He's remarkably charming in A Thousand Clowns, a teenaged fave of mine, as a Kennedy-era slacker. A big Broadway hit and Oscar-nominated for Best Picture, even though he's kind of miscast. Rewatched the other night, and while the sentimental seams show, it still has something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V67fzMQOfP0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VXyDhB2VrE
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 20:50 (six years ago) link
i got to meet jason robards one time when i was little. it was on the film set of johnny bull, which was shooting near knoxville. he played a coal miner. in the scene i saw he was covered in coal dust and getting a sponge bath. he was kind of gruff and distracted but nice. colleen dewhurst was his co-star and she was just incredible to me. in my memory she glowed. also showed me where the catering table was.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091298/
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 20:52 (six years ago) link
Once upon a time is one of the best movies ever made and he's the best thing about it
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 20:54 (six years ago) link
I saw him and Dewhurst in Long Day's Journey on Broadway, 1988. She seemed like a real Earth Mother on and off stage (well, when she wasn't playing an opium addict). xp
yes, "Mr Choo Choo..."
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link
Super in Long Day's Journey and that late '70s post-Oscar spree (the Julia win is unearned though...). For my generation he defined Old Coot.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 21:48 (six years ago) link
and agree he's weirdly charming in A Thousand Clowns when "charm" is not what I expect from him. I expect this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWVOH1lxY34
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 21:49 (six years ago) link
Married to Lauren Bacall 1961-69, who he occasionally called "the Widow Bogart." Didn't get sober til the early '70s.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 22:14 (six years ago) link
He shone pointlessly in Dream A Little Dream along with Piper Laurie and Harry Dean Stanton
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 22:43 (six years ago) link
One of the most unusual Nixons--not named as such--in Washington Behind Closed Doors.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 23:06 (six years ago) link
My dad always referred to him as Jason Robards Jr., for indeed that's how he was always billed into the early '60s, as his father had been a popular character actor in film and theatre.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 February 2018 03:19 (six years ago) link
It makes the Long Day's Journey parallels all the more delicious.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 February 2018 03:33 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpLLr6cUs34
― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 15 February 2018 03:39 (six years ago) link
No Max Dugan, no peace
― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 15 February 2018 03:48 (six years ago) link
yeah that was a late cut. sorry, didn't Neil Simon write it? gtfo
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 February 2018 03:54 (six years ago) link
he did yeah
― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 15 February 2018 03:59 (six years ago) link
an awful Reagan-era fairytale but it warmed my heart at 13 yrs old
― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 15 February 2018 04:22 (six years ago) link
I understand.
I first saw Robards when I was 10 or 11 in the TV play House Without a Christmas Tree, in which he plays an embittered rural widower and father as a huge wall of sadness. Indelible.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 February 2018 04:32 (six years ago) link
Bacall had a type, didn't she? He looked and even sounded a bit like Bogart.
LDJIN
― Brad C., Thursday, 15 February 2018 15:14 (six years ago) link
Among the many reasons why Parenthood is the only better-than-good thing Ron Howard touched.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Thursday, 15 February 2018 15:28 (six years ago) link
True story: my brother Steve befriended Sam Robards (son of Jason Robards and Lauren Bacall) in elementary school, knowing nothing of his famous parents. One day Sam invited Steve over after school. "Sam, I want to meet your new friend" called Bacall from another room. They dutifully walked into that room, where she was lying in a bubble bath and extended a wet hand in greeting.
― Ρεμπετολογια, Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:27 (six years ago) link
did afterward she brew him a rich cup of grounds-heavy Maxwell House?
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:30 (six years ago) link
Married to Lauren Bacall 1961-69, who he occasionally called "the Widow Bogart."
oof
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:32 (six years ago) link
OK I've spent the last 10 minutes watching every Bacall coffee commercial – her best acting ever.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:33 (six years ago) link
You Can't Take It With You (TV) sadly omitted. I'm torn between how much I love ATPM and how little I've seen of the rest of his work, including the O'Neills.
― Moo Vaughn, Thursday, 15 February 2018 18:05 (six years ago) link
YCTIWY was a televised Broadway production he was in... I don't like to count those. Apparently the Lumet Iceman can be bought tho.
I like to imagine Jason and Betty having that coffee after throwing all the crockery at each other the night before. (Her '80s coffee-in-the-limo spot is the best.)
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 February 2018 04:15 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 31 May 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
who is the Mr Sycamore voter?
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 31 May 2018 02:39 (five years ago) link