Author John Berendt interview on "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" (1994)

Author John Berendt on his crime novel, 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.'
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[@darkhorse7460]

John, not only did you write a book, you wrote one of my favorite books.

[@JohnRoberts-wk6rf]

I really enjoyed the Charlie Rose interview show. No frills, no nonsense, just Rose, his guest, chairs, a table, and good, pointed questions.

[@samanthab1923]

I miss Charlie too 😢

[@briggy4359]

Just started this last night. What a fantastic narrator. He's so calm and collected.

[@user-bu7jl6zy5d]

The book is a masterpiece. I've read it at least three times. I wish I had written it! John Berendt is to be commended for this totally unique confection---in both having recognized and in feeling protective of this beautiful, haunting city dripping in Spanish moss and populated with some of the most unforgettable people you'll ever meet. Later a very good film directed by Clint Eastwood starring Kevin Spacey in one of his best performances. The Lady Chablis steals every scene she's in.

[@samanthab1923]

The 30th anniversary edition is out with updates. Just saw JB on CBS This Morning. ⭐️

[@user-bu7jl6zy5d]

@@samanthab1923 Thank you for informing me! I would not have known otherwise. I know a lot of the characters have died---including the Lady Chablis. It will be an interesting read.

[@samanthab1923]

@@user-bu7jl6zy5d Yup, found out she died from watching Southern Charms Savannah. John might be the only one left alive. Sonny Siler, Jim Williams attorney died back in August @ 90. Lots of UGAS since then too.

[@rickwhite3181]

You took the words out of my mouth. I too think It's Kevin's best Role .

[@user-bu7jl6zy5d]

I agree. He did a great job portraying Jim Williams.@@rickwhite3181

[@MarkGunnells]

A fabulous book! Savannah is one of my favorite places on the planet.

[@kvakma]

Any suggestions on a good place to stay when visiting Savannah?

[@MarkGunnells]

I've stayed several places. The 17 Hundred and 90 was probably my favorite though East Bay Inn is a nice and affordable place. a hotel that feels more like a B&B.

[@malcolmbrannen]

Just sleep on one of the tombstones in Bonaventure cemetary

[@firestorm7104]

Mark Gunnells mine also. I just got back Monday night from my honeymoon there.

[@anaibarangan4908]

I've done that before, even while once visiting my aunt and uncle in Atlanta Georgia, took off with a long time best friend that I no longer have, and she and I spent one night in Savannah, and did the book tour our own way. Babies, actually twins older by then, our toddlers left with family to be able to do it. Been there again twice since I returned from Spain, and have a copy of the statue of "The Bird Girl" here at home. Reminds me of young Justice. I've been to Savannah Georgia three times. I love that city. Haven't made it to Charleston yet. I have no idea how that happens every time. I'm ready to go, especially when I've gone to Savannah Georgia with teenagers, but I guess I couldn't keep their historical experience interest going long enough. Wanted to come back to go to the beach here, and they loved the food here. Not so interested in eclectic or anything else fancier, they liked the typical Southern cooking found here in Northwest Florida, of including about seafoods and oysters, no matter if more tavern type or a little more upscale. Florabama. Can do eclectic or fancier dining all the time in Europe. It's also because harder to find anything else alike in Savannah. Here it's easy to zip around here to all of the places they came to love the food. It's normal for them to have felt more comfortable and at home here years ago.

[@kam0406]

Some of the best characters in literature live in this book! And they are real!

[@pittbabe2386]

Yep. Just read this in 2023 and loved it!! Thanks for all the laughs!!

[@MistressPowellHypnosis]

I loved the book, kept me in stitches. John Berendt signed my book at an appearance at Barnes and Nobel. The movie doesn't live up to the book.

[@anaibarangan4908]

I've definitely read the book and watched the movie, and I'd say that did a good job with the movie. The thing is that one's mind automatically fills in whatever blanks exist in the films. The movie is more dramatic.

[@samanthab1923]

No, but it was nice to see Savannah ❤️

[@gastondeveaux3783]

I just finished reading this book tonight. It is wonderful. And yes, the book cover is beautiful. I can't wait to finally see the movie.

[@dukemoose1307]

Very entertaining movie. Need to read the book.

[@charpyles8923]

Duke - The book was so much much MUCH better!

[@malcolmbrannen]

He says there is very little happening in Savannah.....Boy that has changed in 20 years...

[@bluecollarlit]

Why, what is happening there now?

[@jjnb57]

Yankees moving down.

