A Crack-Up at the Race Riots by Harmony Korine
Before David Letterman banned him, the filmmaker Harmony Korine made three memorable appearances on CBS’s Late Show. On his first visit, to promote Kids, Letterman asked how one turns a script into a movie. The fidgety Korine, his voice cracking, replied, “Oh, I’m not sure.” The audience laughed, then broke into applause.
Before David Letterman banned him, the filmmaker Harmony Korine made three memorable appearances on CBS’s Late Show. On his first visit—in 1995, when he was 22—Korine came to promote Larry Clark’s Kids, for which he’d written the screenplay. When Letterman asked how one turns a script into a movie, a fidgety Korine, his voice cracking, replied, “Oh, I’m not sure.” The audience laughed, then broke into applause. He delighted them again in 1997, returning in a suit and V-neck sweater to plug his directorial debut, Gummo. (Letterman: “You’ve assembled a series of very striking, vivid, disturbing