Albino Dracula
Withheld novels, unaired pilots, unmade films, loops, a page from Life Underwater, an ode to Sam Cucchiara
“Let’s just say Kitty Alperin was two pills into a four-pill day.” — Irving Bipp, The Revenue Officer (withheld, Simon & Schuster, 1998)
LOUIS: Albino alligators. Albino cardinals. Albino snakes and albino squirrels. There’s even an albino Dracula.
DARWIN: But Dracula’s already pretty pale.
LOUIS: This guy’s even paler.
— The Louis & Darwin Show, pilot, recorded Dec. 19, 2003, unaired, Grandolax Productions
“Pee-Wee’s Big Corner Office: Due to a name mix-up, Pee-Wee Herman finds himself accidentally hired as the CEO of Plasto-Krapp Industries and has to turn around Francis Buxton’s majorly broken marketing campaign or his friend Dottie will lose her job in the secretarial pool.”
— Remnants of a Dream: The Unmade Films of J. Skelton Fogglepock, 1986–1999, William R. Stonnell (Faber and Schlitz’s Film and Culture, 2005)
“There are some people who remember the loop. They are called prophets, psychics, or seers. Their memories are usually fragmented, and they speak in disconnected ways because often the memories are mad-making. Or it takes being mad to have the memories. That point has not been cleared up in a satisfactory way.” — The Loop: Adventures in Reincarnation, Taren McCulloch-Steen (Latvian Press, 1949)
“It’s always the ones struggling unsuccessfully with their own work who will hurry to tell you about all the rules you’re supposed to follow regarding the practices and processes that go into yours.” — Steve Jobs, The Yurt Interviews (unpublished, Macmillan, 2013)
‘Cucchiara (for Sam)’
He made a big difference.