[@lisalasoya2898]

Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated thruout the hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John this book is a masterpiece its almost touches on War & Peace. During this inner-city strategy it seems like everything is self-defense unless you've reached domestic, in the meantime, until we've reached the goal it will stay self-defense. Lisa

[@sharongauss9298]

I love Savannah but it’s become so “ touristy” and some areas not so safe at night. Excellent food and the locals are so welcoming

[@anaibarangan4908]

People are very nice in Savannah Georgia. They definitely have more of what thought of Southern class families, and just in the way that approach and speak to me in conversation. Have beautiful and very well done museums, including modern art. Their Civil War history, just can't be removed and cancelled. Have to just tell it all like it was, because that isn't all pretty, but definitely interesting what can see and learn about it all, the truth about for better or worse how treated, their well-being within what was allowed and what was customary, that was as if the background of the Europeanized culture of The Old South in Savannah itself as a city. Obviously weren't so bad, if what are so much of nowadays, but don't abuse, because it all exists well today walking a fine line, unless a very intellectual interesting person that definitely fits the MLK dream, to be judged by content of character, not by color of skin. I'm not interested in otherwise very much long time, no matter what skin color, unless are as if become as if employed family members, that also judged by content of character not skin color. How it is life in Spain. That's true. Even my ex husband's family commenting on how much our employed family member, Teresa from the Dominican Republic, seemed like a marquesa being chauffeur driven to my mother's wake at the funeral home. It was too far away for her by public transportation. If we ever go to The Dominican Republic after she retires and returns, of course going to stay at her house for a few days. Definitely my daughters and I. We love her more than others that are blood relatives. Those with each other through mutually beneficial good times and bad times, through sickness and in health. My youngest daughter should see her more like her nana than she does, she had two as a little one, but I don't know why not, maybe because one doesn't sweet talk her all the time. Tere is naturally that way, she doesn't have to change her voice tone, and my daughter is too old for baby talk to her, even if I still do it to my girls sometimes. Don't do that to my son. If I did when he was small it was loving descriptive adjectives towards him, but not my voice tone. Like "Where's my puppy?". Mi cachorro. That comes from the Spanish translation of "The Jungle Book", the Disney film, of how Mowgli is seen by the jungle animals. A human pup or cub. That was his favorite movie for years as a little boy. Now he's into Hinduism. Lol. Ironic isn't it?. My youngest daughter, "Mulan". I don't want to know what that can mean, I hope it's a good surprise of love involved, not hatred and war, because Mulan fights for a dynasty.

[@samanthab1923]

Shame

[@chloesmith2044]

What TV show is this from and what is the name of the interviewer? I am trying to cite this for an English paper

[@josebanzon7328]

Charlie Rose

[@rickwhite3181]

My favorite Book Movie and i fell in love with Savannah stayed there for a business from 1998 to 2002 on and off And my Yankee butt just love Savannah and I'm so glad that evil ShermanTecumseh did not destroy Savannah.

[@jeremyhood2176]

I’d love to know which characters were unhappy with the book. As he stated some were.

[@fondapwatson]

Dorothy Kingrey, Mr. William's sister. There are some videos of her here.

[@tubeitmark]

It would have been nice if Charlie Rose would have read the book to get the facts straight, before asking John unnecessary questions or getting the details wrong.

[@Fangs4DaMemories]

I was thinking the same thing... Charlie cutting in mid-sentence as Berendt is explaining about how he came to write the book was increasingly annoying.

[@alysiamerdavid-wasser9165]

Fangs4DaMemories ikr? i mean, i get that it's an "interview", but the author is a natural storyteller. The only questions i found valid were: "Any one mad?" & "Make any friends?".

[@hdb75]

No one got any of the facts straight with this crime. The victim was demonized and the actual murderer was treated like a hero, meanwhile berendt raking in the money from this tragedy. It disgusts me.

[@kballerh]

Love the movie

[@joshlewis5486]

I loved the movie too. Didn’t know it was based on a book till my first visit to Savanna. The book is amazing.

[@curtisrobinson7962]

I watched this video and Charlie Rose flashed me his bits, twice. And you?

[@ems2824]

I think we've established that the Drag Queen was black. After 200th time you could just say her name. And why would it be grotesque to take her to the debutante ball ?

[@nathanielcromartie8924]

The Black Debutante Ball is a very elegant and dignified affair. The men wear tuxedos and the women debutantes dress in ball gowns. The music is provided by a string orchestra. Lady Chablis, although a somewhat likeable person, is outrageous, loud, brassy, and vulgar, and deliberately says and does things to shock people and draw attention to herself. Berendt knew that she'd be like a bull in a china shop in that type of setting, which her behavior turned out to be: "grotesque".

[@perfectsims]

💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

[@curtisrobinson7962]

Doesn't Paula Deen live there?

[@philnewberry8072]

Odd that he keeps using the term "murder". I'm nearly to the end of the book and it seems like self-defense to me.

[@type2992]

so what did you think once you finished it?

[@philnewberry8072]

@@type2992 1) Wretchedness sells. 2)Jim didn't instigate the situation. 3) I don't support the state. Basically, it is what it is.

[@kiwi8877]

Charlie Rose is a little annoying/rude here - he kept cutting John Berendt off.

[@ap.3679]

Pinkie master’s!!!

[@wmd9750]

Charlie was the absolute worst interviewer ever! #shutupcharlie

[@perfectsims]

Math 🧮 is sooooooo scary👻👻👻👻👻