Walter Matthau: Diamond In The Rough | The Hollywood Collection

Walter was walking through a supermarket and a woman coming down the aisle the other way stops him and said you handsomer I've seen better but you've got it I don't know what it is but whatever it is you got it and then kept on good boy well she's right whatever it is Walters got it I never think of Walter as a leading man in start which he is I always think of him as the character actor who was so good that it automatically makes him a leading man and a star waters are very extraordinary tepee man he has a sparkle in his eye his a wonderful voice he has beautiful hands he's rough uh but he's beautiful and at the same time this is this extremely refined sensibility coexisting along with all of the ordinary passions that involved men and I think that's one of his gifts is that he never loses the base and he's always in touch with the the common man side of history son one little suggestion let's come down a little bit with the lights and up very softly with the music yeah hey do you think Mozart goes good with meatloaf yeah one of the things about water that always impressed me was his constancy water essentially remained the same dedicated growler who used humor to fend off the world and also to make points about our life and our lifestyle he to me over the years has always been the same Walter I think that's one of the things I still admire about the man I never knew that Walter was shy as a young man a young boy I never knew that he had a mother who didn't approve of him although knowing Walter I could guess guess that I was born October the 1st 1920 at the lying-in Hospital in New York City I was very young when I was born I was about nine months old my father I don't remember him ever living in the house he must have lived there for some time maybe a day or two but I don't remember him living in the house life was tough I remember my mother moving a lot she couldn't afford to pay the rent so she would live someplace for six months until they got tired of asking for the money for the rent so they evicted her she managed by working in sweatshops and she learned how to use the sewing machine she did ladies rayon underwear she always had a sewing machine in the house when I knew grandma Rose she was already a an older lady she had softened she no longer had to struggle her way out of sweatshops and fight for every every nickel my mother was very door she had every reason to beat door every once in a while the landlady would come in ask him for the rent I would imitate the landlady and she would smile so I did it a lot because it was nice to have rosy smiling I must have been six of seven and we would just go on the streets and we'd sell we had a sign ice-cold drinks three cents and I was able to make a dollar sometimes a dollar and a half for the week I give my mother 50 cents if I made 75 I'd give her 50 and I take the other quarter and I look on the roof where there are some boys playing with the deck of cards it was almost a sure thing that I would lose the 25 cents I came up to the roof with when I was 10 or 11 I was very skinny and not too strong I'd get picked on a lot got to be about 15 I was now 6 foot 3 I was almost natural for basketball becoming an athlete was always some way of obscuring anonymity somewhere in the area of 1935 friend of mine governor John selling cherry drinks in a Yiddish language theater on 2nd Avenue and 2nd Street in New York City I was able to earn close to $2 a week from there I was promoted to small roles on the stage and one player had an actual line one line that was good money because that paid 50 cents of performance sitting in the fit are waiting for the intermission where I get a chance to sell my cherry drinks on my three flavored ice cream bricks I would be transported to a realm beyond which there was nothing but great drama and beauty and interest I was always an introvert when you are a sensitive entity in a very harsh media you want to do anything to get out so that's what I did I developed powers imagination because I couldn't stand the harsh reality and the cold water flat my mother constantly being unhappy so you had to transport yourself to another realm we were on welfare for about three years and as soon as I graduated from high school I got a job in the Civilian Conservation Corps so that we can get off welfare that was a dollar a day $23 a month went home I was an ax man I chopped down trees piled up the logs fought fires I couldn't understand why they would have the audacity to interrupt championship football game to tell us about Pearl Harbor well later on I found out why my brother received his induction notice and since he was working and I wasn't I went to the draft board and I asked them to rescind his induction notice and I would join the army immediately because he was the only means of support for the family for my mother joined up that day was April of 15 1942 I wound up going to the 450 third Bomb Group which was headed for Europe I was there about five or six weeks after I was pretty good at the Morse code in the radio I took radio operators who were going into combat and I showed them how to work the radio we did the beacon bombing I was discharged in Sacramento California October 15 1945 and I went back to Reno to live because I had a girlfriend there she said to me get out of Reno because I can see that you're a little bit of a depraved gambler go to New York and go to some dramatic school or go to a writing school I wound up at the New School for Social Research because frankly it was close to Madison Square Garden where they played basketball and where they were prizefights Walter had come out of the army and on the GI Bill of Rights had enrolled at the the new