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Luana Anders says Hello
“Luana says hello.”
man on “The Young Racers” (Mark Damon pictured)
He pitched Roger Corman his first film set in Ireland, Luana and friends
stopped in Ireland on the way home to make it.
It was 40 years ago that I went a screening of “Apocalypse Now” at UCLA, came out of the Bruin and bumped into Francis. I knew that he had directed my new best friend Luana Anders in his first film, “Dementia 13” and was currently assigned to work with her on a screenplay in a screenwriting class at USC film school.
FFC with his Final Cut of Apocalypse Now
Being such an intensely private person, I knew I was crossing a Rubicon by walking up to Francis after the screening of his film and saying “Luana says hello.”
However, when I told her about it, she was thrilled to hear he had said “tell her to call me.”
That call led to a whole bunch of wonderful times at the Coppola home, playing piano, eating pasta, laughing till the wee hours. Eight years of really fantastic Thanksgiving dinners in Napa valley.
Some of the cast of Apocalypse Now