at the age of 19 our next guest wrote the screenplay for what has turned out to be the most
talked about film of the year it's called kids ladies and gentlemen here he is harmony Corrine
Harmony I think maybe you take a 38 medium how you doing pretty good how are you I'm sorry if I
screwed up your name it's Corrine Harmony chlorine that's an interesting name is there something
unusual we should know about that well I don't know my dad used to be a tap dancer is that right
yeah yeah he's pretty famous he he used to hang out the Nicholas brothers and he called me Harmony
and that's how you get the name yeah and you changed it when you were younger you changed it
to what um to harmful because I thought it would be you know tougher because I used to fight a lot
when I was little you fought a lot yeah did you win were you a good fighter not very good yeah
I don't know I mean you just enjoyed it yeah once once I took this kid's sailing and his
name was bar Funk and I said and I capsized the sailboat and he and he almost drowned wow foreign
tell us a little bit about the uh film Harmony it's very controversial isn't it yeah is this
drawn on personal experience tell the folks what it is and then tell me where it came
from well it's funny because well it's strange because I guess it's controversial but I haven't
I don't know I don't I just wanted to make a sequel to Caddyshack and um for some and
then I used to live by this guy and he was a Hasidic um Jewish and he played the basket and
he always played with basketballs and he also his father was a dentist but once I was walking down
the street and he said you're a sinner like that said that to you yeah so I just wrote it all right
okay with with that as background now if we could uh tell us about the uh about the movie
uh it's about teenagers teenagers kids sure kids yeah and it's just about what
happens in one day with these kids yeah this New York City street kids yeah and
you you wrote it when you were 19 years old and how do you get it turned in from
a script how do you get it turned into a motion picture oh I'm not sure yeah
you know I could pretty much have this conversation with myself
we uh we showed some new a teen Trends what can you get inside
man I had this I knew this one guy from Delaware I knew this one and he and he
um he's pretty cool he um he's had one of those like big platforms on his foot you know like for
extra big shoe and he got a shish kebab skewer stuck through both his ass cheeks and they
had to and they this is cute the barbecuing mishaps some trouble at the cookout come on
well and he got these special pants made too and oh yeah you gotta have the special pants get your
butt pierced You Gotta Be You Gotta expect the expensive special pants yeah it comes with a
territory I wrote a joke too you have a joke for us yeah all right well um I I read it in a book
and it said that his this guy he said his his luck was so bad that aspirin gave him headaches yeah
are you working on another screenplay yeah it's about this guy with one leg and he's
a swimmer and he's in the Olympics it's a true story yeah and it's it's
um kind of he looks like um step and fetch it you know step and fetch it yeah
um but but it's about that I'm also writing a book of jokes too
well maybe another time but it was you know it was great fun to meet you
continued success and you must be oh sure
I'm awfully sorry Mr President here Harmony take those you can use those with your joke writing
with Monica Salas thanks for watching good night everybody