Tom at 2010-03-22 11:47:32:
Long, but so very worth the read. This piece is loaded with gems.
Peter Dwight at 2010-03-22 13:10:55:
Good read.

i love this thought.

..."She stays with him because she wants him to become a star on Broadway again, so that she can leave him. She can't leave him when he needs her. She doesn't love him, but she can't leave him."
Tom at 2010-03-22 13:57:43:
That's one of those gems. I liked his story about how he came to write visually and also the "universal theme—of someone who is clean, but got himself dirty somehow, and now he is trying to wash it off."
thementalcoach at 2010-03-23 09:25:11:
This was a great article. I really liked that he put hope into each picture.
E. Amato at 2010-03-27 16:46:46:
thnx for that.
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[...] Last word: “Here I was listening to this story [about John Huston berating every guest, including Brooks, at a dinner party he attended] as Capote was rehashing it, and I said, ‘Yes, I remember that evening. What’s that got to do with why you wanted me to do the picture?’ He said, ‘You’re the only guy in the room who didn’t cry.’ I said, ‘That’s why?’ He said, ‘That’s right. You didn’t rage, you didn’t hit him, you didn’t cry. That’s the man I wanted to do this film’.” (Brooks, Backstory 2: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1940s and 1950s) [...]