Robert Harling

So she used to say, Bert, with this television coming on, you're going to be fabulous.

He said, oh no, they're wonderful radio guys.

She said, no, they're old.

We need youth.

I cried my fucking face off.

Robert, my boyfriend, was like, are you going to rewatch that? I said, absolutely not.

Are you crazy? No, why would I do that? Yeah, exactly.

No, no, no, no.

The Evening Star.

The Evening

Star, which is the sequel to Terms of Endearment and written and directed by Robert Harling, who wrote...

Steel Magnolias.

Yeah.

So, the movie is based on the screenplay by Robert Harling.

It was originally a 1987 play of the same name about the bond a group of women share in a small town southern community and how they cope with the death of one of their own.

Oh, yes.

The original play was written based on the experiences of the author, Robert Harling.

He had a sister who was a type 1 diabetic, and she died of complications from diabetes.

And he wrote this play as a way to cope with his grief.

Yeah.

Chips, Funny Lady, Pennies from Heaven, Footloose, and My Blue Heaven to name a few.

The screenplay is by Robert Harling based on his 1987 stage play, Steel Magnolias.

He also wrote Soapdish-

Mm.

Like, that's, that's not good.

And this one I found out today.

So remem- remember I mentioned that Robert Harling, he wrote the, it started out as a short story.

Mm-hmm.