Okay, okay: Many of you may know the top-of-the-line talents who pushed this Faustian frightener into pop-culture stardom. Obviously the great Paul Williams, who wrote the incredible soundtrack that rocks and rolls throughout all of Brian De Palma’s lurid imagery. (Williams also stuns as the villainous music producer Swan.) BUT did you know behind the scenes was the one and only Sissy Spacek? Yes: Texan Spacek recalled in an AV Club interview some 12 years ago originally auditioning for a role that later went to Jessica Harper. Instead, she became a set dresser on the project, meeting her husband and securing her future fame as De Palma’s Carrie White. “I was really over my head in the set-decorating department,” she told interviewer Sam Adams. “I was just trying to help out, and I was talentless in that department.” – James Scott
Oct. 27-28 & 31
