Cool Hand Lou: My Fifty Years in Hollywood and on Broadway

by Lou Antonio

Overview

In this candid memoir, actor and director Lou Antonio recounts his five decades in television, film and theater, from live television to Broadway to Emmy-nominated Movies of the Week. Antonio describes with humor and insight the changes in audience tastes and technical developments during his career, and the unforeseen challenges of pursuing a life in the performing arts. Anecdotes abound of his work with Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, George C. Scott, Michael J. Fox, William Shatner, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams, and others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476668154
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	11/20/2017
Pages:	255
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

As a stage actor Lou Antonio has performed in 70 plays and has acted and directed in more than 200 hours of television. He is co-artistic director of the Actors Studio and teaches acting and directing there.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface
Part One: New York, Mostly
 1. When You Begin a Beginning
 2. The Cement City
 3. Some Strasberg, and Then Some
 4. Dribbles and Drabs
 5. A West Side Story
 6. Selling Soap
 7. Getting In, and At the Actors Studio
 8. The Fervid Years
 9. Overseas and Back Again
10. Garson Kanin
11. From Burt Lancaster to Summer Stock
12. 38 ­At-Bats, Three Strikeouts
13. From Streisand to Paxinou to Olivier
14. Two Misses and a Hit
15. Elia Kazan
16. From a Naked City to Andorra
17. Franco Zeffirelli
18. Keeping Busy Until Dewhurst
19. Faustus, Julie and Josh
20. Not-So-Lovely Hula Hands
21. Cool Hand Luke
22. Hello, Hollywood… Hello, Anyone There?
Part Two: Hollywood
23. Shatner, a Bear, a Nun
24. Jerry Lewis to Coppola
25. A Mixed Bag
26. Who Has the Power, Who Has the Pain?
27. Natwick and Hayes Up, Garner on Deck
28. Classes at Universal U
29. Rabbi Problems, Rich Man Problems
30. Dog and Cat Are Neutered
31. Cappelletti, Sand and Subways
32. Trashing Trash with Rock Hudson
33. Give Thy Thoughts No Tongue
34. Patty, Ricky, Sugar, Booze
35. I Got Plenty of Nothing
36. Legends
37. E.T. and Burton on Broadway
38. Lee Remick, North and South
39. Peter the Great, Dunaway Less
40. Candice Bergen: Motherhood to Madam
41. Academy Award Winners and Whiners
42. In to Africa
43. Bean Balls, and Still at Bat
44. Sonia Braga, Birthing and Breeding
45. May the Pod People Perish
46. Sour Power
47. They’re Either Too Young or Too Old
48. Cassidy Catches Ledger
49. Shatner, Bergen, Fox—Doing It
50. In and Out of It, Out and Into It
Index