I remember listening to an interview with Peter where he mentioned that he was working on a book based on his old diaries. He said he was impressed by how detailed they were. This must have been 4 years ago.
I hope that someday we will see this project come to light.
That would be interesting. I always found him a very intriguing character--almost a tragic figure in.many ways. He scaled the heights of success and knew abject failure also. He broke the heart of his wife Polly Platt through a tawdry affair with Cybil Shepherd which made him look odious to America. He knew unimaginable loss with the murder of Dorpthy Stratten then tried to do a weird Vertigo-type "replacement" by marrying Dorothy's sister. He knew what a thrill it is to hang out with guys he really admires like Orson Welles. Of all the 70s movie brats like Coppola, Lucas , Scorsese, Spielberg, De Palma, etc., Bogdanovich was probably the most knowledgable on the history of film. RIP. I''d be curious to know more about him through his diaries.
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