And Get Ourselves A Treat

gunsandposes: Will Geer and Robert Redford in Jeremiah Johnson (1972).

Love is so complicated.

Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were.

“Don’t admire people too much, they might disappoint you.”

BUTCH CASSIDY: Once they divide up, we take them, no trouble, right?
SUNDANCE KID: Maybe.
BUTCH CASSIDY: Boy, for a gunman, you’re one hell of a pessimist.

BUTCH CASSIDY: Do you believe I’m broke already?
ETTA PLACE: Why is there never any money, Butch?
BUTCH CASSIDY: Well, I swear, Etta, I don’t know. I’ve been working like a dog all my life and I can’t get a penny ahead.
ETTA PACE: Sundance says it’s because you’re a soft touch, and always taking expensive vacations, and buying drinks for everyone, and you’re a rotten gambler.
BUTCH CASSIDY: Well that might have something to do with it.

“I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited - they went there.”

~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Arthur Laurents, screenwriter of The Way We Were, died today at the tender age of 93. On Broadway, he was quite the big deal as a stage director and librettist (that’s fancy musical theater talk for the dude who writes all the stuff that isn’t lyrics).

Robert Redford in The Candidate (1972).

BOB WOODWARD: Gordon Liddy was fired by Mitchell because he wouldn’t talk to the F.B.I.
DEEP THROAT: You’ll hear more.
BOB WOODWARD: Will he talk?
DEEP THROAT: I was at a party once, and, uh, Liddy put his hand over a candle, and he kept it there. He kept it right in the flame until his flesh was burned. Somebody said, “What’s the trick?” And Liddy said, “The trick is not minding.”

Robert Redford in The Candidate.

JOHN MITCHELL: [on phone] You tell your publisher, tell Katie Graham she’s gonna get her tit caught in a big wringer if that’s published.
BEN BRADLEE: [later] He really said that about Mrs. Graham?
CARL BERNSTEIN: [nods]
BEN BRADLEE: Well, I’d cut the words “her tit” and print it.
CARL BERNSTEIN: Why?
BEN BRADLEE: This is a family newspaper.