When I was first here in Hollywood, I "educated" myself by writing articles for movie magazines in order to meet Hollywood people doingthings thsat interested me. Fortunately, I have excellent interviewing skills. Steven Spielberg wouldn't spend 30 seconds with Tom Who? but he once spent 90 minutes of a scheduled 45 minute interview with Tom Cleaver from Starlog Magazine talking about Indiana Jones and told me at the end he'd never done that with another interviewer.
Among the people I interviewed was Julius J. Epstein, who with his brother Phillip and Howard Koch wrote "Casablanca." He was still actively at work at age 93, and it took him six weeks to find the time to meet with me. He told me the best story about writing Casablanca.:
As is well known, the writers were a day ahead of production throughout the project. One Sunday, they were desperately trying to come up with a line that would explain the way the cops in Casablanca worked. The Epstein brothers were driving down Sunset Boulevard, headed over to the Warner studio on Formosa in West Hollywood where they worked, and were arguing about lines. They got stopped at the traffic light on Cherokee, just up from the Hollywood Athletic Club. Phil looked out at the people on the sidewalk (the only difference between then and now being hair styles, clothing and vehicles); he snapped his finger, turned to Julius and said "Round up the usual suspects!"
TC...have to agree about Casablanca which I can watch again and again.
I've lost count of how many times.
When I was first here in Hollywood, I "educated" myself by writing articles for movie magazines in order to meet Hollywood people doingthings thsat interested me. Fortunately, I have excellent interviewing skills. Steven Spielberg wouldn't spend 30 seconds with Tom Who? but he once spent 90 minutes of a scheduled 45 minute interview with Tom Cleaver from Starlog Magazine talking about Indiana Jones and told me at the end he'd never done that with another interviewer.
Among the people I interviewed was Julius J. Epstein, who with his brother Phillip and Howard Koch wrote "Casablanca." He was still actively at work at age 93, and it took him six weeks to find the time to meet with me. He told me the best story about writing Casablanca.:
As is well known, the writers were a day ahead of production throughout the project. One Sunday, they were desperately trying to come up with a line that would explain the way the cops in Casablanca worked. The Epstein brothers were driving down Sunset Boulevard, headed over to the Warner studio on Formosa in West Hollywood where they worked, and were arguing about lines. They got stopped at the traffic light on Cherokee, just up from the Hollywood Athletic Club. Phil looked out at the people on the sidewalk (the only difference between then and now being hair styles, clothing and vehicles); he snapped his finger, turned to Julius and said "Round up the usual suspects!"