[UA] TWECHBY Sighting

[John Tynes]

There's an interesting anecdote from Francis Ford Coppola on the new DVD
release of his early film THE CONVERSATION, and it struck me as a UAish
moment. This is from the Salon review of the disc:

> Coppola describes a scene in which Harry Caul goes to visit his sometime
> girlfriend, played with vulnerable sweetness by Teri Garr, only to draw away
> from her when she tries to get closer to him. Coppola explains the genesis of
> the scene: He used to have recurring dreams in which he'd go to a secret
> apartment or house that nobody knew he owned. There would often be a woman --
> a woman with something very sweet and sad about her -- waiting there for him.
> Coppola says he took the dialogue for the scene almost verbatim from his
> dreams, a gift the actors accept graciously and play beautifully. But after
> "The Conversation" was completed, Coppola noticed a change in his dreams. In
> them, he still visits those secret homes no one knows about. "But," he says,
> "there is no woman waiting for me."

Interesting that this early 1970s manifestation of TWECHBY happened to a
filmmaker, who lost her when he tried to put her on film.

<- John Tynes - rev at tccorp.com - http://www.JohnTynes.com/ ->
You've got a death wish. That's so selfish. I have one too,
but I direct it toward others.
              (Lisa Kudrow as Lucia in THE OPPOSITE OF SEX)


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