![]() ![]() Opportunities had dried up, and she turned to forgeries as well as the stealing of archival materials from libraries as a means of generating income. Like the memoir, the film details how Israel, a notable biographer of figures like Hepburn and Bankhead, who published books throughout the 1970s and '80s, had fallen on hard times during the '90s. That's undeniably her,'" to his friend Heidi Schreck, playwright of What the Constitution Means to Me. Whitty, who had been adapting Israel's memoir for a screenplay but had not yet met the author in person, spotted Israel in a corner. The pair crossed paths there about seven years ago by accident, during a bar crawl for Whitty's 40th birthday when, over the course of the evening, the writer was dressed by friends in costume pieces, including a pair of bunny ears. And also the burgers are good, so you can have dinner," Whitty added with a laugh, a reference to Julius' notable distinction as a gay bar where food is served in addition to alcohol. ![]() "You just go in and it feels like home, that place. Israel, despite her forgeries, valued "what is authentic, and she was very short-tempered with the inauthentic shortcuts that people take to get things up these days," Whitty said. "She would hold court there with her headphones on, sometimes sitting in the corner," recalled Whitty, who said it was not only the queer clientele that made the bar a favorite haunt of the late biographer. ![]() But during her lifetime, she was a regular at Julius'. ![]()
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