AS SEEN ON TV: CRAIG GILBERT

CRAIG GILBERT

AS SEEN IN:
"Cinema Verite"

AS PLAYED BY:
James Gandolfini

From "The New Yorker":
Craig Gilbert created the seminal 1973 series An American Family and never made another show or movie — probably because that experience haunts him even today. Gilbert, now 85 and recovering from an accidental Mucinex overdose, says in a surprising New Yorker interview, "I didn’t know what I had wrought. I still don’t." He calls HBO's Cinema Verite, in which James Gandolfini portrays him, "essentially fallacious," particularly the part of the film that suggests his relationship with Pat Loud (played by Diane Lane in the movie) was inappropriate. He hired a lawyer to represent him and the Loud family against the station, though he did not sue. "An American Family changed the lives of the Louds, and it changed my life," Gilbert says. "It was pretty damn tumultuous, and I don’t want to go over it anymore."


For the full story:
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2011/04/25/110425ta_talk_winer

BCnU!