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all. You said she just showed her new feature. I don’t think I worked with her at all. I don’t remember doing film clips for her. And the other people, I don’t really see why they would say that. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Well, Nicholson was still fairly young and still active. MARTY RUBIN: He still does a lot today. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: And Shelley Winters. MARTY RUBIN: I don’t remember this <strong>Festival</strong> Forum idea at all. I don’t know if I just wasn’t aware of it or I just felt it was so insignificant that it didn’t register. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Like I say, a lot of this information was from press clips. MARTY RUBIN: Maybe it was some kind of marketing thing. I didn’t pay any attention to it that I can recall. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Okay. I understand that Nicholson and Evans were both fun. MARTY RUBIN: Nicholson—of course he was fun. There was already a lot to choose from. I particularly enjoyed doing some of the earlier films like Psych-Out, a film I’m particularly fond of, and Cry Baby Killer. I thought that was fun, again, to show progression in the career, like with Jane Fonda. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Did he have any problems with seeing any of those? MARTY RUBIN: No, but he called me personally and he wanted to know exactly what I was showing, and he was very concerned that the right scenes were shown. It turned out we were thinking of the same scene in almost every instance, but he was very definite about what he wanted, and very much didn’t want to leave it to chance. He wanted to make sure, like in Missouri Breaks, was I going to show the scene with Harry Dean Stanton. Yes, I was. He wanted to make sure that certain notes were hit. He’s the only one that I can remember where we 25
had screaming girls outside the stage door. That’s the only time I can remember that kind of scene, where there was a mob outside of real fanatics. So that was fun, too! MARGARITA LANDAZURI: What about Evans? Robert Evans. MARTY RUBIN: Evans. Hmm. Evans was probably my least favorite of all the ones I did. I didn’t like him personally. That’s probably not that unusual. I found him kind of creepy. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: And getting creepier by the day. MARTY RUBIN: Yeah, well, even back then. I remember he had really slicked-back hair. His hair was plastered back, but there was one forelock that very carefully came out. He was extremely vain. Maybe a lot of the other people we did were vain, too, but they hid it better. This is before his autobiography, where he became the legendary Bob Evans, or whatever, so I think the main reason he was selected was because we had a hard time getting prints from Paramount and he was our main contact to get prints if we really needed them. So I think the reason he was selected was to keep that door open. Because his career as a producer is what he’s best known for, I envisioned showing scenes from Chinatown, Godfather, Rosemary’s Baby. I thought it might be fun to show a couple of clips from his acting career, but I wanted to make sure that he wouldn’t be uncomfortable with that. You know, he might want to forget about that and be considered just a distinguished producer of Academy Award winning films, rather than the actor of The Fiend Who Walked the West. Well! It turned out that’s the only thing he wanted to see. He must have always felt that he could have been a “contendah” as an actor, and this still rankled him—this unfulfilled promise that he had to be a movie star. You know, he wanted to be in the Chinatown sequel. You might recall that? MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Yes. MARTY RUBIN: And was actually cast at some point. It was like he could care less about The Godfather or Chinatown and stuff like that. All he was concerned with was that we show his performances as an actor, and not only that, show virtually every scene he was in. Even if it was 26
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