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Didion & Babitz: How Two Of LA’s Finest Writers Handled Hollywood
Eve Babitz, the “dowager groupie” who wrote Slow Days, Fast Company and was known for her relationships with the likes of The Doors’ frontman Jim Morrison and Steve Martin, and Joan Didion, the author of Play It As It Lays and The White Album, who wrote Barbara Streisand and Kris Kristofferson’s A Star Is Born, […]
The woman, who first became known for appearing nude in Julian Wasser’s iconic photograph of Marcel Duchamp playing chess, was also an artist herself, beginning her career making album covers for bands including The Byrds and Buffalo Springfield. She may have even helped Carrie Fisher get the role of Princess Leia in Stars Wars thanks to her relationship with casting director Fred Roos and she appeared in The Godfather, Part II alongside Al Pacino and Robert Duvall in the Senate hearing scene. They also worked with Scott Rudin, the potato-throwing producer who was accused of abusing his staff, on projects such as a remake of State of the Union, the Frank Capra-directed film that starred Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, and an adaptation of Caleb Carr’s book The Alienist, which later became a series for TNT.
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