European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 10, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August the stars and stripes Porte modern living mov Teman Brooks very Dicey by Aljean Harmetz new York times it was in the summer of 1s7s thai producer Freddie Fields gave a copy at loathing Lor Coo bar to Richard it was nut that fluids wanted Brooks to direct the film version of Judith Ress ners Busl Selling novel about a lame schoolteacher whose compulsive sexual encounters in the singles bars of new York City Lead to lie simply wanted Brooks to Tell him As a Friend Why Mike Paddy Sydney Bob and roman Polanski had turned Down Hist was disturbed by the character of the girl and the Structure of the says 1 didst like the girl because she1 was a cull of i thought there would be a tremendous problem getting the books sex on the screen without making a pornographic and i told Freddie thai cling the film would be like doing the Plymouth you know the May Flower is going to reach in looking Good tar everybody knows Terry is going to gel killed in exactly an and too much is Mode of her death As god looked Down and you went to bars so now we re going to have you i wanted to a a Story about a contemporary girl who is influenced by the world in which she not Only by her upbringing and her physical Handicap but by seeing Hunter and penal House on the by the advertisements on to that Art More violent even than knifing and car if you use this thai fellow will kiss Liat is a violent it you Wear these panty people will think youre not wearing any that is a violent provocation sex and violence Are inextricably there is More frustration and Vio Lence in the marriage bed than on the two months later Fields came Tok and asked Brooks to write and direct i he i wanted him Frum the moment 1 heard his says but it look me six weeks to sell him to Parn Muul everybody sees Dick As a  director in cold bile the on the Hes and he yells a lies a very different Man sensitive and enormously Brooks agreed to write and direct looking or Diane Keaton stars in new Loeung Goodbar on me 11181 the budget  go aver Sluwe it common in 1977 for even a flashy exploitation film to Cost is Mil Fields and Barry Helel executive officer of were understandably weve got a hit we should have a big was i Clr i old says that looking for or Good tar was a very Dicey nobody going to stand up and cheer when this pictures Over the Way they do or Rocky and Star  sit in silence and creep Well All pay four Bucks to be scared so Long As we know were not going to be Hurt and were nol in any danger of being eaten by a but this is a picture you have to take Home to Fields find Diller tried to insist it would be beneath the dignity of the Book to make it so i told them their hit Book didst mean that there probably be 30 imitations of the Book and maybe six movies before our picture was 1 if you spend a lot of Money on youre and i wont do according to Hia movie is not about the real girl whose death inspired Judith Hossner Al though most people who read the Book will think there seeing the but the movie has less of gods vengeance and More of Brooks belief that everyone we every phone Call were supposed to make and the streets weve walked Down or affect us one Way or its not not but by the end of the picture these things mount up the Way were conditioned by our by our and the girl Diane Keaton plays in the movie is less neurotic than he girl in the she teaches deaf children and is Good at her she is also full of Joy of she has very deep desires physical As Well As Tot Lonel and Slie wants to them the most difficult thing Wai to put her sensuality on the screen without making a porous How do you nuke sex on the screen without showing we All disagree on whats sensual and As a Young i was in North Africa i came in from the hot glaring outside to a dark hotel Corri through an open i saw a Flash of a woman thigh As she moved toward her what made that that so arousing that 1 replayed it in my mind Over and Over again through the years although no genl Lalia will be visible on the looking Coo bar was shot a if it were actually going 10 be a pornographic Diane Kealon and her various partners including William Richard Gere and Tom Lorenger took off their clothes and stepped behind a curtain they shared Only and cinematographer William the curtain was to protect their privacy As says they had to play a not just have a sexual enc Oun the first such scene that Fraker shot was unusable not that Bills work int said it was too 1 look him for a walk in the hot i told him to keep on walking for 10 minutes and then come 1 went Back to the stage and took off my he came Back blinking to adjust his eyes to the i turned quickly around and faced him and then turned i asked him what did you Sec he i dont just a Flash of 1 told him that was what i this actors would play it for real but that not what we would we would show the Beautiful curve where a woman Arm meets her we would try to touch something inside the make them Voye if it would happen to me that he that women will respond to his movie the Way he wants them before he wrote the first draft of the he interviewed hundreds of women who had read the i asked them to Tell me the Stury of the of those not More than told me the that was they were telling me their own wonn read it and it allowed them to replay their fantasies and the pictures final budget is own All of Binas Zimmey had to be he will get it Only if the film is commercially sit the next Jub i id better get he unless were and the picture is a maybe Well be i