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Article: Robert Mitchum. (movie actor)
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- Interview
- Article date:
- September 1, 1997
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WHEN ROBERT MITCHUM DIED THIS SUMMER AT THE AGE OF SEVENTY-NINE, HIS HEAVY-LIDDED IMAGE WAS CONSIGNED TO THE SHADOWS BY THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA, WHICH WERE BUSIER RECYCLING THE SWEETER VISAGE OF THE GREAT JAMES STEWART, WHO PASSED A FEW DAYS LATER. IN SOME WAYS THE SHADOWS WERE AN APT PLACE FOR MITCHUM, PLAYING AS HE DID SO MANY CHARACTERS WHO OPERATED ON THE NIGHTSIDE OF LIFE. HIS MOLD-BREAKING MODE OF REBELLIOUSNESS WAS REFLECTED NOT ONLY IN THE WORLDLY-WISE MEN HE PLAYED ON-SCREEN, BUT IN THE DEFIANT TOUGH GUY HE SO OFTEN, AND SO SARDONICALLY, SEEMED TO IMPERSONATE OFF IT. BRUCE WEBER, WHOSE UPCOMING MOVIE ABOUT MITCHUM WILL BE DEVOTED TO THE ACTOR'S COMPLEX RANGE OF MOODS, ...
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