Anthony Zerbe: I was just reading your play. I liked a lot of it. I don’t like the main character though. This Marine. Sounds like a real jellyfish. I guess you’re supposed to like him because he’s against the Marine Corps. Is that it?
Michael Moriarty: Something like that.
AA: Why doesn’t he do something? Go over the hill, refuse an order. I couldn’t sympathize with a character like that.
MM: Not everyone did.
AZ: The Marine in the play, that supposed to be you?
MM: No.
AZ: Maybe a little?
MM: Maybe on some level.
AZ: Uhn-huh. You know what I think, “on some level”? I think you’re the kind of wise-ass cocksucker that writes a tearjerk play against the Marines and then turns around and smuggles a shitload of heroin into this country.
MM: I deny that. And no more literary conversation until I call my lawyer.
AZ: You mean Ben Odell? No Commie lawyer’s gonna help you now.
