November 26, 1990
Larry Turman called to tell me his thoughts on Bird of Paradise. “You’re a good writer,” he said. “I thought so before and I think so now. What a damned unusual story you’ve written! Where in tarnation did you come up with that?”
He doesn’t want to produce it. “Don’t ask me why. There’s nothing I can really point at and criticize. It’s all of a piece; it hangs together… Why do I want to produce one movie and not the other? I don’t know. It’s like picking out a tie. It’s so damned hard to get a picture made, as you know at one remove from In the Dark. Maybe my head liked it a little better than my heart.”
He said he’d give it to his partner to read, and also offered to put me in touch with some agents if it doesn’t work out with the ones I sent it to. What a guy! He didn’t have to be that nice to me.
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Ahh Man!!!
I was Expecting a nice ending to the story. What happened? How did Prince become Successful? Or did the sales pickup eventually? I spent four hours reading this interesting coverage. I wanna read the epilogue to know what happened?
Don’t worry, I won’t leave you hanging! There are more old journals to come.
They’re so addictive!