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nprfreshair:

Over at Letters of Note is a letter from the school librarian at Lone Star School in Fresno, California that petitions Francis Ford Coppola to make a movie of the students’ favorite book, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton.

Lone Star is a small school in Fresno County. We have a student body of 324 students. It is a kindergarten through eighth grade school. I feel our students are representative of the youth of America. Everyone who has read the book, regardless of ethnic or economical background, has enthusiastically endorsed this project. This plea comes from our seventh and eighth grade students.

Letters of Note also has some of the correspondence that followed between the librarian and Coppola’s producer Fred Roos who, eventually, began cc’ing Coppola himself on the communications. The Outsiders was released in 1983 and starred Diane Lane, Patrick Swayze, Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, Rob Lowe and Emilio Estevez.

Here’s a Fresh Air interview with Coppola.

And for good measure, interviews with Matt Dillon and Diane Lane.

ARB The Outsiders

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mightyflynn:

Capt. Virgil Hilts, 1943

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mightyflynn:

You’ll have to take my word, because I can’t find it anywhere online. But I’ll never forget an exchange I saw between Roy Firestone and Cecil Fielder in, I think, 1991. Firestone pointed out that Fielder had earned $78,500 three seasons earlier in Toronto. And then he said, “You’re going to earn $4.5 million next season!”

With a huge smile, Fielder shook his head. “That’s a lotta iron, man. A lotta iron.”

-MF

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