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On this page will be posted text excerpts and pictures from magazine, newspaper and Internet articles that contain information about Keith Carradine. The articles will deal for the most part with his professional projects, NOT his personal life (unless mentioned by him in one of the articles...). For more 'gossipy' details, go to the following pages newly-created by Akatama: Keith personal life chances - articles -, pages 1 & 2 (so far!)
This is a picture to look at when you are feeling low....an immediate rise in blood pressure guaranteed....
The first post to a link was submitted by registered user Atakama, and is from the New York Times article entitled:
Keith Carradine’s Long Road to ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’
By JOYCE WADLER
(Published: July 23, 2006)
KEITH CARRADINE, who made his name as the low-key folk singer the ladies could not resist in the movie “Nashville” some 30 years ago, stepped into “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” on Friday. As the role....involves the fleecing of ladies, the question for this 56-year-old actor is whether he has ever been a scoundrel..... “Sure,” says Mr. Carradine, who has a habit, when he speaks, of turning his head slightly away. “Y’know, I had my youthful indiscretions. I achieved some success at a very young age, and that kind of circumstance is fraught with pitfalls for a young man. I fell in any number of them.” A little later, more open, he’ll get to the episode that has none of the bad boy dash and charm of the scoundrel he will portray onstage. It is what he calls “probably my lowest moment as a human being.”.....The actor’s life is filled with ups and downs. But if one were to draw an EKG of the career of Keith Carradine, who returns to Broadway after an absence of 15 years, the ups and downs are as sharp as the beating of a frighteningly erratic heart: Stardom and an Oscar for the song he wrote for “Nashville” in ’75; a Tony nomination for his starring role in “Will Rogers Follies” in ’91; a four-episode turn as a melancholic and self-destructive Wild Bill Hickok in the current television hit “Deadwood,” in which his lines were few but his presence so powerful that he dominated the screen. There were also long periods of film work he would rather forget, and an acrimonious divorce in the 90’s.....Rough times? Black sheep moments? Who hasn’t had them, Mr. Carradine says. Life is messy.......If one could chart a life as one does a heartbeat — not stinting on things like finding that one’s phone is bugged and living in a trailer — how would that go? A long line is drawn across the center of a notebook, and Mr. Carradine enters into the game enthusiastically...... Perhaps Mr. Carradine should have two lines, one for personal life and one for professional? He complies......So where are Mr. Carradine’s lifelines right now? “I’d say right now my emotional life is at an all-time high,” Mr. Carradine says. “And my relationship quotient is at its peak. I’m back in New York and about to go into a Broadway show. It’s as good as it gets."
Pictures that accompanied this article:
Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
This next one was excerpted from a New York Times article entitled:
THEATER; Can Keith Carradine Lasso the Essence of Will Rogers?
This next item was also excerpted from a New York Times article entitled:
In a Dusty Texas Town, a Bizarre Tale Takes Shape
No infringement upon any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, or other proprietary rights of any party is intended.
This is a picture to look at when you are feeling low....an immediate rise in blood pressure guaranteed....
The first post to a link was submitted by registered user Atakama, and is from the New York Times article entitled:
Keith Carradine’s Long Road to ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’
By JOYCE WADLER
(Published: July 23, 2006)
KEITH CARRADINE, who made his name as the low-key folk singer the ladies could not resist in the movie “Nashville” some 30 years ago, stepped into “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” on Friday. As the role....involves the fleecing of ladies, the question for this 56-year-old actor is whether he has ever been a scoundrel..... “Sure,” says Mr. Carradine, who has a habit, when he speaks, of turning his head slightly away. “Y’know, I had my youthful indiscretions. I achieved some success at a very young age, and that kind of circumstance is fraught with pitfalls for a young man. I fell in any number of them.” A little later, more open, he’ll get to the episode that has none of the bad boy dash and charm of the scoundrel he will portray onstage. It is what he calls “probably my lowest moment as a human being.”.....The actor’s life is filled with ups and downs. But if one were to draw an EKG of the career of Keith Carradine, who returns to Broadway after an absence of 15 years, the ups and downs are as sharp as the beating of a frighteningly erratic heart: Stardom and an Oscar for the song he wrote for “Nashville” in ’75; a Tony nomination for his starring role in “Will Rogers Follies” in ’91; a four-episode turn as a melancholic and self-destructive Wild Bill Hickok in the current television hit “Deadwood,” in which his lines were few but his presence so powerful that he dominated the screen. There were also long periods of film work he would rather forget, and an acrimonious divorce in the 90’s.....Rough times? Black sheep moments? Who hasn’t had them, Mr. Carradine says. Life is messy.......If one could chart a life as one does a heartbeat — not stinting on things like finding that one’s phone is bugged and living in a trailer — how would that go? A long line is drawn across the center of a notebook, and Mr. Carradine enters into the game enthusiastically...... Perhaps Mr. Carradine should have two lines, one for personal life and one for professional? He complies......So where are Mr. Carradine’s lifelines right now? “I’d say right now my emotional life is at an all-time high,” Mr. Carradine says. “And my relationship quotient is at its peak. I’m back in New York and about to go into a Broadway show. It’s as good as it gets."
