"I'll Put Your Name In Lights, Natividad Abascal"

July, 1971

I first met Natividad Abascal, who is a high-fashion model--as any fool can tell from these photos--when she came in to audition for my new movie. Bananas. We were looking for an old, white-haired man to play the part of Gramps in what someone with a macabre sense of humor (I believe it was I) called the script; but as she talked and bent over, I was suddenly inspired to rewrite the part. She was cast as a Latin-American revolutionary. I play Fielding Mellish, a products tester who joins the rev...