Richard Linklater

The bad news was on his personal front.

Yeah, he really struggled and probably never had, you know, as he says in Blue Moon, a love of his own.

So that's the sad part.

But that's where those heartbreaking lyrics come from, you know.

Yeah, I think it's hard to define taste.

Like, I love Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Don't get me wrong.

Like I said, I grew up with it.

But I remember discovering Rodgers and Hart.

This is in my 20s via an Ella Fitzgerald's songbook album.

I was like, God, these are great.

I just started to really appreciate them.

the songwriting and I didn't even know Rogers was the same Rogers that I had kind of grown up with the Hammerstein era, that these songs were just so different.

The lyrics were so witty, dark, and they were edgy and funny and biting and beautifully romantic and all that.

They weren't, you know, the soaring, uh,

kind of aspirational lyrics maybe of Oscar, who I do love.

I love Oscar Hammerstein.

But if you ask anyone, okay, Richard Rodgers, Hart, or Hammerstein, almost everyone says Hart.

You know, they just appreciate those songs more.

But, I mean, like you can't even say your favorite Rodgers and Hart songs.