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Article: Movies; `Paul Bowles,' Pleased to Meet You
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- The Washington Post
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- December 30, 1994
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"Little by little the words took over the notes," explains Paul
Bowles, the avant-garde American composer-author best known for his
1949 novel, "The Sheltering Sky." Now 84, the reclusive expatriate
who has lived in Tangier, Morocco, since the '50s gives a rare and
candid interview in a tantalizing new documentary directed by Regina
Weinreich and Catherine Warnow.
"Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider" includes interviews with
such Bowles devotees as Allen Ginsberg (who calls him a "caviar
writer"), but the film chiefly focuses on what the dapper
octogenarian has to say about his early career as a Broadway
composer, his art, his ties to Moroccan culture, his drug use and
his marriage to ...