Hello friends and enemies,
I have COVID! In 2024! Everyone in LA has had it recently. I feel pretty fine, like 4/10 on the pain scale. I was actually positive that it wouldn’t be COVID, because of the lack of severity, but I had an eye doctor appointment today so I was like, I better test before that just in case. And whaddya know! Anyway, since I mostly feel fine, I decided to write through it, because I am brave.
Last week I saw the new restoration and recut of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1981 box office disaster One from the Heart. In his introduction to the film, screenwriter-producer (not of this movie) Larry Karaszewski said the film’s budget ballooned to $40 million and I just did the calculation and that’s about equivalent to $150 million today, if you care. I love looking up how much an older movie cost and made in current dollars. Get to know me.
The movie made just over $600,000 at the box office, a shocking turnaround coming off the heels of Coppola’s 1970s run of blockbuster auteur masterpieces. To quote friend of the newsletter Daniel the other day, even Eileen made more than One from the Heart. (However, I did the conversion and One from the Heart did actually make more than Eileen in 2023 dollars. Marginally.)
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