tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1407034878188607881.post5196386799663910734..comments2024-03-28T13:03:59.666-07:00Comments on Tillalala Chronicles: Again The SunJohn Olsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07873070309448793816noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1407034878188607881.post-1787116781560261042010-12-01T20:14:55.979-08:002010-12-01T20:14:55.979-08:00Lewis mentions the steak episode in his novel. I l...Lewis mentions the steak episode in his novel. I like the name-pun: Monogamy Clift.John Olsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07873070309448793816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1407034878188607881.post-24029090346859646152010-11-29T05:12:33.687-08:002010-11-29T05:12:33.687-08:00Monogamy Clift is one of my favorite actors, and y...Monogamy Clift is one of my favorite actors, and you remind me of a couple of stories about him. Years ago I read--well, not all the way through: I dip into books desultorily, like Dr. Johnson--a novel by Mary McCarthy set in an artist's colony. It mentions an actor who carved a steak on the floor of a cottage. A few years later I read that Clift carved a steak on the floor of a cottage owned by McCarthy and her actor brother Kevin, the Invasion of the Body Snatchers guy. He may have been drunk or stoned, or he may have been acting that way because of his underactive thyroid.<br /><br />I've also read somewhere that Alfred Hitchcock somehow persuaded Clift to toss back a brandy, which the chemical-addled actor wasn't supposed to do. Clift passed out, and Hitchcock reportedly looked satisfied. How like the film Suspicion that is! You know, when Joan Fontaine suspects that Cary Grant has murdered his friend Nigel Bruce by persuading him to quaff a brandy.Delia Psychehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03020484032408233158noreply@blogger.com