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Monday, March 6, 2017

In Memory of Robert Osborne from John Mulholland

Robert Osborne

Robert Osborne … Unique. Nope, his like won’t soon again pass this way. First time we met, Bob an on-camera participant in a doc. One of those blistering only-in-NYC days. Wicked. Heat from the overhead lights doubling down on the temp. No AC, mic picked up the whir. Bob drenched, I mean drenched. Never a word, a complaint, wiping his face with cool damp towels. Bob refusing breaks. A pro. Never losing his warm delivery, wonderful smile. His comments integral to the doc. Watch that footage, you'd think Bob was lounging in an A-C stateroom. A pro.

That smile … Kennedy’s, bar on 57^th, between 8^th and 9^th. Of a sunny Spring day. I come out of Kennedy’s rich, delicious mid-day darkness, blind-sided by the bright sun. Eyes adjusting.

“John! So this is how you spend your days.”

That voice, only one like it. Turn around, and Mr. Osborn standing there. Bob’s warm and welcoming smile, deeply welcoming.

“Hey, Bob. How about we go back in, get out of this brutal light.”

Course, we didn’t. But I know, I just know, one of these days, and soon, as I’m ambling around the west side of Manhattan, Bob will be there. Bob and his warmth and his grace. I know it.

For Bob Osborne, like Paris, is a moveable feast.

- John Mulholland

Interview with John Mulholland by Robert Osborne: http://cooperhemingway.com/_academy_motion_pictures.html

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Quotes from across the spectrum reflecting why Gary Cooper & Ernest Hemingway still resonate today | Cooper & Hemingway: The True Gen

COOPER AND HEMINGWAY: THE TRUE GEN
A feature documentary | A New York Times Critics Pic
www.cooperhemingway.com
Narrated by Sam Waterston
Voice of Hemingway by Len Cariou
Written and Directed by John Mulholland
Produced by Richard Zampella & Shannon Mulholland

Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen is a feature documentary on the 20 year friendship of writer Ernest Hemingway and actor Gary Cooper who died only seven weeks apart in 1961.

Quotes reflecting why Gary Cooper and Ernest Hemingway resonate today:

“Among my biggest literary influences would be For Whom The Bell Tolls. Robert Jordan is an inspiration to me.”
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

“High Noon is my favorite movie. Any time you’re alone and feel you’re not getting the support you need, Gary Cooper’s Will Kane becomes the perfect metaphor.”

PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON

Gary Cooper and Ernest Hemingway
Sun Valley

“Ernest Hemingway influenced more writers in the 20th Century than any other writer. By far.”
ELMORE LEONARD, author

“Gary Cooper was the perfect image for our campaign to get people to vote. We’d never had free elections in Poland. I am always so touched when people ask me to autograph that image of Gary Cooper from our campaign poster.”

LECH WALESA, President of Poland, Nobel Peace Prize

"Even someone like me, who didn't operate consciously under Hemingway's shadow, was still touched by Hemingway's shadow. He had an enormous influence on male writing in America, and his echoes … are to be found almost everywhere.”

JUNOT DIAZ, author

"I had dreams - fantasies really - about acting. I watched Gary Cooper as a boy. That's who I wanted to be, Gary Cooper.”
DJIMON HOUSOU, actor, from Benin, West Africa

“Robert Jordan was everything I ever wanted to be. I was thrilled by him. I knew that Robert Jordan, if he were in the next cell to mine, he would be stoic, he would be strong, he would be tough, he wouldn't give up. And Robert Jordan would expect me to do the same thing.”

SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN

“I love Gary Cooper. High Noon is my favorite film.”
JUNICHIRO KOIZUMA, PRIME MINISTER, JAPAN

"At times I couldn't help feeling like The Old Man and the Sea," Against tremendous odds, I had caught a big fish, but on the long voyage back to shore, the prized catch had been picked to pieces by sharks," PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

"In only one scene in the first film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, WINGS, we see the future of screen acting in the form of Gary Cooper. He is quiet and natural, somehow different from the other cast members. He does something mysterious with his eyes and shoulders that is much more like 'being' than 'acting'. "

TOM HANKS, actor

Gary Cooper and Ernest Hemingway

“Stoicism, grace under pressure, the 20th century heroism. Hemingway created the whole idea of the anti-fascist hero. I mean you can't really have Casablanca and Humphrey Bogart and all those characters without the Hemingway character. They all kind of derive from Robert Jordan.”

