Perhaps the buzziest takeaway from this year’s Oscar nominee announcements was the inclusion of “Boyhood,” a directorial feat that took over a decade to complete. But Robert B. Weide, best known as the director behind “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” joked that he’s unimpressed with the effort: “God, I wish it took me only 12 years to make a movie,” he told The Wall Street Journal. Weide’s comment is only partly in jest: he began a documentary film about Kurt Vonnegut’s life in 1982, and is only just returning to it this year.
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Read a touching letter from Kurt Vonnegut to his wife here.
