Allison Anders and I are laughing because our luggage, along with the gorgeous gowns we were planning to wear, did not make it in on time for our opening. The collaborative experience of working with Gus Van Sant was exhilarating. It inspired me to want to make more movies with the winning combination of To Die For: great scripts with ensemble casts that blended an indie spirit with the sheen of studio filmmaking. With Marty’s encouragement I began bringing him story ideas, plays, writers, and directors, developing scripts with him to executive-produce through his company, Cappa. Get out your handkerchiefs. This is going to be weepy. This is a story about a woman named Edna Buxton who wants to be a singer-songwriter but finds that being a wife, mother, lover to the men in her life keeps getting in the way of that dream. Her manager, Joel Millner, creates Denise Waverly out of Edna, and she becomes successful. But it’s not enough to be the heart behind the hits. Edna wants to hear her own voice singing her own music and her own words.
