AMC: Lily sighting

[Hender O'Nine]

I just saw a commercial for Harriet the Spy, a new movie starring Rosie
O'Donnell and the actress who used to play Lily Benton/Banning Montgomery
(Laurel's autisitc daughter). Her name is (something) Trachtenberg. I
forgot, maybe Michelle? Anyway, the announcer says the young actress's
name in the promo so she must have a starring role.

--Ken

[David W. B. Llewellyn]

Yeek! They're making Harriet the Spy into a movie? I remember reading
that when I was a kid (and I'm no kid)!

Yes, the child would be a starring role. Harriet is about ten years old.
It's about a rich girl with a *dreadful* home life (the
housekeeper/nanny is her only real adult friend) who finds ways to find
out what other people do, by breaking and entering into their homes.
She keeps long-running notes on the lives of most people in town. My
favorite routine in the book was when she would sneak into one house's
living room through a dumbwaiter.

The book isn't so much, "does this girl suddenly find out that something
big is happening?" (no, she doesn't) as "this kid needs help!" I
remember one of her best friends is a girl who loves chemistry and
mentions to Harriet in conversation that she's invented some new poisons
that can't be traced.

I don't care if the movie is designed for 10-year-old girls. I want to
see it!!!!!

Ahem. ::straightening tie::

DWBL-Bob
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[David W. B. Llewellyn]

jer...@hiway1.exit109.com (Jeremy) wrote:

>dw...@ix.netcom.com (David W. B. Llewellyn) wrote:

>>Yeek! They're making Harriet the Spy into a movie? I remember reading
>>that when I was a kid (and I'm no kid)!
>>

>>I don't care if the movie is designed for 10-year-old girls. I want to
>>see it!!!!!
>

>Yeah, it was one of my favorites too. I liked the sequel, The Long
>Secret, better, but hey, I'm looking forward to it. Unless it sucks,
>of course. Then I'll be pissed.

I don't know "The Long Secret." What's it about?

Dave

[Abbey Lundy]

In article <4r9to9$b...@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>, "David W. B. Llewellyn"
<dw...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> jer...@hiway1.exit109.com (Jeremy) wrote:
> >dw...@ix.netcom.com (David W. B. Llewellyn) wrote:
>
> >>Yeek! They're making Harriet the Spy into a movie? I remember reading
> >>that when I was a kid (and I'm no kid)!
> >>
> >>I don't care if the movie is designed for 10-year-old girls. I want to
> >>see it!!!!!
> >
>

Hey, Harriet the Spy was -- is -- on my all-time favorite list of great
books. I must have read it about 50 times when I was a kid. I will
definitely see the movie.

Abbey Lundy
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University of Chicago/Office of International Affairs
a-l...@uchicago.edu