Pictures that accompanied this article:
Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
This next one was excerpted from a New York Times article entitled:
THEATER; Can Keith Carradine Lasso the Essence of Will Rogers?
He carries a rope. He chews gum. He scratches his head. He says, "Howdy."
This is a grand entrance?
In his day, the unassuming character who moseys on stage in "The Will Rogers Follies" was about as hot as a celebrity could get. Will Rogers was the planet's biggest box-office attraction, a columnist whose work appeared in 350 papers, the highest-paid radio star, the intimate of five Presidents, the day's most popular public speaker....It aint (Will's word, Will's spelling) easy to portray an American icon. The task has fallen to an actor who's been steeped in Americana, albeit mostly on blue highways. Keith Carradine drew the name role in "The Will Rogers Follies,"......"Will Rogers was the last public figure who was kind of unreservedly loved by the American people," said Mr. Carradine. "He was hilariously honest."
.....Keith has managed to straddle both Broadway and Hollywood. He's the third of John Carradine's five sons, four of whom are actors. Since the 70's he has just about had a lock on parts that call for rangy, inscrutable types in quirky movies...... In his current theatrical trail ride he is required to be the steady but humorous center of a swirling fantasy edition of the Ziegfeld Follies for an audience that has known neither Will Rogers nor vaudeville. He must convey the complexity of a man who starred in a Eugene O'Neill play, performed rope tricks better than just about anyone, and got his best laughs by commenting on the day's headlines. Mr. Carradine is also called upon to sing in the show, something Rogers himself did a piece of.....And if he hopes to lasso Will's humor, he has to strive not for belly laughs but to pluck the kind of responsive chord that moves a listener to nudge a companion and say, "Darned right."
Oh, there is also a need to convey a sense of distance from -- but never superiority over -- all the silliness one is involved in. That distance comes across as droll common sense. "Don't catch cold now," chortles Mr. Carradine as Will Rogers to the chorus girls....Mr. Carradine agreed to sit a spell between rehearsals and chew over his role.....His first word was "Howdy." Same as Will.
The fact is that Mr. Carradine vaguely resembles Will Rogers, although he's a little more angular. Yet his approach to this role has been anything but casual. He says he has given quite a bit of thought to the levels of meaning and irony the show requires.
"I'm an actor playing Will Rogers who is playing himself in the Follies," he said....Over the course of the conversation, Mr. Carradine dropped enough details of his own life to suggest he and the mythical Will have a powerful lot in common......Mr. Carradine said he had hankered for the role, but didn't clamor for it. "I was just quietly wishing for it," he said. The first take on him was that he didn't look like Will, was too young and wasn't funny. He says those who thought he wasn't funny only knew his roles, not him personally.....Mr. Carradine came to the audition prepared, having practiced rope tricks for two months beforehand......He also studied books by and about Rogers, struggling to grasp his essence. He found it in Rogers's broad humanity and fine intelligence. "It's nice to be able to play someone who's smarter than me," averred Mr. Carradine......Mr. Carradine says his style is to evoke a character's personality broadly rather than to concentrate on details like a bodily mannerism or twitch. Not to say he doesn't use a couple of bodily tricks to put him ahead of the game. One is to scratch his head, a gesture that says volumes of "Aw, shucks." The other is to chew gum, which says more of the same. Clearly his cinematic reputation as an outsider jibed with the Will Rogers persona. The guileless cowpoke in "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" comes to mind. "Whatever is ingenuous about this guy, I've had practice at it," he declared..... For Will Rogers, the line between pain and laughter was barbed-wire thin.
