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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:26:50 -0500
From: "Kenny, Glenn" <gkenny@hfmus.com>
Reply-To: "Kenny, Glenn" <gkenny@hfmus.com>
Subject: RE: Fwd: RE: Robert Evans and ADA film project (circa 1969)
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
As I recall, the group went over this anecdote a couple of years back. The
exchange culminated in DN's assessment of Evans as most definitely a vulgarian
and very likely a fool. DN did not, however, question the veracity of the
anecdote.
GK
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> ----- Forwarded message from Andrew.Brown@bbdodetroit.com -----
> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 21:18:00 -0500
> From: "Brown, Andrew" <Andrew.Brown@bbdodetroit.com>
>
> Call me a masochist, but not only did I read Evan's bio, I even watched the
HBO
> movie. And then showered.
>
> In his letters, Hemingway mentions maliciously, per usual, that John Huston
had
> once told him he had been a professional (or first rate collegiate) football
> player. Papa noted that that was how Hollywood people always talk: if they
> played some sandlot ball as a kid, by the time they got to Hollywood it had
> magnified into college or pro.
>
> When a Hollywood writer, agent, producer, or director says they've "read" Ada,
> or Ulysses, or the Bible, it generally means that they own a copy. Maybe they
> read a chapter, or a paragraph, or a line.
>
> So at a party somewhere, somebody told Evans that Ada was the next box office
> explosion written by that guy who wrote Lolita. And the rest is history.
>
> Andrew (not Andy) Brown
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> From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum on behalf of Donald B. Johnson
> Sent: Tue 3/15/2005 1:37 PM
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Robert Evans and ADA film project (circa 1969)
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>
> One thing I have never seen mentioned on this email group is the
> discussion of 'Ada' in Robert Evan's autobiography "The Kid Stays In
> The Picture". According to the legendary producer, he flew overnight
> to Europe to read the final draft of 'Ada', with a view to purchasing
> the film rights. I seem to remember he claims to have read it all in
> one night and reluctantly passed on the opportunity to buy it as "it
> might have been a work of genius" but "I sure as hell couldn't
> understand it". He notes with pride that "to this day, they still
> can't figure out how to shoot the damn thing!".
>
> Heh. Anyway, I read The Kid Stays In The Picture a couple of years
> ago, so that's probably a highly inaccurate recollection.... a highly
> recommended autobiography though, especially as the people on this
> list are probably fans of "unreliable narrators"..... ;-)
>
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