school and was a student of urban scattered and was very well trained that was a very very good school and a very artistic school with very high and lofty goals and he was playing classical roles and had great ambitions to become a classical actor and the first summer I got a job in summer stock there was the Erie County Playhouse while I was at the dramatic workshop there was a very beautiful actress name of Geraldine Johnson we took walks and had some fun and she said to me what don't you think we should get married and I said sure sure yeah I think so absolutely no question about it so we got married 1948 our marriage lasted for 10 years we had two children Walter at a very young age started appearing on Broadway and was considered one of the finer younger character men in the business I went through a whole series of plays I did 18 plays on Broadway and mostly they were flops which was good for me because then I was able to go to the next play and learn more do different characters different parts you know if you get into a hit play you're there for three years you don't learn anything it never occurred to me but people would pay me to act though I never wanted more nine hundred dollars a week and never thought about movies because in order to be in the movies you had to be pretty or it so it seemed to me the first time I ever saw Walter Matthau was on the stage he was in a play directed by George Abbott and he was a leading man playing a romantic role and he was terrific seeing as how Broadway plays usually ran a week to three weeks you had to supplement your income doing something so you either sporting good salesmen and Macy's or you started getting work in the television field I was working practically every week in television Phil Coe Goodyear Playhouse studio one I must have done over a hundred television shows they were live shows I'm going to cut down a feed you're gonna feel dizzy sing up okay Jacobs heaven if they get many Linda knock him out I don't know most of the doc supplies went forward he hasn't much left I guess to invested ken I suppose all those years I'd see him every now and then someplace or other and I knew who he was although we had never met but we never got a chance to work together and I would see his work now and then and I'd say boy that guy is good no I don't move I mean we just take a little Jenny darling baby you were right you always are we could live like human beings I'm close to nature close to God if you will where every prospect pleases an only man's file we could see the trees and live with the earth to watch a button hold out there out there were each of us is closer to himself and every star is near to every blossom and the druggists are nice to you we were working together in a play called the wisteria trees with Helen Hayes Walter was playing a redneck his flavor came across as a sort of a judicial redneck and I thought it was extremely funny because I'm from the South myself but Walter Matthau impressed me from the very beginning as somebody of substance we who laugh tend to take ourselves seriously because we have a great responsibility to the world we laughes have to laugh at power I do it in such a way to go get our heads chopped off in will success spoil Rock hunter Jane Mansfield was the leading lady and her understudy was a girl named a Carol grace and I remember the first scene I come in she's having a massage my patter on the button and I say Rita baby how's it go the next day Jayne Mansfield shows up and we're rehearsing the same scene I said read about Rita baby how's it going later I said to the director George Axelrod he was also the writer I said listen why don't you let that other girl play that part because I think I'm gonna break my fingers on Jayne Mansfield's button because she has a very hard but he said well the other girls is a good actress but Jayne Mansfield is the one who's going to bring the people in who fit it I think the reason I married Carol was because she was just as crazy as I were my mother when she was once interviewed was asked did you know that your son was gonna become an actor she said oh yes he was always very nervous so it was with Carol I wanted to do that first time I saw you open the library you knew it I knew it I couldn't understand why you didn't because we were in the library there's only one rule in the library what's that no talkie what's a rule on the beach no talking my father and mother grew up same Island Manhattan my mother after she spent her early youth in a foster home was adopted by Charlie Marcus who was the co-founder of Bendix aviation and so she grew up in an environment of great wealth and privilege and my father grew up opposite and the Lower East Side it's kind of beautiful the way that these two people found each other and have been madly in love for over 40 years I always knew there was something about her that made me feel whole there was something missing before her I guess that's what love is Walter went to Hollywood I felt abandoned but I wasn't surprised that dodges did it you know so why not Walter Burt Lancaster saw me and will success spoil Rock hunter and he thought well as a fella who's no competition and look department he could play the villain we gave me the job cuz he was the producer and the director of picture called the Kentuckian dynamics star of From Here to Eternity Apache and Veracruz Burt Lancaster in the beginning because of his physical self because he was tall as he was dark he was simply perceived a cast as a villain breathtaking we photographed in CinemaScope print by Technicolor the Kentuckian because that picture I was able to get Kirk Douglas interested in me as another villain in a picture called the Indian fighter the first picture that I did where I