Newly Discovered Tennessee Williams Screenplay?

Glad Lohan dropped out.

Not.

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I haven't read this work, but there's probably a reason it's remained unproduced and unpublished for so long. After the death of his lover Frank Merlo in 1964, Williams spent the rest of his life suffering long bouts of depression and in a constant alcohol and drug-induced haze -- and his work suffered for it. While he wrotes dozens of plays, screenplays, and stories, none of them approached the mastery of his work in the 40s and 50s and a lot of it is downright embarassing.

This work was apparently written in 1980, just a couple of years before his death (he choked on the bottle cap from one of the innumerable bottles of pills he ingested daily). While it'll probably be an interesting little curio (like much of his later work), I wouldn't expect it to be some lost masterpiece.

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I saw a production of CLOTHES FOR A SUMMER HOTEL several years ago and while it was mostly an incoherent mess, there was a scene or two in it that I thought were worthy of him in his prime. It's as if the fog in his brain lifted and lucidity suddenly had broken through on the days he wrote those scenes. That seems to be the case with much of his later works -- the writing mostly unfocused and scattered, but there are occasional flashes of brilliance.

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I would love to have Williams do the screenplays to the movies of his works that were made.

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Sing a SOng--I'm confused... Do you mean this screenplay? C uz, umm it's been published for quite a while...

"I would love to have Williams do the screenplays to the movies of his works that were made."

Yeah if they could be made in this day and age I agree--it's too bad that some my faves of his plays were hacked so badly for the Hollywood censors (I love the casts of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Sweet Bird of Youth but both are badly cut up, Bird of cours ebeing nearly ridiculous with its happy ending--and Nicholas ROeg's tv remake with Liz Taylor sadly didn't do much to help things). A few good adaptations got thru--Streetcar for the most part, Gore Vidal's Suddenly Last Summer which caputred the tone even while softenin git, IMHO, Lumet's underated Fugitive Kind (even if the tv filming of Hall's revival of Orpheus Descending is a better version fo the play--that needs ot get a DVD release)