DE PALMA HAD SUGGESTED LITHGOW TO DIRECTOR PAUL WILLIAMS FOR DEALING
In his 2011 book Drama: An Actor's Education, John Lithgow recalls the first time he met Brian De Palma, who could be heard cackling wildly during a Lithgow performance on stage in Princeton, New Jersey in the summer of 1966. Lithgow writes that De Palma "was effusive in his praise" after the show, and years later, De Palma suggested Lithgow to the filmmaker Paul Williams, who was looking for someone to play "a patrician Harvard undergraduate dope dealer" in a film titled, Dealing: Or The Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues.
Dealing, which was based on a novel by Michael Crichton, will screen at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica at 3pm this Sunday, August 17th. This American Cinematheque event will include a Q&A with filmmaker Paul Williams and actors Barbara Hershey and John Lithgow. Moderated by Larry Karaszewski.