Salsnick was notorious for demanding multiple rewrites of his films, and he was unhappy with the third act of dorothy parker's script. The scene where norman maine drunkenly crashes into another car and looks on in horror as blood streams down his face gets taken out at the last moment. In its place, we get a very different ending. Norman goes on a bender at the race track, then he disappears for four days before turning himself in to police. He has been arrested for drunken driving, crashing his car into a tree and assaulting a police officer. Selsneck is convinced. On november sixth, he writes his production supervisor, would you