{"id":4764,"date":"2005-03-27T07:01:04","date_gmt":"2005-03-27T07:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=4764"},"modified":"2005-03-27T07:01:04","modified_gmt":"2005-03-27T07:01:04","slug":"whats-that-you-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=4764","title":{"rendered":"WHAT’S THAT YOU SAY?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s<\/a> an interesting little home education tidbit– HE plays a prominent role in the long awaited sequel to The Graduate<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Plans for a sequel to the film – starring Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross and Anne Bancroft as the predatory Mrs Robinson – have become part of Hollywood mythology. Now the speculation can finally be put to rest: the sequel has been written.<\/p>\n

Home School picks up the narrative several years later. Benjamin is now a father who, scarred by his own education, decides to teach his children at home. He has not, however, entirely escaped his past, as the seductive spectre of Mrs Robinson looms once again.<\/p>\n

But the agonising wait is not over for devotees yet. Charles Webb, who wrote The Graduate in 1963, has declared that Home School, which he completed two months ago, will not be published until after his death.<\/p>\n

…Home School owes its inspiration to Webb and his partner’s decision to take their own children out of school and teach them at home, an illegal act which left them on the run from the US authorities and seeking refuge by running nudist camps.<\/p>\n

It is this unorthodox subject matter which causes Webb to fear that a film version would wreck the integrity of his creation. ‘There’s never been a film before about a family that home educates its kids. Very few people in the movie world have had that experience, so I don’t think it’s a subject that would be treated objectively. It’s a runaway, underground, counter-culture kind of thing – that’s why it hasn’t been done.’ <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s an interesting little home education tidbit– HE plays a prominent role in the long awaited sequel to The Graduate. Plans for a sequel to the film – starring Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross and Anne Bancroft as the predatory Mrs Robinson – have become part of Hollywood mythology. Now the speculation can finally be put […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}