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REMEMBERING "CLOSE ENCOUNTERS": AN INTERVIEW WITH "MAKING OF" AUTHOR RAY MORTON
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<p><strong>(Note: this interview with conducted to coincide with the 40th anniversary of <em>Close Encounters of the Third Kind </em>in 2017.) </strong><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">By Michael Coate</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif; background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"> </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif; color: black;">Ray Morton</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"> is the author of ※Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Making of
Steven Spielberg*s Classic Film§ (Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2007). He
is a screenwriter, script consultant, and senior writer and columnist for
Script magazine. His other books include ※King Kong: The History of a Movie
Icon from Fay Wray to Peter Jackson§ (Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2005),
※Amadeus: Music on Film§ (Limelight, 2011), ※A Hard Day*s Night: Music on Film§
(Limelight, 2011), ※A Quick Guide to Screenwriting§ (Limelight, 2013), ※A Quick
Guide to Television Writing§ (Limelight, 2013), and ※A Quick Guide to Film
Directing§ (Limelight, 2014).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif; background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif; color: black;">Cinema Retro:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif; color: black;"><span> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">How would you like
※Close Encounters of the Third Kind§ to be remembered on its 40th anniversary?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="yiv2530531763msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Ray Morton:<span> </span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">As a wonderful,
entertaining movie. </span></p>
<p> </p>
<p class="yiv2530531763msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">As the first true Steven Spielberg movie. ※<span>Jaws</span>§ is a magnificent film, but in a way an atypical film for
Spielberg in terms of genre and subject matter. ※<span>Close Encounters</span>§ is the first of Spielberg*s movies to contain
many of the elements that would become closely associated with him in the years
that followed: an uplifting sci-fi/fantasy narrative infused with a tremendous
sense of wonder; a focus on children; an exploration of life in the American
suburbs; broken families; a fascination with World War II; a highly
sophisticated use of visual and special effects; the use of a powerful John
Williams score to create a powerful emotional response; cinematography that
emphasizes backlighting; and Spielberg*s trademarked ※push in§ close-ups onto
the awed faces of his characters. ※<span>Jaws</span>§
made Spielberg hot, ※<span>CE3K</span>§ made
him a brand name.</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p class="yiv2530531763msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="yiv2530531763msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">As one of the two films that transformed science fiction and fantasy
from vaguely disreputable ※B§ genres into ※A§ movie material in the eyes of
both the public and the film industry. The other was, of course, ※<span>Star Wars.</span>§</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p class="yiv2530531763msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="yiv2530531763msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">As the masterwork of Douglas Trumbull, Richard Yuricich, and their great
team of visual effects magicians at Future General.</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p class="yiv2530531763msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="yiv2530531763msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">As one of the most intense and honest depictions ever filmed of
obsession and of the rewards and costs of pursuing a dream.</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p class="yiv2530531763msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="yiv2530531763msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">As one of the most authentic, non-idealized, and non-stereotypical
depictions of American suburban life ever shown on screen.</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p class="yiv2530531763msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="yiv2530531763msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #fff0f6;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif; color: black;">Cinema Retro:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif; color: black;"><span> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Can you recall your reaction to the first time you saw ※Close
Encounters§?</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="yiv2530531763msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Morton:<span> </span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">I can absolutely
recall the first time I saw <span>※Close
Encounters</span>§〞it was the most significant movie-going experience of my
life. I saw it in December 1977 at the Ridgeway Theater in Stamford,
Connecticut〞on a school night with my sisters Kathy and Nancy.I loved the movie as a movie〞it was intriguing, thrilling, frightening,
funny, awe-inspiring, thought-provoking, and ultimately extremely moving. But the effect ※<span>Close
Encounters</span>§ had on me went well beyond the simple enjoyment of a very
good film. By the time<span> </span>※<span>CE3K</span>§ opened, I had already been a
film fan for a few years, but ※<span>Close
Encounters</span>§<span> </span>is the movie
that awakened me to the true power of cinema. Until that night, if you had
asked the very young me what the most important ingredients in a movie were, I
would have said dialogue and performance. Those things are certainly present in<span> </span>※<span>CE3K,</span>§ but they are secondary. The storytelling in ※<span>Close Encounters</span>§〞especially in its
final thirty minutes〞is accomplished primarily through the manipulation of the
core elements of cinema: imagery, sound effects, and music. Watching the film
for the first time, I found myself having a profound emotional response to
Spielberg*s masterful orchestration of light and sound〞I was filled with
feelings of awe, wonder, and joy so intense they were almost spiritual. When
the movie ended, I just sat staring at the screen, enraptured and unable to
move as I processed the overwhelming intensity of what I had just experienced.
