Yes, I enjoyed it very much as well. I am old enough to remember, though just a kid, those few months between the murders of MLK and RFK, when it was still possible to imagine that maybe something good could come out of what was happening. Carson expresses this sentiment, Brando is more skeptical, but struggling to find it. A month later that will feel a lot less likely.
On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 6:37 PM Diner <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for this. It's fascinating. > And it's wild to see Johnny wearing a turtleneck! Or whatever that thing > is. I never knew he went on the show without a tie. > > I remember an interview on The Carson Podcast with a woman who was a > secretary to one of the show's early producers. She said that when Brando > came in for a pre-interview he said something to her along the lines of > "You've got a nice body. But you wouldn't look good fat, so be careful not > to get fat." Which she now thought was humorous considering what happened > to him. > > > On Saturday, March 21, 2020 at 8:18:32 PM UTC-4, Bob Jersey wrote: >> >> From May 1968. He had just turned down director Elia Kazan, with whom >> he'd successfully worked before, for the lead role in "The Arrangement" >> following the killing of Martin Luther King jnr. >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNWxtr3is6k (link) >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/675f19ac-6785-47af-8d5a-3033e7c460e3%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/675f19ac-6785-47af-8d5a-3033e7c460e3%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYLY0AUL_Ew6wNiz%2BbNYdULO3e%3Dpiz6mCavXHmSzW0r98w%40mail.gmail.com.
