Post by arthurbishop on May 6, 2010 4:20:31 GMT -5
I found this while looking around the internet:
Q. How come you haven't done an article on the passing of Charles Bronson?
Matthew Anderson, Hicksville, N.Y.
A. I was out of town and by the time I learned of his death, the paper's deadline had passed. Bronson was a straight-ahead kind of guy, with genuine screen presence that contributed to his good movies and helped him get through the bad ones. I liked him. He said exactly what he thought and had little patience for the movie publicity machine.
I spent some time with him on the set of "Death Wish" for an Esquire magazine profile, and quoted him saying he was capable, like his character, of killing anyone who harmed his family. When Johnny Carson asked him why they ran quotes like that, he said, "Because that's what I said."
I have a favorite Bronson story. Both Bronson and the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman had the same agent, Paul Kohner, and the same publicist, the legendary Ernie Anderson. When Bergman left Sweden in a well-publicized dispute with the tax authorities, he visited Los Angeles for the first time, and asked Kohner to arrange a visit to a studio.
Bronson was making an action picture at the time, and Kohner assigned Anderson to arrange a meeting between the two clients. Anderson was hesitant, because Bronson sometimes kidded him: "I know this isn't a Bergman picture, but it may make a few bucks."
After he introduced the two men, Bergman asked him to explain the scene he was doing. "This is the scene where I get shot," Bronson said. "I have these little squibs that explode to make it look like bullets are hitting."
"Fascinating," said Bergman. "I never knew how they did that."
"You mean," asked Bronson, "you don't use machine guns in your movies?"
Q. How come you haven't done an article on the passing of Charles Bronson?
Matthew Anderson, Hicksville, N.Y.
A. I was out of town and by the time I learned of his death, the paper's deadline had passed. Bronson was a straight-ahead kind of guy, with genuine screen presence that contributed to his good movies and helped him get through the bad ones. I liked him. He said exactly what he thought and had little patience for the movie publicity machine.
I spent some time with him on the set of "Death Wish" for an Esquire magazine profile, and quoted him saying he was capable, like his character, of killing anyone who harmed his family. When Johnny Carson asked him why they ran quotes like that, he said, "Because that's what I said."
I have a favorite Bronson story. Both Bronson and the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman had the same agent, Paul Kohner, and the same publicist, the legendary Ernie Anderson. When Bergman left Sweden in a well-publicized dispute with the tax authorities, he visited Los Angeles for the first time, and asked Kohner to arrange a visit to a studio.
Bronson was making an action picture at the time, and Kohner assigned Anderson to arrange a meeting between the two clients. Anderson was hesitant, because Bronson sometimes kidded him: "I know this isn't a Bergman picture, but it may make a few bucks."
After he introduced the two men, Bergman asked him to explain the scene he was doing. "This is the scene where I get shot," Bronson said. "I have these little squibs that explode to make it look like bullets are hitting."
"Fascinating," said Bergman. "I never knew how they did that."
"You mean," asked Bronson, "you don't use machine guns in your movies?"
