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  • What Could Have Been: This has been proposed for a film adaptation dozens of times, all of which were personally turned down by Salinger. Ralph Bakshi wrote a personal letter to Salinger proposing that he purchase the rights and make it into an animated film with live-action bookends. Salinger told Bakshi that he didn't feel that the novel was fit for any other medium.
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