I sat there so long that my sisters finally lost patience with me. ※Wake up!§
my sister Nancy snapped. ※The movie*s over!§ That brought me back to the world,
but I still hadn*t come back to Earth.I realized then and there the powerful effect that movies could have on
an audience 〞 that in the right hands they could transcend mere storytelling
and impact viewers on a much deeper and more profound level. Driving home that
night (in a heavy fog that filtered the headlights of oncoming cars in ways
that mimicked much of the imagery in the movie we had just seen), I knew I
wanted to do something more than just watch movies〞that I wanted to make a life
in the cinema as well.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"> </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif; color: black;">Cinema Retro:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif; color: black;"><span> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Is there any
significance to ※Close Encounters§?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Morton:<span> </span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Well, it*s one of
the best sci-fi movies ever made, both creatively and from a production
stand-point. And, as I mentioned earlier, it*s one of the films that made
sci-fi into a respectable genre.</span></p>
<p class="yiv2530531763msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="yiv2530531763msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Beyond those two points, however, it was the first major sci-fi film to
depict first contact as a potentially positive experience〞that a meeting
between mankind and beings from another world could be a joyous, peaceful,
uplifting event〞something that could be good for us〞rather than an occasion of
invasion and horror. In the years following<span> </span>※<span>CE3K</span>§<span> </span>and especially ※<span>E.T.</span>§ that became a commonplace idea,
but in 1977 it was pretty revolutionary.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif; color: black;">Cinema Retro:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif; color: black;"><span> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Which edition of
※Close Encounters§ do you like best?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Morton:<span> </span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">I prefer the 1977
theatrical cut, in part because it*s the first version of the movie I saw and
the one that made such a strong impression on me. But I also prefer it because
it*s the most subtle version of the film. As an example, in the scene in which
Roy has his initial close encounter at the railroad crossing, as he drives off
in pursuit of the UFO, the 1977 version cuts to a long shot of Roy*s truck
driving across the landscape and in the sky above you see a little point of
light moving along. Is it a UFO? Or is it just an airplane or a satellite? We*re
not 100% sure and that adds some mystery and intrigue to the picture〞was what
we just saw happen real or did Roy perhaps imagine it? We*re not sure and
neither is Roy until the three UFOs come flying around the corner in the
Crescendo Summit scene a few minutes later. In the <span>Special Edition</span> and the 1997 <span>Director*s Edition</span>, that shot is replaced by the shadow of an
impossibly large UFO zooming across the landscape〞all of the ambiguity is gone
and the point is hit right on the head that what we saw was real and that UFOs
are real before they are revealed to us at Crescendo Summit. It takes a little
bit of the magic out of it for me.</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p class="yiv2530531763msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="yiv2530531763msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">As technically wonderful as it is, I feel the Cotapoxi scene has similar
problems. The jeeps leaping over the sand dunes in 1-2-3 formation and the
helicopters zooming low across the desert feel like they belong in a slightly
broader, slightly less real film than the theatrical cut is. One of the things
I like so much about <span>※CE3K</span>§ is
that the fantastic events occur in a very real setting〞Roy*s world and
Jillian*s world all feel very authentic and real to me〞but when people are
zooming around like they are in an action movie, some of that reality gets lost
for me. And, as cool as seeing the ship in the desert is, the scene is really
just a repeat of the opening sequence in which the airplanes are discovered, so
it*s a bit repetitious. I do like some of the family strife material that was put back in for
the <span>Special Edition</span> and the <span>Director*s Edition </span>and some of the
editing in the second act is tighter and less raggedy. But I still prefer the
1977 version. Following that I would choose the 1997 cut and then the Special
Edition. (I think going inside the Mothership was always a mistake.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif; color: black;">Cinema Retro:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif; color: black;"> <span> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Where do you think
※Close Encounters§ ranks among Steven Spielberg*s body of work?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Morton:<span> </span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Near the top, along
with ※<span>Jaws,</span>§ ※<span>E.T.,</span>§ ※<span>Raiders,</span>§ ※<span>Schindler*s
List,</span>§ and ※<span>Empire of the Sun.</span>§
It has always struck me as being one of his most personal movies.</span></p>
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<p>The YouTube channel Stanley & Us is devoted to the works and life of Stanley Kubrick. Here they present an interview that was done years ago with the late, esteemed British film critic and historian Alexander Walker, a friend of Kubrick's, who reflects on the fractious relationship Kubrick had with the volatile but ingenious Peter Sellers. While Walker downplays the extent of the disputes they had on the set of "Dr. Strangelove", he does provide some interesting insights into their work together. <br /></p>
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"THE COOLEST GUY MOVIE EVER: RETURN TO THE SCENE OF 'THE GREAT ESCAPE'": INTERVIEW WITH JOE AMODEI, PRESIDENT & CEO OF VIRGIL FILMS
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<p>Virgil Films has released the remarkable documentary "The Coolest Guy Movie Ever", a unique look at the 1963 WWII classic "The Great Escape". The film cemented Steve McQueen as a newly-minted superstar of the big screen and featured one of the all-time great casts: James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, David McCallum, Donald Pleasence, James Donald among them. United Artists originally intended the movie to be shot in Hollywood but director John Sturges argued that it would only be convincing if shot on location in Germany. "The Coolest Guy Movie Ever" visits those locations and presents how they look today. In some cases, the iconic locations have changed considerably while others remain instantly recognizable. The documentary was conceived, directed, photographed and edited by Christophe Espenan, a devoted fan of the film. Espenan and a team of dedicated assistants and enthusiasts of the movie painstakingly tracked down even the most minor locations. The documentary details the challenges this presented in Germany's ever-changing landscape. Most vitally, he also tracked down people whose families interacted with the film crew. Most interesting is the small hotel where key members of the cast, including Steve McQueen, stayed during production. The son of the couple who ran the hotel at the time (and who still operates it today) gives first-hand memories of what it was like to have legendary celebrities staying in the cozy venue and how polite everyone was to the family. The documentary is chock full of such wonderful anecdotes and is enhanced by ample film clips from the movie and very rare production photos.  </p>
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<p>We spoke to Joe Amodei, the President and CEO of Virgil Films, which has released the film as a region-free DVD. Here, Amodei shares his thoughts about the production. <br /></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">When
did you first learn of the existence of ※The Coolest Guy Movie Ever§
documentary? </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Somewhere around three years ago Steven Jay Rubin
introduced me to Chris Espenan who was directing the doc. I had previously
released Steve*s documentary ※East LA Marine§ about WWII hero Guy Gabaldon.
Steve knew I was a ※Great Escape§ fan and told me about the movie. I
immediately said ※Tally Ho, I am in.§</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">What
attracted you in terms of agreeing to distribute the film through Virgil? </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">§The Great Escape§ was the film that did it for me as a
kid going to the movies in Northeast Philadelphia. In those days I could walk
to the theatre so I went three or four times a week. I learned the meaning of ※cool§
while watching the film. Steve McQueen was the definition of that word. We are
always on the lookout for film- related docs and this one really came close to
home. I also knew it was something I might be able to get my friend Michael
Meister involved in. He is a fellow ※Great Escape§ lover who ended up coming in
with finishing funds that allowed us to screen the film in the market at
Cannes. BTW Michael LOVES Cinema Retro!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Where
did the rare production photos seen in the documentary originate? </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">A lot of them came from Walter Rimi*s son Christian who
graciously allowed us the use of his father*s photos. Walter was second unit
director of photography. Christian is in the film and gives a very emotional
talk about freedom and how important it s.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">What
was WWII historian Steve Rubin*s role in making the documentary a reality? </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">He is the Producer of the film. Our very own Big X. My
Dad and I had the pleasure of seeing the film at Grauman*s Theatre (I still
call it that) in Hollywood a few years back during the Turner Classic Movies
Film Fest. Was very cool seeing it on the big screen with my father sitting
next to me. It*s not something I will ever forget.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">What
are your personal memories of ※The Great Escape§? When did you first see it? </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">The summer of 1963. The Merben Movie Theatre.
