Meanwhile, Bud Cort (“Harold and Maude,” “Brewster...
Meanwhile, Bud Cort (“Harold and Maude,” “Brewster McCloud”) will make his feature directing debut--and star in another offbeat romantic role--when filming begins shortly on “Love in Venice,” to shoot largely on local beach locations.
Based on an L.A. Weekly article by Paul Ciotti--now a Times staff writer, who co-wrote the screenplay with Cort--the comedy-drama has Cort as a sensitive poet hopelessly in unrequited love with a beautiful young woman. The cast: newcomer Kim Adams as the love object, James Brolin, Carol Kane, Rhea Perlman, Andrea Martin and Woody Harrelson.
As a director, Cort wet his feet in December when he co-directed a film with Robert Dornhelm for German TV, based on the history of the Chateau Marmont Hotel.
Producer Randy Turrow says “Love in Venice,” set against the backdrop of the Watergate scandal, will explore the rampant narcissism and “me-ism” of an era “without leadership or vision.”
Former President Nixon--to be seen prominently in period news footage--will be almost like another character in the film, Cort says.
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