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Article: Coppola craves out a cinematic elegy `Gardens of Stone'
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 10, 1987
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WASHINGTON Francis Coppola was running a little late. Cara, a
Tri-Star publicist with a South Carolina accent, guessed that while
driving to the hotel from Fort Myer, the director had run into
remnants of a massive peace demonstration that had filled Washington,
D.C., earlier in the day. He would arrive, she estimated, in about
15 minutes.
The delay and its reason added to the mood of foreboding.
Coppola had just flown into town that afternoon to participate in the
world premiere of his new movie, "Gardens of Stone." He was
maintaining an understandable distance from the press. A little less
than a year ago, on Memorial Day, 1986, during the first week of
filming, his 23-year-old son, ...