Philadelphia PA. I remember building a ramp for my bicycle to jump over. I was
lucky if I got the bike a foot or two off the ground. But it felt unbelievably
cool!!!!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">What
qualities about the movie do you feel resonate most after so many years? </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">The POW*s never give up. They try to escape from the
minute they get into the camp. They never give up. It is this heroism that the
real Stalag Luft 3 inhabitants had when they made the real escape in March of
1944. John Surges and crew made sure that courage was on display throughout the
film.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Who
is your favorite character in the film?</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Simply put Virgil Hilts. But I do have a love for Charles
Bronson*s portrayal of ※Tunnel King§ Danny as well.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">#your
favorite scene? </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Nothing like that motorcycle jump over the fence to get
me going. There is also a scene where McQueen takes down a German soldier about
to shoot his friend, <span> </span>※The Mole§ Ives. He
doesn*t get to save him but the gymnastic leap off the ground of McQueen*s body
into the German added to the coolness of the character. No one had done this in
movies before. We had cool actors like William Holden in ※Stalag 17§ or James
Dean in ※Rebel Without a Cause.§ But no one was cool like McQueen. No one.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Any
reflections on Elmer Bernstein*s score? </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">In the top two or three of all time. It is the ringer on
my phone. I got the chance to thank him at a screening of ※Sweet Smell of
Success§ a while back. He was a nice and gracious man.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Your
thoughts on John Sturges as a director and other films of his that have
impressed you. </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span> </span>Sturges never gets
the credit he deserves because a lot of his films were big time audience
favorites but not necessarily critical favorites. This guy not only made ※The
Great Escape§ but he also brought us ※The Magnificent Seven", ※Bad Day at Black
Rock,§ ※The Old Man and the Sea§ and ※Gunfight at the OK Corral.§ Those are
some heavyweights!!</span></p>
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GETTING EVEN: INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD VETERE, SCREENWRITER OF THE ULTIMATE '80S REVENGE FLICK "VIGILANTE"
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">In the late 1970s and early 80s, there
was a fear that gripped New York City. After 1977, the year of the Son of Sam
murders, the disastrous blackout, and the Bronx literally in flames later, the
cityscape and New York aura had drastically changed. The movie <em>Death
Wish<span> </span>(1974)</em> directed by Michael
Winner,<span> </span>made earlier, had caused quite a
stir reflecting the bleak and often paranoid reactions of citizens, and it
spawned several other films. <em>Vigilante,</em> produced and directed by
exploitation genre virtuoso, William Lustig, and written by Richard Vetere, was
perhaps arguably one of the leanest and no-holds-barred of this type of film.
Lustig and actor Joe Spinell had teamed up to make the lucrative but extremely
graphic and controversial horror/ serial killer film <em>Maniac (1980)</em>. <em>Vigilante</em>
was Lustig*s follow up. Yet, <em>Vigilante </em>remains to be more aestheticized
with a raw prose of the street thanks to Vetere's work, and the grim urban
settings serving as a stark landscape, rather than relying on the raw
gratuitous gore of Lustig*s prior film.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">I
caught up with Richard Vetere in July 2018, who was a former professor of screenwriting of
mine at Queens College in the late 1990s. I had seen the film on Netflix
recently and thought how underrated it was, and I wanted to contact Vetere to
find out his insight into writing such a gritty, visceral, and memorable film.
Vetere explains that Lustig approached him to write a ※Blue Collar <em>Death Wish§</em>. One of the points Vetere
makes was how unapologetically politically incorrect the film is. <span> </span>It was on the top 20 highest grossing films of
1983, and it was an example of an innovative indie film, before indie
groundbreakers, Miramax, the Shooting Gallery and Tarantino were making waves
in the 1990s.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><em><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Vigilante</span></em><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">
can easily be overlooked as an exploitation genre film, but offers the viewer
something more unique with the gritty performances especially by Forster,
dialogue thanks to Vetere, and cinematography that make it a stand out. I saw
the film when I was young and it made an impression. The political view is
obviously in --your -face about policing tactics and politicians not doing
enough for the public. We see this frustrated view in many of the films of the
era. Pre-Giuliani, pre-Disneyfication of New York was grim, but it had almost a
distinct street grit-aesthetic for filmmaking, such as in earlier films like <em>T<span>he
French Connection</span></em> (William Friedkin, 1971).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Vetere says what makes his film stand
out is that it is unapologetic for the action of the heroes in the movie. The
ending in which a judge is blown to bits was very controversial. He emphasizes
his own frustration at the growing apathy in the city by police and the public
alike. He also feels his film is one of the most realistic of the genre in
comparison to other films like <em>Death Wish</em> and <em>Fighting Back</em>. He
felt <em>Death</em> <em>Wish</em> had an ill-fitting sense of humor and the villains
were so over the top that they were not realistic. Vetere maintains that he was
going for ※reality§ untrammeled by Hollywood restriction or by a need for
self-justification as he felt <em>Fighting Back</em> had.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif; color: black; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Richard Vetere's films that he wrote or
co-wrote include <em>The Third Miracle</em>
starring Ed Harris and produced by Francis Ford Coppola and directed by
Agnieszka Holland released by Sony Picture Classics, <em>The Marriage Fool</em> for CBS TV films starring Walter Matthau and
Carol Burnett, <em>How to Go Out on a Date in
Queens</em> starring Jason Alexander and the teleplay <em>Hale the Hero!</em> starring Elisabeth Shue for A&E.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">1.
 <strong><em>What was happening politically at the time this film was made in the
early 1980s New York?</em></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">In
the late 1970s and early &80s New York City was a city on a major decline.<span> </span>There was no political will and no ability to
get anything done.<span> </span><span> </span>Unlike today there wasn*t a single
neighborhood untouched by graffiti, street crime, vandalism and muggings.<span> </span>Prostitutes walked the streets, cars being
broken into -- all met with indifference by a somewhat over-taxed, somewhat
corrupt, somewhat bewildered police force.<span> </span>When you got on a subway you were basically taking your life into your
own hands since gangs roamed the subway with impunity.<span> </span><span> </span>Just
stepping out of your house could be intimidating to the common citizen.<span> </span>You have to remember back then the police
only <em>responded</em> to a crime the concept
of attacking crime and preventing it was not put into effect. <span> </span><span> </span>Also
the subway police and the street police were two different departments so if
someone committed a crime, they took refuge underground.<span> </span>So I would like to answer your question this
way 每 the average citizen was afraid and felt helpless.<span> </span>This made them apathetic to their own plight.<span> </span>As a young man this outraged me to such a
point that I wanted to take action.<span> </span>I
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BURT REYNOLDS: "THE LAST MOVIE STAR"
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<p>At age 82, Burt Reynolds is beaten but not broken. The one-time superstar had many ups-and-downs in his career and he's now walking with a cane, the result of doing many dangerous stunts that went wrong. But he's still in there kicking. Reynolds, who resides in Florida, mentors acting students and is also starring in a new film, appropriately titled "The Last Movie Star", about a forgotten leading man who is to receive an honor late in life at a Nashville film festival. Reynolds was recently in New York to make an appearance at a retrospective of his films and was interviewed by Kathryn Shattuck of the New York Times. He comes across as candid and very much the same kind of wise guy that he popularized on screen. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/movies/burt-reynolds-the-last-movie-star.html?ribbon-ad-idx=9&rref=movies&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Movies&pgtype=article">Click here</a> to read. 
