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Bud Cort Speaks Out Over Questionable Interview
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At the end of last month, an interview with classic Harold and Maude star Bud Cort popped up on the Austin American-Statesman. It's rather ... biting -- and not because it was a discussion over breakfast. From the get-go, you can tell that interviewer Chris Garcia wasn't happy with the whole experience, in a way that brings to mind Steve Buscemi's take on the matter in Interview. I get the feeling that Garcia never wanted this interview, and that Cort picked up on it right away.The interview, as Wiley Wiggins pointed out in his blog, is definitely lacking in "meaningful content." Words used to describe Cort throughout the piece range from "picky and precise," to his clothing being "a snazzy shade of melancholy," to "A wounded ego is a big ego. Cort emanates an air of entitlement born of bad luck or bad choices or whatever it is that makes Hollywood such a torture chamber of heartache, anger and rejection." On the one hand, it seems like Garcia was shot down when he tried to navigate any path with the actor, but on the other, Cort doesn't seem to have been given much to work with -- unlike, say, this interview with DVDTalk.
Vintage Image of the Day: Ruth Gordon
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Actress-writer Ruth Gordon died on this day in 1985. I picked the obvious photo this time, from the movie where many people instantly recognize her, Harold and Maude. I grew up with the impression that Harold and Maude was a family film -- my dad loves the movie, and when it first became available on videotape, my parents invited a bunch of people over to watch it. (Dad adores the scene with the priest.) I was a senior in high school before I realized it wasn't a family film at all but rather a cult classic, the kind that often screens as a midnight movie.
I was well into college before I learned what a remarkable life Ruth Gordon led. In her younger years, she was an actress on Broadway and also wrote successful plays. Gordon had a brief Hollywood career in the early 1940s, but returned to New York and theater. Later, she and her husband Garson Kanin co-wrote my two favorite Katharine Hepburn/Spencer Tracy films, Adam's Rib and Pat and Mike. Kanin and Gordon were never contracted by a studio as screenwriters -- all their scripts were written on spec. In the mid-1960s, Gordon returned to acting in films and TV -- the first time I remember seeing her was as the crazy grandma in My Bodyguard, but she's also memorable in Rosemary's Baby (for which she won an Oscar) and the ultradark comedy Where's Poppa? with George Segal; she worked as an actress up until her death at age 88. Gordon wrote several autobiographies throughout her life; just writing this paragraph makes me want to go find one and read more about her.
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