Midnight Cowboy at AFI

As you know, we are scheduled to discuss James Leo Herlihy's novel, Midnight Cowboy, on Wed., Nov. 1. (An unintentionally subversive scheduling choice for All Saints Day on my part? :-) Lee Levine kindly shared the news that the American Film Institute in Silver Spring is showing the film version from Sept. 9-14.  And as a bonus, at 4:15 p.m. on the opening day of that run, AFI is screening a documentary about the making of that movie--"Desperate Souls and the Making of 'Midnight Cowboy'"--complete with a Q&A with Glenn Frankel, the author of the book on which the documentary is based.  BREAKING NEWS: The Washington Post just published a review of "Desperate Souls" which will run in Friday's Weekend section.