“Hook” & the Real Peter Pan

The many stories of “Peter Pan” (from the Los Angeles Times Book Review)

“Hook,” directed by Steven Spielberg (Amblin Entertainment & Tristar Pictures, 1991)

Throughout much of Steven Spielberg’s new movie “Hook,” my 12-year-old son and I found ourselves in the same state as the character played by Robin Williams: struggling to remember. At one point, having returned to Never-Never Land as a middle-aged adult, Spielberg’s Peter Banning (a.k.a. Peter…