24 January 2006Cinema
Spalding Lives

I can't tell you how excited I was when I heard on NPR that Steven Soderbergh is working on a documentary about Spalding Gray on Fresh Air today. The idea, says Soderburgh, is that he has access to a huge collection of Gray's journals, home movies and other writings and he's going to try to create a completely new monlogue from all that material. I don't know if he will be able to put it off, but it will be fantastic to see if he can.

I'm huge fan of the late, great monologuist. I saw one of the last performances he gave in New York right before he committed suicide in April of 2004. I've read most of his books, seen most of his movies, and I feel like like his death was a massive tragedy for world drama.

Soderbergh is hoping to have a cut of it together by this summer or fall so it should come out some time next year. Can't wait.

Posted by andrew at January 24, 2006 07:44 PM


Comments

Paul Says:

Thanks for posting. This is the first I heard of the project. I will make sure to see it.

January 26, 2006 07:01 AM
Andrew Writes:

No problem. You can listen to the whole interview with Steven Soderburgh on Fresh Air here. He only talks briefly about the Gray project at the end, but it's worth a listen.

January 26, 2006 10:27 AM




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