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Sometimes a great movie

by Matt Love

American fictionFilm adaptationsCriticism and interpretationMotion picturesCase studiesProduction and directionSometimes a great notion (Motion picture : 1972)

Author Matt Love once heard a rumor that, during the filming of Sometimes a Great Notion in 1971, actor and director Paul Newman walked into a Toledo, Oregon bar and sawed the legs off a pool table with a chainsaw. That story was the genesis of this book, an exploration of Newman, Ken Kesey, and the filming of Sometimes a Great Notion.

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Book data: Open Library