Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sneak up to the Tribune building at night with my duffel bag. It is very dangerous to be a long-haired kid from out of state on the streets. They are still arresting people. I meet Parker [Donham '67('69) of The Boston Globe] and James Glassman ['69 of the Herald Traveler] in the Times office. Glassman gives me his suit coat so we won't get stopped. Parker drives us to the airport. And we take off out of there...
Instead, mealtime conversations at Harvard have taken an upappetizing new twist. It's not abnormal to say. "I hate baseball. Not only is it stupid and boring, but the players are getting paid too much to play a kid's game. Baseball has lost its virginity. It has been infiltrated and corrupted by money." Then the discussion takes the predictable pseudo-intellectual turn when the baseball haters attempt to defend soccer or lacrosse as better sports. In my opinion, that's just plain silly...
...still play, just as I want to show Pete Rose I can still play." Their clubhouse method of staying loose is to ridicule each other and everyone else fondly, but often mercilessly. How this will play in Philadelphia, where feelings are fragile, should be interesting. "When you kid around," says Perez, who supplies the perspective, as usual, "you become a friend, not just a teammate...
...Screen Trade, a loose collection of anecdotes from Goldman's Hollywood experiences, plus thoughts on the present state of the film industry and how-to hints for aspiring writers with stars in their eyes. Goldman does not mention his two Oscars (for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President's Men) or the beefy six-figure fees that his work has commanded. He emphasizes instead the pervasive uncertainty that seeps through all stages of moviemaking. He sets "the single most important fact" about his subject in capital letters: NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING. Films that cannot fail...
...improvising a scene. Recalling this long ordeal, Goldman notes "Hoffman's need to put himself on at least equal footing with this sick old man." Someone else the author will probably not work with in the future is Robert Redford. The actor's role as the Sundance Kid helped make him a megastar. By the time of All the President's Men, Redford was no longer Goldman's old pal but his producer. "He had asked me to come to Utah for the month to work with him - and he wouldn't give...