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April 12, 2015 | 6:00am
In the Company of Legends
by Joan Kramer and David Heeley
Beaufort Books
In the 1980s, Joan Kramer and David Heeley were Emmy-winning documentary makers, filming one-hour celeb profiles that would typically run on PBS.
But not everything they filmed made the final cut. And in their new book, "In the Company of Legends," the duo share some of their favorite off-camera stories.
- Elizabeth Taylor was tough to pin down, dubiously putting them off with claims of back pain, until the filmmakers asked their pal Katharine Hepburn to put in a good word. Kate agreed, but joked, "If she asks me to appear at one of her benefit fundraisers, I'll strangle the two of you." Taylor agreed, and while waiting for the violet-eyed glamour queen to arrive, filmmaker Kramer noticed a picture was taped to the fridge of Taylor at her heaviest. The actress put it there to try to keep her from eating.
- Frank Sinatra, too, was elusive. But they got a time for a sitdown at his home outside Palm Springs. A pistol-packing security guard told them, "Just point your camera at Mr. Sinatra. Don't shoot the house or any scenery. Security reasons." Talk about Rat Pack: Each of his pool's tiles bore the image of playing card — ace of spades, queen of diamonds — and his bathroom was decorated with framed cartoons he'd collected about Frank's ties with the Mafia.
- For a 1984 show about the late Judy Garland, the filmmakers set out to confirm a rumor they'd heard that the "Wizard of Oz" star was known to call John Kennedy at the White House, but he'd never let her hang up without singing "Over the Rainbow."Brazenly, they tried to get a confirmation from Jacqueline Onassis. The former first lady's reply said simply "Story not true." Finally they reached Dave Powers, one of JFK's closest aides during his presidency. Powers answered: "Oh, sure I remember . . . He never would let her off the phone without asking her to sing a few bars . . . In fact, he would hold the phone out so that I could hear her sing, too."
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- In 1987, at the height of the Iran-Contra affair, jokester Paul Newman answered his phone with "Ollie North here." Wife Joanne Woodward was just as funny. On the day of the interview, with the cameras ready, Paul asked her, "Darling, what if I go first." She replied, "Darling, I would mourn you."
- Michael Jackson has a walk-on in the book, in an anecdote told by Hepburn about shooting "On Golden Pond" on location at Squam Lake in New Hampshire. Jackson, who would have been around 22 during the shooting of the 1981 film, had come to visit friend Jane Fonda, but she had to fly back to LA one weekend.Hepburn found the pop star in a room in the attic of an old house they were staying in. "The room looked like a hurricane had hit it," Hepburn recalled. "I said, 'Michael, clean up this place right now.' And he said, 'Yes, Miss Hepburn,' in a voice I could hardly hear." The singer simply piled up all his clothes on a chair. Hepburn recalls, "I said to him, 'Don't you ever do your laundry?' And he said, 'Someone usually does that for me.' "
Elizabeth TaylorPhoto: EPA
So Hepburn took him to a public laundromat in a woodsy New England town and showed him how to feed quarters into the pay washing machines.
- During an interview one morning at Jimmy Stewart's home, there was a knock at the front door. It was a neatly dressed young man with an Australian accent. "Mr. Stewart's doing an interview," an assistant told the stranger, until Stewart — in classic Jimmy Stewart fashion — breezily told him, "Come on in."The young man from Melbourne sat down and explained that it had been his lifelong dream to travel to Hollywood and meet his idol. Then the stranger added, "Sylvester Stallone." They all sat in puzzled silence. "And since you lived in Hollywood for so long, Mr. Stewart, I thought you could introduce me to him."
After politely explaining that he didn't know Sylvester Stallone, the endlessly affable Stewart had an assistant provide the man with the phone number for a publicist before showing him out.As he sat back down for his interview, Stewart said, "Well, he seemed like a nice fella."
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