jack from ny recently emailed me about Final Cut: Dreams and Disaster in the Making of Heaven’s Gate by steven bach. bach was the head of production at United Artists from 1978-1981 and was the executive in charge of the movie.

jack said the book mentions there was an attempt in the late 1970s to make ‘the hawkline monster’ into a movie starring clint eastwood AND jack nicholson. how amazingly cool would that have been!?!

one of the folks on our brautigan list, brian malow, is a comedian and was on ‘the late late show with craig ferguson a few weeks ago. you can see his performance on youtube. very funny! i loved the bit about breakups & registries!

for those of you looking for some samples of brautigan’s work, check out google books. there is a very limited selection of readings available.

the combo book of trout fishing in america, the pill vs the springhill mine disaster & in watermelon sugar.

another 3 book combo confederategeneral from big sur, dreaming of babylon & the hawkline monster