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<p>In an interview with Craig Modderno of The Daily Beast, William Shatner reflects on all matter of subjects ranging from American politics (he claims to be agnostic on the subject) to his long-standing friendship with the late Leonard Nimoy and his disappointment at not having been cast in any of the recent "Star Trek" films. At age 86, Shatner is still one of the busiest stars in Hollywood, writing books, shooting TV series and feature films and hosting charity events. <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/29/william-shatner-is-biting-his-tongue-under-president-trump-i-wont-do-anything-that-might-get-me-deported">Click here</a> to read. </p>
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FLASHBACK: CINEMA RETRO INTERVIEWS ROBERT OSBORNE OF TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES
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<p>(Cinema Retro joins other retro movie lovers in mourning the recent passing of Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne. This is Lee Pfeiffer's interview with Osborne that originally ran in 2008)<br /></p></strong>
<p>Cinema Retro Editor-in-Chief Lee Pfeiffer chatted with Robert Osborne, the popular host of TCM's movie broadcasts. Osborne, who is also the official Oscar historian, is well known for his informative introductions and epilogues for the films that TCM broadcasts. Director Sidney Lumet once said that even if he doesn't desire to see certain films, he always tries to tune in for Osborne's introductions. Osborne is as affable offscreen as he is on the air. Witty, knowledgable and conversant in all things Hollywood-related, he has many of the attributes he ascribes to the stars he grew up idolizing. In addition to being a columnist for the Hollywood Reporter, Osborne is by all accounts America's premiere film historian. <strong><br /> </strong></p>
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<p><strong>CR: You seem to have every movie lover's dream job: to get paid to watch and analyze classic movies. How did this come about and what led to your association with the Academy?</strong></p>
<p><strong>RO: </strong>When I was first starting out as an actor, I was under contract to Lucille Ball at Desilu Studios, which was owned by Lucy and Desi Arnaz. Lucy knew I had this passion for movie history which at that time was not a normal thing. Most people weren't interested in movie history. She said, "You know, you would have a happier life as a writer than as an actor. You should be writing about movies, because nobody is." She told me that she thought being an actor would never make me happy, but writing would. She knew I was a journalism major at the University of Washington. She told me that if I took up writing as a profession, the first thing I had to do was write a book because people would look at you differently if I did. She told me it didn't even have to be a good book, but that everyone is impressed with <em>anyone</em> who writes a book because most people lack the discipline to do it. I knew she was telling me this for my own good, not some other agenda, so I quit being an actor and became a writer. </p>
<p>The thing I decided to write about was the Academy Awards because you could always find a list of who won Oscars, but you could never find a list of who was nominated. It was even hard to get one from the Academy because that was a very small organization at the time. So I wrote this book and it hit a chord with people because you couldn't get a book about the Oscars anywhere else. The cult success of that book has followed me around ever since. Years later, when they decided they wanted a history done of the Academy, they asked me to write it. (The latest edition of the book is titled <em>75 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards</em>-Ed.) <br /> </p>
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH TONY GARNETT, DIRECTOR OF "HANDGUN" (1984)
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<p><strong>Interview by Matthew Edwards</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tony
Garnett is one of the most respected and celebrated British filmmakers of his
generation having worked extensively in British television and through his work
with critically acclaimed filmmakers such as Ken Loach, whom the pair worked
together on the seminal British dramas Kes (1969) and Cathy Come Home (1966),
both of which Garnett produced. Opting to move away from producing, Garnett set
his sights on writing and directing his own feature films. After directing the
critically acclaimed drama Prostitute (1980), Garnett went on to the write and
direct the film Handgun (1983), a powerful cult rape and revenge thriller.
Eschewing the exploitation motifs as explored in the genre titles such as Death
Wish (1974), Abel Ferrara*s Ms. 45 (1981) and I Spit on Your Grave (1978), favouring
an art-house aesthetic and employing a docudrama stylistic approach, Garnett*s
film is a measured exploration of the nature of injustice and retribution while
a searing indictment of American gun culture and rape. <o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Set
in Dallas, when young high school teacher Kathleen spurns the advances of
arrogant lawyer Larry, he coerces her to his apartment where he rapes her at
gunpoint, raping her a second time for good measure. Violated not only by
Larry, Kathleen is further violated by the authorities who do little to bring
the sexual predator Larry to justice. Enraged, Kathleen eradicates any form of
femininity by cropping her hair and donning army fatigues, while undergoing
firearm training, before taking the law into her own hands by luring Larry out
in the dead of night to administer her own brand of rough justice (it should be
noted that the ending will leave viewers divided, especially those expecting a
more violent denouement to the film). In this feminist vigilant film, Kathleen
is forced into this path when all around her fail her, while Larry is painted
as a bigoted, misogynistic, and racist bully, who believes his wealth and power
entitles him to anything, and this power can be derived through violence. This
is expertly shown prior to the harrowing rape scene when Garnett cuts to a
scene of Larry indulging in the high life with his equally grotesque pals,
before attending a ※Foxy Boxing§ match, where the all-female fighters fight
bra-less in an arena while the scummy patrons holler from the side lines and
try to grope the fighters as they walk by. It is an important point in the film
because it comes just prior to the rape sequence as Garnett is critiquing male
machismo and a sexist view of women. In a sense, with the bra-less boxers fighting
in the ring, we see that in Larry*s world sexualized violence is acceptable. In
this sequence Garnett attempts to show how this attitude and perception of women
leads him to violate Kathleen. The rape scene that follows is harrowing, yet
not overtly explicit. While the rape is shocking, especially as we see Kathleen
forced to strip at gunpoint, before being sexually violated, the most sickening
part is the attitude of Larry post-rape, where he administers blame on her for
being frigid. He sees nothing wrong in his actions, which makes it even more
satisfying when the pent up fury of Kathleen explodes as she goes hunting her
prey at the gun club where she has honed her sharpshooting skills.<o:p /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Those
expecting a film seeped in violence will be disappointed. This is a slow,
methodical and intelligent film shot in long, natural takes that make it seem
like a documentary at times, with standout performances by Karen Young as
Kathleen and Clayton Day as Larry. In October 2016, I was fortunate to interview
Garnett about his memories working on the film [note: spoilers alert].<o:p /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Matthew
Edwards:</strong> <em>Your cult thriller Handgun is one of the more intelligent films that
emerged in the 70s/80s in the rape and revenge genre. Where did the inspiration
come from to make the film? Were you trying to bring attention to the
※date-rape§ crisis that was afflicting American society and the failure to
prosecute the persecutors of the crimes?</em><o:p /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Tony
Garnett:</strong> I was in America trying to understand it. Having been brought up
during the war, my idea of America was of GI*s giving me gum, Hollywood action
movies and glossy TV. My reading of its history and troubled present offered me
a different picture. I was particularly interested to see how Americans tended
to settle arguments by shooting each other. Why? I also saw the relationship
between rape and guns〞in my view, rape is about violence more than about sex.