ROBERT STONE, author

“I don't particularly like westerns as a genre, but I do love certain westerns. ''High Noon'' means a lot to me - I love the purity and the honesty, I love Gary Cooper in that film.”

DANIEL DAY-LEWIS, actor

“Several people, familiar with my own work, find it surprising that I should be a Hemingway enthusiast. Hemingway’s achievement … was to get his effects by making the reader do the work. … if one tries to write like Hemingway without understanding that, one ends up with merely a Hemingway gloss. It is not simply physical action but the action of the physical world upon the individual that is important in Hemingway’s work and in his thought, too,”
TOM STOPPARD, playwright

“Gary Cooper was … a phenomenon – his ability to take something and elevate it, give it such a dignity … Cooper was such a presence.”

AL PACINO, actor

Hemingway. Those sentences just knock me out. The thing about Hemingway sentences is that they are really loaded. Every comma and absence of a comma makes a huge difference, and it's really been deliberated.”

JOAN DIDION, author

“Just play it like Gary Cooper.”

PHILLIP KAUFMAN, directing Sam Shepard in THE RIGHT STUFF

“That Ernest Hemingway is able to convince me that Santiago’s battle is not in vain; that there are other powers in the world besides fear and greed; that every form of life has its own dignity and beauty, is his strength and importance as a writer. For one does not need to be a tuna fisherman to appreciate the true glory of this little masterpiece.” NANCY SPAIN, journalist

“Cooper put his whole career on the block in the face of the McCarthyite witch-hunters who were terrorizing Hollywood. He was subjected to a violent underground pressure campaign by John Wayne and others aimed at getting him to leave the film, and he was told that unless he agreed to do so, he, too, would be blacklisted in Hollywood for the rest of his life. But Cooper believed in me. He saw it through. He was the only big one who tried. The only one.”

CARL FOREMAN, screenwriter, director, producer

“If a man has a conscience … he might think about air power some time.”

ERNEST HEMINGWAY (from 1950), and as current as drone warfare in 2014.

“Where are you, Gary Cooper, now that we need you?”

NEW YORK MAGAZINE

Gary Cooper and Ernest Hemingway

Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen
www.cooperhemingway.com | Twitter: @coophem
Narrated by Sam Waterston
Voice of Hemingway by Len Cariou
Written and Directed by John Mulholland
Produced by Richard Zampella & Shannon Mulholland
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Monday, February 2, 2015

Film explores the lifelong friendship of Ernest Hemingway and Gary Cooper - "Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen"

Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen

Film explores the lifelong friendship of ‪#‎ErnestHemingway‬ and ‪#‎GaryCooper‬
Writer and director John Mulholland will be joined by producer Richard Zampella for a free screening of their documentary "Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen" on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015 at 7 p.m. at the Lyric Theatre. Admission is free.

http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2015/02/020215-sopa-truegen.html

Sunday, January 11, 2015

Je Suis Paris

Je Suis Paris!

Saturday, April 19, 2014

Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen | A Feature Documentary

Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen

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Official Site: www.cooperhemingway.com. Director(s). John Mulholland. Writer(s). John Mulholland. Studio. Transmultimedia Entertainment. Producer: Richard Zampella, Shannon Mulholland. Narrated by Sam Waterston, Cast: Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston, Patricia Neal, Elmore Leonard

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

PopCorn Diary on Huffngton Post Entertainment Review: Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen

Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen (2013)Cast includes: Sam Waterston (Narrator)
Writer/Director: John Mulholland (Sergeant York: Of God and Country)
Producer: Richard Zampella
Genre: Documentary (120 minutes)

Gary Cooper and Ernest Hemingway are such icons, it’s hard to separate the men from the legacies. Hemingway used a slang expression, “true gen” to describe what was true and genuine vs. everything else. With both Cooper and Hemingway… there was no “everything else”… there was only true gen.
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Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen
www.cooperhemingway.com
NY Times Critic's Pick. A Feature Documentary on the 20 year friendship of Gary Cooper & Ernest Hemingway. Narrated by Sam Waterston, Voice of Hemingway by Len Cariou, Written & Directed by John Mulholland, Produced by "Richard Zampella & Shannon Mulholland"

Sunday, December 29, 2013

Happy New Year 1951 Floridita - Cooper & Hemingway

Gary Cooper and Ernest Hemingway New Years Eve, Floridita, Cuba 1951

Cooper & Hemingway: The True Gen

Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen
www.cooperhemingway.com
Like Us: www.facebook.com/cooperhemingway
NY Times Critic's Pick. A Feature Documentary on the 20 year friendship of Gary Cooper & Ernest Hemingway. Narrated by Sam Waterston, Voice of Hemingway by Len Cariou, Written & Directed by John Mulholland, Produced by Richard Zampella.

