The Two Bobs



Topping the birthday list today ...

Is a man who has now played ...

Two major roles in Hollywood ...

Performing and producing goods



Playing roles in a half-dozen or so

Before deciding to produce shows

Starting with Polanski's Chinatown

Then nine more before the next round 



A film directed by its star Jack Nicholson

The Two Jakes was sequel to the other one

Parallelling The Big Sleep in many ways

And with a small part by Faye Dunaway



A film Evans co-produced with Harold Schneider

Also starring Harvey Keitel as the other Jake blighter

Along with Meg Tilly and of course ...  Madeline Stowe

But a pre-watching of Chinatown is the preferred way to go 



- Tristram



© Christopher W. Thomas

written 7:50pm Wed. 6/30/99

for the date - June 29th, 1999



The films of Bob Evans, Performer



1944 - Hey Rookie (Larry Parks)

1952 - Lydia Bailey (Dale Robertson)

1957 - Man of a Thousand Faces

(James Cagney played Lon Chaney)

1957 - The Sun Also Rises (Tyrone Power, 

Mel Ferrer, Ava Gardner, Errol Flynn)

1957 - The Fiend Who Walked the West

(Hugh O'Brian) Evans co-starred as a psycho, 

recreating the role played by Richard Widmark

in the original film of the story - Kiss of Death 

1959 - The Best of Everything (Hope Lange, 

Martha Hyer, Joan Crawford, Diane Baker, 

Suzy Parker, Stephen Boyd, Brian Aherne, 

Louis Jordan - the first female "boss" film)

1960 - Too Soon to Love (Nicholson)



1990 - Desperate Hours (Sir Anthony Hopkins, 

Mickey Rourke, Kelly Lynch) ... a generic remake



The Films of Robert Evans, Producer



1974 - Chinatown (Nicholson, Huston)

1976 - Marathon Man (Dustin Hoffman,

Sir Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider)

1977 - Black Sunday (Robert Shaw)

1980 - Popeye (R. Williams, S. Duvall)

1980 - Urban Cowboy (John Travolta, 

Debra Winger/Scott Glenn/Barry Corbin)

1984 - The Cotton Club (Richard Gere)

1990 - The Two Jakes - Jack Nicholson, 

Harvey Keitel, Frederic Forrest, 

Ruben Blades, Eli Wallach, Richard Farnsworth 

1993 - Sliver (Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, 

Tom Berenger, Martin Landau)



Birthdays:



Robert Evans' 69th



Also:

Ruthe Warrick's 84th

Ian Bannen's 71st

Gary Busey's 55th

Little Eva's 54th

Richard Lewis's 52nd

Fred Grandy's 51st

Ian Paice's 51st

Colin Hay's 46th

Maria Conchita Alonso's 42nd

Evelyn Champagne King's 39th

Amanda Donohoe's 37th

Stedman Pearson's 35th