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...spent the following five years in Manhattan, studying with Lee Strasberg and appearing in more than 140 TV shows. He also met and married Brooke Hayward, the daughter of Producer Leland Hayward, and she introduced him to her friend Peter Fonda. Teaming for a series of low-budget motorcycle movies, Hopper and Fonda were ready to turn in their Harley-Davidsons when they decided to make just one more, for the money. "We saw it as a western, only on motorcycles," says Hopper. "We were the strangers in town, the outlaws." With Easy Rider, which Hopper directed, these cocaine-sniffing...
...Heart's in the Highlands and Sidney Kingsley's Pulitzer-prizewinning hospital drama Men in White. Its members included Actors John Garfield, Frances Farmer, Morris Carnovsky, Franchot Tone and Lee J. Cobb, Directors-to-Be Elia Kazan and Sidney Lumet, Theorists and Teachers Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler and Sanford Meisner...
Though Monroe left an estate valued at more than half a million dollars, with continuing income from movie royalties, there is speculation that her interests have been mishandled since her death. The major beneficiaries of her will-notably the late Lee Strasberg, the Method acting coach, who was a father figure to the actress, and a clinic selected by Monroe's psychiatrist, Marianne Kris-had received paltry sums. Then, just in time for the 20th anniversary of her death last August, a Los Angeles lawyer-agent, Roger Richman, won the right to represent the Monroe estate as the sole...
...things were going well for him. Before the opening of Picnic, he had been promoted to a supporting role and had got excellent notices. He was studying with Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan at the prestigious Actors Studio (with, among others, Geraldine Page, Rod Steiger and James Dean). Then Warner Bros, offered him a long-term movie contract starting at $1,000 a week. Abruptly he found himself wearing what he called a "cocktail gown" and playing a Greek slave named Basil in a religious costume saga, The Silver Chalice. It was the sort of absurdity that Virginia Mayo used...
...much enjoys discussing, it might be added. Although unfailingly polite, he makes it clear that there are some subjects he does not like to talk about. He does not, for example, have many grand theories about acting, and he thinks that those who do, like the late Lee Strasberg, director of the Actors Studio, are phonies. "I heard him lecture twice," he says, "and his students sat, mouths agape, drinking in every word as if it was a veritable theory founded on long experience. It was no such thing...