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Show 'v 4M W'T 's V 1'vy r The Salt Lake Tribune ' V Friday, January i f r i M t TttOt t rrfTV V' '" y iryr-vcy- 3 terson contacted Foote about the possibility of a screen translation, they discussed who they wanted to play the lead role. "He said he wanted Geraldine Page," recalled Foote. And I said, Good. That's who I want, too. It was just the right time for a film," Another film written by Horton Foote also will play at the film festival next week. "On Valentine's Day" is a "prequel" to his fine portrait of a year in the life of a small Texas town, ,"1918." Like The Trip to Bountiful," these two films began as plays for the stage. They are part of a series, titled "The Orphan's Home," which Foote has written about life in rural Texas. While there is a thread running through the plays, each was written with the intention that it nine-dram- a r r tt-t- 17, ll)H(i The grace and digni ty of ITorton F oote Continued From M-wanted a particular star things 1 thought were wrong. ; Masterson, who has received a Drama Desk Award for his direction of "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" in New York, had seen the play off Broadway in 1960 and recalled his overwhelming emotional response to the work when he was considering film projects. When Mas- o tWY t'Vfe r "t could be staged by itself. All of them have been Foote currently is preparing to film another installment in "The Orphans Home Titled Convicts," it will reunite the writer with a long- Lee, but she didn't want to adapt it. read it, liked it. met Harper Lee and she's a big family person, too we really didn't talk about the book. We talked about my town and we talked about her town." Robert Duvall. time collaborator Foote fondly remembers the time he met the actor. Duvall was studying at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse and appeared in a play by Foote, "The Midnight Caller." Foote, his wife, Robert Mulligan and Kim Stanley went to see the promising student. "What we saw was an extraordinary young actor play an alcoholic," recalled Foote. "I found out later that he neither smoke nor drank, and I thought, 'My goodness! "When we were casting To Kill a Mockingbird, my wife reminded me of Duvall. I called up Mulligan who directed the film and he remembered Duvall, too." Duvall was consequently hired for his first professional acting job, playing Boo Radley. That is only one of the fond memories Foote has about "Mockingbird. "I hadnt even read it when producer Alan Paki called me about it. He had offcreu ,..e job to Harper Footes other collaborations with Duvall include "Tomorrow," an adaptation of a William Faulkner short story, and "Tender Mercies. You cant live in Texas without hearing that music all the time," said Foote about the latter film, a compassionate story about a country singer named Mac Sledge 1 1 down-and-o- (Duvall)." One of Footes earlier films, "Baby the Rain Must Fall, had a similar theme. That was Mac Sledge gone wrong," he said about "Baby." "Thats Mac Sledge turned bitter and mean." Foote said he doesnt know any country singers and instead drew on many of the theater people with whom he has associated to create Mac Sledge. Foote describes himself as an obsessive writer," and he manages to read a lot as well. Faulk. a. r is an ob"Who is not vious influence on him influenced by William Faulkner? "I read a lot of poets. used to read but I work a great deal and fiction is too disrupting. I get too 1 a lot of fiction, interested in other people's stories I read a lot of plays and I admire Sam Shepard, Harold Pintei, David Mamet. 1 have great admiration for the work of Flannery O'Connor and Katherine Anne Porter. Fm very fond of Elizabeth Bishop. Her work is filled with the kind of courage that I find in people, when she writes about the South Americans, for instance. many of the young moviemakers are very, very talented. But I think that a lot of them are divorced from life. I think they have spent too much time watching television and so often that they going to movies from other films. their inspiration get I dont think you can shut yourself off from life, from who you are. Life is very complex, people are very complex. If you look at anyone long even the most despicable enough if you really know all about person them, you would bring some compassion and understanding to them. A lot happens between the cradle and the grave, and I think foi the most part people ent it with a lot of dignity B'GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATIONS a an emotional surge into a triumph of blinding brightness. 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