They don't call me a great man
for nothing.
In fact, they charge me quite a bit!
Ouch! That's sorta like describing Jimmy Carter as brother of the guy Billy Beer was named for. Until 13-year-old Keisha Castle-Hughes was nominated for Best Actress in 2004, he was the only actor to earn a Best Actor/Actress nomination for an Academy Award before his/her 18th birthday. That was for the movie "Skippy". I think his best movie, though, was "Mr. Roberts". Tears From SkippyIn 1931, Cooper was being directed in "Skippy" by his uncle, Norman Taurog. He couldn't get Cooper to give him the emotion he wanted, and he said the dog was a nuisance, and he was going to call the pound to come take it away. Cooper got upset and wouldn't cooperate AT ALL. Taurog threatened Cooper, saying that if he didn't do as Taurog said, he'd have the policeman shoot the dog. The tears flowed. Cooper called his autobiography "Please Don't Shoot My Dog." In 1976, he said, "Sometimes I'll wake up in the middle of the night and I'll hear a voice that sounds familiar... my wife has fallen asleep with the tube on, and I'll finally start recognizing the dialogue, look up, and Jesus Christ, it's me at 14, or 12, or 9, or whatever. Sometimes I'll sit there and watch it and I can tell myself what's coming next... I remember the dialogue, the scene and the set very well, and then there'll be a part of the picture I never remembered at all. Because there were times as a kid, as a teenager especially, when I'd be terribly occupied with what I was doing--with my boat, or on a circuit of rodeos and horseshoes, or with my car--very often on some of this stuff when I'd have to go to work. I'd just give the script a cursory glance. I had no training, and I was a quick study, so nobody knew how involved or not involved I was. But I look at that stuff now and I can see I wasn't involved, and I wasn't very good." Other Bloggers On Related Topics: |
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