mini-summer

[gwynnega]

While the rest of the country is having a snowpocalypse, we in LA are having a mini-summer. The Garage Kitty is pleased, and I can't say I'm not. Today I braved the mall, which was not fun (especially driving in and out of the parking lot), but my holiday shopping is now pretty much done. Hooray.

Last night I watched a documentary on the late John Cazale, who appeared in only five films, but what five films: the first two Godfather movies, The Conversation, Dog Day Afternoon (possibly my favorite movie ever), and The Deer Hunter (which my dad co-wrote). My dad would've loved this documentary. I hadn't realized Cazale and Meryl Streep were a couple, and I couldn't remember whether Cazale had come to the Academy Awards the year The Deer Hunter won awards--but no, he died of lung cancer before the movie was released. I remember seeing young Meryl Streep in the ladies' room at the Oscars, but I had no idea of everything she'd just been through. Anyway, the documentary is wonderful.

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[gwynnega]

My dad and his writing partner wrote the original script of Deer Hunter--then Michael Cimino and HIS writing partner totally changed it. Cimino didn't want the other writers to get credit, but the Writers Guild intervened, so all four writers got credit, thankfully.

Wow, that's interesting to know about your home town and your high school boyfriend! I have such love for the great American movies of the 1970s--arguably the last great period of American moviemaking.