This has been said before, so at the risk of overdoing, I still believe no one, cept Barrie, can capture Peter (though there are those who've met and played with him, and had quite a game!). These days I never come to these ghastly simpiflied versions with sequals and prequels (Starcathers, Hook, whatever), but  Geraldine McCaughrean's own take sounds interesting, and I think I'll be tempted to take a look at it when it comes out. Hmm...



Yet these 'Lost Girl' things, in my worthless opinion, sound really...not good!



Oh, well, again, in the end, the youth always escapes anyway, so..."there's Peter still."

Just wondering, I went through a summer day in reading Carroll for myself and for my nephew, and part of that involved viewing the film Dreamchild. Upon first finding that, I remember a mention of Alice Liddell meeting Peter Llewelyn-Davies at Columbia University on the centennial of Dodgson's birth. I was wondering if any of you people knew something about it? Just curious...



This film thrilled me...well, in some ways. Mostly just Milliar and Potter's take on the relationship between Alice and the mathematician, who dreamed in pictures (another rich performance by Ian Holm) and set me pretending many things. Also apart from Alice's own coming to grips with her old friend, I was often looking out the window, waiting...



Unlike Barrie, only met this fellow a few times, so I do not yet find a way that even the child within me could say if this really was Dodgson or Carroll or whoever.



But one thing had me laughing. Several interviewers coming to meet the 80 year-old Alice, and they're wondering why people are so interested in her. One replies, "It's like Peter Pan, but Alice was actually real."



I couldn't help but laugh a little at that! Until they returned to the golden afternoon where the stories were first told, and even though Carroll is so very different from Barrie, like a flute to a drum, I found myself smiling.



A heartless smile comes out much more with Mr. Birkin's take on a real dreamchild. Right now I'm thinking of that scene where Barrie tells George about cutting out a mother's heart, and then another with the glory of Michael's socks...



Enough, along with the question, just thought I share that. Peace!

This is probobly found somewhere in Barrie's writings (or in Andrew's book), but besides in Peter Pan, did Nico have his own character as the other boys?

Perhaps this is a rather silly question, or perhaps it's been asked before, but I was wondering whether there are any pictures of J.M. Barrie's brother, David.



In fact, if I'm correct (but I may very well be wrong) besides, J.M. Barrie and his parents there seems to be no pictures of his first family.

"I do loathe explanations" so I better not explain what I am about to write, but I'm sure Mr. Birkin can give you the answer you're looking for.



I found Uncle Jim to be neither a boy or a man (half-n half)...but oh, how he was wishing to discover what he was!



I haven't gotten to Tommy and Grizel yet, but I heard that Tommy can't become a man...he writes about that...it seems to be hidden all through his writings.

A few questions really...



What did Barrie think of the many actresses who played Peter Pan? Or any of them? I know he was displeased with the statue...but I was wondering...



Did he see the first movie version...the silent film (sorry, I can't remember the year it was made)..do you know what he thought of it?





Besides Ian Holm and Johnny Depp are there any other actors that potrayed Mr. Barrie...I don't mean on stage (I know there's The Man Who Was Peter Pan) but on film?



Besides in The Lost Boys, do you, Mr. Birkin, feel that any actor/actress and (or) film has captured the true Peter?



Sorry if it seems a little much, but I'm just filled with questions tonight!

I know he's really ageless...but what age did Barrie picture him at physically...I once heard it was twelve...or was it younger?