Re: Please see American Masters Schulz (other film recommendations)

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Crumb and his brother are (were? I think his brother is dead) both

very aspie. I loved the bio film but be warned that it is not for

kids, it can be quite disturbing as is some of Crumb's work. I like

most of his work despite this. Not sure what it says about me.

Harvey Pekar, another cartoonist, has some asperger traits, though

that doesn't seem to be his diagnosis so much as OCD. He did a comic

book called American Splendor. A film was made of it. The comic

book is biographical as is the film. One of Harvey's best friends,

Toby, is definitely on the spectrum. American Splendor is not for

kids either, but it's not disturbing like some of Crumb's stuff. It

just covers some adult topics. Harvey's wife seems to like

diagnosing people. I don't doubt she has some asperger traits too.

The film American Splendor contains some real life interviews with

Harvey and his wife but through most of the film Giamatti plays

Harvey.

Has anyone here seen Snow Cake? What do you think. I saw it because

I just LOVE Alan Rickman. LOL. Yeah, ask me about MY asperger

tendencies some time. Anyway, I found out about the film on one of

my Alan Rickman and was gleeful to see my favorite actor

in a film in which his character befriends a woman who has high

functioning autism (played by sigourney weaver). I think it's a

really good film. It's complete fiction though the woman who wrote

the screenplay has a young son who has autism. Critics said S.

Weaver did a lousy job, but I don't think any of the critics have

kids on the spectrum. I thought she was fantastic and I can see so

much of my son in the character she played!! It made me laugh and

cry.

Mozart and the Whale is another one. Josh Harnett plays a guy with

asperger syndrome. It's a love story. I think it's based on a real

person. He meets his love interest at a group he started for people

who are different. She's quite aspie too.

Anyway, maybe these have already been discussed here but I thought I

should bring it up.

Miriam

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> > From: ghoolsby <ghoolsby@>

> > Subject: ( ) Please see American Masters

> Schulz documentary

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> > Date: Friday, December 26, 2008, 11:15 AM

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> > PBS is showing the American Masters documentary on

Schulz. I

> > recommend that everyone see it, especially if you've seen the

movie

> Crumb.

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> > Crumb is about the cartoonist Crumb. Both Crumb and Schulz

> > appear to have aspie traits. Amazing how both have such similar

aspie

> > symptoms, and how the documentaries cover them so similarly.

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