> and topless women to the movie, but he was glad
they'd been taken out for
> the DVD. It's too bad, in a way, they didn't include
the other stuff as
> outtakes so we could see how badly it didn't
fit.
I have a few brief excerpts on the filming of COCKFIGHTER
here: http://www.oivas.com/cw/cockfighter.txt
-- with Roger Corman, Joe Dante and Monte Hellman quotes.
Also, I believe you can see some of that stuff in the trailer
included on the DVD.
> I read somewhere, but I forget where, that he made a
short book for
> himself full of research before writing COCKFIGHTER.
He got to know it
> all very well.
According to the Broward Library catalog
(http://www.broward.org/lii12101.htm)
it was a 30,000 word guide: "The Cockfighter Guide.
[typescript] 2 leaves. Describes the 30,000 word manual
Willeford wrote for the writing of the novel. Now in the
collection of David Meeker, Sacramento, California."
--Juha.
-- JT Lindroos wit's end publishing www.sendwit.com Forthcoming: The Second Half of the Double Feature by Charles Willeford
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