INSKEEP: Such a memorable character that John Berendt says to this day people still ask him about Chablis.īERENDT: People always ask me who my favorite character is, and I've never said before because, of course, it was Chablis. THE LADY CHABLIS: (As Chablis Deveau) You know I have nothing to hide. THE LADY CHABLIS: (As Chablis Deveau) What does Mr.
MONTAGNE: When the book was turned into a movie, The Lady Chablis told director Clint Eastwood that the only person who could play The Lady Chablis on screen was The Lady Chablis, and he agreed. And before I got out, she approached me, and she walked right around the car trailing an index finger as if she was feeling the bumps, all the dents and all the rust and went all the way around the car and came up to me, and she said, how come a white boy like you's driving a jive ass heap like this? She was standing on the curb with her hands on her hips and a sassy half smile on her face, just watching me trying to park. JOHN BERENDT: She saw me as I was parking. INSKEEP: When we reached John Berendt, he recalled for us the first time he met her. MONTAGNE: The flamboyant transgender cabaret performer made such an impression on author John Berendt that he wrote her into his nonfiction book about a murder trial in Savannah, Ga. She legally changed it from her birth name, Benjamin Edward Knox. THE LADY CHABLIS: (As Chablis Deveau) The Lady Chablis - I got it off a wine bottle.
JOHN CUSACK: (As John Kelso) Chablis is a pretty name. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL")
And we'd like to take a moment to remember someone who rose to fame in the best-selling book "Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil" and the movie that followed.
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