JIMMY REARDON LETTER TO CHICAGO CRITICS

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A NOVELIST AND FILM DIRECTOR FROM CHICAGO SENDS A LETTER

TO HIS HOMETOWN FILM CRITICS

William Richert

1223 Broadway Suite 101

Santa Monica, California 90404

williamrichert.com

November 13, 2007

Dear Bruce Ingram,

And Members of the Chicago Film Critics Association,

Recently I read that some of you objected to the treatment you received from the

Fox publicity department earlier this year.

While you and your colleagues have apparently settled your grievances, I have not,

and my rage against the machine of the Fox publicity and marketing department

has lasted 20 years, beginning with the changes they and Fox studio bosses forced

upon my 1986 ilm which you may know under the title “A NIGHT IN THE LIFE

OF JIMMY REARDON,” released in 1988.

I am writing this letter to tell you my experience with

Fox and Fox publicity, and how my original movie

was prevented from being seen by critics and audi-

ences until now.

As evidence of events past, I am sending that ilm on

DVD, now called by its original title, “AREN’T YOU

EVEN GONNA KISS ME GOODBYE.”

Roughly twenty years ago, when Fox bought the distribution rights to my inde-

pendent ilm, the title was “JIMMY REARDON” and we had a score by academy-

award winning Elmer Bernstein, a new song performed by Johnny Mathis, and an

original end-credit song written and sung by River Phoenix. I provided narration.

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