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Making The Last Picture Show from Larry McMurtry's novel--we co-wrote the screenplay--was a challenge, because the book had no real story line. But something drew me to this tale of a declining small town, the badly parented teenagers and the sad, unfulfilled adults. Polly (production designer) and I and the cast assembled in Texas to shoot. Before I myself realized that it was happening, my wife accused me of falling in love with 20-year-old actress Cybill Shepherd. Polly was right. As I was swept into an affair with Cybill, my mother called to tell...
...Theater purists might not be ecstatic that I am basing it on the movie,” he says. But Stevens says that because Dorfman worked with Yglesias on the screenplay, “I feel better about it. I don’t feel like I am changing the original story...
Stevens’ decision to move the drama from the screen to the stage is even more unusual given the lackluster critical reception of the film. The New York Times wrote that the screenplay “has the admonitory blatancy of a wagging finger...
Rafael Yglesias sent him a copy of the screenplay, which Stevens says he liked considerably more than Dorfman’s original script. However, certain aspects of Yglesias’ screenplay would have been impossible to stage in the Adams Pool Theater, like the climactic final scene of the movie. So Stevens decided to mix-and-match parts of the film and play...
Stevens’ decision to move the drama from the screen to the stage is even more unusual given the lackluster critical reception of the film. The New York Times wrote that the screenplay “has the admonitory blatancy of a wagging finger...