Book Vs Movie: "Harold and Maude" (1971)

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Book Vs Movie:</strong> <strong><em>Harold and Maude</em></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>The Colin Higgins Story & the Direction of Hal Ashby</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><img src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/60822/haroldmaude_1280.png" alt="" width="300" height="169" /></strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Margos want to sing out! Today’s special episode is based on the novelization of a screenplay by the talented</span> <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Higgins"><strong>Colin Higgins</strong></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">who manages to good luck his way into having his first attempt at a screenplay produced by Paramount in 1971. Before that, he was an American-Australian who traveled around the globe trying to figure out how to turn his passion for writing into a career. (He would go on to write & direct</span> <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_to_5_(film)"><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">9 to 5</span></em></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">!)</span></p> <p><a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_and_Maude"><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Harold and Maude</span></em></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">became the second film of legendary director</span> <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Ashby"><strong>Hal Ashby</strong></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">who won an Oscar for editing In The Heat of the Night in 1967 and was eager for the challenge of creating a movie about peace and love. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The film stars</span> <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Cort"><strong>Bud Cort</strong></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">as Harold Chason, a young, lonely man obsessed with death and pranks his stiff, upper-crust mother (played by</span> <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Pickles"><strong>Vivian Pickles)</strong></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">by staging phony suicides. (This is a very da