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Beatty returned to New York and decided to make one final run at Penn, telling Abe Lastfogel, the William Morris agent they shared, that he was going to lock himself in a room with Penn until he agreed to direct Bonnie and Clyde. Lastfogel stepped in and set up a lunch between the two men at Dinty Moore’s. “I didn’t stand a chance,” Penn wrote later. “Warren can be the most relentlessly persuasive person I know…I had capitulated by the time Warren had finished his complicated order for salad.”

From Pictures at a Revolution By Mark Harris

I’m a sucker for a great pen. And my greatest pen today is this Zebra that I am holding in my hand right now (I write in a notebook before I post it here). What do I love so muh about this pen? Aside from the fact that it’s simply, blackly stylish, that it’s inexpensive, that it gives me a precise but bold line which works well for both writing and sketching…well, I’m not sure that there’s anything that I don’t love about this pen. When I first saw it, I dismissed it as a Pilot knock-off, but those Pilot pens never gave me this kind of happiness. Even my beloved Fisher space pen – which I am never without – seems prissy compared to this Zebra. Will I never need another pen? The only reason I won’t say that is because I love my other pens too much to risk hurting their feelings.