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Susan Seidelman on Directing the ‘Grittier’ Pilot for ‘Sex and the City,’ Casting Madonna in ‘Desperately Seeking Susan’: ‘She Loved Being Provocative’
'Desperately Seeking Susan' director Susan Seidelman on her memoir that covers casting Madonna, directing the 'Sex and the City' pilot and much more.
That surreal scene is just one of the memorable moments the trailblazing director recounts in “Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls.” By turns reflective and celebratory, the book covers the surprises and setbacks of a career carved out at a time when women filmmakers were a rarity. “Smithereens” is an endearing relic of the fast-disappearing Lower Eastside scene of the early ‘80s, starring real-life punk pioneer Richard Hell alongside Susan Berman as aspiring musician Wren, a runaway who gets what she wants through larceny and seduction. Along with a who’s who of European greats in competition that year, “There was ‘Shoot the Moon’ by Alan Parker, with Diane Keaton and Albert Finney and Costa Gavras’ ‘Missing’ with Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek,” Seidelman remembers.
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