Not such a great question, but I've been wondering (and it's been quiet here, cept for all the rubbish)...what stories of Barrie's (apart from Peter Pan) have been adapted onto screen? In the opinions of others here, are there any worth seeing?

Thanks Robert,



And apologies...need to get my brainwaves working! There's a correct function now as I'm listening to the band's music.

Believe that button is one KJD...Kicks Joy and Darkness.



That's his son (who Andrew talks about on the introductions on this website), Anno's band



Can find out more about him at



anno.co.uk



And there's the haunting and beautiful radio program on JM Barrie and Anno...it's at the website on the Introduction page at the bottom.

Sorry for the double post...don't know how I did that!

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.