![]() ![]() STORY: Renee Fleming Makes Rare Return to L.A.Bean was born Dallas Frederick Burrows in Burlington, Vermont, the son of Marian Ainsworth (née Pollard) and George Frederick Burrows. Sullivan was way cooler than people give him credit for.īack then we were told, “If your shoulder even brushes Pearl Bailey’s shoulder we’ll lose stations in the south.” So Ed Sullivan booked Pearl Bailey, threw his arm around her and said, “How you doin’, Pearlie May?” And all over the south stations went dark and then the switchboard lit up, “What happened to the Ed Sullivan Show?” “Well, he touched a negro.” “I know but it’s the Ed Sullivan Show.” And that was the end of that nonsense. It was Campbell Soup that did the blacklisting, not CBS. Among other things the blacklist was a protection racket because they made the networks clear every actor every week for 50 bucks. He did book me one more time and I was grateful to him. Luckily I got a play that ran for year, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter. Overnight, I went from being the hot young comic at CBS to not working. He said “I have to cancel this Sunday.” I had been on the show seven times. I could feel the blood draining out of my face. After I got elected to vice president of the New York local, I got a call from Ed Sullivan. The reason I got blacklisted was not because I was a communist but because I was horny for a communist girl and she dragged me to a couple of meetings. These were before the days you were blacklisted. Then he dismissed me with a wave of his hand. He looked at me for a moment and then said, “You stole my name!” And he meant it. Orson Welles himself came into the Blue Angel one night, summoned me to his table. The next night, I tried Orson Bean, putting together a pompous first name and a silly second name. One night in a club in Boston, I tried the name Roger Duck. What’s with the name? Big Citizen Kane fan? STORY: Jules Massenet’s Rarely Shown ‘Thais’ Arrives to L.A. I think people are afraid to be original. I don’t care how well they blow up the bus, it’s still the bus blowing up. They’re making f-ing Godzilla again, c’mon. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the film business, it appalls me that when I was 12 years old I was reading Spider-Man and Captain America. It’s a question of should this kid’s life be destroyed by him failing and not graduating? But then it turns out maybe the young professor’s life is going to be destroyed.Īnd isn’t there a question of post-modernism and homage versus stealing? We see it in sampling in music, in movies. Orson Bean: It’s a play that takes place in the world of academia and I play an old professor who’s mentoring a young professor, who in turn has a kid he’s accusing of plagiarizing on a term paper. The Hollywood Reporter: You play a college professor mentoring a younger professor who might be on the verge of a big mistake. Quinn, Medicine Woman in the ’90s, and more recently Roy McCluskey on Desperate Housewives.ĭuring a break in rehearsal, Bean talked about the blacklist, Richard Nixon, Orson Welles and Donald Sterling. He played cranky store owner Loren Bray on Dr. Through the years Bean has enjoyed consistent success, appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Twilight Zone and Broadway. This was before he got into show business, working New York City’s Blue Angel in the ’50s, along with acts like Nichols and May, Eartha Kitt and Harry Belafonte. “They never left the halls of ivy and went into alleged reality.” “I grew up in Harvard Square and I used to see guys in their 50s with green book bags slung over their shoulders and they were going for their third Ph.D.,” he laughs. Known early in his career for his collegiate look and Yankee roots, Bean didn’t grow up in academia but pretty close. Druckman’s drama takes a humorous look at ethics and ambition in the world of academia. When a young college professor ( David Clayton Rogers) accuses one of his students ( Austin Butler) of plagiarism, a mentor (Bean) steps in to make certain the young man’s academic life isn’t unnecessarily destroyed. PHOTOS: Blacklisted: Portraits of 7 Writers and Actors Who Defied Hollywood ![]()
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