Hollywood producer Robert Evans is among the last of a dying breed of larger-than-life Tinseltown types who once ran the town their way.
Best known for famed flicks like Chinatown and The Godfather, Evans’ swinging style has earned him as much notoriety as his silver screen credits.
Evans, who celebrates his 80th birthday this week, is now something of a cult figure thanks to a documentary by Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter.
After seven wives and some rather expensive appointments with a plastic surgeon he’s still going strong, the classic Hollywood player serving as a role model for young bucks like Brett Ratner.
Producer Robert Evans leaving his Beverly Hills house in a Mercedes convertible in 1968
Indeed, in Peter Bart’s new memoir Infamous Players, Evans is portrayed as a risk-taking, cocaine-fueled Don Quixote, an image he still manages to project into his eighth decade.
To help say happy birthday, we present this 1968 snap of Evans leaving his Beverly Hills abode for the Paramount lot in his Mercedes-Benz 280 SL convertible.
He still holds court in the same house, doing business in bed or by the pool, attended by a genuine English butler, as he has for the past 50 years.
That’s what we call staying power….
- Posted June 30, 2011
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