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Article: Robert Mitchum: Baby, I Don't Care.(Review) (book review)
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- March 1, 2001
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Robert Mitchum: Baby I Don't Care St. Martin's Press 608 pages Lee Server
ACCORDING to the evidence amassed in Lee Server's exhaustively researched, engagingly flippant biography, Robert Mitchum had the soul of a poet, a pothead, a hobo--anything but an actor. He was a borderline genius and a way-past-the-border drunk, the nicest man in Hollywood and the most boorishly difficult. He remained married to his childhood sweetheart for more than fifty years, yet he had trouble being faithful to her for as long as a week. He had the potential to be the greatest Macbeth or King Lear of his era, claimed the directors who most admired him, yet he professed that his idol ...
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Article: Weekend: Books:Because he got high; Robert Mitchum ...
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... ... Byline: Reviewed by Michael Emery Robert Mitchum made 125 films and wore the same ... the cards fall where they may, Mitchum really didn't care. This biography ... cigarette and died. CAPTION(S): Robert Mitchum memorably portraying the sinister ...
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