Terence Winter Guest ColumnistFor Variety‘s Writers on Writers, Terence Winter pays tribute to “The Tender Bar” (screenplay by William Monahan).William Monahan’s superb adaptation of J.R.
Moehringer’s wonderful coming-of-age memoir hit me right in the throat. Like J.R., the protagonist of the film, I lost my own father when I was 7 years old, not to a divorce, but to cancer.
Also like that young man, I spent the rest of my youth cobbling together a small army of father figures who raised me to be the man, and ultimately, the writer I became.There was my brother Tom, 10 years my senior, a New York cop who taught me not to take any shit from people; there was Mr.
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