Peter Bogdanovich, director of 1970s black and white classics like “The Last Picture Show” and “Paper Moon,” died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles at 82.
FILE - Peter Bogdanovich attends the premiere of Warner Bros. Pictures"It Chapter Two" at Regency Village Theatre on Aug. 26, 2019, in Westwood, California. Peter Bogdanovich, the ascot-wearing cinephile and director of 1970s black-and-white classics like "The Last Picture Show" and "Paper Moon," has died. He was 82.
His turbulent personal life was also often in the spotlight, from his well-known affair with Cybill Shepherd that began during the making of "The Last Picture Show" while he was married to his close collaborator, Polly Platt, to the murder of his Playmate girlfriend Dorothy Stratten and his subsequent marriage to her younger sister, Louise, who was 29 years younger than him."Oh dear, a shock. I am devastated.
"I’ve gotten some very important one-sentence clues like when Howard Hawks turned to me and said ‘Always cut on the movement and no one will notice the cut,’" he said in an interview with The Associated Press. "It was a very simple sentence but it profoundly effected everything I’ve done." Bogdanovich’s relationship with Shepherd led to the end of his marriage to Platt, with whom he shared daughters Antonia and Sashy, and a fruitful creative partnership. The 1984 film "Irreconcilable Differences" was loosely based on the scandal. He later disputed the idea that Platt, who died in 2011, was an integral part of the success of his early films.
"Paramount called and said, "We just bought a new Mario Puzo book called The Godfather. We’d like you to consider directing it." I said, "I’m not interested in the Mafia," he said in the interview. "The whole thing about my personal life got in the way of people’s understanding of the movies," Bogdanovich said. "That’s something that has plagued me since the first couple of pictures."
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