Cool Hand Lou

As a stage actor Lou Antonio has performed in 70 plays and has acted and directed in more than 200 hours of television. He is co-artistic director of the Actors Studio and teaches acting and directing there.

Table of Contents


Preface

Part One: New York, Mostly

 1. When You Begin a Beginning

 2. The Cement City

 3. Some Strasberg, and Then Some

 4. Dribbles and Drabs

 5. A West Side Story

 6. Selling Soap

 7. Getting In, and At the Actors Studio

 8. The Fervid Years

 9. Overseas and Back Again

10. Garson Kanin

11. From Burt Lancaster to Summer Stock

12. 38 ­At-Bats, Three Strikeouts

13. From Streisand to Paxinou to Olivier

14. Two Misses and a Hit

15. Elia Kazan

16. From a Naked City to Andorra

17. Franco Zeffirelli

18. Keeping Busy Until Dewhurst

19. Faustus, Julie and Josh

20. Not-So-Lovely Hula Hands

21. Cool Hand Luke

22. Hello, Hollywood… Hello, Anyone There?

Part Two: Hollywood

23. Shatner, a Bear, a Nun

24. Jerry Lewis to Coppola

25. A Mixed Bag

26. Who Has the Power, Who Has the Pain?

27. Natwick and Hayes Up, Garner on Deck

28. Classes at Universal U

29. Rabbi Problems, Rich Man Problems

30. Dog and Cat Are Neutered

31. Cappelletti, Sand and Subways

32. Trashing Trash with Rock Hudson

33. Give Thy Thoughts No Tongue

34. Patty, Ricky, Sugar, Booze

35. I Got Plenty of Nothing

36. Legends

37. E.T. and Burton on Broadway

38. Lee Remick, North and South

39. Peter the Great, Dunaway Less

40. Candice Bergen: Motherhood to Madam

41. Academy Award Winners and Whiners

42. In to Africa

43. Bean Balls, and Still at Bat

44. Sonia Braga, Birthing and Breeding

45. May the Pod People Perish

46. Sour Power

47. They’re Either Too Young or Too Old

48. Cassidy Catches Ledger

49. Shatner, Bergen, Fox—Doing It

50. In and Out of It, Out and Into It

Index