It is about power and control. So I went to Dallas〞so resonant in all our minds
with violence, I even began the film with shots of Dealey Plaza, the infamous
West End district of Dallas where J.F Kennedy was assassinated. Research over
many months gradually produced a story. I have always researched and allowed
characters to emerge from it and then they, under interrogation, tell me a
story.<o:p /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>How
did you set about writing/researching the film and securing finance for the
film? I understand that EMI stepped on board to get the film into production.</em><o:p /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
budget was small, around $3m, and my agent Harry Ufland set it up at EMI
without difficulty. I had no interference from them, until the rough cut and
then everyone wanted to ※improve§ the film. The problem was that I had made a
slow, thoughtful, and I hope considered character study, and they were
expecting a commercial hit〞an action movie with some sexy rape scenes. I hadn*t
delivered. Some of the distributors were disappointed as they considered the
rape scenes a turn off and not sexy! I had to cut elements from the film that I
now regret. I also regret selling the film to Warner Brothers, instead of
Goldwyn, who were a small art house distributor. They were producing a Clint
Eastwood rape and revenge film. They didn*t want the competition so they bought
mine, sat on it, and opened it in a few theatres before pulling the film. It
was a failure. I was na?ve. I wish I had gone with Goldwyn. They would have
been more sympathetic to the film. <o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Why
did you opt to set the film in Texas? Was it their frontier attitude and
obsession with guns that prompted this?</em><o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Texas
has a frontier attitude, there are more guns there than people and the attitude
to women tends to be courtly even as they*re commodified. I had to choose
somewhere and could have set it anywhere, in truth. But Dallas seemed right at
the time.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Stylistically
how did you approach the visual style of the film? For me, the film is a fine
blend of action mixed with a naturalistic documentary sensibility. </em><o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
style of the film was approached in exactly the same way my colleagues and I had
been developing for decades while working in small British films, many at the
BBC. I took Charles Stewart as Director of Photography and Bill Shapter as Editor,
who I*d worked with many times as producer and director. I spent many months
doing improvisations with actors, none of them known. I found Karen in New York
and the actors who play her parents in Boston; the rest of the cast I found in
Dallas. Some, like those at the gun club and in the gun shop, were just there
and non-professional actors. We allowed the actors freedom, no marks, the
camera has to follow them; they don*t exist for the camera and the lighting.
Our aim was to never to allow a line if it felt as though a writer has written
it; I wanted to abolish ※acting§ acting and ※directing§ directing as I wanted
the technique to be invisible so that all you see is a character in a
circumstance and the audience is eavesdropping on the action.  <o:p /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>The
casting of Karen Young as Kathleen Sullivan was brilliant as she delivers a
highly believable performance of an innocent young girl pushed over the edge
into vengeance. How did you come to cast her in the role and were you pleased
with her performance in the film?</em><o:p /></span></p>
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was excellent. A very talented young woman. She never flinched when going through Karen*s
journey especially as she had many arduous emotional scenes during the shooting
of Handgun.<o:p /></span></p>
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<p>Even at 90 years of age Jerry Lewis can still grab a headline. When the Hollywood Reporter recently visited his home to conduct a video interview, Lewis looked  as though he was facing root canal surgery. He rudely answered questions with one or two word answers, insulted the crew throughout in a not very subtle manner and for seven excruciating minutes that have since gone viral, he dissed the interviewer, who never lost his cool or the respect he showed to the comedy legend. In that regard, he showed more class than Lewis himself. This wasn't an ambush-style interview or one loaded with "gotcha" questions. The pity is that if Lewis had played ball with the interviewer, he could have provided some interesting insights from the standpoint of a man his age who is still actively performing on stage and in film. Instead Lewis acted as though he had not consented to the interview and that somehow the crew had engaged in a home invasion. By doing so, he only diminished himself. If he was that ticked off at the prospect of doing the interview, why didn't he just cancel it instead of degrading himself in this manner? 
