My Movie Business: A Memoir

His mouth is filled with apple pie. ) OLIVE (cont. ) What I suggest is . . . i need it a great deal if you happen to suggestion you may be at liberty the following, Homer. HOMER (wiping his mouth) Mrs. Worthington, i believe I’m very fortunate to be right here. OLIVE There’s now not loads of paintings within the wintry weather, and you’ll need to tolerate Vernon—even Wally despises him, and Wally likes each person. (Olive’s concepts flow; her eyes lookup at a photograph of Wally. ) HOMER i believe Wally might be effective, Mrs. Worthington— he turns out indestructible to me. OLIVE (distracted ) I don’t be aware of. (intently at Homer) simply promise me something. (Homer is stressful. Does Olive suspect approximately sweet? ) HOMER Uh . . . definite. OLIVE simply promise me that, if there’s a snowfall, you’ll stream into Wally’s room until eventually it’s over. (They either giggle, yet Homer has a troublesome time having a look her within the eye. ) OLIVE We don’t desire the scene for the sake of the plot. we'll see Homer asserting goodbye to the pickers, and we’ll additionally see sweet come to the cider residence and say to Homer, 6190_Irving_21_js. qxd 8/23/99 5:49 PM web page a hundred and fifty 1 five zero  J O H N I R V I N G “Olive advised me. you've got informed me your self. ” we all know he’s staying. however the scene is an effective second for Olive—a advanced and sympathetic character—and Kate Nelligan used to be impressive within the position. I simply desired to see extra of her. Ten scenes later, we misplaced a shot of Dr. Larch at his typewriter. within the taking pictures agenda, the scene fell into the final traumatic days, and we axed it—it appeared expendable sufficient on the time. furthermore, we have been convinced that we'd locate another scene within which to exploit Larch’s voice-over. (We did. ) 168 INT. LARCH’S OFFICE—NIGHT (Edna and Angela view him anxiously from the entrance as Larch furiously varieties and kinds. ) LARCH (V. O. ) My pricey Homer, i presumed you have been over your early life, that interval which i might outline because the first time in our lives once we think we now have whatever negative to conceal from those that love us. looking back, I remorse wasting this scene greater than i assumed i'd. it's the simply scene we had of Larch at his typewriter. within the novel, he turns out to spend part his lifestyles on the typewriter, writing a short historical past of St. Cloud’s. (Naturally it isn’t short. ) A pity, for that reason, to not have one second of him typing within the movie. The 6th (and final) scene we ran out of time to shoot is 6190_Irving_21_js. qxd 8/23/99 5:49 PM web page 151 M Y M O V I E B U S I N E S S  1 five 1 close to the top of the motion picture. it isn't a heartbreaking loss, and that i won’t hassle to breed it the following. Larch’s dying scene, his ether overdose, was once formerly intercut with different scenes on the orphanage. One is of Buster, bringing within the wooden. He smells the spilled ether, even within the hall, and heads towards the dispensary, sniffing. We shot that scene— we needed to. Buster is the person who reveals Larch useless. the opposite scene is of Nurse Edna getting the women prepared for mattress. within the movie, we see loads of Edna (Jane Alexander); and Edna’s nightly prayer, which she recites with the ladies of their bunk room, performs either close to the start of the motion picture and at Dr.