Film homage Robert Mitchum Young Billy Young set Old Tucson Arizona 1968 Acrylic Print

Robert Mitchum is nearly enveloped by lighting gear on the sound stage at Old Tucson, Arizona. When the stage became a pile of rubble after the devastating 1995 fire, a corporate decision was made not to rebuild.

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"People make too much of acting. You are not helping anyone like being a doctor or even a musician. In the final analysis, you have exalted no one but yourself."

"Up there on the screen you're thirty feet wide, your eyeball is six feet high, but it doesn't mean that you really amount to anything or have anything important to say."

"Listen, I got three expressions: looking left, looking right and looking straight ahead."

"I have two acting styles: with and without a horse."

"I still have the same attitude I had when I started. I haven't changed anything but my underwear."

"I kept the same suit for six years - and the same dialog. We just changed the title of the p...

I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...