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»The Patty Diphusa Stories« and Other Writings
Full Title: »The Patty Diphusa Stories« and Other Writings
Authors: Pedro Almodovar, Kirk Anderson (trans.).
Publisher: Faber Paperbacks
Number of Pages / Binding: 272 pages / Paperback
Publishing Date: November 1992
The adventures of Patty Diphusa, the literary ego of Almodóvar, have been published as a serialized column in the spanish magazine »La Luna«. The »Other Writings« are selected stories from and about the life in Madrid and and all around; experiments about Dada in Spain; essays about Arts and Culture; as well as about Almodóvar's advancement from an Underground-Writer-Director, who has to scrounge money for his first Commercial Movie from his friends, to an internationally famous Director. Brilliant and ironic, full of elegant professionality and merciless sincerity. »Patty Diphusa« is more than just a must for cineasts, it is also a funny and fascinating book even for readers who are not yet fans of Almodóvar.
Contents: Acknowledgements................................................vii Introduction.....................................................ix PATTY DIPHUSA.................................................1 I, Patty Diphusa..............................................3 Reality Imitates Porno........................................9 Lovers' Spat in a Disco John.................................15 A Kilo of Shrimp.............................................23 Language is a Convention, Or: Ana Conda's Amnesiac Boyfriend.29 This Time I Don't Get Laid...................................35 Cops Bum Me Out..............................................41 The Girl That Looked Like Spencer Tracy......................47 I'm Back.....................................................53 A Bourgeois Episode..........................................59 Patty The Myth...............................................69 I, Patty, Try to Get to Know Myself Through My Author........73 FILLER.......................................................79 Without Love, Life Just Isn't Life...........................81 Scarlett O'Hara, A Perfect Manchega..........................85 Coming to Madrid.............................................89 Styles and Customs in the Nineties...........................95 Self-Interview 1984..........................................99 A Good Start................................................107 The Birth of Dada (1978)....................................115 Scrotum in the Wind.........................................119 Promotion...................................................123 ADVICE ON HOW TO BECOME AN INTERNATIONALLY FAMOUS FILMMAKER.129 The Vocation................................................131 The City....................................................135 It's Just Not Right!........................................141 Loneliness at the Top.......................................149