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July 26, 2005
Jack on: more on Bogdanovich's Saint
Singapore-based UK-born journo Ben Slater offers more about the toil behind his forthcoming Saint Jack tome: "When I finally felt in a position to deliver the goods [to my blog], I ended up being strangely scooped by [Movie City Indie, which] spotted the online incarnation of an article about my activities that... was published last week in a... Singapore [paper,] TODAY... My aim was to research like crazy for 4 months and then write for 4 months, but as someone once said - a plan is a list of things that don't happen - and that turned out to be exactly right. My first port-of-call was to be the director, Peter Bogdanovich and my 'plan' was to interview him first and then move on to everyone else. Well, tracking him down wasn't too hard since I had been kindly given a contact for him through film critic Tom Charity. After emails had been sent and several weeks had passed, I got a reply - Bogdanovich was happy to talk to me. However, a window for the first phone interview couldn't be arranged till late March, and so my research didn't really begin proper till the moment I picked up the phone to Peter in New York and heard that distinctive mellow voice.After that things began to tumble into place in fits and starts..." After describing the process of his research, Slater offers, optimistically (Envoi!), "And this week I seriously begin writing the book in earnest. Here goes."
Posted by at July 26, 2005 01:13 AM
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