Peter Bogdanovich, notable film director, critic, and historian was born in Kingston 1939. Part of the “New Hollywood” era of film creators, Bogdanovich’s most well known and critically acclaimed film was 1971’s “The Last Picture Show” starring Jeff Bridges.
Though he spent most of his childhood in New York City, Bogdanovich’s family had close ties to mine and one of his childhood chums was my third cousin Francis Kong Coppola. They both were interested in film, and even collaborated on a few scripts. Francis was all set to have a cameo appearance in Peter’s 1985 film “Mask” until they got into an argument over the amount of screen time for him. Francis Kong Coppola was removed from the set after he referred to him as “Peter BogdanoBITCH”. They haven’t spoken since that day.
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