San Francisco Film Society Oral History Project Interview with ...
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CLAUDE JARMAN: We were interested in just doing a change, being back up on the hill. We were<br />
able to get back into the Masonic. And it was just different.<br />
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: There was some confusion among Castro audiences who were used to<br />
the Castro double bills, wasn’t there, about admission prices?<br />
CLAUDE JARMAN: How do you mean?<br />
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: That they didn’t realize that they had to pay for each individual film, and<br />
they weren’t going to get a double bill, or something like that.<br />
CLAUDE JARMAN: Oh, I don’t know. But they obviously are gonna have to. (LAUGHS) Let’s see—<br />
that was the year we had Mel Brooks.<br />
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Was he on the whole time?<br />
CLAUDE JARMAN: Yes, he was. He came up to me and said, “I get ten percent of the house.” Very<br />
funny guy. He’s just a very funny man.<br />
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: So it was just kind of like a standup routine the whole—<br />
CLAUDE JARMAN: The whole time. That’s just the way he is. In fact, I saw him when I was backstage<br />
at the Academy Awards. He was <strong>with</strong> Anne Bancroft. And we were laughing about the movie To Be or<br />
Not to Be—Did you ever see that movie?<br />
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Yes, that was funny.<br />
CLAUDE JARMAN: We were just laughing at that, the scene when he was onstage and Anne Bancroft<br />
was having an affair <strong>with</strong> this soldier, and midway through it, he’d get up and go—(LAUGHS)<br />
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