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The kids at the Actor's Studio
used to get together...
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once a week, and we'd sit around
and listen to classical music.
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We were terribly serious people.
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Jimmy used to come into these parties.
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He'd come late.
He never said hello to anyone.
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After a while,
you'd look around, and he was gone...
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without ever saying goodbye to anybody.
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He didn't talk to anybody.
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He was, I think, desperately shy.
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So he was not easy to know.
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He clung a little bit to me...
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when we first got into Giant...
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just because I was a person
that he knew from the past.
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Actually, I spent more time with him...
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and got to know him better on Giant
than I had known him...
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several years before,
when we were students together.
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He needed companionship, but it was...
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very hard for him to ask for it...
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unless he had a motive...
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Iike "I'm going to take Elizabeth Taylor
away from Rock Hudson."
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Then he was driven...
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to talk and be social with her and so forth.
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Having finished shooting, Jimmy decided...
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that he wanted to take the car
up to Saugus and race it.
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Dad said the last conversation
he had with Jimmy was:
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"I know you're going up there.
Are you going to put the car on a truck...
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"and truck it up,
and then drive it to the track?"
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Jimmy said,
"Yeah, that's what I'm going to do."
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George Stevens, Jr. was in the Air Force.
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He was flying all around the country.
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I remember,
we used to be a bit concerned about this.
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We weren't really concerned
about Jimmy at the moment...
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although we were before the film started...
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because he was always racing cars,
racing motorcycles.