John I. Carney
1 min readSep 2, 2020

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There's a very funny play called "Moonlight and Magnolias" that I appeared in a community theatre production of a few years ago. It's a comedically-exaggerated version of a real event, when producer David O. Selznick, director Victor Fleming and screenwriter Ben Hecht (my part) cloistered themselves in Selznick's office for five days to make emergency revisions to the script for "Gone With The Wind." Selznick, in real life, considered peanuts and bananas to be "brain food," and in the play it's all he will allow the three of them to eat -- so each new scene of the play opens with the office set more covered by banana peels, peanut shells and wadded-up pages of script.

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John I. Carney
John I. Carney

Written by John I. Carney

Author of “Dislike: Faith and Dialogue in the Age of Social Media,” available at http://www.lakeneuron.com/dislike

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