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Actor Steve Martin and cartoonist Harry Bliss on new cartoon memoir

Mar 17, 2024
my table talk I love him too Steve Martin, he does adorable things too, yes he has starred in dozens of movies over the years, but now he says he is focusing his talents elsewhere including television. He also teamed up with the famous

cartoon

ist who would become Harry Bliss. kind of new

memoir

called I love this title, number one is running through my life in movies and other entertainment, so we met up with a couple at Martin's apartment in New York City the other day to spend an afternoon drawing stories behind the scenes. and yes, playing a little banjo, we start with the

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s or what the duo call distractions, could you read the one about the centipede in the shoe store?
actor steve martin and cartoonist harry bliss on new cartoon memoir
Oh, well, that's easy to read, okay, uh, oh, I mean, a hundred foot centipede walks into a shoe store and the shoe salesman just says uh-oh so there's this one about a cat, go ahead and look for me especially under the chin and belly area, and my favorite might be the baby. I love the baby. How would you read that? Steve. It's a couple like doting on the baby and the baby just thinks that you own you, didn't you feel that when your daughter was born absolutely, yes she was born in charge, yes we should explain the title because I always worried about the title because it sounds arrogant and the picture on the cover looks a little seems a little arrogant Mr.
actor steve martin and cartoonist harry bliss on new cartoon memoir

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Barton that's how I normally walk when you're making a movie Outdoors on location instead of saying you know uh Tom Cruise is coming to the set they'll say Steve Martin whatever they say comes according to the call sheet one two three four then Tom Cruise would be number one so they would say that number one is walking so that the public does not go Tom Cruise yes, with me they go Steve Martin so I I am curious to know how The partnership between the two of you arose. You called him? Did he call them? Were you old friends?
actor steve martin and cartoonist harry bliss on new cartoon memoir
We were introduced uh like a blind date uh in a way oh we didn't meet I said one of the The best thing about working with Harry is that we never see each other so he lives in New Hampshire and I live here and, no, we were met by the New Yorker. I grew up watching SNL, so, the blue one, her, Aykroyd, Chevy Chase and that whole cast and Steve Dirty Rotten Scoundrels there are certain scenes in Steve's movies. I haven't really told you much about this over the years we've been doing this, but there are scenes that are some of the funniest movies I've ever seen.
actor steve martin and cartoonist harry bliss on new cartoon memoir
I've seen it, I've seen it sometimes in movies. Look doctor, he is so happy that he is crying. I always think of a film career, it's not like a bunch of movies, but a bunch of clips, you know, when you're on TV or something they show. clips, so you have to have some really good clips and Steve Martin has no shortage of good clips, those are not foreign pillows and don't forget to put on the condom, how did you decide which movies you were going to include and how? I was going to do it, go first, Mr.
Martin, please, well, choose it based on the stories you have, so if Steve tells me an anecdote about Roxanne and tells me that it was filmed in British Columbia in this city, I will look for the city and I'll do some research on what it was like and he can draw Jackie Onassis's apartment. Yeah, you know, and I don't have to describe it because you could. I mean, I can tell you what was there, but the drawings are so. complete and complete, you know what I'm learning about this book, he gives you antidotes and then it seems like you have to do a lot of research homework to achieve it.
I'll jump because it's not easy. remember these stories, well you have to sit there at night and you say, oh yeah, let's talk about the Three Amigos, that iconic image of The Three Amigos and then you make sure to say this is a ladder, so you're not even sitting on horses, Steve. I know a horse can be tricky, they pull you off the horse, you're in trouble, yeah, so for the photographs and the close-ups we would sit on the stairs and then try to climb them, which was sad and one of my favorite stories. the book is Paul McCartney in music, it's an absolutely true story, every detail is true, okay, prepare it for us.
I was working with a producer. He was making one of my Bluegrass banjo albums and had written all the songs and the producer Tony Triska is a great banjo player. He said: You know who I hear singing this song. I said who. Paul McCartney said. I write to him and say. Know. My producer thinks you should sing this well. I said because I don't have a good voice and I said look let me make a demo. I'll sing it on the demo so you can hear how the song goes and I'll send it to you. I got a call and he said, "You know, I heard the demo," he said when you said you couldn't sing.
I thought you were being humble and he said, "Okay, I'll do it." He was the loveliest gigantic star I have ever met. I met now, it was time to see the talented Masters in action. This is one of your own compositions, what shall we call it? Gail, right? She has a ring named Barbara Walters. Harry Bliss. It was inspired by my figure of eight. I like crazy things. Alright? Okay, Steve, you have to invent a cat. Which is the title? It sold for less than a million, so I don't like it. You said you lost interest in movies at the same time movies lost interest.
Tell me what I mean. You know, movies started changing and the style became different, they became epic, you also know, I have a family now, so it was more about family life than the love of movies because it seems like you still love movies. I love movies. but I also love television. I also love just the murders in the building, but to care about a murder mystery you have to care about the person who was murdered, which is Tim Kono. You know, he's just a different kind of thing and the quality changed. Bliss says. This about his partnership with Martin we always agreed that as long as it's fun and it doesn't feel like work because I love to draw, yeah, and it's Steve and he's fun and I love listening to him, uh, we'll keep doing it. and Harry, let's talk about Harry because he is a legendary

cartoonist

, he has written and illustrated more than 20 children's books and creator of a couple of dozen New Yorker covers, but Stephen, the banjo, was in another room, it's not like before.
I just lay there and when I was walking I said, "Oh, Steve, could you play the banjo?" He really doesn't think it's necessary for the story. I don't want to be that guy over here, listen to me, but I could just be a little funny, he says. I don't really want to do that, but humiliating yourself is very effective, yes, so he ended up doing it, he says, and now the music will have to match. I'm going to let the team figure that out and the team figured that out very well. Shout out to the team, yes, we put it together Matt Kugelman, great editing because it's hard to do.
He was talking about the importance of movie clips that are funny. He has many clips from movies that he makes. It's hard to choose your face. He's a legend, but you know what he says about his movies that you have to make at least you have to wait at least 10 years to see if it's really good, does it have legs? Oh really, that's according to Steve Martin and he says what you have to do. At least 40 movies to get five good ones, so there's a lot of wisdom about his thinking in the book. It is very well done.
The illustrations are great. The book is very 40 40 and does five good ones. A lot of directors are flying around this morning wondering if you're one of the five, yes, there's certainly a question, number one, number one is walking, don't you like that title, it's a great moment, number one, you know? , that's what we say when you walk into the studio, no, that's not at all what they say they say she's here appeared again number one she's walking she's already on sale wherever you want to buy your books

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