Hollywood tales

“You can’t make this work, Billy. Blood and jokes do not mix.” 

 — Producer David O. Selznick to Billy Wilder after Wilder described the project to him. Wilder called Some Like It Hot “a combination of Scarface and Charley’s Aunt [the 1892 stage farce about cross-dressing].” — Richard Corliss, Time, 10/30/2001