Rolling
Stone, 15 March 1973, p. 36
The
Last Celluloid Desperado
By
Grover Lewis
[Actor
Robert Mitchum, "visibly sloshed" after a late lunch, clowns around
outside his camper on the set of The
Friends of Eddie Coyle. With him are the director, Peter Yates, actor Alex Rocco
and Tim Wallace, "his long-time stand-in and constant crony."]
"Listen,
you guys, I gotta tell this story on Bob here. He was ballin' this babe one
time, see. He was in the saddle, see, and his nuts was swingin' back and forth
in the air, see. And this babe's dog jumps up on the bed and takes his nuts in
his mouth, see. Big sonofabitch --
"
"The
dog was like half Great Dane and half bull mastiff," Mitchum muses.
"Like a pony."
"Huge sonofabitch."
Mitchum
nods. "Yeah, big yellow-eyed mother."
"So
I walk into the room by accident, see, and this dog has hold of Bob's nuts like
a retriever would hold a bird. I couldn't help it -- I started laughin' --
"
Mitchum
grins. "I told him, don't laugh.
I very slowly got, uh...disengaged.
And I smacked that motherin' dog -- whap!
-- clear across the room. I woulda shot it if I'd had a gun."
"I
tellya, I had water in my eyes from laughin' so hard at 'im. There was water
all over the place, in fact. The bed was wet, you can bet your sweet ass on
that." Wallace cackles shrilly, then fixes the writer with a stern glare:
"Don't put that in your fuckin' magazine, friend. It's a true fuckin'
story, but jeez -- Bob's wife, you know..."