I agree with you completely. Love The Shop Around the Corner which is also surprisingly dark.
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And is this film to be directed by the “resurrected” William Castle?
The Three Lives of Thomasina starring Patrick McGoohan????
If you like books about Hollywood, I highly recommend The Star Machine by Jeanine Basinger -great book about how studios manufactured movie stars. I very much enjoyed Alexander Walker’s biography of Vivien Leigh, but read it many years ago and probably better bios have been written about her since. About to read Lee…
I guess I got lucky in that I was diagnosed fairly quickly after my first real flare up about 15 years ago, but I was so afraid to take meds for it that I just decided not to. Whether or not that was smart, I don’t know, but I’ve had only one more flare up since then -a few months after the first. I’m 51 now, so I…
Eastwood also had an affair with the emotionally fragile Jean Seberg during the making of Paint Your Wagon then completely froze her out once filming was completed. Not a man who treats women well.
Completely agree about “Drop of Water.” That dead lady haunted my childhood.
I read a book in the 90s called Sex, Stupidity and Greed in the American Movie Industry and there was a whole chapter on James Toback (with frequent mentions of his close friend Warren Beatty).