This writer's CV is...interesting.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_pg_1?rh=i…

@2
not sure what you mean, but if you mean his CV is 'interesting' for about 5 seconds while scrolling through the crap he's written before, I agree.

@3 Exactly that, much of his previous work looks to be low-rent quickie celeb biographies.

Lee Marvin Quip

Here's @1's 1970 Ebert interview link, for those who have unregistered set to "off". Crucial.

Michelle came up behind him with a Heineken. "Thanks, sweetheart." He walked back into the living room and sat down. "What was that we saw? ‘Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice’? What a piece of shit that was. Good performances, but what a piece of shit."

"I loved it," Michelle said.

"You go for all that touch-me-feel-me bullshit anyway," Marvin said. "Esalen. They take your money and teach you to put one hand on two nipples. Big fucking deal, baby."

http://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/who…

@7, I love Cat Ballou. It takes a real man, or two of them, to get away with camp ridiculousness at that high a level.

Marvin is one of the reasons I mostly detest modern pictures: there are no men in them. We've got pretty faces, and some of those pretty faces age in to handsome older gentlemen, but they're still dweebs at heart. I mean, c'mon, George Clooney? Lennie DiCaprio? Benedict Cumberbitch? Tom Cruise? These people do not have personalities, nor can they mimic them for the screen. Or maybe there's just nobody who can write an interesting role anymore.

Fans of Lee Marvin should not ignore his near-lookalike and similar tough guy James Coburn, especially his ridiculous spy-spoof "Flint" series (Our Man Flint and In Like Flint).

Here's some ridiculous pics of Marvin and friends at the Point Blank wrap party for your enjoyment: http://theeditroomfloor.blogspot.com/201…

I agree he was probably an asshole to be around in person, especially if he was drunk and PTSD all the time. But he was a damned good actor who could believably play a tough guy well into old age without the benefit of a steroid-enhanced body.

@8, I love those photos. Funny enough, after reading your complaint the one modern movie actor who sprang to mind is connected to Point Break director John Boorman: his son Charley's mate Ewan McGregor.

@8 What about Denzel?