The Kid Stays in the Picture
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chuck on 2004/01/13:
„Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen's documentary, The Kid Stays in the Picture, about legendary film producer Robert Evans, has been out on video and DVD for several months now, but I've been waiting for the right moment to see it....“
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„Soon enough, at a young age and with hardly any experience, Evans found himself the head of Paramount, a studio that had fallen on tough times at that point. Within a few years, he had begun to change the studio around, bringing in unexpected hits like "Rosemary's Baby", "The Godfather", "Love Story" and "Chinatown". As classic as those films became, their road to the screen was definitely not easy and those stories (Evans's battles with Coppola over "The Godfather", Evans pushing Polanski to finish "Rosemary's Baby") serve as the very entertaining main body of "Kid Stays in the Picture".“http://www.currentfilm.com/dvdreviews4/ kidstaysinthepicturedvd.html - Cached
„The Kid Stays In the Picture is a documentary adaptation of the biography of the same name by legendary Hollywood film producer Robert Evans. It is presented in a wholly“http://www.parambay.com/movies/2003reviews/ thekid_stays.htm - Cached
„The film builds from the story of Evans' early career as a mediocre actor (Evans describes his acting as "half-assed") who was discovered poolside by Norma Shearer, who cast him in Man of a Thousand Faces and then starred in the film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises despite the objections of Hemingway and several of the film's stars, who all co-signed a telegram sent to Darryl Zanuck demanding that Evans be fired. According to Evans, the diminutive Zanuck stood up and decreed that "the kid stays in the picture." Evans reflects that he realized after Zanuck made the declaration that he no longer wanted to be an actor but wished to have the power to say "the kid stays in the picture." In short, the power of a studio chief.“http://chutry.wordherders.net/archives/ 001343.html - Cached
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„In The Kid Stays in the Picture (an ungainly title, I admit, but relevant and apropos), a documentary produced from the autobiography written by Evans in 1994, we are privileged and uncommonly so, to be intimately ushered into the life, loves, wars, accomplishments, pitfalls, and psyche of a man who has truly tasted and sucked the marrow from Olam Hazeh. Forget that we, as believers in gateways and hallways and waiting rooms and all that, do not condone or support or respect (depending on your philosophy) people who clearly live for the “now”; individuals who live to create, explore, and shape the present, almost disregarding the long term or beyond - regardless, there is so much to learn from these case studies.“http://www.bangitout.com/reviews29.html - Cached
„Which is why The Kid Stays in the Picture, a new documentary directed by Brett Morgen and Nanette Burstein, was the perfect film to see on this long August Sunday in Tinseltown. It’s a record of another era, a time when Hollywood was Hollywood: venal and crass, sure, but jam-packed with hard-living showpeople, nakedly grasping wheeler-dealers, and salty raconteurs. Robert Evans, the subject of The Kid Stays in the Picture, is all three of these: a businessman turned actor turned producer and studio head, who, though he could easily serve as the dictionary illustration for “narcissist”, spins a yarn so intoxicating you can’t help egging him on.“http://www.thehighsign.net/archives/review/ the_kid_stays_in_the_picture.html - Cached
„'The Kid Stays In The Movie' is one heck of a creative blast. It breaks a Hollywood formula, even though its more of a Documentary. A documentary purely based on a Autobiography (Book named 'The Kid Stays...), lots of pictures from the Authors old Album, home videos, a few Movie clips and loads of creativity (from its Directors, Nanette Burstein & Brett Morgen).“http://www.niceguyhemanth.com/archives/ 000641.html - Cached
„Occasionally, they stroll to the piano for a musical illustration (Evans plays splendidly). What makes the film fascinating is Evans' rap, a stream of ideas that issue forth like shamanistic lore. Onstage, Evans was famously reticent about speaking.“http://www.cinemaweb.com/rhapsody/new.html - Cached
„SLASH is a great friend of legendary producerRobert Evans (The Godfather, Rosemary's Baby, etc.). Evans had an ideafor a limited run comedy cartoon comedy series based on his adventures.He called this "Kid Notorious", and one of the running characters ishis pal, SLASH. SLASH appears in cartoon version as himself and his ownvoice is used in the series.“http://www.snakepit.org/disctv.html - Cached
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