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Through some random reading on the web, I found some interesting stuff related to The Catcher in the Rye. In 1950, a little more than a year before "Catcher" was published, J.D. Salinger's short story, "For Esmé -- With Love and Squalor" was published in the New Yorker. Salinger got a request from Laurence Olivier -- the guy that Holden sort-of-trashes in Catcher -- to show "Esmé" as a half-hour radio show on the BBC. Salinger had already sold the film rights to another of his stories, "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut," which became the film, "My Foolish Heart," an embarrassing tear-jerker. So Larry Olivier never got "Esmé." I wonder when exactly Salginer wrote "Catcher," and if this incident colored Holden's movie hating in the novel, or, specifically, the mention of Laurence Olivier.
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