The Cat’s Meow: A Classy Story of Classic Hollywood
Patience pays for New York-bred, LA-based screenwriter Steven Peros
By Timothy Rhys
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/screenwriting/article/the_cats_meow_a_classy_story_of_classic_hollywood_2823/
For writer Steven Peros, overnight success has been a long
time coming. Though he thought he was "on his way" when his
first original screenplay was optioned shortly after his graduation
from NYU, the movie wasn't made. Unlike many neophytes, though,
Peros believed in his talent enough to persevere, and he survived
for a dozen years working as a reader for William Morris and
landing "sporadic, small-change writing gigs." Finally, his
script for The Cat's Meow was brought to the project's
ideal director, Peter Bogdanovich, and the rest was history.