He asked me, so of course I came. And it's also something I like to do. I've read a fair number of stories for Selected Shorts here (a similar program), and it's a wonderful thing to do. I think reading prose in that kind of situation is great, because it's like getting back to the old storytelling roots. |
He's a writer that I like very much. He's a very funny writer with a great, offbeat sense of character. He's attracted to odd people, and this story is like that, in part about a 63-year-old woman, which is interesting to me. It's a character study, really. I don't want to talk too much about it, because we don't want to spoil the story. |
One of the things about it that is important to me, and I think one of the powers of Angels is its great beauty. I think it's beautiful like Mozart. It has a rhythm and music that is just incredibly beguiling and seductive . . . and funny. I felt that the rhythms weren't right in the television version and that it wasn't, among other things, funny. |