Nothing Fails Like Success
May, 1985
Reg and I have been disagreeing for a while on how I ought to tell the story of his bar. I do a version and read it to him and he says, "Naa. It's too sad that way. It can't be more than about 49 percent sad. You have to get the Bogart moments in there, the good times." It's been a hard balance to capture. One moment he says he'd probably do it again, then he remembers the bad parts and says that although the whole thing was a very high trip for a while, he couldn't recommend it to any...
