![]() He traveled across the country regaling audiences with his tales of adventure. In his later years, George helped keep The Paris Review afloat as a professional after-dinner speaker. (In retrospect, we feel a little like we failed as documentarians-we didn’t ask to see the grotto.) This is also photographic proof that we were in the mansion. At the end of the interview, he picked it up, flipped through it and said, “Have you guys seen this?” The magazine was the fiftieth anniversary issue of Playboy (which debuted in 1953, alongside The Paris Review), and George had written a piece about the special connection he shared with his fellow magazine editor, Hefner. He set it aside, and we talked with him for a half hour. Hugh Hefner walked into our interview holding a copy of a magazine. Hopefully, we’ll be able to share some of these great outtakes soon. While he’s in the movie for a brief moment, it doesn’t compare to the two hours of stories and memories he shared with us about his good friend. We spoke with so many of George’s friends and family who shared wonderful stories that, due to time constraints, just didn’t make the final cut. We often joked that we could have made an eighteen-hour movie without even trying. One of the hardest parts of making the movie was figuring out what to leave out. Hanging out in this one room are George’s fellow Paris Review cofounders Peter Matthiessen and Doc Humes, longtime friends William Styron and Terry Southern, and an impressive list of writers and filmmakers, including Ralph Ellison, Gore Vidal, Sydney Lumet, Mario Puzo, and, in the center of it all, Truman Capote.Įvery time we went by the apartment to update Sarah Plimpton on our progress, we couldn’t help but look up from the sofa and chairs we were sitting on and think, The people this room has seen … This photo perfectly captures the vibe of the infamous parties at George’s apartment. We asked Tom and Luke to share their favorite photographs of our founding editor as well as their own memories of creating the documentary. The film makes its world premiere tonight, at the AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival in Washington, D.C. Luke Poling and Tom Bean have been hard at work at their documentary Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself. We’ll see if the Flame Tree pulls off another upset.By Tom Bean and Luke Poling JFrom the Archive Oga’s gets my vote because the theming is off the charts. ![]() ‘Cause…really? It’s fine? I guess? I’ve eaten here, and it’s…y’know, barbecue. Which leaves us with Flame Tree Barbecue as our winner of the “…Really?” sub-competition of this bracket. I digress.) Though I had everything correct in the last Substack post, I had things wrong when I posted the actual polls, so Regal Eagle Smokehouse went a day later, and sadly was defeated. You switched the samples, didn’t you?!?” Great movie. (For some reason, typing that sentence made me think of Harrison Ford at the end of The Fugitive. (15) Flame Tree Barbecue: So, fun fact: I switched the 15 seeds in the last round by accident. Call it an unfair vote if you must, but I stick with the Tusker House. I have, more specifically, eaten the pizza at the old version of this restaurant, once themed to Pizza Planet. It’s that I’ve had Disney’s standard-issue theme-park pizza, and it’s just not impressive. It’s not that I haven’t eaten there (though I haven’t). (9) Tusker House vs (13) PizzeRizzo: I once again imagine that PizzeRizzo will make short work of its competition and move to the next round, and I once again will not be voting for PizzeRizzo.
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