The "Today I Learned" Thread • Page 17

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Francis Ford Coppola had not intended to make a film about teen angst until Jo Ellen Misakian, a school librarian from Lone Star Elementary School in Fresno, California, wrote to him on behalf of her seventh and eighth grade students about adapting The Outsiders.[4][5]

"We are all so impressed with the book, The Outsiders by SE Hinton, that a petition has been circulated asking that it be made into a movie. We have chosen you to send it to."[6]

Approximately 15 pages of children's signatures were attached to the letter written in different colors. Moved by the letter, Coppola read the book and was impressed by the relationships between the greaser kids. It brought back memories of when he had been a drama counselor working with children at a summer camp in his youth.[6]

From Wikipedia. Jo Ellen is her aunt. Haha, this is crazy we've been together for 12 years and she's never mentioned this.

 

Her with Coppola and C Thomas Howell.

 

Things can happen like that. I didn't find out I was 2nd cousins with a member of a certain popular Tampa scene band until my mom randomly brought it up when I was like 20.

 

Just off this description alone I know who this is lol

 

TIL that while Italian immigrants that came to the US and Canada mostly were from southern Italy and Sicily, the Italians immigrants who went to Brazil and Argentina mostly came from northern Italy. Resulting in two distinctly different Italian diaspora cultures between North and South America.