Those movie people, they didn’t say nothing about the “savant” thing, though they jus’ made me out to be this nice dimwit who goes around sayin’ things like “life is like a box of chocolates” and “stupid is as stupid does.” I don’t know what any of that means exactly, and when people come up to me on the street now and repeat them words like they’re some kind of wisdom or something, I have to say you could knock me over with a feather. Winston Groom says in his first book that I’m something he calls an “idiot savant,” which I guess is some fancy way of sayin’ I’m good at math and number stuff like that, but awful slow at jus’ about everythin’ else. I may jus’ be an idiot, but I gotta say all these biographies have got me mighty vexed. As if you folks didn’t already know more ‘bout my past than my poor ole pea brain can recollect. Winston Groom has now gone and wrote another book called “Gump & Co.,” which is supposed to tell you even more ‘bout my life. I reckon that movie was some big success, cause Mr. Tom Hanks, to play me and that pretty lady, Miss Sally Field, to play my mama. Winston Groom, who way back along there in 1986 wrote this book with my name on its cover jus’ as plain as day: “Forrest Gump.” And then there was all them movie people who made themselves a movie ‘bout my adventures. More and more people has, ever since all these fellers come along to tell my life’s story.įirst there was that writer feller, Mr. By Winston Groom (Pocket Books, $22, 242 pages)
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