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A
new book release just grabbed our attention that in many ways has both
everything and nothing to do with cinema. The book is titled, <em>The World*s Hardest Music Trivia: Rock n
Roll History, Fun Facts and Behind the Scenes Stories About the Groups and
Songs You Thought You Knew </em>(Nautilus)<em> </em>but at 388 well-researched pages there is
nothing trivial about it. The book is a fun read that not only covers rock 'n roll but also delves a bit into the realm of films, as well as providing interesting facts about eras gone by. Perhaps somewhat ironically its author, <strong>John
Grantham</strong>, spent over 30 years in Hollywood in and around the movie industry as
an actor, stuntman and voice over artist. Cinema Retro's <strong>Lee Pfeiffer</strong> caught up with him for a Q&A about his book which has a title longer than some nation's entire constitutions. <o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">CR
每 It should be noted that this isn*t just a book listing questions &
answers about music. It*s an homage to the generations that lived and loved the
music.<o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">JG
每 Thanks for recognizing that. There are plenty of books that simply ask a
question and then provide you with the answer. I wanted to set a tone for the
music and provide a background for the songs and groups mentioned in the book. <o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">CR
每 You started your sections that dealt with musical decades with an overview of
what was happening culturally, politically and financially during that period
of time. <o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">JG
每It was important to me that the reader experiences the questions in the
context that each generation provided. Music, perhaps more than cinema, has
always held a mirror up to society. The 1960s for example provided folk music,
anti-war music, tune in 每 drop out music amidst the background of a divisive
war in Vietnam that was fracturing America. There was ※Black Power§, Women*s
Lib, the Eco movement and lest we forget, the introduction of terrorist
actions. For someone reading the book that wasn*t alive then or was too young
to remember, it*s helpful to set the scene if you will.<o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">CR
每 You also included a lot of movie quotes instead of lyrics. Why is that?<o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">JG
每 I feel like music provides the soundtrack of our lives. I tried to include
quotes from movies that highlighted the significance of music. Movies like <em>High Fidelity</em> and <em>School of Rock</em> are obvious choices. My favorite scene is from Barry
Levinson*s 1982 classic, <em>Diner</em> where
Daniel Sterns* character Shrevie argues with his wife Beth, </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">※The first time I met you? Modell*s sister*s high school graduation
party, right? 1955. And &Ain*t That A Shame* was playing when I walked into the
door! It*s important§.<o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">CR
每 You were a Hollywood actor and stuntman. Why then a book about music and not,
say, well the obvious, movies?<o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">JG
- (Laughs) Thank you for dignifying my career. I had more than my share of
stinkers. If my career had started a decade earlier much of my finer work would
have gone straight to the drive-in. <o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">CR
每 Such as?<o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">JG
每 Let*s see# <em>Baja, Deadly Breed, Death
House# </em>Of course there<em> </em>was also <em>Double Dragon</em> and<em> Master*s of the Universe# </em>If <em>Double
Dragon</em> had done anything at the box office you could have an action figure of
my character, Torpedo, on your shelf!<o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">CR
每 What would you say was your favorite role or movie?<o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">JG
每 Hmmm. Harvey Keitel shoots me in the final scene of <em>Get Shorty. </em>I played<em> Hari
Krishna #1. </em>I doubled Peter Deluise in the TV show s<em>eaQuest DSV. </em>There was a lot of fire and explosions on that, plus a
gnarly stunt where I had to crash through a plate glass window. <o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">CR
每 Sounds like fun.<o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">JG
每 Some days were better than others. The movie that was the most gratifying to
be associated with was an independent film I doubt many of your readers ever
saw called <em>Miss Firecracker</em>#<o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">CR
- #With Holly Hunter and Tim Robbins#<o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">JG
每 That*s right. It also starred Scott Glenn, Alfrie Woodard, Mary Steenburgen
and the late Trey Wilson. I was the stunt coordinator for that. Scott Glenn came
up to me after the fight scene at the fairground and said it was the most
realistic fight he*d ever seen. It wasn*t of course, but it was kind of him to
say.<o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">CR
每 Your love of rock and pop is obvious from the book but what movies inspired
your career choice?<o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">JG
每 All of them. I*d put moving pictures right next to the printing press in
terms of how it has shaped and moved society. You can*t understate its
influence. The optimistic messages of
Frank Capra*s films and the documentaries of </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: #1c1c1c;">Leni Riefenstahl, are from the same era. The 70s gave us gritty,
street level dramas like T<em>he French
Connection </em>and <em>Shaft </em>. The latter
of which featured, perhaps, the best opening theme song in history.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">CR
每Back to the music then#<o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">JG
每 Oh right#My formative years were spent in Naples, Florida. My best friend*s
parents owned the only record store in town. That was our ※Diner§ if you will;
the place we would hang out and talk about girls and sports and movies to the
backdrop of great music. It never occurred to me that all that time spent
pouring over album covers and liner notes would someday form the foundation of
a book.<o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">CR
每 With the success of ※<em>The World*s
Hardest Music Trivia#§</em> can we expect to see <em>The World*s Hardest Movie Trivia</em> on the shelves soon?<o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">JG
每 You*d have to ask my publisher. I*d love to do it. I am a student of
Hollywood. I couldn*t tell you who my Congressman is but I can tell you that Susan
Hart played the ghost in <em>The Ghost in the
Invisible Bikini§, </em>which I saw in 1966 at the<em> </em>Yazoo Theater in Yazoo City, Mississippi. I was too young to know what
was causing that tingling sensation in my body as I watched the movie but I
knew I wanted to experience it again; and often.<o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">CR
每 Maybe we should leave it at that. <o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">JG
每 Probably for the best Lee. Thanks for the shout out. Rock on.</span></p>
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<p>As he prepares to accept honors at the Kennedy Center on December 4 with President Obama and the First Lady in attendance, Al Pacino talks about his long, mostly illustrious career to Karen Heller of the Washington Post. We say "mostly illustrious" because the notoriously private Pacino admits to having built a "museum of mistakes" in relation to the roles he turned down in what turned out to be classic movies. Among them: "Taxi Driver", "Pretty Woman", "Kramer Vs. Kramer" and a little picture called "Star Wars". His first big break, playing Michael Corleone in "The Godfather", resulted in him almost being fired by the studio- and even Pacino admits he thought he was all wrong for the role. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/al-pacino-was-nearly-fired-from-the-godfather-the-rest-is-history/2016/11/29/9e3f6ac6-aa86-11e6-977a-1030f822fc35_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_sa-pacino-1135pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory">Click here</a> to read. 
