前旧金山市长威利布朗喜欢电影。
“The only thing that rivals the movies for me would be football,” Brown told me. “Baseball, basketball, tennis, golf — I see all of those things. But the movies represent the best for me.”
而且，好的电影爱他。The politician — who served as the city’s mayor from 1996 to 2004, and speaker of the California Assembly from 1980 to 1995 — has appeared, usually as himself, in films such as “The Godfather: Part III” (1990), “George of the Jungle” (1997), “The Wedding Planner” (2001), “The Princess Diaries” (2001) and most recently the“Nash Bridges”电视电影。
Approaching his 88th birthday on Sunday, March 20, Brown doesn’t seem tired of showbiz just yet. To commemorate his milestone day, I talked by phone to Brown in his car traveling back from Sacramento about his lifelong love of film.
问：首先，你回到电影院吗？
A：不我没有。自大流行以来，我觉得我最多可能见过三四个。我坦率地害怕坐在可能或可能不会接种疫苗的人旁边的电影院，或者可能或可能不会戴面具。所以我已经明确放弃了我生命的乐趣。
问：你认为你感到安全吗？
A：我现在已经弄清楚了：我将被允许（一个问题）被允许坐在那些残疾人的空间上。（笑）他们在他们的任何一方都没有。我认为这可能有效。如果那样，我会开始回去。
问：你是电影情人多久了？
A：我的一生。即使我住在德克萨斯州Mineola，那就是我来自哪里。在Mineola，您将在星期五和周六，曾经是镍。那是一毛钱，那是一个季度。你看到了Buster Crabbe，以及所有那些他们所做的那些西方人，我每周都这样做了 -every周末。
问：这就是你被作为一个年轻人所吸引的东西 - 像Buster Crabbe和Westerns这样的东西？
A：Yes. “The Lone Ranger” … I can’t remember them now, but I knew the names of all the horses!
问：当你做了Chronicle专栏时，你曾经审查过电影。这是怎么来的？
A：好吧,开始告诉我t(纪事报》编辑)hat, “All we want you to do is write about what you do, who you are, who you talk to, where you go, etc.” And movies are a big deal for me. They’d ask, “Did you see movies?” Yes, I saw movies. “What did you see?” That’s how I started writing about it.
问：顺便问一下，你知道，当纽约市的ED Koch停止成为市长时，他开始在YouTube上审查电影？
A：No, I didn’t know that.
问：Is this like a mayor thing?
A：Obviously, it’s adisease! They think they’re movie critics.
问：But you’ve actually been在电影。
A：我一直在几部电影中，我很高兴很多。我一直以为我可以采取行动，让我们从那开始。（笑）有些人会说，“是的，你是市长和你是行为。“但我一直以为我有一些娱乐能力。
我无法唱歌 - 他们不会让我在Mineola的教堂里唱歌，我只能是一个迎来的。我无法播放任何乐器。但在电影中起作用，这始于高中和大学和大学的戏剧。
When I got to be a legislator, I ended up appointing people to the state Film Commission. In that capacity I met people who were making movies, and with regularity they’d say, “You could do a walk-on.” I became friendly with Joan Collins, with George Hamilton, and I knew Francis (Ford Coppola) really well. I became friendly with Sam Jackson, and they were always trying to drag me in. The guy that在sistedthat I do this was唐约翰逊. He absolutely said, “There’s a role for you.”
问：你在谈论最近的“纳什桥梁”的地方 - 扰流者警报 - 你在大麻店买锅？
A：（笑）是的。你看见了吗？
问：这真的很有趣。你有没有拒绝任何东西，因为你认为这是不合适的？
A：I was never offered. But I clearly would not participate in any movie that involved any sexual stuff. I would not participate in any movie that killed people. The killing of people in a brutal fashion, I couldn’t pull it off.
问：旧金山有其他市长 - 虽然市长伦敦品种最近是“矩阵：复活”。但我从来没有看到电影中的艺术agnos。
A：（笑）我要告诉艺术;我打算去午饭。
问：I’ve heard about your famous lunches. But who’s your favorite person to go to the movies with?
A：你知道，伙计们会打电话给我，试着和我一起去看电影，而且没有办法。我不会跟我一起带走任何人。当电影跟我说话时，我不希望任何人跟我说话。
The one person I went to the movies with, and I only did it one or two times — Herb (Caen) wanted to go to the movies with me. He knew kind of my social schedule, and he’d go to the movie and it was funny, because if he didn’t like the movie, he would leave halfway through the movie! There’s no movie that I paid for that I’m not going to see to the end, even if it’s terrible. I want my money’s worth.
问：But sometimes you’re paying to get tortured. You realize that, right?
A：That’s right. But I’m so eager that if I’m going to criticize it, I want to do it with accuracy!