Alan Jacobs


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I recently re-read Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer and experienced an epiphany: the perfect Aunt Emily — and Aunt Emily is the most important character in the book to cast properly — would be Joanne Woodward, from her Mr. And Mrs. Bridge era. Absolutely perfect. I am now filled with regret that Terrence Malick never managed to make that movie that he so longed to make.