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BY HOWARDOPROUTY on 01/18/2011 at 3:55pm
Congratulations on this "discovery." You might be interested to know, however, that the Sam Peckinpah Papers, donated to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Margaret Herrick Library in 1986, contain over FIFTY different treatments and script drafts for THE TEXANS, many of which bear Peckinpah's own extensive annotations. This collection has been catalogued and available to researchers for over twenty years -- so not quite "lost," exactly.
Howard Prouty
Acquisitions Archivist
AMPAS/Margaret Herrick Library
posted by stavrogin at 11:08 AM on January 20, 2011 [2 favorites]
BY HOWARDOPROUTY on 01/18/2011 at 3:55pm
Congratulations on this "discovery." You might be interested to know, however, that the Sam Peckinpah Papers, donated to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Margaret Herrick Library in 1986, contain over FIFTY different treatments and script drafts for THE TEXANS, many of which bear Peckinpah's own extensive annotations. This collection has been catalogued and available to researchers for over twenty years -- so not quite "lost," exactly.
Howard Prouty
Acquisitions Archivist
AMPAS/Margaret Herrick Library
posted by stavrogin at 11:08 AM on January 20, 2011 [2 favorites]
I am obliged to comment here.
posted by Pecinpah at 11:09 AM on January 20, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by Pecinpah at 11:09 AM on January 20, 2011 [1 favorite]
I read the headline as "The first 15 pages of Sam Peckinpah’s long-buried script for C.H.U.D.".
posted by benzenedream at 12:04 PM on January 20, 2011 [4 favorites]
posted by benzenedream at 12:04 PM on January 20, 2011 [4 favorites]
Howard Prouty seems a bit prickly, maybe he got a paper cut that day or something.
posted by Elmore at 12:09 PM on January 20, 2011
posted by Elmore at 12:09 PM on January 20, 2011
I don't understand where the script is. At the bottom of the article is a sort of ad for Google Docs... where's the script?
posted by dobbs at 8:09 PM on January 20, 2011
posted by dobbs at 8:09 PM on January 20, 2011
I'd pay to see this. I'd pay even more if someone could turn Sam Peckinpah's corpse into some kind of zombie director who eats brains, gets drunk, and makes movies like The Wild Bunch and Ride the High Country for a new generation of ingrates.
"They"? Why, they is the plain and fancy they, that's who "they" is! Caught you, didn't they? Tied a tin can to your tail. Led you in and waltzed you out again. Oh my, what a bunch! Big tough ones, hunh? Here you are with a handful of holes, a thumb up your ass, and a big grin to pass the time of day with. They? Who the hell is "they?"
posted by nola at 10:32 PM on January 20, 2011
"They"? Why, they is the plain and fancy they, that's who "they" is! Caught you, didn't they? Tied a tin can to your tail. Led you in and waltzed you out again. Oh my, what a bunch! Big tough ones, hunh? Here you are with a handful of holes, a thumb up your ass, and a big grin to pass the time of day with. They? Who the hell is "they?"
posted by nola at 10:32 PM on January 20, 2011
dobbs: "I don't understand where the script is. At the bottom of the article is a sort of ad for Google Docs... where's the script"
It's an embedded Google Doc at the bottom of the article. Here's a direct link to the PDF.
posted by brundlefly at 10:15 AM on January 21, 2011
It's an embedded Google Doc at the bottom of the article. Here's a direct link to the PDF.
posted by brundlefly at 10:15 AM on January 21, 2011
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posted by blucevalo at 11:04 AM on January 20, 2011