Knowledge is based on forgetting.
Don't judge one college based on one tour guide or your mother's friend's boyfriend's opinion on a college he knew someone attended in 1991.
(The answering machine message that starts the play is based on one left by an ex-boyfriend of Mr. Sloan's).
The character Michael Furey, who dies after standing all night in the rain outside Gretta's window, in "The Dead," is based on one of Nora's Galway boyfriends, Michael Feeney.
Brittany Murphy is set to star in Boyfriend in a Box, based on an American novelty toy of pictures and messages from an imaginary boyfriend.
And you'll probably play guitar better and have a boyfriend with a beard (or if you're super lucky, a boyfriend with a t-shirt based on his beard).
Work with his college's circus and an acrobat boyfriend helped hone an aesthetic based on "savage beauty".
Birbiglia was already a number of drafts into writing a screenplay based on his second one-man show "My Girlfriend's Boyfriend" when he set that aside to begin work on what would become "Don't Think Twice".
But to say that Mr Big is based on Bushnell's boyfriend is to say that Carrie is Bushnell, a tidy connection that she has always resisted.
