i’ve been reading breakfast at tiffany’s today. and who knew that was even a book. or that truman capote wrote it. that is what astounds me most. capote to me conjures up mobster novels, not holly golightly. which is a completely false assumption and i have no idea where i came upon it. …i think i’m just associating with capone. it’s very similar! i have mild dyslexia! don’t judge, ladybug!
point to share with you today: NO on prop 8, H.G. agrees.
“If I were free to choose from everybody alive, just snap my fingers and say come here you, I wouldn’t pick Jose. Nehru, he’s nearer the mark. Wendell Wilkie. I’d settle for Garbo any day. Why not? A person ought to be able to marry men or women or–listen, if you came to me and said you wanted to hitch up with Man o’War, I’d respect your feeling. No, I’m serious. Love should be allowed. I’m all for it.”
In other surprising Audrey Hepburn-related screenwriting news, I was blown away when I saw that Roman Holiday was written by Dalton Trumbo, who wrote Johnny Got His Gun. That’s like Trent Reznor writing the score for High School Musical 3.
Whoa. Sudden vision of cheery Disney high school kids singing, with gusto, “A promise carved in stone, deeper than the sea.” Those could even be Disney lyrics.