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Norman Lear- Just Another Version of
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first two people in my life who
taught me to think deeply about social and political issues and argue cogently
and passionately for what I believed in were my late father David and Norman
Lear. <o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lear, the
94-year-old entertainment icon is the subject of a terrific American Masters
documentary: Norman Lear- Just Another Version of You, which p<span style="color: black;">remieres nationwide Tuesday,
October 25, 9-10:30 p.m. on PBS. <o:p /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black;">Speaking from his home in Los Angeles </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">about both the documentary and his
masterful 2014 autobiography, Even This I Get to Experience<span style="color: black;">, he still has an energy level
that would put people a quarter of his age to shame. </span> <o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> ※People think when you*re over 90 you*ve
changed. It*s everyone else who*s
changed. Suddenly I*m extremely wise,§ Lear says. Charming and reflective, he explains why he
wears the white hat that has become his favorite article of clothing and his
signature garment. <o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He has never lost
his childlike view of the world. ※I*ve
never been in any situation, no matter how tragic, where I didn*t see the humor
in it. Human beings are all foolish-
that knits us all together.§<o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When asked what the secret to creating
loving and enduring characters and family on television, he said: ※My bumper sticker just outside on my car
reads ※just another version of you.§ I think the question is best answered by
that deepest of philosophies- I truly believe that as humans sharing our human
commonalities we are versions of one another despite our ethnicities, our skin
colors, or the country we may have been born in.§<o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">※It seems to me when I look at the LGBT
issue and see how far it has moved, whether socially, legally, or politically, and
then I look at divisions in between races and I haven*t seen the same movement. Maybe that*s the next big movement, that the
race movement leaps forward the way the LGBT movement has.§<o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lear and the late Maya Angelou shared a
concern that America was losing touch with its humanity. A national icon for hope, when asked whether
he was more worried about the American people 40 years ago or now, he said: ※I*d
like to be the touchstone for hope that Trump is for lack of hope. He is gathering all of those people who are
suffering as a result of the fact that we have little if not a long way to go,
making for a culture where everyone has equal opportunity, and he is helping
those that do not enjoy equal opportunity that villains are keeping them from getting
and he is the hero.§<o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">※Donald Trump is the middle finger of the
American right hand- they do not have leadership in any direction. If you look at the auto industry, there is
the airbag problem, in pharmaceuticals, the EpiPens, if you*re looking at
banking it*s Wells Fargo, and if you*re looking at politics, it*s Donald
Trump. It*s a very difficult place to be
if you*re broke and out of a job or you have a good job and two kids in school
and can no longer afford to live where you*re living.§</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Born in
Connecticut, Lear learned to love America through the eyes of his immigrant
Jewish grandfather. ※At nine, I was forced to become an adult,§ he said when
his father went to jail. ※But that kid
remained inside me for the rest of my life.§<o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A World War II
hero, he started writing during the early days of television, for Dean Martin
and Jerry Lewis, Tennessee Ernie Ford, and Frank Sinatra.<o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> He
was part of the transitional generation from American Jews to Jewish
Americans. Proud, fiercely loyal and
carrying a sense of purpose and cultural and religious commitment to justice
that permeated their work. <o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the 1970s, Lear singlehandedly
changed television with All in the Family, which became a p</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">latform for social discussion and reform. Norman Lear revolutionized the sitcom, </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">taking the
American family fr</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">om </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the
antiseptic and</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> idealized to the contentious and
dysfunctional. He was the first to hold
up the mirror</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and share social issues through the sitcom format. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Until Lear, mainstream television did
not carry Vietnam protests. <o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Living in London,
his partner, Bud Yorkin sent him a tape of a show called Till Death do us
Part. ※The father was conservative; the
son was progressive. I went with that
relationship and never lived to regret it.§<o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That show became
All in the Family, which starred Carroll O*Connor as Archie Bunker, the bigoted
patriarch of a Queens New York working class family, who was constantly at odds
with his college student son-in-law, Mike Stivic (Rob Reiner), whom he referred
to as ※Meathead§ for his progressive views. The first show began with a disclaimer: ※The program you are about to
see is All in the Family. It seeks to throw a humorous spotlight on our
frailties, prejudices and concerns. By
making them a source of laughter, we hope to show- in a mature fashion- just
how absurd they are.§</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The show
became a megahit. It </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">was the top-rated show on American television, and
the winner of four consecutive Emmy Awards as Outstanding Comedy Series. All in the Family was not only one of
the most successful sitcoms in history, it was also one of the most important
and influential series ever to air, </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ushering</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> in a new era
in American television characterized by programs that did not shy away from
addressing controversial or socially relevant subject matters and created an
intelligent discourse, couched against a comedic and satirical backdrop.<o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> ※Mike
Stivic spoke for me,§ Lear said. Like
Archie, he didn*t know a lot about what could be done about the country*s
problems, the nitty gritty of the scholarly work that led to his opinions. He had those opinions reflexively. I am the same way. I think of myself as a bleeding heart
conservative. I think the most conservative
thing in America is to be devoted to The First Amendment, to The Bill of
Rights, to the notion that we are all created equal under the law, and we must
find a way to ensure equal justice. I
think that*s an extremely conservative point of view. The bleeding heart part is because I don*t
know enough to know how to correct it and I vote for the people who seem to be
closer to how to correct it and to making good on those promises. The problem
is that the people who do the best job at pretending that they back those
documents are the Right. But it isn*t in
actuality as the culture progresses.§<o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">※As for the career that followed,§ he
said, ※while the decision to cast Carroll O*Connor, Jean Stapelton, Rob Reiner
and Sally Struthers was my own, the four-way chemistry that resulted in each
player drawing comic strength from the other characters, at the same time
brilliantly playing against them to deepen the humor in every direction, was a
gift that I can only take credit for nourishing and using well.§<o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Archie Bunker and his family was followed by Maude, The Jeffersons, Good
Times, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, as well as </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fernwood Tonight, a talk show parody
dedicated to battling bigotry and social issues through art, and Mary Hartman,
Mary Hartman, a parody of soap operas. In
the 1970s, most of America was laughing and thinking because of Norman Lear. <o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The documentary
follows him around through recent and 40-year-old clips, discussing political
and social issues, and his battles with censors and censorship, which at the
time was called ※program practices.§ It also shows his influence on now famous
individuals, who have kept Lear*s activist flame burning bright. <o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He reflected on a few of his many
friendships, including Carl Reiner, with whom I was able to agree from own
experience: ※Carl Reiner, a friend for some 60 years now is one of a kind. If no matter how good you may have a reason
to feel, if you aren*t feeling a little bit better for being with him, I would
call for a physician right away.§<o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> ※You raised me,§ Jon Stewart said to him. ※Where I think I learned how to process
complex thoughts, issues that I cared about, through the lens of comedy, was
watching Norman Lear shows.§</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> ※What could make me prouder,§ Lear replies.<o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> ※§Good Times§ was for white people,§ Russell
Simmons said. ※The Jeffersons§ was for
black people. It was aspirational,
angry. George Jefferson taught me how to
walk- with confidence.§<o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black;">With appearances ranging from </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Carl Reiner, Rob Reiner, Mel Brooks,
and Amy Poehler, and d</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black;">irected by Heidi Ewing
and Rachel Grady and Executive Produced by American Masters*
Michael Kantor, the film offers a unique insight into a ※Gadol Hador,§ </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a giant of his generation and those to
follow.<o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lear retired from television to devote
his life to activism. He created ※People
for the American Way.§ Fighting for
civil rights resulted in death threats. He also bought an original copy of The Declaration of Independence and
toured it around the country. ※All men
are created equal [with the right] to life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness- The Declaration of Independence. The tour celebrated the founding fathers who pledged ※their lives,
fortunes, and sacred honor§ to make good on these words# But ironically, and
God Bless America, the last time I witnessed a reference to sacred honor was in
Francis Ford Coppola*s The Godfather.§<o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">※He had such a
responsibility to make sure kids saw it and knew what that meant,§ said George
Clooney. When asked about what advice he
would give to students who are embarking on artistic careers, especially
comedy, Lear said: ※Go with your
gut. Deliver on your intention and go
with it- it*s golden.§<o:p /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cinema Retro Contributor Eddy Friedfeld
is the co-author of Caesar*s Hours with Sid Caesar and teaches film and
television classes at Yale and NYU</span></strong></p>
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<p>It's no secret to Cinema Retro readers that director John Landis has been a long-time contributor to the magazine. What they might know is that his wife, Deborah Nadoolman, has also gone above-and-beyond for us, as well. In 2012, we were shepherding members of one of our movie-themed tours around London film locations. Deborah, one of the most accomplished costume designers in the industry, was in the city for the opening of a major exhibition about famous costumes seen in cinema. The event was held at the Victoria & Albert Museum and there was overwhelming demand for tickets. We requested that perhaps she could give our members a private tour of the exhibition. Deborah readily agreed and she and her co-curator Sir Christopher Frayling arranged to have us gain entrance to the museum an hour before opening time for the public. Deborah regaled us with wonderful anecdotes about many of the costumes on display including those from "Raiders of the Lost Ark", as it was Deborah who created that iconic look for Harrison Ford. The Daily Beast's Joshua David Stein has written a very welcome article about Deborah and her achievements in the film industry. You're likely to find some interesting anecdotes relating to both "Raiders" and Michael Jackson's landmark music video for "Thriller" which John Landis directed and Deborah designed the costumes for. <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/25/deborah-nadoolman-made-indiana-jones-into-a-style-icon.html">Click here</a> to read.</p>
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DON RICKLES IS 90 AND HE'S STILL GOING STRONG, YOU HOCKEY PUCKS!
