Rip torn terry southern (2 Ergebnisse)

Draft script for the 1988 film, two copied annotations of a circled "3" and "4" on one page. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner, whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye" (Robert Altman, 1973), "The Missouri Breaks" (Arthur Penn, 1976), and "Heat" (Michael Mann, 1996). Singer/songwriter Harry Nilsson teamed up with Terry Southern to create a truly odd and uncomfortable screenplay about a struggling, unstable actress calling people and businesses on her phone in her apartment. Essentially a one-woman performance, set entirely in a small apartment with a pet owl, goldfish, and a telephone. Nilsson and Southern enlisted Whoopi Goldberg to play the woman. Rip Torn directed, his first and only time in that capacity. The film included short cameos from Elliott Gould, John Heard, and Severn Darden, as well as the voice of Herve Villechase. The film was universally panned, with Goldberg even filing a lawsuit to prevent its release after Torn's cut was screened at the Sundance Film Festival, but, being unlike any other film, it has since achieved a kind of a cult status. Black untitled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriters Terry Southern and Harry Nilsson. 46 leaves, with last page of text numbered 45. Mechanical duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with three gold brads. …

Seven-page manuscript, executed in manuscript pencil with numerous corrections. An early rough draft of an essay by Southern regarding his first encounter with actor Rip Torn, which, oddly, is more an encounter with the concept of Rip Torn than Rip Torn himself (though Torn would ultimately become one of Southern's closest friends and confidants). The piece was ultimately published as "One of the Real.ah.Originals" in the April 1973 issue of Saturday Review of the Arts. With reference to his involvement in "The Cincinnati Kid" during Sam Peckinpah's brief tenure with same, Southern describes a meeting with the film's producer, the producer still reeling from Peckinpah's acrimonious departure (Norman Jewison would ultimately take the directorial reigns). The bulk of the essay details how Southern wrote a new scene in the midst of the change, introducing what would become Torn's character, Slade, a "gentleman" card shark. Full provenance available on request. Lined notebook paper, rectos only, 8.5 x 11 inches. Near Fine.…