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Quite the life and career
Directed three all-time movie classics in three consecutive years from 1971-1973 (The Last Picture Show, What's Up Doc?, Paper Moon).
Left his wife/creative partner Polly Platt for actress Cybill Shepherd and burned down both their careers by directing two critically reviled vanity projects around her. (Daisy Miller and At Long Last Love).
Broke up with Shepherd and began dating former Playboy playmate Dorothy Stratten, who was brutally murdered by her ex shortly thereafter. To ease his grief, he married her sister.
Rebounded briefly by directing Cher in the schlocky classic that is Mask.
Directed River Phoenix in the last complete film he made before he also died an untimely death.
He's featured quite a lot (indirectly) on the You Must Remember This podcast, which dedicated an episode on Dorothy Stratten and then did a full series on Polly Platt. Both really interesting.
Directed three all-time movie classics in three consecutive years from 1971-1973 (The Last Picture Show, What's Up Doc?, Paper Moon).
Left his wife/creative partner Polly Platt for actress Cybill Shepherd and burned down both their careers by directing two critically reviled vanity projects around her. (Daisy Miller and At Long Last Love).
Broke up with Shepherd and began dating former Playboy playmate Dorothy Stratten, who was brutally murdered by her ex shortly thereafter. To ease his grief, he married her sister.
Rebounded briefly by directing Cher in the schlocky classic that is Mask.
Directed River Phoenix in the last complete film he made before he also died an untimely death.
He's featured quite a lot (indirectly) on the You Must Remember This podcast, which dedicated an episode on Dorothy Stratten and then did a full series on Polly Platt. Both really interesting.
