Yeah, I plan to get back to Catullus next Wednesday. Christmas comes six months from today, so Ira Levin made that Rosemary's baby's birthday. March 25 (my grandmother's birthday) used to mark the new year since people considered it the day of Jesus's conception. September 25 marks William Faulkner's birthday.
I watched Rosemary's Birthday on cable about fifteen years ago. Joe Bob Briggs hosted, and he did a very thorough job discussing the production. After each commercial he had more tidbits. I've never seen a more thorough job. The show lasted for hours.
Stephen King has a nice discussion of both the novel and the film in his wonderful Danse Macabre. He comments on the amazing fidelity of the movie to the novel. Robert Evans said he had to talk Mia Farrow into doing the film. Frank Sinatra, Farrow's husband at the time, didn't want her to do it. Evans told her the film would make her a star. It did, and she got a divorce shortly thereafter.
John Lennon later lived in the apartment in the Dakota where they filmed it.
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