...and this just got dug up on another forum, re: Carlisle, Mason & sex, lies and videotape:
Eighteen months ago, two of Mason’s friends--independent producer Nick Wechsler and Soderbergh’s agent, the late Ann Dollard of Leading Artists--showed him the script for “sex, lies and videotape.”Mason thought it was “extraordinary.”
“But the acid test,” he says, “was whether my wife, who never reads scripts, would like it. So I asked her to read the first five pages and see if she got bored.”
Carlisle couldn’t put it down. “She told me I had to get it made,” he says.
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While Tenenbaum approached a friend at the film company, Mason went after an even bigger gun--Richard Branson, the billionaire chairman of the parent firm Virgin Group whose music division just happens to sell Belinda Carlisle’s albums overseas.
“We had a relationship,” Mason says offhandedly. “It was serendipity.”
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 1 May 2021 05:50 (two years ago) link