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Finding the man behind the lyrics, with ‘Blue Moon’ writer Robert Kaplow
5th December 2025 • We Need to Talk About Oscar • Áron Czapek
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Today, we talk with writer Robert Kaplow about ‘Blue Moon,’ the Richard Linklater film that took decades to bring to the screen.

Robert shares how his long-gestating interest in Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers evolved over the years, and how he looks back on the journey now that it’s become the backbone of a Linklater film. We explore what it was like having his first screenplay made into a film and collaborating with the director and Ethan Hawke.

We also dig into the challenge of revealing Larry Hart as a person - a man we mostly know through the lyrics he wrote, but whose life story remains largely untold.

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