The Heart is a Lonely Hunter movie is worth a watch. It's set in the 70s (I think). Probably Arkins' best role and definitely Sondra Locke's. She got an Oscar nomination in her first film. It was all dowhill from there. Years ago, a young lady of my acquaintance asked me to recommend a "weepy". I knew Heart was on and told her to watch it. The next time I saw her, she attacked me physically because it made her cry. Takes all kinds.

@Scottmbradfield

4 ай бұрын

I heard good things about it, always meant to see it. Sandra Locke! That's a while back before she married Eastwood! And Arkin was always good. Stay safe in the bathtub, Brett! s

Read a few stories by McCullers when I was 20 or so, and I recall a few other writers from that period of reading whom I associate with her, Capote and Tennessee Williams, O'Connor, as you say, although I did not read O'Connor and Harper Lee until recently. And I am a strange character who lives in a Southern city (a small city but a city). Tweety can ride it.

I love McCullers. She’s one of the writers I’ve returned to over and again through the decades. I find her work and her life endlessly fascinating. I’m eager to read the big new bio of her coming out in a month by Mary Dearborn.(Did you know that as young as she was when Heart was published, 23 I think, it wasn’t her first novel? She’d written a book called A Reed of Pan as a teen, but lost it while on public transportation in NYC in the 1930s.) Thanks as always, Scott! 8:31

@Scottmbradfield

4 ай бұрын

Thanks, Gare. Yeah, I'm gearing up to review the Dearborn bio, so we'll do a bathtub on it eventually. Hope you're keeping your 1000 books safe! s

@Scottmbradfield

4 ай бұрын

Thanks, Angelique! Never take the only copy of your novel on public transport! s

I think I"d include the 90's t.v. series "I'll Fly Away" with the books.

@Scottmbradfield

4 ай бұрын

OK! S

Please remember to read a line or two!

@Scottmbradfield

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for reminding me! S

love love The Heart is a lonely hunter...read it as a freshman in university...after i girl i was in love with at the time, told me to read The Ballad of the Sad Café....and all towns are weary...both fabulous stories and books...and though i loved her alot when young, now i preferO'Connor...wise blood (extraordinary) and all her stories....two brilliant writers, two women who died much much too young and were among the greatest writers the south produced...and speaking of the south, did you see that Fred Chappell died...another great southern writer, not well enough know or now read.....and speaking of Qualudes, i think we need to get some to Twetty's damn lawyer, so we can get that damn litigious bastard off our case....and nothing wrong with a lude with some find, small batch burbon....happy bday Scott....:) , bob

@Scottmbradfield

4 ай бұрын

I heard about Chappell but don’t know his work. Keep safe from litigious bastards, BB! S

@bluewordsme2

4 ай бұрын

@@Scottmbradfield read Chappell...never a better time than now, ...he definitely keeps his prose as sharp as the light through the carolina hills...one thing i should have learned from reading in the bathtub for decases, those litigious bastards dont stand a chance against a good steamy bath and the porcelain walls protecting us...be well scott....a near year arises...

ps. Scott, have you ever seen the film Reflections in a Golden Eye, based on her novel... staring Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, and Julie Harris...i dont advocate watching television in the tub of course, but the film would ber a tub movie if not for the potential harm to bathing buddies....

@Scottmbradfield

4 ай бұрын

No but I may try to... the paperback is on my TBR shelf... s

@bluewordsme2

4 ай бұрын

@@Scottmbradfield worth the read and the watch...