Kirschner tells amusing tales of working / clashing with the creative team and studio execs and
remembers audience reactions during screenings (the original cut was apparently somewhere around a half - hour longer than the theatrical version, something completely unfathomable to me).
She
remembers in particular
audience reactions to a conversation between artist Diana Thater, whose video installation Starry Messenger hung in the reception gallery in 2017, and Rice professor Dr. David Alexander, an expert in solar astrophysics.