Theatre: "Robert Evans, Hollywood Player, Inspires Play" (century, make, son)

[delusianne]

Robert Evans, Hollywood Player, Inspires Broadway Play - NYTimes.com

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Robert Evans has long been good theater. Now comes the actual stage play.

Having been involved with pictures as grand as “The Godfather,” as troubled as “The Cotton Club” and as self-referential as the documentary “The Kid Stays in the Picture,” which chronicled his checkered film career, Mr. Evans is becoming the subject of a play. It is currently being written, and producers hope it will make its Broadway debut in the next year.
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Mr. Evans, who was discovered a half-century ago by the actress Norma Shearer while poolside at the Beverly Hills Hotel, had a brief acting career before morphing into one of Hollywood’s more colorful producers. He rose to head of production at Paramount during a golden era at that studio and was a regular in the gossip pages: he was married seven times, including to a former Miss America, Phyllis George, and the actresses Camilla Sparv, Ali MacGraw and Catherine Oxenberg.

Love him... hope the kid stays in the picture for a long time to come.

[Bunjee]

Robert Evans already had a cartoon about him on Comedy Central, Kid Notorious. I think the guy's pretty fascinating, but there's some pretty active legend-making going on here though the shell-sustaining Life As Theater is every bit the point of the enterprise--even Warhol would be envious. I'm not personally all that invested, but let a thousand flowers bloom, I say. Can't be too pompous about it.

[gentlearts]

Good article about Ali McGraw in this month's Vanity Fair which talks a lot about Evans.

[Sweetie Pie]

Originally Posted by gentlearts

Good article about Ali McGraw in this month's Vanity Fair which talks a lot about Evans.

..............along with great articles on Steve McQueen, John Hughes, and Robert Evans.