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I am going to sign the contract,” Ms. Kodar, 73, said in a telephone interview from there on Tuesday. “The catalyst is the hundred-year anniversary and everybody is moving in a kind of wave. When I finally see it on the screen, then I will tell you that the film is done.”
“It’s hard to say why it’s coming together now except that everybody realizes that the longer we wait the less people will be around to know Orson’s wishes,” said Frank Marshall, 68, who was a line producer on “The Other Side of the Wind.” “Everybody recognizes that it’s the last chance.” Mr. Marshall — who was also a producer for Steven Spielberg — tried for years with Mr. Bogdanovich to get the picture completed.
“They figured out a way to get everybody involved,” said Mr. Karp, the author. “Their effort is incredible. The last few years of this have been so fraught with so many deals that didn’t happen because people screwed up in the last minute.”
“It took the right people to come along,” she said. “They wanted to talk to me and did not want any outsiders. Until now this movie has been under lock and key under French law. I had the good fortune to be able to protect it. When we talked, we laughed and joked. It was just this amazing rapport. What came through to me was their true love of art.” (read more)
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I really liked the movie Amélie (2001). I thought it was terrific when she uses the phone booth to get the oldish guy reunited with the little box that contains his long-lost childhood treasures.
Was it like finding "the Land of Oz or some lost tomb[?]"
Of course not. And it didn't have to be.
Terrific, all the same.
In interviews, Welles described a whiskey-drinking Hemingway taunting him as one of those “effeminate boys of the theater.” When Welles mocked him back, Hemingway threw a chair and they scuffled — settling it with a toast that led to an on-again, off-again friendship.
For some reason that description brought to mind an Oliver Reed - Alan Bates movie "scuffle".
Orson and Hemingway in the same room.
IIRC, Reed died from a coronary, drunk, from arm wrestling in a waterfront bar.
"You'll find, young man, that life looks rosier through the bottom of a glass."
That's from the Three Musketeers, from memory.
Type casting.
While they were shooting Gladiator?
Hey. Why not?
He died doing something he loved.
Holding hands with another man.
Just kidding.
There was a memorable scene in Titanic. When it's made clear that there aren't enough lifeboats for everyone, these two old guys just sit themselves down and get drunk and wait for the end.
When the water comes rushing into the ballroom, they panic, unbecomingly.
Art imitating life.
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