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They Do The Same Thing [with Cigarette] That They Do In The Kind Of Action Picture Where You Know 200 People Are Killed And Then There's No Pain.

I Think One Of The Things That I Was Struck By Was That Joe Has The Financial Wherewithal To Go Check Into Some Expensive Clinic, Go Into Rehab And Beat These Addictions But He Didn't. He Sort Of Designed His Own, You Know, Sort Of Rehabilitation At Home. And Anybody Could Do What He Did. When He Felt Like Having A Cigarette After He Ate, He Would Get Up And Walk. At Cocktail Hour When He Used To Have A Drink And Watch The News, He Stopped Watching The News. He Couldn't. He Couldn't Watch The News And Not Have A Drink And A Cigarette. He Would Walk.

Assuming That All Bad Girls Smoke. I Don't Think So. I've Been Around A Lot Of Bad Girls Who Don't Smoke, You Know, So I Think It's Easy To Put A Cigarette Into, You Know, Into Anyone's Hands And Say, Well That Makes Them A Bad Boy Or A Bad Girl. There Are Many More Creative Ways From A Writerly Point Of View To Do That.

Sirens Wailed; The Revolution Had Come To Harrisonville. Blood Was Flowing On Pearl Street.

And The Inner Dynamics Of Hollywood Are Like Politics. Say You Give A Script To A Group Of Executives - They All Sit Around, Afraid To Voice An Opinion, Saying Nothing, Waiting To Know What The Consensus Is. Just Like Focus Groups, Opinion Polls Or A Cabinet.