wasn't a villain was a picture call a face in the crowd I was the good guy who could see the potential tyranny in this man who was bullying senators and congressmen looked like the next step would be the Oval Office Hollywood is peculiar place I would go out to do a picture and pick up some money and then go back to New York and pay my grocery bills pay the landlord let pay the shoemaker and it was just a place where they gave you money so you could pay your bills and do real acting on the stage I was cast of a French comedy a shot in the dark Donald cook who was playing the part of the banker who had been my lover had a heart attack we had to find a replacement for him and mr. Clurman who was directing the play said to me who do you think would be good for the part now Donald Cook was very suave and elegant and he was very cultured looking I said oh I think Brian Ahern or George Saunders would be two wonderful choices and then Harold said to me well what about Walter Matthau and I said Walter Matthau he's so rough and funny and an uncultured looking and I said I I don't see him in that part at all you played the most dapper debonair leading man I ever saw he was dressed at the ninth he looked terrific you know what the posture was there his shoes shined so much the audience could see their faces in the glare of it that was a different Walter I spoken in an exaggerated English accent and I walked like a combination of Charles de Gaulle and my mother having desperately to go to the bathroom and along with the elegant appearance of him with his smooth hair and beautiful suits it was very very funny the first the picture that I ever worked on representing Walter Matthau was lonely of the brave he was not a heavy he was very charming very interesting and I think that is one of his first major films that got the attention of the motion picture public and the and the Hollywood elite life can never cage a man like Jack Byrnes it never has for him everything was a challenge fences were to be cut horses would have been tamed a woman was to be loved co-starring Walter Matthau in the tense drama of one man's desperate defiance of a world he had never made wagon this bigger we got it right below us whoo-hoo rope ladder I'll climb down and get him in lonely of the brave Kirk and I don't have any scenes together he's a cowboy who's escaping from the law I'm a lawman and I'm rooting for Kirk the picture was received very warmly by the critics but it never really was a moneymaker which are two different things in Hollywood there are moneymakers and there are good pictures once in a while you'll get a good picture that's a moneymaker now there's a relaxed husband please probably think I can live incident of course you mean from then on her life was one round of enjoyment got Charles Ross's wife now that he's dead you're their only lead mr. Bartholomew if you're trying to frighten me you're doing a first-rate job it wasn't until I went to ground ins Chinese for a premiere of a picture called charade and when Walter came on the screen and I heard that audience reaction I knew that this was somebody that was special he's not just a very talented actor but he's got what they now call charisma on the screen he had the thing that that I loved that I react to he had honesty he had everything he said seemed to come right from the you know right from his his mind and his heart as it were in Morocco you've made each scene live and eat the things that surprised me positively you know that he did that I didn't expect things that I hadn't even realized were in the damn script one time I did the scene particularly well I said Walter you're going to become the greatest character actor in the business and he said character actor he said I'm going to be kicked character actor I'm going to be a leading man I saw Walter Matthau in a production of Guys and Dolls in the city center in New York which was a revival they said this man is gonna be a major star later on at a party they went over to him and I said I'm writing a play called The Odd Couple I said The Odd Couple hmm I said well how far along have you gone he said I just started I have two or three pages but you're the character and he didn't know me from Adam or Eve and I said I'd love to send you the play and he said well when you finished send me the play and I'll talk to you and I read it turned to my wife and I said here's a play that's gonna run ten years and he said I'll do the play in two conditions one is that I invest $10,000 in it and the other that I play Felix when I heard this I called Walter and said I'm glad you want to do the play and sure you can invest in it but why do you want to do Felix and he said because Oscar was too easy for me I could phone at him he says but Felix is acting and I said Walter please act in somebody else's play to Oscar mine in The Odd Couple that was practically never any in prophecy Neil Simon's words were so good that improvisation would have been blasphemy only once I disagreed with Neil that was Felix had a line what's the matter Oscar afraid of doubleheaders talking about the two girls upstairs well I thought that line was wrong for Felix and I told that to Neil and he didn't pay any attention to me one day I wrote a long letter signed it professes Sigmund von schmear farts or something like that professor of psychology at Berlin University and the next day he took that line out and to this day he says I knew was you who wrote the letter I was going to take the line out anyway we opened in New York and we got rave upon rave now the picture office started coming in Billy Wilder came to see me and just told me a story that he had in mind to write with me playing a certain character he was thinking of the fortune cookie I represent Perry