Great story! By coincidence I've been watching several of Coppola's early films, including his thesis movie "You're a Big Boy Now." I thought it was a ripoff of "The Graduate" but then found it came out a year before "The Graduate!" It's not great by any means, but given that it was a student thesis I was pretty impressed. It has a truly great opening shot, a very long, slow tracking shot through the New York Public Library, when suddenly the doors burst open and a '60s go-go gal comes dancing through.
I saw his Warner Bros. musical, "Finian's Rainbow," last night. I had no knowledge of the source play, and I was pretty surprised by the story....and by what happens to Keenan Wynn!
Speaking of the early days of the Internet: In 1996 I was a college freshman, and a writer for our newspaper. I was a fan of Bruce Campbell, and he had a new thing called a "website" with his email address posted. I emailed and asked if he'd consent to an interview for the paper. He replied, and told me to send him ten "extremely original" (his quote marks) questions and he'd send his answers in a few weeks. I asked about his involvement in "Thou Shalt Not Kill...Except" and several other of his (at the time) lesser known films. Only one "Evil Dead" question. Anyway, I'm still waiting on his response!
Great story! By coincidence I've been watching several of Coppola's early films, including his thesis movie "You're a Big Boy Now." I thought it was a ripoff of "The Graduate" but then found it came out a year before "The Graduate!" It's not great by any means, but given that it was a student thesis I was pretty impressed. It has a truly great opening shot, a very long, slow tracking shot through the New York Public Library, when suddenly the doors burst open and a '60s go-go gal comes dancing through.
I saw his Warner Bros. musical, "Finian's Rainbow," last night. I had no knowledge of the source play, and I was pretty surprised by the story....and by what happens to Keenan Wynn!
Speaking of the early days of the Internet: In 1996 I was a college freshman, and a writer for our newspaper. I was a fan of Bruce Campbell, and he had a new thing called a "website" with his email address posted. I emailed and asked if he'd consent to an interview for the paper. He replied, and told me to send him ten "extremely original" (his quote marks) questions and he'd send his answers in a few weeks. I asked about his involvement in "Thou Shalt Not Kill...Except" and several other of his (at the time) lesser known films. Only one "Evil Dead" question. Anyway, I'm still waiting on his response!