Mary Tyler Moore : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Mary Tyler Moore / Alan Light
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| 説明 | 39th Emmy Awards - Sept. 1987- Permission granted to copy, publish or post but please credit "photo by Alan Light" if you can.MY MEMORY OF MARYCloris Leachman said when Mary Tyler Moore passed away – “The picture we all have of her, that’s how she was — sweet, kind, so tender, so delicate. She was America’s sweetheart.”Well, not quite. Mary could also be distant, even cold, and tough as nails. That the side I saw.The first time I saw her in person was at the 1987 Emmy Awards rehearsals at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. Rehearsals are always the day before the telecast, and stars show up dressed casually to run through what they are going to do. Yes, those inane comments are rehearsed! The seats in the auditorium are 99% empty except for a few people scattered about here and there, waiting for their turn to rehearse.At the 1987 rehearsal I took a picture of Betty White, then of a very friendly Bob Newhart who was sitting by himself, and another of Tracey Ullman who also said yes when I asked if I could take a picture of her. I always asked permission first if was a posed photo of one or two people. Nobody ever said no – well, except for Billy Crystal (repeatedly) later on …but Mary Tyler Moore, she was the first.Mary was sitting with another person and I went up to her and asked if I could take her picture. With a bit of a frown, not that famous “smile,” she said “What’s it for?” I said “Just for me, for my album.” “No," she said, and turned away. In her defense, perhaps she felt she wasn’t photo-ready. Maybe she was in a bad mood, something on her mind. And I told myself, the reason I ask is to get a yes or no. I got a no this time. Okay. Not the Mary I expected.Cut to the next year, to the 1988 Emmy Awards rehearsal. I saw Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore talking together in the lobby of the theater. My friends and I stood near them as they batted ideas around what to say during their part of the telecast the next day, when they would appear on stage together to present an award. I heard her tell Dick that she wanted no improvisation because that terrified her. She wanted everything nailed down and rehearsed. She asked Dick if he had ever done Saturday Night Live. He said he had been asked many times but had never been able to do it. Mary said that show was a nightmare because it was live and just about a minute before each sketch they would hand out lots of script changes.I told a friend that I would love to get a picture of myself with Dick and Mary but that I was apprehensive about asking Mary again after the curt rejection she gave me the previous year. So I paused, and of course waited until they finished talking. I’m not about to interrupt. It looked like they ended their conversation, so as they began to walk away together I approached Dick Van Dyke and asked if he would pose for a picture with me. He smiled and said he would be glad to. I sort of mumbled, “I wonder if Mary would pose with us too….”-hoping HE would ask Mary to join us. If he said to her “Mary, come and join us” then I wouldn’t have opened myself up to another rejection and she could hardly say no to Dick…. but he didn’t. Maybe he didn’t hear me.My friend said later that I should have seen Mary’s face when she heard me ask Dick for a picture but not her!A little while later Mary and her husband were walking past the seats my friends and I were sitting in when she pointed directly at me and said to her husband in a loud voice “Oh there he is!” I felt like I had been shot, and my friends jumped. We soon realized she was ostensibly pointing to a posterboard that had been placed in the seat in front of me. It had the name of a person who was going to sit in that seat during the telecast. (They do that so the roving cameramen can practice "shooting" them; they are Emmy nominees and if they win, cameramen should learn where they are sitting).The name on the posterboard, I saw later from a photo, was John Tinker, the son of her ex-husband Grant Tinker. I saw Mary at the Emmys at least two other years, in 1993 and 1995. One of them, and I can’t remember which, included a tribute Mary Tyler Moore, whose beloved CBS show ran from 1970 to 1977. My friends and I saw the rehearsal of this segment at the rehearsal the day before the telecast. The tribute included film clips from the MTM show and videotaped clips of co-workers saying how wonderful Mary was. At the end, to great fanfare, Mary herself walked out on stage, dressed casually because this was just the rehearsal. She was obviously very choked up with emotion about what she had just seen, dropping a tear. At times couldn’t get her words out without her voice cracking with emotion. My friends and I were very moved by it.Cut to the next evening's telecast. The tribute begins, this time live nationwide on CBS. The film clips roll, then the clips of co-workers saying how wonderful Mary was. Then Mary walked out again to the swell of music and great fanfare – and she performed IDENTICALLY to the rehearsal! She got choked up at the very same words, dropped a tear at the same spot, her emotions identical to what we thought was spontaneous at the rehearsal the day before. My friends and I looked at each other as we slowly realized this was a rehearsed performance. Of course… She’s an actress. And Mary doesn’t like improvisation. Instead of being moved again this time, we felt rather cynical. Gullible us. That’s show biz!Yet in 1995, holding the Emmy she had just won for some TV movie, she posed for pictures for me at the party after the telecast. She looked radiant.So those are my memories of Mary Tyler Moore. I’m sorry they aren’t nicer. Sorry, Cloris Leachman, but I never got the opportunity to see the sweet, kind, tender and delicate Mary. I’m sure Cloris saw a different Mary, working with her, than I did as a fan. The impression I was left with is that Mary was distant, cold, rehearsed, and tough. As we now know, she struggled with alcoholism and had much tragedy in her personal llfe. You have to be tough to make it in Hollywood. She made it after all. |
| 撮影日 | 1987-09-01 00:00:00 |
| 撮影者 | Alan Light |
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