ACTOR ANTHONY HOPKINS: AN INTERVIEW     ANTHONY HOPKINS IN 1975   At the time of this interview Anthony Hopkins was on tour promoting a TV movie about the Lindberg kidnapping. He portrayed Bruno Hauptmann, the convicted kidnapper; a performance that would earn the actor an Emmy.  This  interview–one of my first–was conducted 15 years before […]

    GIANT, RED BADGE OF COURAGE AND THE THING: An Interview with Robert Nichols.   Recently in response to one of my Facebook posts a woman who had played a small part in the legendary film Giant wrote me and briefly discussed the part she played in the film.  This immediately brought to mind […]

    THIRTYSOMETHING ANGST: A FORCE OF NATURE What is thirtysomething angst? I didn’t know it at the time but a number of years ago I found myself in the midst of it.   Recently, I was going through some trunked writing and I came across this piece. It’s from an auto biographical book dealing with my high school years in which […]

    JOHN BARRYMORE AND ALL MY CHILDREN Early on it was suggested—for the blog at least— that I post sections from The Purple Diaries which had been deleted during the editing process. Presumably this would add up to a sort of “deleted scenes” kind of thing you see on DVDs and Blu-rays for fillm directors […]