OFF AGAIN/ON AGAIN HOLLYWOOD Yesterday, while rummaging through Diana’s (locked) book case, Larry pulled out a shabby green folio which turned out to be his second screenplay:  an adaptation of “The Floating Opera,” John Barth’s brilliant first novel, not thought of by Larry in many a year.  In 1991, the day before Larry’s open-heart-quadruple-bypass surgery, he spoke to John Barth’s fiction class at Johns Hopkins University.  John mentioned nothing about Larry’s adaptation, and he’s not heard from John Barth from […]

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