When I told them about Colonel Klink and the bad acid trip, they went into such hysterics I had to let them catch their breath. “Griffin, that wasn’t the guy from Hogan’s Heroes,” John said. “That was the director Otto Preminger.” I had no idea who that was, but the trill in Joan’s laugh delighted me. They told me that Preminger was a tyrant film director who came close to actually burning Jean Seberg to death at the stake while filming Saint Joan so he could capture the terror in her eyes. I guess I got off easy.
