L. M. Kit Carson, Actor and Writer in Independent Film, Dies at 73
Coincidência...no dia em que nos emocionávamos vendo (ou revendo) "Paris, Texas", na sala do São Luiz, morria um de seus co-roteiristas, pai "na vida real" do garoto do filme. A bem da verdade, sua morte foi último dia 20, mas publicizada no dia que vimos o filme. *** L. M. Kit Carson, an actor and writer who earned a following among devotees of independent film with his magazine journalism about movies and his own quirky films, died on Oct. 20 in Dallas, while visiting. He was 73. The precise cause was uncertain, but Mr. Carson had been ill with pneumonia, said his wife, Cynthia Hargrave. Within the independent film world, Mr. Carson was well known. As a writer for Esquire, Rolling Stone and other magazines in the 1960s and ’70s, he was an early advocate of young American directors like Martin Scorsese and Brian De Palma. In 1971 he was a founder, with G. William Smith, a film professor at Southern Methodist University, of the USA Film Festival, base