Falling Through Space
“That same year the twenty-five-year-old daughter of a friend in Jackson, Mississippi, won a Pulitzer Prize for a play. She was out in Hollywood turning down offers as fast as she could answer the phone, so she told one of the producers at Twentieth Century Fox to call and offer one of the deals to me. Deals, that’s what they call them out there. It reminds me of my brother and me matching nickels with our lunch money in the sixth grade.
I was in my kitchen in Fayetteville, Arkansas, one afterno...on in 1980 and the phone rang. It was a businesslike voice calling from Hollywood and offering to give me sixty-five thousand dollars to rewrite the Italian film Wife-mistress and set it in New Orleans. You’ve got to be kidding, I said. Why on earth would you want to do something like that?
That was before I knew you are supposed to say, Oh, yes, what a marvelous idea. How did you ever think up something so wonderful? That is the proper response to a Hollywood producer. Oh, my, what a wonderful brilliant idea.MoreLess
I was in my kitchen in Fayetteville, Arkansas, one afterno...on in 1980 and the phone rang. It was a businesslike voice calling from Hollywood and offering to give me sixty-five thousand dollars to rewrite the Italian film Wife-mistress and set it in New Orleans. You’ve got to be kidding, I said. Why on earth would you want to do something like that?
That was before I knew you are supposed to say, Oh, yes, what a marvelous idea. How did you ever think up something so wonderful? That is the proper response to a Hollywood producer. Oh, my, what a wonderful brilliant idea.MoreLess
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