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Article: Hawks on Faulkner: excerpts from an interview.
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- Post Script
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
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Bruce Kawin
In Memory of Herbert Nusbaum
On May 24, 1976, I interviewed Howard Hawks at his home in Palm Springs, California. We talked for four hours; the tape recorder broke down after three. Thus I have no record of what he told me in that last hour, on and off the record, including a very important story about Orson Welles that is discussed at the end of this introduction. But I do have the record of that first three hours, in which a great man was generous with his time and spoke with an engaged seriousness about decades of work with Faulkner and other writers. There are a number of stories here that I have not found in other Hawks interviews or ...