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With King of Hearts, Brackman and his cohorts face not only the usual problems inherent in a Broadway-bound show (last week the truck carrying some of the sets up to Boston was fire-bombed by Molotov-happy kids, delaying the opening by a full week), but the special problem of transferring a beloved movie--a cult film, particularly in Cambridge, where it ran for five and a half years--into a popular musical. DeBroca's fable of lovable loonies running rampant in an abandoned French town during World War I has a dedicated following, may of whom aren...
What about songwriting? Brackman laughs and says the answer depends on how well the songs in King of Hearts are received. He talks about the beginning of his songwriting career: "I met Carly Simon teaching creative writing at a camp called Indian Hill. Carly was the folksinging/campfire counselor... so I just started writing songs for her." Those songs are among her biggest and certainly her most serious--including "Haven't Got Time for the Pain," "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be," and, on her latest album, "Let's Make Love for Old Time's Sake...
...Brackman seems to have to ability to walk into major projects. He must be a lucky man, evidenced by his version of how he got involved with King of Marvin Gardens: "I knew Rafelson and I met his wife in New York, who told me he was going to Big Sur to think about his new film. This was just after Five Easy Pieces. I called him and convinced him to hire me to come out and talk about what his new film should be. It was very much writtern-to-order, incorporating elements I really wanted to deal with...
...used for the past six years--who spend a weekend in Atlantic City during the winter. Anyone who has ever been to Atlantic City in the winter knows that it's the most desolate, depressing place on the East Coast (not that it's all that great in summer). Brackman lived there for five years as a child, staying with a grandfather in the hotel business. The film is eerie, filled with grotesque scenes and odd vistas. It is also beautifully written. Brackman strikes again...
...King of Hearts project started three years ago, Brackman says. He takes a rather unconventional view of the theater; or rather he says what so few people inside the business are really willing to say: "It's far too political. A lot of the talent that's called for is not so much creative as forensic...