1:06:00
I've been really paid my remuneration
for whatever I've done. That's worth years.
1:06:04
Bob, aside from Get High on Yourself,
what are your future projects?
1:06:09
I have The Cotton Club which I'm supposed
to start in June. A project I love.
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Ain't as important as
Get High on Yourself, though.
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Being yourself
1:06:34
Paramount had no interest
in my next picture, The Cotton Club.
1:06:38
So in May of '82, I flew to the Cannes Film
Festival to secure independent financing.
1:06:43
Sylvester Stallone, then the biggest star
in the world, had agreed to play the lead.
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And I was there to announce it.
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I was supposed to meet 400 distributors
on a Monday morning at 9 a.m. For breakfast.
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I get a call at 2:00 that Monday morning,
from..."Hello, Bob, this is Sly."
1:07:01
And I said, yeah, Sly. He said, "You know,
Bob, I don't think I wanna do the picture."
1:07:07
So I said, I don't quite understand.
I mean, we have a contract.
1:07:11
"You don't understand, Bob. I don't like
the script." I said, well, you worked on it.
1:07:16
I said, what is it, Sly? He said,
"I'm not getting paid enough for it."
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To make a very long story short, and a very
long conversation, rather bitter, short...
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...he backed away. Now, here I have 400
of the top buyers in the world...
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...and I have no star,
and I have a half a script.
1:07:36
I said, ladies and gentlemen,
I'm going to show you a poster.
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But I wanna tell you that the film
will not be any better than the poster.
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So if you don't like the poster,
please don't buy the film.
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And I unraveled a poster, which I had
worked on for eight months with two artists.
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And I said, this is the poster.
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And I passed it around, and they all
looked at it. And it says the whole story: