tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8286055590040900418.post572129390843205758..comments2024-02-28T17:11:21.745-05:00Comments on Hands On....: From Mom's Mixed-Up Files: George C. ScottDavid Handelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05899694860294565558noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8286055590040900418.post-9763421140531260392012-10-18T17:04:31.313-04:002012-10-18T17:04:31.313-04:00Great blog post. My uncle also got a letter from S...Great blog post. My uncle also got a letter from Scott about East Side/West Side. You might be interested in my Rage and Glory: The Volatile Life and Career of George C. Scott. I have a whole chapter on EastSide. Thanks, David Sheward bookhttp://www.amazon.com/Rage-Glory-Volatile-Career-George/dp/1557836701/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1350594042&sr=8-1&keywords=David+Shewarddavid.shewardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16520911236058670100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8286055590040900418.post-36882320580927516722011-03-09T00:59:18.321-05:002011-03-09T00:59:18.321-05:00David, I for one am impressed by this post. Scott ...David, I for one am impressed by this post. Scott was a contradiction – curmudgeonly and tender in the same person. I encountered him briefly in my taxicab (I drove hack from 1971 - 74) when I picked him up on CPW and took him down the road to Carnegie Hall. He was on a bender and he was totally outrageous in a good way.<br /><br />I do remember those East Side West Sides and it's funny thinking about Cicely Tyson, Mrs. Miles Davis, who has outlasted everybody. She was a presenter the other night on the NAACP Image Awards.<br /><br />His son is a more subtle talent.Doctor Noehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13371103270307602230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8286055590040900418.post-8765169336140597422011-03-07T23:06:07.591-05:002011-03-07T23:06:07.591-05:00I was impressed by Scott's kind attentions to ...I was impressed by Scott's kind attentions to your mom, and by his prediction of the future. But his prose style didn't blow me away.<br /><br />I bet Natalie Portman and James Franco can both cook up a pretty snappy sentence.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09507392667233165287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8286055590040900418.post-76813102312935719612011-03-07T17:02:23.793-05:002011-03-07T17:02:23.793-05:00Still in awe of GCS's wordsmithing. I find it...Still in awe of GCS's wordsmithing. I find it hard to imagine a celebrity of 2011 able to write as well as this example.Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16289663481643394730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8286055590040900418.post-16800546732583297162011-03-07T14:38:11.813-05:002011-03-07T14:38:11.813-05:00Hi David:
Reading this sweet story makes me wonde...Hi David:<br /><br />Reading this sweet story makes me wonder if Euripides didn't grumble about the selection committee for tragedies to some of his fans! Just think of some of the great plays that never made it to the festival! Maybe Euripides had a "Melampus and the Price of Madness" or a "Jason and Apsyrtus" denied by the judges because of their risky hints of blasphemy. Anyway, it was fun to think about the tapes of Scott's show (if they exist!) moldering away on a shelf somewhere. Jim WattJIm Watthttp://jwatt@butler.edunoreply@blogger.com