Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: 28-year-old novelist lives at home with mother, Fact2: Leo falls in love with beautiful but unstable Mardou Fox, Fact3: love for Roxanne is causing him writer 's block, Fact4: novel was optioned by Arthur Freed of MGM, Fact5: Nicole Maurey was announced to play female lead
Output (English): Leo is a 28yearold novelist who still lives at home with his mother. One night he stumbles upon some beatniks at a coffee house. He falls in love with the beautiful but unstable Mardou Fox. Roxanne warns Mardou away from Leo, who says his love for her is causing him writers block. Mardou falls pregnant. She and Leo wind up together. The novel was optioned by Arthur Freed of MGM as a possible follow up to Some Came Running. Like that, it was originally intended to star Dean Martin. Nicole Maurey was announced to play the female lead. Eventually George Peppard and Leslie Caron were signed. Roddy McDowall also joined the cast, his first film in nine years. Janice Rule was married to Robert Thom, who wrote the script. According to MGM records the film earned only 340,000 in the US and Canada and 425,000 elsewhere resulting in a loss of 1,311,000. The film score was composed, arranged and conducted by Andre Previn, with the motion picture also featuring Previns jazz trio, and the soundtrack album was released on the MGM label in 1960. Allmusics Jason Ankeny noted, Andre Previn had the good sense to recruit cool jazz giants including Gerry Mulligan, Russ Freeman, and Dave Bailey to perform his Subterraneans score: jazz not only fueled Kerouacs work, but his prose sought to evoke the rhythms and energy of bebop. Indeed, this music comes far closer to accurately capturing Kerouacs writing than any of the films dialogue. Previn also deserves credit for articulating the sadness of the original novel, deftly combining horns and strings to create a score that is dark and emotive. All compositions by Andre Previn except as indicated