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Scene from my Gatsby life: “Hank, how do you spell ‘occulist'”?

Mia was pregnant. The Newport shoot wrapped before her baby bump blossomed fully into Fletcher Previn. Then, what Redford once, semi-sarcastically, termed “the big money, above-the-line” personnel, and the British camera crew and one minor Paramount executive made their various … Continue reading

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A scene from my life, with cameo appearance by Robert Redford

After the shoot at Marble House, the production took up residence up the road in Gatsby’s mansion Rosecliff, Stanford White’s petite reminiscence of Versailles’s Grand Trianon. Has anybody ever researched whether the inevitable crises which speckle a large-scale production correlate … Continue reading

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Scenes from my life: Meeting Robert Redford

He was wearing a World War I US Army uniform… I was wearing a summer sweater and white jeans…  …with my Paramount Pictures ID badge 181 pinned on. The setting was a palatial room at Marble House, one of Newport’s … Continue reading

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