"You have to have a serious streak in you, or you can't see the funny side of the other fellow," he said.
read the article
This is a grand entrance?
In his day, the unassuming character who moseys on stage in "The Will Rogers Follies" was about as hot as a celebrity could get. Will Rogers was the planet's biggest box-office attraction, a columnist whose work appeared in 350 papers, the highest-paid radio star, the intimate of five Presidents, the day's most popular public speaker....It aint (Will's word, Will's spelling) easy to portray an American icon. The task has fallen to an actor who's been steeped in Americana, albeit mostly on blue highways. Keith Carradine drew the name role in "The Will Rogers Follies,"......"Will Rogers was the last public figure who was kind of unreservedly loved by the American people," said Mr. Carradine. "He was hilariously honest."
.....Keith has managed to straddle both Broadway and Hollywood. He's the third of John Carradine's five sons, four of whom are actors. Since the 70's he has just about had a lock on parts that call for rangy, inscrutable types in quirky movies...... In his current theatrical trail ride he is required to be the steady but humorous center of a swirling fantasy edition of the Ziegfeld Follies for an audience that has known neither Will Rogers nor vaudeville. He must convey the complexity of a man who starred in a Eugene O'Neill play, performed rope tricks better than just about anyone, and got his best laughs by commenting on the day's headlines. Mr. Carradine is also called upon to sing in the show, something Rogers himself did a piece of.....And if he hopes to lasso Will's humor, he has to strive not for belly laughs but to pluck the kind of responsive chord that moves a listener to nudge a companion and say, "Darned right."
Oh, there is also a need to convey a sense of distance from -- but never superiority over -- all the silliness one is involved in. That distance comes across as droll common sense. "Don't catch cold now," chortles Mr. Carradine as Will Rogers to the chorus girls....Mr. Carradine agreed to sit a spell between rehearsals and chew over his role.....His first word was "Howdy." Same as Will.
The fact is that Mr. Carradine vaguely resembles Will Rogers, although he's a little more angular. Yet his approach to this role has been anything but casual. He says he has given quite a bit of thought to the levels of meaning and irony the show requires.
"I'm an actor playing Will Rogers who is playing himself in the Follies," he said....Over the course of the conversation, Mr. Carradine dropped enough details of his own life to suggest he and the mythical Will have a powerful lot in common......Mr. Carradine said he had hankered for the role, but didn't clamor for it. "I was just quietly wishing for it," he said. The first take on him was that he didn't look like Will, was too young and wasn't funny. He says those who thought he wasn't funny only knew his roles, not him personally.....Mr. Carradine came to the audition prepared, having practiced rope tricks for two months beforehand......He also studied books by and about Rogers, struggling to grasp his essence. He found it in Rogers's broad humanity and fine intelligence. "It's nice to be able to play someone who's smarter than me," averred Mr. Carradine......Mr. Carradine says his style is to evoke a character's personality broadly rather than to concentrate on details like a bodily mannerism or twitch. Not to say he doesn't use a couple of bodily tricks to put him ahead of the game. One is to scratch his head, a gesture that says volumes of "Aw, shucks." The other is to chew gum, which says more of the same. Clearly his cinematic reputation as an outsider jibed with the Will Rogers persona. The guileless cowpoke in "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" comes to mind. "Whatever is ingenuous about this guy, I've had practice at it," he declared..... For Will Rogers, the line between pain and laughter was barbed-wire thin.
"You have to have a serious streak in you, or you can't see the funny side of the other fellow," he said.
read the article
This is from an old (unknown) magazine discussing KC's then) upcoming role in "The Godchild." Wow!
This next item was also excerpted from a New York Times article entitled:
In a Dusty Texas Town, a Bizarre Tale Takes Shape
Only on second glance does one realize that it's actually Vanessa Redgrave on the set and not a crew member or a male extra biding his time between camera setups. Her blond hair is short-cropped, unkempt and brushed straight back from her face, emphasizing her square jaw and her sharp, oddly masculine features. She is without makeup, dressed in overalls and work shirt, and she stands taller than most of the men nearby.