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<p>He's arguably the last of his kind from the Golden Age of stand-up comedy. Don Rickles is now 90 years old and still performing, though according to a profile in the Washington Post, he's now considered a sit-down comedian, with a recliner on stage being about the only concession he's made to his advanced age and the onset of some physical infirmities. But his razor-sharp humor remains intact and Rickles still writes his own material to perform in front of appreciative audiences. Most people would be uncomfortable with being singled out by a snarky comedian but Rickles' fans consider it be a mark of honor to be on the receiving end of his insults. There was a time when Rickles broke barriers with his unique act in the 1960s. Until then, most stand-up comics were relatively benign and respectful to their audiences. Rickles changed all of that. A downside of his influence is that, while Rickles gentle ribbing never crossed the line into vulgarity, the younger generation of comedians had no such reservations. Perhaps because his act reminds us of a gentler time in American comedy, Rickles is now considered to be a national treasure. It's worth noting that he is also an accomplished actor, having appeared in dramatic roles in feature films in such diverse fare as Roger Corman's "X: The Man With X-Ray Eyes", "Run Silent, Run Deep" opposite the likes of Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster and "The Rat Race" with Tony Curtis and Debbie Reynolds. After Rickles caught on with his comedy shtick, he remained a popular fixture in feature films, often replicating his wiseguy persona, most memorably in the Clint Eastwood WWII comedy caper film "Kelly's Heroes". He also provided the voice of the grumpy Mr. Potato Head in the "Toy Story" films and reverted back to a dramatic role in Martin Scorsese's "Casino". In 2007,  director John Landis paid homage to Rickles, who he met as an aspiring filmmaker on the set of "Kelly's Heroes", with the acclaimed documentary "Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project".<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/don-rickles-was-politically-incorrect-before-it-was-incorrect-and-hes-still-going-at-90/2016/05/24/3b5e0422-1868-11e6-924d-838753295f9a_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_rickles-noon-s7%3Ahomepage%2Fstory"> Click here</a> for an interview with Rickles and clips of some of his best moments.</p>
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"MISTER ED" AND BEYOND:AN INTERVIEW WITH ALAN YOUNG
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<p><strong>Actor Alan Young, the beloved star of the "Mister Ed" TV series died this week at age 96. In tribute, we are re-running Nick Thomas's exclusive interview with him. </strong></p>
<p><strong></strong><span style="font-style: italic; font-size: 9.5pt;">(This interview originally ran in November 2009) </span></p>
<p style="font-style: italic;"> <strong>By Nick Thomas </strong></p>
<p>Alan Young created some memorable characters over his long career in film and
television. Co-starring with Rod Taylor, Young played David Filby in the classic
sci-fi film of the 60s, <em>The Time Machine. </em>He also horsed around as Wilbur
Post for six seasons in one of best-loved sitcoms ever, <em>Mister Ed</em>,
and was the voice behind numerous cartoon characters such as the grumpy Scrooge
McDuck.  Mr. Young is celebrating a milestone birthday- although he isn*t
especially fond of talking about such traditional annual events. But when
I spoke with him a few days ago, he was quite happy to chat about his long
career.</p>
<p>Born in Northern England, Alan*s Scottish father soon moved the family to
Edinburgh, then later to Canada when he was six. Bed-ridden for months at a time
with asthma, Alan would listen to radio shows and write his own comedy routines.
He later made Los Angeles his home and went on to appear in some 20 films and
dozens more television roles. In 1994, he wrote "Mister Ed and Me," detailing
his experience with the world*s most famous TV horse, of course. He recently
revised and republished the book as "Mister Ed and Me... and More!"</p> <strong>
<p>Why did you update "Mister Ed and Me"?</p></strong>
<p>My publisher suggested adding more stories about my life so I included some
that I think will interest readers. He also wanted more about Connie Hines, my
TV wife on <em>Mister Ed. </em>So I asked Connie if she would do a chapter about
her life and she was happy to. </p> <strong>
<p>The book*s divided into 3 sections, one called Lips Don*t Sweat. That*s an
unusual title.</p></strong>
<p>When I was young, I was paid $3 for doing a short monologue. That impressed
my dad, who earned the same amount for working all day in a shipyard at the
time. He told me to "keep up this talking business because lips don*t sweat!" It
was good advice.</p> <strong>
<p>You also wrote "There*s no Business Like Show Business ....Was" which is
crammed with delightful Hollywood memories and stories. It*s extremely enjoyable
to read.</p></strong>
<p>Well I love to write. I*ve had the pleasure of meeting and working with so
many lovely people here in Hollywood. I*ve heard so many of them tell
fascinating stories, so I wanted to put it all together so fans could read about
working in Hollywood in the "old days." Young people often say to me that it
must have been easier working back then. But in many ways it wasn*t. For
example, we had to learn by the seat of our pants, as there were few schools
that taught acting skills.</p>
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