Thank you. :) I've still yet to watch A New Leaf, though I know all about it and the way producer Robert Evans recut the film against the wishes of Elaine May (who also directed). By all accounts the finished film was still good though, despite the edits. I really must get around to watching it.

It's easy to make Robert Evans the bad guy here, but quite honestly I'm inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt considering how Coppola's original cut of The Godfather was a mere two hours, and supposedly incoherent. Evans took the film out of his hands and recut it, giving us the near three-hour masterpiece we have today. Sometimes directors are great at what they do, but can't see the wood for the trees in the editing room, and need a (creatively minded) producer to step in. Not a popular notion among adherents to auteur theory (which is largely nonsense, as film is always collaborative) but there we go. :)