''Vanessa is in character from the moment she shows up on set,'' says the actor Cork Hubbert, who stars with Miss Redgrave, Keith Carradine and Rod Steiger in a film adaptation of Carson McCullers's story ''Ballad of a Sad Cafe,'' which is being shot 25 miles west of Austin.....The story, set in a dusty Depression-era mill town, centers on Amelia and her renegade ex-husband, Marvin Macy, who returns to town after years on a chain gang to exact revenge on Amelia for spurning him years before. The conflict builds to a brutal fist fight between the two.....Mr. Carradine had less than two weeks to prepare for his role as Macy. He joined the project after Sam Shepard unexpectedly withdrew, and since this is a typically cost-conscious Merchant Ivory project, Mr. Carradine is working for less than his usual fee.
As he winds up his six-week stint on the picture, the actor praises Miss Redgrave's daring in playing a mannish role. Her boldness ''encourages one to reciprocate,'' he says....Indeed, ''The Ballad of the Sad Cafe'' is wondrously complex and blatantly noncommercial. The allegorical tale centers on a strong-willed, powerful and enigmatic woman. Before her problems with Macy, Miss Amelia falls in love with a deformed dwarf named Cousin Lymon (Mr. Hubbert). As Amelia's love flourishes, her spirits lift the town, and her meager dry goods store becomes a cafe and the locus for the only social life the community has ever known. All of this goes awry, however, when Cousin Lymon falls in love with Marvin Macy.
This perverse round robin of obsessive, unrequited love ends with the battle between Amelia and Marvin in the cafe. Their fight is witnessed by the townspeople and is settled, unexpectedly and quite tragically, when Cousin Lymon intervenes on behalf of his beloved Marvin.....Mr. Merchant has proved in the past that film makers can afford artistic risks if they minimize financial ones....For his part, the producer says he wants no part of the high-stakes mentality that fears commercial failure. ''I think in this business, which is both art and commerce, you cannot have that fear,'' he says.....'I think Ismail likes the work at this level,'' [Mr. Carradine] ''.... I can appreciate that because there's a lot to like about doing it this way. There's a certain integrity that exists at this level of film making that you find increasingly rare when you get into those huge-budget movies.'' (Read the complete article on the New York Times website.)
KC on the cover of "Cowboys and Indians" magazine
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''Vanessa is in character from the moment she shows up on set,'' says the actor Cork Hubbert, who stars with Miss Redgrave, Keith Carradine and Rod Steiger in a film adaptation of Carson McCullers's story ''Ballad of a Sad Cafe,'' which is being shot 25 miles west of Austin.....The story, set in a dusty Depression-era mill town, centers on Amelia and her renegade ex-husband, Marvin Macy, who returns to town after years on a chain gang to exact revenge on Amelia for spurning him years before. The conflict builds to a brutal fist fight between the two.....Mr. Carradine had less than two weeks to prepare for his role as Macy. He joined the project after Sam Shepard unexpectedly withdrew, and since this is a typically cost-conscious Merchant Ivory project, Mr. Carradine is working for less than his usual fee.
As he winds up his six-week stint on the picture, the actor praises Miss Redgrave's daring in playing a mannish role. Her boldness ''encourages one to reciprocate,'' he says....Indeed, ''The Ballad of the Sad Cafe'' is wondrously complex and blatantly noncommercial. The allegorical tale centers on a strong-willed, powerful and enigmatic woman. Before her problems with Macy, Miss Amelia falls in love with a deformed dwarf named Cousin Lymon (Mr. Hubbert). As Amelia's love flourishes, her spirits lift the town, and her meager dry goods store becomes a cafe and the locus for the only social life the community has ever known. All of this goes awry, however, when Cousin Lymon falls in love with Marvin Macy.
This perverse round robin of obsessive, unrequited love ends with the battle between Amelia and Marvin in the cafe. Their fight is witnessed by the townspeople and is settled, unexpectedly and quite tragically, when Cousin Lymon intervenes on behalf of his beloved Marvin.....Mr. Merchant has proved in the past that film makers can afford artistic risks if they minimize financial ones....For his part, the producer says he wants no part of the high-stakes mentality that fears commercial failure. ''I think in this business, which is both art and commerce, you cannot have that fear,'' he says.....'I think Ismail likes the work at this level,'' [Mr. Carradine] ''.... I can appreciate that because there's a lot to like about doing it this way. There's a certain integrity that exists at this level of film making that you find increasingly rare when you get into those huge-budget movies.'' (Read the complete article on the New York Times website.)
KC on the cover of "Cowboys and Indians" magazine
Back to home page...
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Wow! What a great article. It has it all - portrays his personal and professional lives in tandem. I love his discussion about his daughter Martha. It fills in a lot of gaps. Thanks for sharing.
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