City Of Angels

We've been talking about this as a film, when in fact it's a television show.

Thompson: It's not, precisely.

Nichols: Well, it's a film on television. What is a television show? It's something with a host.

There are some shots that you would rarely see on TV, like that long, wild tracking shot that goes from inside an elegant bar where Roy Cohn is putting the make on a guy, through the window across the street and then into the Rambles in Central Park.

Kushner: What I love about that shot is it goes zooming and then it stops for traffic.

Nichols: I was just obsessed with the fact that this was not only simultaneous but that they were within hailing distance of each other. The guy was f--ing somebody in the a-- not that far from the Plaza, and that seemed to me a crucial part of it. I think it's worth it just to remember that about New York, that 20 yards from the fanciest hotel is a kind of jungle.