Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily.

Today is Wednesday, November 8th, 2023.

On today's episode of the show,

we are going to gather around the virtual water cooler

and talk about what we've been up to.

My name is Ben Pearson.

I'm an editor at slash film.

And I am joined on'm an editor at slash film

editor and chief film critic Chris Evangelista.

Hello.

All right, Chris, let's get into it.

I have been reading something fairly interesting.

Recently I read a book called The Making of the African Queen or how I went to Africa with Bogart,

Bacall, and Houston and almost lost my mind which was written by Catherine Hepburn and I think this was published in the 80s so this is like

decades after the African Queen the movie came out but she says in the beginning of the

book like you know my memory is not great for some things, but I remember the experience of making this freaking movie like, like, you know, as if it was yesterday, basically.

And she just goes through the entire process of what it was like to make this movie from her perspective, which I don't know I haven't really read very many books from actors perspectives just about a single topic. Obviously there are tons of autobiographies and memoirs and things like that that cover large spans of a person's career, but I thought this was kind of a unique thing. I don't think I've read anything else quite like this before. Have you ever read a book that was written by either an actor or a director just about the making of one particular thing?

I'm trying to think and I don't think I have and that says it's such an interesting

idea like I've read books by directors about like directing in general but never about like one specific movie and now I I kind of wish there was more of that because that's such a cool idea.

Yeah, I wonder if like you know everybody's so nervous today about saying the wrong thing and like potentially alienating themselves in terms of like, you know, pissing off the wrong person and you don't want to like burn bridges with the relationships and stuff and back then it's it seemed like everybody was much more free-flowing with whatever

criticisms or comments they wanted to make about their work. I just realize

there's one thing I can think of and it's a book called Song of Spider-Man, the inside story of the most

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