Hinkle the cameraman was heard of the game today and well this may be of some interest eel I'm suing CBS at Cleveland Browns and a Municipal Stadium for 1 million dollars look at this the confession to the fifth vertebra on the narrowed is are you sure anything I'm wearing the tug I'm a barber Walter said to me early on he says how come either you took this part I said lemon you know you don't have the best part in this picture I haven't and he said well it's about time slick he said it's about time somebody saw you in a good part anybody had told me Harry would get involved anything like this if you could keep him in line I'd appreciate it very much how much were we not he'll be enough for everybody I'll do what I can that's a good kid yeah hey put on a little weight haven't you yeah I'd say about seven pounds how many mean you see one one cheap chiseling shyster lawyer who of all people had to marry my sister nice talk I'm handing you a quarter of a million dollars on a silver platter Matthau who hit out meat if I don't know it doesn't pictures he became the idea factor for lemon judges Purple's like Laura's heart math is the genius and the to go so well together so where no matter what you write if you if you have them if to hell you have to play a page from a telephone book they will make it screamingly funny the film went along was fine we were almost through when all of a sudden Walter had a heart attack a major heart attack the problem now was how long would it be before Walter could work again and what are they going to do should they replace Walter and reshoot the whole damn thing Billy said absolutely not under any conditions can we replace it there isn't anybody that could play the part like that we'll wait no matter how long it is Billy used him brilliantly and it was those movies with Billy that made Walter Matthau into the important star that he is and sure enough that's the part that I'm won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor when we started to do the film of The Odd Couple I had no apprehensions about water going from stage to film because he had already done a few films and then he did a really good picture fortune cookie with Jack Lemmon but Walter was the same Walters he was in the play he just was able to adapt his stage performance into a film performance he knew not to go too big he knew not to play to an audience which is what you're doing in the theater you can't help but do that last night I found you in a kitchen washing the floor shaking your head and moaning footprints footprints in say were yours well they were mine damn it I have feet they make prints what do you want me to do climb across the cabinets now I just want you to walk on the floor oh well I appreciate that I really all I'm trying to do is keep this place livable end it no I irritated you that much slave my pictures alone I was just trying to even him up I want him on even they're my pictures even up your own page Walters a team player because it's team playing that is of the essence in dramatic construction and progression he is basic in that set and he knows that it is the team that makes all of it happen it's a special gift of his I think to be able to bond with other men and he's generous so there's no competitiveness it was like silk I mean it was we were on the same wavelength obviously and having a ball and enjoying it and I've always said that it's not work it's it's it's like sitting down and having breakfast together and chatting about what's on the front page now kindly remove that spaghetti from my poker tape the hell is so funny it's that spaghetti is linguini now it's garbage I did not realize that it would become in anyway 18 since we've done seven or eight together we are a team I had no idea that that would happen nor did Walter I'm sure and Along Came Odd Couple and boom there we were subsequently came front page buddy-buddy the chemistry that happens with Walter and me is something that I really don't know how to explain we are not very much alike in many many ways certainly in our backgrounds and yet the minute we met each other there was a strong connection and it's remained that way I think it's indestructible it was so easy to talk to you could make jokes about him you could knock what he was eating he was easy to talk to it still is it was fun when Walter Matthau did the odd couple he worked with gene Sachs regime Sachs happened to be a client of mine and his next picture was cactus flower he was telling me that the actor that they wanted for the picture was Cary Grant and it's not going to work out who am I going to get and I said you know gene if you look underneath your nose you'll find the actor that you just worked with in the Odd Couple who's perfect for cactus flower and that's Walter Matthau in many biographies Walter Matthau was referred to as the Lithuanian Cary Grant so the idea of going from Cary Grant to Walter Matthau in the casting of cactus flower it's not a big surprise baby when I think that you were ready to die because of me you really do love me did you ever doubt it Julia not now why not no egos right next to Rick near everything well he goes been right next door before yeah but I had met him Mike Frank a [ __ ] was the producer and he asked me who I thought on a play the secretary he said what about Ingrid Bergman he said can she play the part I said can she play the part of course she complained he said would you like to work with her I said I'd love to work with Ingrid Bergman I said to myself Julian thank God at last you're out of it now you can go home to your wife I bounced down the stairs singing myself and I suddenly remembered I had no wife I got home that be nobody when I got back to the office you wouldn't be here either I'll see