Somehow the author didn\u2019t find the moment quite so funny. When the film premiered at the Venice Film Festival, it was shown aboard a luxury ocean liner. As the curtain fell, Jackie Susann stormed off the ship in tears of rage. What no one knew was that she had a son, a severely developmentally disabled son. He\u2019d been consigned to a hospital where she\u2019d go to visit. What came across as maudlin in the film, comic even, was the weekly reunion of Susann and her son. So even schmaltz comes from something real and painful and unresolved. Even schmaltz comes from Dangerous Writing.