"Cooper and Hemingway"

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

ED NOON:

“That’s right. Robert Jordan and Gary Cooper. Always Gary Cooper. My brain has been Cooper Territory since I was ten years old … He made me believe in doing the right thing. In being a hero. In playing it straight …”

Michael Avallone, author, the Ed Noon novels

Sunday, December 8, 2013

COOPER & HEMINGWAY: THE TRUE GEN

COOPER & HEMINGWAY: THE TRUE GEN
A film by John Mulholland
A Feature Documentary
A NY Times Critic's Pick

Laemmle Theatres is pleased to present COOPER & HEMINGWAY: THE TRUE GEN, a look back at the fascinating and unlikely friendship of Ernest Hemingway and Gary Cooper. Narrated by Sam Waterston. The exclusive Los Angeles County engagement begins Friday, December 6^th at the Playhouse 7 in Pasadena with daily screenings at 1:10 and 5:50 PM.

Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen. Rated NR · 130 min. · 2013. Official Site: www.cooperhemingway.com. Director(s). John Mulholland. Writer(s). John Mulholland. Studio. Transmultimedia Entertainment. Producer: Richard Zampella and Shannon Mulholland. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston, Patricia Neal, Elmore Leonard

Saturday, December 7, 2013

Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen by John Mulholland

Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen

"If there'd been no Coop, Hemingway would've had to invent him" - Alistair Cooke

Ernest Hemingway: “Coop is a fine man; as honest and straight and friendly and unspoiled as he looks. If you made up a character like Coop, nobody’d believe it.”

 And if you made up a character like Ernest Hemingway, how many would believe it? The mercurial Hemingway left people enchanted, hostile, confused, charmed, bruised, bitter.

 Utter opposites ... nothing in common. The cowboy and the suburbanite. The conservative and the liberal. And yet these two artists (a word both men scoffed at) were the best of friends, right up to their deaths a mere seven weeks apart in 1961. But is the friendship of these two men really so surprising?

 Consider this Cooper obituary: “Perhaps with Gary Cooper there is ended a certain America. That of the frontier and of innocence, which had or was believed to have an exact sense of the dividing line between good and evil.” Corriere Della Sera, Rome.  Substitute the name of Hemingway’s Robert Jordan and the sentiment is just as apt and poignant.

A study of these two men is a study of the 20th century. Their internationally renowned careers (Cooper, two Best Actor Academy Awards; Hemingway, Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes) were played out over the same turbulent decades: the hedonistic 20s, the grim Depression 30s, the war-ravaged 40s, and the deceptively slumbering 50s.  

It is no small irony that the lives of these two men should suffer untimely ends at the dawn of the erupting sixties. Their final, poignant chapter closed at the beginning of a decade which would challenge many of the very ideals and precepts which both men so prominently represented.

And yet, decades later, we have Liam Neeson reflecting: “…the character of Bryan Mills (Taken) fits into a cinematic iconic figure that we all recognize from way back … I’m thinking of Gary Cooper in High Noon, who is kind of a Bryan Mills. That kind of iconic figure that audiences seem to be attracted to.

Or Katniss Everdeen, the hero from The Hunger Games. For all the modern trappings, the extraordinarily courageous and selfless Katniss is really just a female updating of the Hemingway/Cooper hero. She’s Robert Jordan. She’s Will Kane. To understand Ernest Hemingway and Gary Cooper is to understand both the genesis of Katniss Everdeen and why

she and other contemporary characters represent what they do to audiences today.

Perhaps Cooper and Hemingway didn’t really pass the torch, perhaps they merely leant it.

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Thursday, December 5, 2013

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Official Site: www.cooperhemingway.com. Director(s). John Mulholland. Writer(s). John Mulholland. Studio. Transmultimedia Entertainment. Producer: Richard Zampella, Shannon Mulholland. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston, Patricia Neal, Elmore Leonard

Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen
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NY Times Critic's Pick. A Feature Documentary on the 20 year friendship of Gary Cooper & Ernest Hemingway. Narrated by Sam Waterston, Voice of Hemingway by Len Cariou, Written & Directed by John Mulholland, Produced by Richard Zampella

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