Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
Actor and musician who had ambitions to be a professional pianist.
On the island
Eight records
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I chose a record for today that I thought would be suitable and reminds me of the best kind of Broadway writer Julie Stein, because he was the most honest kind of Broadway musical writer.
The keepsakes
No book or luxury recorded for this episode.
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:37Do you ever regret having chosen acting instead of the piano?
Not a bit. Uh because I realize it's much easier for me, even though the road seems hard at times, it doesn't uh require that enormous sort of loneliness that perhaps the the career of a... soloist, a pianist would have been.
Presenter asks
1:05How did theatre come into your life [in Canada]?
No, well only through the through Nightclub really and and people like Edith and uh Americans like Frank Sinatra and people who came through marvelous marvelous entertainers... But that was theatre to us and and the only creative force in Canada at the time was French Canadian theatre
Presenter asks
1:44Did you feel at any kind of a disadvantage not having been to a drama school?
Absolutely none at all. I I couldn't bear school when I was at it and I certainly didn't want if I loved the drama, I didn't want the drama to be spoiled by going to school. Uh so I I my best uh teachers were audiences.
Presenter asks
Do you take films seriously apart from [the opportunity to travel]?
Yes, I do. I'm beginning to much more... I am taking it much more seriously... much less snobbishly than one did when it was in the theatre. We used to think of it as the sort of father art... because it is the medium of our time.
“I love music more than anything, more than drama, more than poetry, more than literature, and always and always will.”
“I couldn't bear school when I was at it and I certainly didn't want if I loved the drama, I didn't want the drama to be spoiled by going to school. Uh so I I my best uh teachers were audiences.”
“I think that's ridiculous, because it is the medium of our time.”