What Doesn’t Kill You director-writer-actor Brian Goodman on Prince and Lafayette — Friday, 12.12, 4:35 pm. After shooting pics we went upstairs to a friend’s office and did a half-hour interview. An excellent fellow all around — candid, a humanist, unaffected, no bull. Relatively few guys with hard-knocks experience within the criminal world have gone on to a life of writing and entertainment, but Goodman’s a member in good standing.
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