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I had<\/strong><\/span> lunch at Corky & Lenny\u2019s with Bert Dragin, the owner of a local furniture store chain. He was looking for a movie script. This was in 1980. He said, \u201cI\u2019ve got money. Everybody will talk to me in L.A. Right now I have something in the Best of the New York Erotic Film Festival.” He asked if I would consider writing a screenplay about a fire at a gay nightclub in Atlanta. Not my thing, I told him.<\/p>\n Bert Dragin eventually sold his business and moved to Hollywood. He produced Suburbia<\/em> (1983) and directed Summer Camp Nightmare<\/em> (1987) and Twice Dead<\/em> (1988). Dragin said, \u201cYou heard of Erotic Salad? It\u2019s got a soft-X rating.\u201d I said no.<\/p>\n This was<\/strong><\/span> my Hollywood lunch. The meeting was Hollywood-style <\/em>(like kosher-style<\/em>) because it was not actually in Hollywood, but Dragin did run a tab at C&Ls. That was pure Hollywood.<\/p>\n —-<\/p>\n Footnotes: The lunch was at C&L’s Cedar Center, not the “new” C&L’s. “Run a tab” means Dragin didn’t have to pull out his credit card or cash every time he ate at the restaurant.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I had lunch at Corky & Lenny\u2019s with Bert Dragin, the owner of a local furniture store chain. He was looking for a movie script. This was in 1980. He said, \u201cI\u2019ve got money. Everybody will talk to me in L.A. Right now I have something in the Best of the New York Erotic Film […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27152"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27229,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27152\/revisions\/27229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}