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Post by *~Mrs. Cooper ~* on Jun 11, 2007 22:11:44 GMT -5
“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 would believe it. He’s just too good to be true.”
--Ernest Hemingway on Gary Cooper in a letter to the legendary editor, Maxwell Perkins.
And if you made up a character like Ernest Hemingway, how many would believe it? The mercurial Hemingway left people enchanted, hostile, endeared, confused, charmed, bruised, bitter. To everyone, he was an extraordinary, unforgettable presence. As more than one person was heard to remark: “Hemingway sucked the air out of a room.”
Hollywood’s tight-lipped Common Man and the most famous American writer of the 20th Century ...utter opposites ... nothing in common ... impossible as friends ...
And yet these two celebrated Americans -- Gary Cooper, mere movie star, and Ernest Hemingway, the lionized novelist who detested Hollywood -- would become the best of friends, right up to their deaths seven weeks apart in 1961.
Sun Valley, Idaho, 1940: A mutual friend, Taylor Williams, described their first meeting: “They were like strange schoolboys sizing each other up, a line scratched in the dirt between them, until they ‘got ‘er done’. Then they were like old buddies from that moment on.”
But is the friendship of two men who were “old buddies” immediately, really so surprising? Consider a sampling of Cooper obituaries:
“Cooper was the incarnation of the honorable American.” Svenska Dagbladet, Stockholm.
“Cooper was the symbol of trust, confidence and protection. He is dead now. What a miracle that he existed.” Die Welt, Hamburg.
“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. [/i]
-- John Mulholland
Rumors of release on the 15th of September. Not an actual date, but keep an eye out for it.
www.cooperandhemingway.com/
--Ernest Hemingway on Gary Cooper in a letter to the legendary editor, Maxwell Perkins.
And if you made up a character like Ernest Hemingway, how many would believe it? The mercurial Hemingway left people enchanted, hostile, endeared, confused, charmed, bruised, bitter. To everyone, he was an extraordinary, unforgettable presence. As more than one person was heard to remark: “Hemingway sucked the air out of a room.”
Hollywood’s tight-lipped Common Man and the most famous American writer of the 20th Century ...utter opposites ... nothing in common ... impossible as friends ...
And yet these two celebrated Americans -- Gary Cooper, mere movie star, and Ernest Hemingway, the lionized novelist who detested Hollywood -- would become the best of friends, right up to their deaths seven weeks apart in 1961.
Sun Valley, Idaho, 1940: A mutual friend, Taylor Williams, described their first meeting: “They were like strange schoolboys sizing each other up, a line scratched in the dirt between them, until they ‘got ‘er done’. Then they were like old buddies from that moment on.”
But is the friendship of two men who were “old buddies” immediately, really so surprising? Consider a sampling of Cooper obituaries:
“Cooper was the incarnation of the honorable American.” Svenska Dagbladet, Stockholm.
“Cooper was the symbol of trust, confidence and protection. He is dead now. What a miracle that he existed.” Die Welt, Hamburg.
“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. [/i]
-- John Mulholland
Rumors of release on the 15th of September. Not an actual date, but keep an eye out for it.
www.cooperandhemingway.com/
