Then, there was Cary Grant. He spent three hours a week in hospitals teaching nervous people how to eat jello.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Cary Grant was one of the most marvelous men I've ever met.
I always adored Cary Grant. I was fascinated by him. But I could never get too close to him.
I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the Dr. Ruth of American foreign policy, and the model statesman.
But I loved making 'Eat Pray Love,' and I loved working with Julia Roberts.
I remember when I was in college, I used to watch Julia Child's cooking show during dinner and joke with my roommates about becoming a TV chef.
To me, Cary Grant is probably the most fashionable man in the history of Hollywood. The guy was just slick. He did it so effortlessly.
Riskin went into directing and made a film with Cary Grant which applied to the letter all the ideas which had made his comedies famous. It had everything except that little something - and the film was a failure.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
They offered me millions and millions and millions of dollars to write books about Cary. That was between us. That was private. I'll always love him.
I always wanted to work with Spencer Tracy, which never happened, although I knew him well. And I never worked with Cary Grant.