The San Francisco Conversations. Inscribed, “May 14, 1984. For Sam, My best friend and brother. Johnny.” , 1978-1983

Titled sections [approximately 1-4 pages each]


Introduction
Themes and Subjects
Life
Einstein
Marilyn Monroe and Hollywood
Hugh Hefner and Playboy
Howard Hughes
Biographys [sic]
Harry Truman
The Feeling of Places
Movies and Plays
Overhearing Yourself
Gangsters
The Moth
Neighbors
Writing and Imagination
Interviews and the Boarding House
Presence and Effort
Ideas and Projects
Resturants [sic] and Neighborhood
Eyes and Light
Pretending
Chicken, Cafes and Loafers
The Prospector Play
Theatre Form
Insults
The Hotel
L.A.
Posessions [sic]
Shepard’s Plays
"Period” Movies
Advice
Zane Grey
Radio Voice
Stage Directing
Sight Gags and Circuses
Reactions to Fear
Dennis in the Theatre
Casting
Teenage Memories
The First Girl
Julie Harris and the Senator from Baltimore
Theatre Sound
Sound and the Movies
Movie Characters
The Right Stuff
Fool For Love
A Friend
Manhatten [sic]
Film Production Meeting
The Room
Possibilities
Arnald [sic] and the Vaquaroes [sic]
Fag Mailmen and Cursing
4-F
Haircuts
Folk Singers and Cowboy Stars
Neil Cassidy
Bird Imitation
Living with the Carpenters
Ideas for a Film
2 by Truffeut
On the Ranch
Coach McAdams
Zen Mountain
Sets and Came
Dressing Up Nature
Walking the Property – ‘76
Collaberation [sic]
Book Inscription
The Pink Panther
Lip Syncing
Matt Painting
Talking Formally
Micraphones [sic] in the Movies
The Origin and Power of Moving Pictures
Possible Origins of Theatre and the Decline of the Form of American Movie Theaters
The Death Scene
Planning for the Filming of Endgame
Singing and Remembering
The New Mexico Conversations
Relating Historical Events
Jokes, Humor and Comedians
Woody Allen
A Phase
Ageing
Beginnings
Movie Endings
Betrayal Movies
Conversation Changer An Out of Control Reminisence [sic]
A Slapped Down Town
On the Road
Old Friends at the Lodge
Loading the Gun
Spelling on the Desert
Out on the Desert at Night
Having a Mission
Omens, Lesson and Elders
Remembering
In Front of the Bookcase
The Old Man
Relationships
Mid Life Crisis


Conversations between J. and S. and S’s son Jesse who was ten between the ages of 7 and 9, 1977 to 1979 California

The Rasberry [sic] Story
Whale Meat and Grapes
Feeling the Salami
School Teachers
Teasing the Kid