Babe Ruth Just Bunted

The Plot Thickens

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Tv & Film, Film History

4.8 • 4.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Following The Last Picture Show, Peter directs two more major hits, What’s Up, Doc? and Paper Moon. But then his wife leaves him, and his next three movies are high-profile flops. As his relationship with Cybill is splashed across the tabloids, Peter finds himself despised by the public and ostracized in Hollywood.

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0:00.0	We pick up our story right after shooting wrapped on the last picture show.
0:04.1	Peter Bagnonovich and Cybel Shepherd ended their affair, as they had planned.
0:08.7	Peter returned to his wife, Polly Platt.
0:11.2	They took their two daughters to Arizona to spend Christmas with Peter's mother and sister.
0:16.0	Everyone was still grieving the death of Peter's father, Boris Love.
0:20.4	Cybel went home to Memphis for the holidays.
0:23.3	So Peter and Cybel were separated by 1,200 miles.
0:27.2	Turns out that wasn't enough.
0:29.9	We both missed each other and Christmas was lonely and it was just rough.
0:36.3	When Peter returned to LA, he started editing the film, which meant he was spending hours watching Cybel on the screen.
0:43.4	What did not?
0:45.4	I never thought something like this would happen.
0:48.6	The separation didn't last.
0:50.4	Cybel flew to LA and met Peter at a holiday in in Hollywood.
0:55.2	Polly was furious.
0:56.9	She threw Peter out of the house.
0:59.2	None of this played out as Peter expected.
1:02.1	I don't know, I think I would leave, but Polly.
1:06.2	I just couldn't do anything else.
1:09.0	I just wanted to be with Cybel.
1:12.4	For a while, Peter and Cybel moved into the sunset tower hotel.
1:16.4	It's where Howard Hughes and Frank Sinatra once lived, a place that promised privacy to the stars.
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