Wasn't Robert Redford also lobbying for Joe Buck?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 25 April 2021 18:05 (two years ago) link
Didn’t Leiber and Stoller get into hot water with the Colonel for proposing that Elvis appear in the film of A Walk on the Wild Side?
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 April 2021 18:58 (two years ago) link
(xpost) I'm 120 pages into the book, so it's been alternating backstory on Schlesinger, James Leo Herlihy, and Waldo Salt so far; they haven't really gotten into casting yet. This is probably the sixth or seventh making-of book I've read. It's a genre I really like.
― clemenza, Sunday, 25 April 2021 19:22 (two years ago) link
Wait is Hellman that is referred to Monte Hellman?
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 April 2021 20:56 (two years ago) link
Oh, it isn’t
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 April 2021 20:57 (two years ago) link
Have they started discussing the music yet? Walter Sear and John Barry!
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 April 2021 20:59 (two years ago) link
There's a chapter on Jerome Hellman, too.
― clemenza, Sunday, 25 April 2021 21:18 (two years ago) link
And I think the music gets a chapter.
According to the book, Viva was on the phone with Warhol, talking about being in a salon and getting her hair done for the party scene, when she heard Valerie Solanas's shots at the other end of the line.
― clemenza, Saturday, 1 May 2021 16:11 (two years ago) link
The theme music--that great Toots Thielemans bit--supposedly based on "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands"; when Schlesinger originally ran those scenes, he had them play out against Dylan's song. (I already knew "Lay Lady Lay" was one of the songs considered before "Everybody's Talkin'.")
― clemenza, Sunday, 2 May 2021 23:19 (two years ago) link
Any mention of Nilsson's "I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City"?
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 3 May 2021 00:20 (two years ago) link
Yes, in passing (can't really remember how it goes)--also the Warren Zevon song (ditto), and the two by Elephant's Memory.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 01:34 (two years ago) link
Second half of the Graduate Zoomcast I posted the other day:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=olNXOvb7Ygc&t
― clemenza, Friday, 17 February 2023 02:18 (one year ago) link