Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch
Eastwood talks about it in a book of interviews on his films as director. He says Pryor guided the project through Columbia for several years then fell out with the studio. Clint says deprecatingly he wouldn't have done the film w/ Pryor. Unclear if it was Joel Olianski's script — PolitiTweet.org
Andrew Gilbert @jazzscribe
@JSCCounterPunch @RichardScheinin @JazzTimes @natechinen Nothing about Bird in #ScottSaul4's excellent Pryor biogra… https://t.co/6kgJBfbsG8