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"FacebookPinterest\n\nWhen In Cold Blood author Truman Capote kicked the bucket, his rival Gore Vidal thought up the perfect obituary: &amp;amp;#x201C;Good career move.&amp;amp;#x201D; That goes double for J. D. Salinger turning hermit after The Catcher in the Rye. Though he died just three years ago, his last published piece of fiction appeared in 1965, and even fans have to admit that hitting the mute button did more for his rep than a whole shelf of books.\n\nAs it is, even non-fans can&amp;amp;#x2019;t help being curious about writer-director Shane Salerno&amp;amp;#x2019;s now-it-can-be-told new doc, Salinger. Aside from a swarm of marquee-name talking heads\u2014John Cusack, Edward Norton, Danny DeVito, and so on (see right)\u2014what&amp;amp;#x2019;s in the movie has been kept under wraps. But since Salerno can&amp;amp;#x2019;t stop bragging that he&amp;amp;#x2019;s got the inside dish on J.D. and that his flick will knock our socks off, he&amp;amp;#x2019;d better deliver if he doesn&amp;amp;#x2019;t want to look like the dumbest clod since Geraldo Rivera opened Al Capone&amp;amp;#x2019;s vault and found...oh, right: bupkes.\n\nThe big question is how much unpublished stuff Salinger might have stashed away before dying. Revelations about his life as a recluse are less likely, since most of the dirt about his hang-ups and oddities got spilled in memoirs by ex-girlfriend Joyce Maynard\u2014who was a dewy 18 to his 53 when she moved in with him\u2014and Salinger&amp;amp;#x2019;s daughter, Margaret. As for why he forswore the perils of print, the likeliest answer is that, by the mid-1960s, reviewers had started to find his besotted spelunking in the fictional Glass family&amp;amp;#x2019;s tangled webs of angst a wee bit ridiculous. If we know anything about J.D., it&amp;amp;#x2019;s that he didn&amp;amp;#x2019;t cotton to ridicule.\n\nNowadays, literary folk prefer his stories\u2014the Glass cycle included\u2014to the novel that made him famous. But if Catcher&amp;amp;#x2019;s still the reason everybody else knows his name, nothing lasts forever unless you&amp;amp;#x2019;re Bill Shakespeare. Reportedly, high school kids\u2014the audience that was always in the tank for Holden Caulfield\u2014no longer understand what he&amp;amp;#x2019;s got to whine about. Salinger could be the most exquisite sentimentalist American fiction ever produced, but people&amp;amp;#x2019;s tastes in what&amp;amp;#x2019;s worth sentimentalizing change. Unless Salerno&amp;amp;#x2019;s really got something up his sleeve, his doc could end up being just one more of the twentieth century&amp;amp;#x2019;s last stands."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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