Queried by a reporter as to his greatest ambition, the great man says, “To become immortal, and then to die.” It’s a line from Breathless, uttered by the director Jean-Pierre Melville (and based on Nabokov), and it perfectly fits the career, life and legend of Robert Evans, who finally reached the second goal just yesterday, a blessedly long time after having achieved the first.
No matter how many scandals, divorces, drug charges, flop films and assorted other reversals the veteran studio executive and producer experienced — and survived — over his seven decades in Hollywood, Evans always managed to stay ...
No matter how many scandals, divorces, drug charges, flop films and assorted other reversals the veteran studio executive and producer experienced — and survived — over his seven decades in Hollywood, Evans always managed to stay ...
- 10/28/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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