King of Cool (2021)
Ron Marasco: Self - Author, 'Notes to an Actor'
Quotes
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Self - Author, 'Notes to an Actor' : Another element of Cool, which is sort of an X-factor, is a sense of mystery. There has to be something unknowable. There has to be an undealt card.
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Self - Author, 'Notes to an Actor' : There is another element of Cool which is luck and that - that indicates to people that even God thinks you're cool.
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Self - Author, 'Notes to an Actor' : Our idols. Our parents. They age. But, then something interesting happens. The declining person dies and they're no longer the declining person. In a weird way, you get them back. They return to being everything that they were.
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Self - Author, 'Notes to an Actor' : Even the people that don't know Dean Martin and might not traditionally be drawn to somebody of his era, of his genre, you can study him; because, I don't think there's anybody that captures or embodies all of the qualities of American cool the way Dean Martin did. He had all of it.