you hang one on it's marvellous done oh that's very nice dr. Stephanie dr. I think I'm gonna kiss you when will you know for sure very good for my ego think that this Ingrid Bergman's crazy about me trying to jump on me and Goldie Hawn is nuts about me Walter is a man who loves women that's will be with him forever and he makes women feel good and that doesn't stop with age he appreciates feminine beauty and women feel that and respond to that and no matter how old he is it's still very appealing Hollywood has been known in my youth anyway as a place where the beautiful people are the leads if you weren't beautiful or handsome you were a sexual no sex you're only worth is that of a helper to the beautiful person who's in the leading role now Hollywood went away from it and took ordinary looking people such as myself and gave us the leading roles it was the time of the anti-hero Hollywood was making people more believable the rise of the independent filmmaker parallels Walter's emergence if you had just the studio system going I don't think that a lot of those films would have been made and Walter would have missed some of those great parts one day it was talking Jack Lemmon and I said how you doing on your picture he said well I can't I can't get it back I can't get the backing for it because it doesn't have any viable star so I said well wait a minute I said once you give me a chance to do it the film was called touch it was a part of an older man and the kids were trying to get him out of the house into an old folks home because he was a pain in the neck as far as they were concerned it's the story of what happens to this older man it was a joy working with Walter the truth is that the first thing he said to me on the set the first day is you're not going to tell me how to act are you Charley Varrick I liked the picture I didn't like the script and I told the director Don Siegelman the dialogue his infant I'm silly it's unfunny he said or you can write dialogue you once you change it whichever way you like it my son Charlie was in it he was benign when it came to him doing his lines the director Don Siegel said I have to go make a telephone call Walter you you you direct his scene and there I was with my son my youngest son directing him and I kept telling him no no no don't try to be cute don't try to be interesting don't try to be funny just say the lines say the lines if you're cute interesting and funny it'll come out but don't lay it on and he looked at me and he said when is the real director coming back he adores his family his relationship with Charlie is certainly one of the great father-son relationships Walter had more love for that boy than almost anyone that I've ever seen I mean Walter would talk about his kid he would do everything for Charlie Charlie say hello to Australia hello Australia okay now can you hold the mic to Daddy for him to talk please papi oh how old are you no no no you how old am i I'm 47 but that's beside the point but you sit down because this man is going to ask the question but you hold the mic here you see I mean you see you don't have to speak into the microphone you have to go like this is rhykker just speak because this microphone can hear everything you're saying so look over there you see into the camera Charlie you have to sit down because you see if you stand up you're blocking my life you're not supposed to block my life because the people in Australia won't be able to see me but they'll see you see can can you people see Charlie I was asked to do sunshine boys by herbert ross and i said i didn't really like the play i said it was too depressing but now in I read the movie script I thought that too was depressing and I asked herbert ross who he had to play the other role said he had Jack Benny I said Jack Benny let me read that again and when Jack became ill it was Jack who suggested seeing his old friend George burn school Woodson semi-retirement I was crazy about George Burns and Fletcher seemed to work George won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor I think I was nominated for Best Actor I played my mother in it Willie Clark was my mother but Walter did was what not every actor would do his he went full out in the crankiness of the character Willie that he was playing Walter could have softened him and made him try to make him more likable he went the opposite way he was relentless in his disdain for his nephew it's a very interesting question in acting if you didn't have such a naysayer such a doer sullen bitter disappointed person in your life as your mother do you think you could have played the sunshine boys no the answer would be no not the same way Walter is a great comedian and a pain makes that possible I think I don't abide that what the alchemy is how much pain you have to put it in before you can be funny but the great of film comedian Charlie Chaplin certainly had a very very painful childhood watched his mother go mad why WC Fields you couldn't find more difficult lives as those people had and with Walter the same thing the pain you say you you've got to get away from it so you've got to laugh the funniest I ever saw Walter as a romantic figure was in California sweet in which he was happily married to Elaine May Walter was given a secret present by his brother that when Walter um came into his hotel room at the Beverly Hills Hotel he found this girl in his bed and his wife was coming on a later plane well the surprise his joy his eagerness his excitement his fear everything came out and when he was caught in the morning it was one of most hilarious things that I'd ever seen I left a wake-up call for eight o'clock this morning I did I didn't I should have called me anyway hey come on get up my wife would walk in any