Tracy Letts

It's just great stuff.

I did not see every single episode.

And by the way, there's a little more to the story than Rip Torn couldn't make it.

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So Rip Torn, Shirley Knight, and James Caan rehearse for weeks in New York with Francis Ford Coppola.

And then Coppola takes Shirley Knight and James Caan out.

They're going to go out on the road and they're going to shoot essentially sequentially.

The cop doesn't show up until the last third of the movie.

So they're going out on the road and Coppola has decided we're going to shoot and I'm going to remain somewhat improvisatory about this.

If I see something interesting, we're going to go there.

We don't have a definitive calendar, but we'll see you in Ogallala down the road in a month.

And they leave Rip Torn with the motorcycle because he's playing a motorcycle cop.

So they leave the motorcycle with Rip Torn in New York, and they tell him to learn how to ride the motorcycle.

Well, the motorcycle gets stolen from out in front of Rip Torn's house.

And Rip Torn says, it's in my deal.

You have to provide me with a motorcycle to learn.

And Coppola says, well, we can't, you know, it's a low budget movie.

We can't actually get you another.

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