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Andrew McCarthy’s Hulu Docu ‘Brats’ Has Carl Kurlander Thinking Again About The Lingering Smoke From ‘St. Elmo’s Fire’ – Guest Column
Andrew McCarthy's Whiny Hulu Docu 'Brats' Has Carl Kurlander Thinking Again About Lingering Smoke Of 'St. Elmo's Fire'
That was the gorgeous woman he met in college at a fountain that said “knowledge,” “art,” “religion,” ”life.” As Kirbo says in the script in a line taken from the short story: “She was sitting on the life side and she just smiled at me.” Then a supermodel, Andie MacDowell would play the role inspired by the St. Elmo waitress. I couldn’t make it that evening as I was headed to Florida to re-write another film with Joel, but instead Emilio had brought along Bright Lights Big City author Jay McInerney whose book about young people partying in clubs proved too good a metaphor. Joel had me write the speech that Billy delivers in the movie after a marketing executive at Columbia wrote a 35-page memo on how horrible the title was, suggesting it be changed to “Sparks” or “The Real World.” In those pre-Google times, I got two xeroxed pages from studio research which stated that there was no St. Elmo, it was just a nickname sailors had for St. Erasmus.
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