{"id":10257,"date":"2019-10-28T12:02:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T19:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10257"},"modified":"2019-11-06T12:05:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T19:05:39","slug":"robert-evans-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/28\/robert-evans-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Evans Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2019\/film\/news\/robert-evans-dead-dies-chinatown-producer-1203385589\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from Variety (opens in a new tab)\">from Variety<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Robert Evans, \u2018Chinatown\u2019 Producer and Paramount Chief, Dies at 89<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><em>By<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/author\/richard-natale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\"> RICHARD NATALE<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/author\/carmel-dagan\/\" target=\"_blank\">CARMEL DAGAN<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Robert Evans Interview 1977 (Godfather\/Chinatown\/Gatsby) Brian Linehan&#039;s City Lights\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/olidZJKcYZc?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/robert-evans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Robert Evans<\/a>, the Paramount executive who produced \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/chinatown\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chinatown<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/urban-cowboy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Urban Cowboy<\/a>,\u201d and whose life became as melodramatic and jaw-dropping as any of his films, died on Saturday night. He was 89.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though Hollywood history is filled with colorful characters, few can match the tale of Evans, whose life would seem far-fetched if it were fiction. With his matinee-idol looks, but little acting talent, Evans was given starring roles in a few movies and then, with no studio experience, was handed the production reins at Paramount in the 1960s. When he left the exec ranks, his first film as a producer was the classic \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2019\/film\/columns\/robert-evans-rip-the-producer-who-stayed-in-the-picture-1203386453\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Chinatown<\/a>,\u201d and he followed with other hits, like \u201cMarathon Man\u201d and \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2015\/tv\/news\/jim-belushi-cast-in-foxs-urban-cowboy-pilot-1201577368\/\" target=\"_blank\">Urban Cowboy<\/a>.\u201d Eventually, his distinctive look and speaking style turned him into a cult figure, and he had the distinction of being the only film executive who starred in his own animated TV series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2019\/film\/news\/robert-evans-dead-dies-chinatown-producer-1203385589\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at Variety (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at Variety<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Variety Robert Evans, \u2018Chinatown\u2019 Producer and Paramount Chief, Dies at 89 By RICHARD NATALE\u00a0and\u00a0CARMEL DAGAN Robert Evans, the Paramount executive who produced \u201cChinatown\u201d and \u201cUrban Cowboy,\u201d and whose life became as melodramatic and jaw-dropping as any of his films, died on Saturday night. He was 89. Even though Hollywood history is filled with colorful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}