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April 10 - April 22, 2020
Our luncheon concluded with warm good-byes, certain we would soon be seeing Susan Hayward as Elvira Bonner. But what we did not know was that Susan Hayward felt less than appreciated. “She’s on a plane back to Florida!” reacted an angry, perplexed Marty Baum when we reported in to his office after lunch. “You never once brought up the goddamn script!” The best reply we could summon: “She never brought the script and her part up to us. We assumed…”
in violation of Directors Guild contractual rules requiring only first-class travel (as well as Writers Guild),
DGA stipulates Filmmakers are contractually obligated to travel by first class airfare (likewise WGA)? Really?
to being a professional arborist to ten years as a middle school teacher.
Joe Don Baker, middle school teacher!
Tiffany Bolling: Peckinpah’s choice
Barbara Leigh: McQueen’s choice
Bolling wouldn’t sleep w McQueen or had pneumonia (?)
Newt Arnold,
Richard Kooris (legit Cinematographer): “Oh yeah, Newt, the one-eyed wonder, oh yeah [laughs]. He had an eye patch — he was another old-style guy who thought he was God’s gift to movies..”
Excerpt From:
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Companion by Stefan Jaworzyn
…on Newt’s total buffoonery 2nd-unit mayhem (helmed) on Tobe Hopper’s 1986 Texas Chainsaw Massacre sequel. Throughout early-, into the mid-80s, Newt Arnold’s career took a disastrous turn, repeatedly fired from big studio projects, he finally found shelter with Golan & Globas’ Cannon Pictures (as their go-to hatchet-cameraman). After cannon went bankrupt, Arnold finally cleaned up his act, rebounded with more commercial, prestigious studio, 2nd-Unit, gigs (into the early-90s).
She loved telling the story of escaping Darryl Zanuck clutching her legs on his knees in his office.
“I was a little nervous going to see him. . .because he was known as a womanizer. There's a story about him chasing Judy Holliday around his desk until she finally pulled out a falsie and said, ‘here, feel this!’"
-Coleen Gray, About Darryl Zanuck
