"When Buck Henry wrote his first screenplay in the 1960s, no blue language was allowed, and writers were forced to be subtle when they were salacious.
“We used language more creatively,” said the writer and actor, who will be the Port Townsend Film Festival’s special guest this year during the event’s three days of movie screenings Sept. 23-25.
“These days, they use a lot of dirty language, and some of it can be pretty funny, but I can’t write like that,” Henry said Tuesday. “It’s too easy to write the toilet jokes over and over.”
The 80-year-old writer of such films as “The Graduate” and “Heaven Can Wait” also finds bad grammar pervasive and painful."
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