well the book is great. and the movie is better. i don't get people thinking the book is better then the movie. it puzzles me. and i do agree that the lucy mancini part of the book is too boring to even bother mentioning in the movie. and no it doesn't have anything to do with the plot of the movie. if they were to have added the back ground of every character then the movie would have been to long and the perfect flow would have been disruptive. think of it that way ladies and gentlemen. rolleyes

"strange things happen all the time, and so it goes and so it goes. and the book says, 'we may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us'" - MAGNOLIA