When his publicist comes to retrieve him, DeLillo has become an almost avuncular presence, joking with her that we didn't really do an interview but simply played cards. As serious as he is about baseball, he will not make exceptions for it these days. He attends one game a year, and he does not watch it continuously on television.DeLillo slowly backs out of the conversation, unrevealing himself piece by piece, until I'm not sure what, exactly, we are talking about Or how we got there. A longtime New York Yankees fan, he has grown disillusioned with the club's massive player payroll.
As soon as the talk shifts to baseball, he grows more comfortable "My baseball memory goes back a long way," Delillo says. "So here I am with a play coming out, and a movie about this situation," says DeLillo, the first real smile spreading across his face. A script he wrote 15 years ago has finally given birth to a film, Game 6. It stars Michael Keaton, as a playwright on a journey across town to confront a critic he worries will ravage his new play on opening night. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions: this is the test and surprise."DeLillo greets this spring with another surprise. "The deceptive element is that, well, it's only dialogue after all And much of the work will be done by others. A playwright realises after he finishes the script this is only the beginning.
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Without any false modesty, DeLillo admits he is already indebted to them. Just when I think I have blown it, the lines around his eyes break and soften, and he looks away. He is happy to go on to the next question.It's odd to imagine this man sitting in the front row, listening to his words being read by actors, but that will happen soon. The Steppenwolf Theater, Chicago, has a production opening next Thursday, featuring Louis Cancelmi, John Heard and Penelope Walker Amy Morton directs. Through large, slightly out-of-date glasses his eyes are huge, fierce without being spiteful. "If I did, I would probably speak of it only privately." As he says this, his gaze cannons out from behind the computer with intimidating intensity.