Immanuel Kant (6/1/01)
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Charles Zigman on Terry Southern’s screenwriting class at Columbia in 1991: “One of our more earnest classmates stands up. She reads the class a short screenplay she has written — a feminist retake on the Joan of Arc legend, featuring Joan and her same-sex lover. This student prattles on for upwards of half an hour. We, her peers, are supposed to listen to this incredible boorishness, and to make comments when she is finished. But she is just so incredibly boring, that we are all dropping off like flies. People who are not wearing watches start, absently, checking their arms. When the student finishes laying down her never-ending monologue, she gazes at the class triumphantly; ready for the admiration that she knows she deserves. She asks us, ‘What did you think?’ Terry, who has been nodding off during the reading, answers gracefully: ‘Why don’t they just get stoned and fuck?’”
____________Bob, Carol, Ted, Alice (5/31/01)
