I thought this article written by one of his students was excellent. Moore moved to California in the late '60s to work on the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's
Torn Curtain, and he became a creative writing teacher at UCLA. Very sad news that his beachfront home in Malibu burned down in the Woolsey fire last year. His widow still lived there.
https://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-...214-story.html
A great example of "if these walls could talk."
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Famous and celebrated people visited the Moores, such as their close friends over several decades, Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, or the almost endless list of good writers, film directors and actors to whom they were devoted friends, including Julian Barnes and Pat Kavanagh, Calvin and Alice Trillin, the Irish film director Pat O’Connor and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Barry Humphries (Dame Edna Everage) and Hermione Lee.
Seamus Heaney, whose poem about visiting the Moores, “Remembering Malibu,” hung for many years in Brian’s office — later recalled the “revelation” of their “open house and hospitality, at the personal level; and intimation, at the writerly level, of withdrawal and discipline.”
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