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...Jujamcyn theater chain, said he was in. Others followed quickly. Broderick and Lane (who played Bialystock at the reading) were cast, though it took some convincing. Lane wavered because he felt his character had too little to do in the second act; he stayed only after Brooks promised to write a new number for him, which ultimately became an Act II showstopper called Betrayed...
...Well, you can go to libraries, and you can go to bookshops, and you can see the huge thick volumes all telling you, You Too Can Be a Writer, Learn to Write in Six Months, How to Auth. [Laughs] But I can tell you in one sentence: You learn to become a writer by painting pictures with words. If you can do that, you're an author...
Assisted by a succession of mother's helpers, or "Jessy- friends," Clara painstakingly tutored her child to read, write, say hello, look people in the eye, refrain from bizarre behavior--flying into tantrums, mumbling nonsense words--that might alarm them, and tolerate deviations from routine...
...Someday, write a book about all this," John Kennedy said to me weeks later when we talked calmly in the Oval Office. "I want to know how all this could have happened. There were 50 or so of us, presumably the most experienced and smartest people we could get, to plan such an operation. Most of us thought it would work. I know there are some men now saying they were opposed from the start. I wasn't aware of any great opposition. Even Bill Fulbright [Senator, who later claimed to have heatedly protested the invasion plans...
...asked, 'How could we have been so stupid?' When we saw the wide range of the failures we asked ourselves why it had not been apparent to somebody from the start. I guess you get walled off from reality when you want something to succeed too much. Remember, Sidey, write that book and explain...