William Friedkin and Al Pacino made the unhappy undercover-in-gay-bondage-world police drama ‘Cruising’ in 1979. Friedkin, in his memoir ‘The Friedkin Connection’, makes it very clear how little the two men liked working with each other. In the above interview clip–in case Friedkin wasn’t clear enough in his book–he makes it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDq6MkwtMgEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fIqBAuBquE The other day I posted a trailer of a doc about director William Friedkin which revealed him to be a most bracing public personality. Today I’m posting two clips of Friedkin, one historical and one hysterical. The first is Friedkin’s acceptance speech for his Oscar win in 1972 for
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBLUKjrdH3M The director William Friedkin, who died in August of this year, was not one to mince words. He was volatile, sometimes crude, always controversial and extremely refreshing in a bracing sort of way. For time and space reasons I won’t go into his many quotable comments but I urge