The Last Picture Show eye fell on an interesting title, "The Last Picture Show". The back of the book said it was about "kids growing up in Texas" and Bogdanovich decided that it did not interest him and put it back. A few weeks later, actor Sal Mineo handed Bogdanovich a copy of the book. "I always wanted to be in this," he said, "but I'm a little too old now" and recommended that Bogdanovich make it into a film. At the time, Bogdanovich was married to Polly Platt and he asked her to read it. Her response was, "I don't know how you
The Last Picture in the World this moment that picture would accompany me wherever I am going for part of the way </poem> The Last Picture in the World The Last Picture in the World is a poem written by Canadian poet Al Purdy in 1999. It appears in the book "Beyond Remembering: the collected poems of Al Purdy" along with other poems that he wrote over his lifetime. <poem> A hunched grey shape framed by leaves with lake water behind standing on our little point of land like a small monk in a green monastery meditating except that it's alive brooding immobile permanent for half