minute hey what's wrong with you you damn posed on me you all right what'd you do you drank an entire bottle of tequila with my wife done again and you're crazy I think what Walter was able to do with the role was a play that terrible decision in his mind about being unfaithful to his wife or just this one time and he played his age I can't wait anymore open the door I'll open the door here comes the door Marvin the opening of the doors coming what are you doing on the way to the door doors open ocean on your guitar you put great humanity to the role and credibility cuz it is a farce why don't you just lie down next to me and relax we don't have to make love lie down next to me for for happy now come on Walter Matthau is a pure actor he's never changed from the actor that he was when he was in the theater he did not do the Hollywood thing of socializing purely to be seen or to perhaps make context he's not caught up in the business he's really never had a publicist he doesn't worry about the box-office of his pictures and he doesn't worry about whose motorhome is bigger there is this other side to to Walter there was the man who is a connoisseur of music certainly a major fan of Mozart on the other hand you have the man who gambles and goes out to the racetrack look into that on anything I was not at all surprised you know that he might put an extra book on the ponies you know that's that's life and that the stresses of Hollywood can help you to do some strange things I met them first at a party in New York and Carole was hectoring him about his gambling obsession and she said did you gamble today and he said yes and she said I'm never going to speak to you again and he said but look what I won and he held up a hundred-dollar bill and she said I don't want to see it he said ok and lit a match to it and burned it and she thought that was funny I used to be a very heavy gambler I still gamble occasionally it's a way of getting away from the mundane things in life it reduces your consciousness to tiny dot and takes you away from that loose end feeling the feeling of non-completion the gambler if he wins thinks that's an omen a sign and he feels omnipotent until reality sets in and the vigorish thoughts to grind you down it wasn't until Dennis the Menace that we started to see Walter playing the 60 or 70 year old man that has led to his recent spate of pictures IQ grumpy old men rump your old men water in his objectivity of picking films to do has made the older character the actor that's supposed to be in his 60s or 70s a vibrant person he'd he go from Koch to the grumpy old men was really the enormous leap Hollywood suddenly woke up and realized she I guess you can have a love life after you're 50 years old when Walter for originally for example played the role of an old man in a movie called Koch he was viewed as a the role in the writing viewed the character as a pathetic victim that had to be disposed of somehow all of the later work he's an active and vital man it was not only Walter's fantasy come true to have a romance with Sophia Loren things are moving so fast what's wrong with fast I like fast I didn't plan on meeting somebody like you and I came to other shop oh look you're you're you're happy huh yes but that is what worries me what what do you mean I don't know what I'm talking it's beautiful thank you I just love the idea of me fooling around with Sofia Loren watching the two of them worried Walter as I sort of furthered my insight into the dynamics of the life that we live when we get to be senior citizens you ruin my refinished seats you broadcast my naked ass a half a Wabasha big deal tick-tock jump back to damn near killed my cow yes oh that pole yeah if my dog was as ugly as you I shave his and teach him to walk backwards oh very aerial thanks for God's sake timeout where are you going oh she loves me you're surprised one of the things that they constantly bring to us and remind us is that life itself is struggle and in order to be fully alive and to be strong you must grapple with what is in your environment and you need a friend whom you can grapple with you know a friend is not always there to patch you and console you sometimes what you need from a friend is a good swift kick I play a man in his eighties and as far as I can tell I'm not too far away from that the guy is very viable very active why we're sitting on a park bench is because society is at fault and that's why my guy goes in makes a lot of trouble I like Charlie working with me and Charlie Merrick and he worked with me at least the half-dozen other pictures and then in the grass harp he said to me how would you like to play judge Charlie cool and I said well if you think I can do it Charlie I'm in love to do it often times when we get to Hollywood we really cut loose from all our relationships and we hope like a hot air balloon to just rise as high as we can and if we rise we justify all of the things we do even the bad things by the fact that we have risen so high I think Walters approach is somewhat different one of the things that Walter seem to be happiest about was this chance to work with his own son and grasshop Walter has chosen to grow old but not necessarily grow old gracefully Walter is still the combatant Walter still has power in this punch the joy of being alive which is so important to the human spirit is appreciated by Walter my father looking back on my fifty years in the business it's very difficult to do because I don't really like to look back I enjoy where I've come from which is the ashcan and I like to be part of the world of the country I live in of the city at a time and I like what I see and I think in a few thousand years we'll be all right

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