the Depression.

There's a town near me called Traverse City, and every summer they have a film festival during the last week of July. It was started by filmmaker Michael Moore, who lives there. This year they're celebrating the 50th anniversary of the release of To Kill a Mockingbird, and their special guest is going to be none other than Mary Badham, who played Scout! How cool is that??

Mary in Mockingbird...



And in 2005...

I probably won't, but it would be neat to see her. I don't think I've ever seen the adult Mary Badham anywhere, not on TV, in newspaper articles, or anywhere else.

"Scout" appeared in Traverse City last night...

Mary Badham comes to town

I love TKAM, both the book and the movie! I just read it this year. The funny thing was, when my Dad and I went to rent the movie, we had to go to two or three movie places to find it. And then the guy at Blockbuster looked at us like we were crazy for wanting such an old movie.

ON TCM. They have a special edition blue ray and dvd you can buy.

sweetkrissy2011 wrote:

ON TCM. They have a special edition blue ray and dvd you can buy.

Oh, that's cool. We didn't know that so we just drove around to every movie rental store until we found it.

nice.

I Seen the DVD at wal-mart today.

Tonight on PBS there's a documentary about Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird. Check your local listings, as the saying goes.

Rob wrote:

Tonight on PBS there's a documentary about Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird. Check your local listings, as the saying goes.

Interesting.

Hey what does PBS stand for anyway?

alexczarn wrote:

Rob wrote:

Tonight on PBS there's a documentary about Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird. Check your local listings, as the saying goes.

Interesting.

Hey what does PBS stand for anyway?

Neat!

Public Broadcasting Service.

Public Broadcasting Service. Lots of high-quality programming that can be hard to find on other networks.

Ahhh thanks. Thank you both.

There's also a doc about Gone With the Wind author Margaret Mitchell tonight.

I'm pretty sure I missed it; what time was it on if anyone watched?

I watched it. I already have seen the Margaret Mitchell before.

littlehousefan200 wrote:

I'm pretty sure I missed it; what time was it on if anyone watched?

I missed it, too, Faith. Maybe it'll be on again.

I missed it, too, but I think it was on from 10:00 - 11:30.

Lisa wrote:

littlehousefan200 wrote:

I'm pretty sure I missed it; what time was it on if anyone watched?

I missed it, too, Faith. Maybe it'll be on again.

I'll be sure not to miss it if it comes on again. :P

Rob wrote:

I missed it, too, but I think it was on from 10:00 - 11:30.

Oh okay, thanks!

Interesting story out today.  Harper Lee, the reclusive author who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird, is publishing a second novel this July!  It was actually finished in the 1950s, before TKaM.  Here's the story.

Harper Lee