Lawrence Kasdan, Hollywood’s hottest (The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark) and I think best (Body Heat) young screenwriter, had some wonderfully penetrating things to say in a recent interview: If I thought that was all I could ever do and that I would constantly be turning over these works of love to other people and having them changed, I don’t know how long I could do it…. … The movie comes out and there’s the pain that your movie never got made; there’s this other movie instead. But everyone says you wrote it, and they blame you for it anyway. So you’re getting it from both
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