Strange. He had a tough time. I saw a sketchy painting of a young boy with blond hair, and I said, “Who’s that?” And he said, “That’s your brother.” I said, “My brother?” “Yes, he died.” And he didn’t say much else. Bogdanovich has made more films, without a trace of a hit.
He was fun. Terrible. I was with him the day before. Because I was so depressed. Oh, that’s bullshit. What did you sue for? You know what he did when Tony Curtis’s son died of an overdose? But it’s not one you could make today. What did Orson say about Dorothy? I told her, “I don’t know whether I want to go to bed with Jacie, or you.” Working that out was tough on Polly, and by the time of Paper Moon things had become very difficult. She told me that. “Well, this is a complete fallacy. Now I’m back here. It was a kitchen accident.
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was a mix of inspiration and desperation, based on a 1966 shooting rampage. Yeah, fucking up my picture. Last March, New York gossip columnists had a field day with the news that he and Hoogstraten had split, saying that Bogdanovich didn't know until he read it in the newspapers that his 34-year-old L.A.-based missus was leaving him after 12 years. I went to see it for legal reasons and it was horrible. © 2020 Vox Media, LLC. Is A Cannabis DUI Really The Same As Drunk Driving? I think this is it!” Bogdanovich says. Also we wrote the parts for them because I knew them. But maybe sound would have finished him, too.’. “We rented a seventh-floor apartment in the back,” he says, squinting through his trademark tinted tortoiseshell glasses. After catching Citizen Kane at the local movie house, however, he was moved to switch from acting to directing. “It's a lonely town even if you are hot.”, Of course, New York isn't easy on its celebrities either. They call me “Pop,” and I allow it. Peter Bogdanovich. I don’t think I made another picture for three years, almost. “It didn't get one bad review.”. His taste is a bit out there.
She gets Oscars for everything. We were not going to be going out after the movie’s over.
That they both sound eager to work together won't be the most unconventional aspect to their relationship. I think it’s a good picture, and she’s good in it. So how did Cybill catch you? Peter Bogdanovich is often held up as a cautionary tale of Hollywood arrogance, Icarus with big frames and a neckerchief.
But you were a beneficiary, no?
The first thing I noticed when rewatching The Last Picture Show was how many great roles there are for women in it. Apparently, after the premiere of At Long Last Love, which went very badly, Wilder said you could hear the Champagne corks popping all over town. By 1985, Bogdanovich was forced into bankruptcy. He does not stop. Log in or link your magazine subscription, Peter Bogdanovich, far left, with Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal on the set of, Bogdanovich and Dorothy Stratten on location for, Photo: John Springer Collection/Corbis via Getty Images.
I came to the set one day; I said, “You depress me, you’re always so down and acting like somebody’s stealing from you or something.” But finally, after about seven weeks of this, we started getting to like each other.