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🗓️ 4 September 2022
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0:00.0 | Robert Davie, legendary actor, movie star. You have some stories to tell us about the deep |
0:07.2 | CD underbelly of Hollywood. Well, spill the beans. Spill the beans. Well, we, we, I started |
0:15.0 | to allude to a story of when I did the film with Sonatura in 1977, my first film. And |
0:22.2 | what it was was I was working as a waiter in New York City at a place called Fiorrella's, |
0:25.8 | which was across the street from Lincoln Center. And I was making my night. I had a railroad |
0:32.0 | flat on second day, and you was 175 dollars a month back in the day. Railroads. They saw it. |
0:37.8 | Railroad flat. Yeah. You know, it was great, great spot. For those that aren't familiar, |
0:42.0 | this basically means that all the rooms are connected to each other in a row. So it's |
0:45.4 | like you walk in the living room and the, there's a bedroom, which is basically a hallway. |
0:49.1 | And then a bedroom, which is basically a hallway, and then maybe a back room. So yeah, |
0:52.4 | yeah, might not be familiar. Right. But yeah. But these, no, this was cool. Actually, now |
0:57.3 | that probably, you know, $5,000. Same thing I was paying 175 for. And now, so I was able |
1:05.8 | to do that. I was studying with Stella Adler, great acting coach at her school, taking my |
1:12.5 | voice lessons from Samuel Margolese and Dan Ferro from Juilliard, and working at the |
1:16.8 | Fruit and Vegetables stand at 117, the breadway, 110th and Broadway. Now I got fired from |
1:23.1 | fearless. And I was making my not doing paying for everything that I had to do, working |
1:29.6 | three days a week as a waiter. I went in one night, the guy says, you're fired. I go, |
1:34.2 | you go, what? I go, he goes, I gotta let you go. I go, why? He goes, you didn't hand |
1:39.2 | in all your checks. No, he said, you didn't hand in all your checks the other night. |
1:42.4 | I said, yes, I did. I always, I'm very careful. You know, check your drawer. And you have |
1:45.6 | a drawer with a key. I went in this drawer. I'm a lefty. This was so slanted the other |
1:50.3 | way. I piled out the check. I said, well, it's not me. It's not my writing. This is a |
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