Rod Steiger on Patton The Godfather + Depression - Later with Bob Costas 11/20/91 

who introduces the segments ?

@@Thadmotor1044 I do them to comply with the reshaping existing content standards for RU-vid

Bob does not get his due IMO

​@@ClevelandLiveMusicyeah like kick in ass

Such a raw person...no barriers

Isn't he great? One of a kind.

I'm 80 yrs old. I've always felt the same way as your late mother.

@@MrBILLSTANLEY That's great to know. I think you have good taste in cinema, sir. ;-)

Amazing story!

I couldn't have put it better myself.

The point you make, really concerns me...all of us are so deeply affected by the circumstances of our childhood!..Can any of us truly shed whatever pain we dealt with, and become someone unique?....Steiger really showed me what a fine individual he was.

@@curbozerboomer1773 I think these days it may be easier to work on releasing the unexpressed grief from childhood if a person becomes aware of this and before it destroys them. Dr. Gabor Mate has some good videos on how our childhoods affect us and cause addictions. We can shed the pain but it takes awareness and work on our parts. i'm grateful I live in a a time where I can do this and not keep reacting out of things that happened in my childhood. It took me 40 years on the planet before I started doing this.

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I agree....that final question was great

*must have been

100% agree...wish I had more Steiger

In the history of the Oscars, every now and then, "they" make some bizarre choices; Lee Marvin over Steiger, Ordinary People over Raging Bull....I've pondered this on occasion and have come up with no logical reason for these crazy decisions. And when I'm working, as a member of SAG-paying my dues, I actually have a say in the outcome-as a voting member. I just hope no one says this about any of the films/actors I've voted for!

Kudos to Bob Costas!...I wish he had kept doing these perceptive interviews...he is so good at it!...and so much more than a sports commentator.

Bon did not get many pauses to interrupt, but I agree he did a great job letting Steiger speak.

Ohhhh, I was with you up until that last bit. I don't think that anyone, not even Steiger could have bested Scott or Brando, in those respective roles. Imho. He sure was a tremendously talented actor, though. The Pawnbroker still blows my mind and he should've received the Oscar. I like Lee Marvin a lot, but c'mon!

Rod Steiger is one of the all time greats but l would as they say gently disagree. Scott and Brando gave 2 of the best 10 performances of the 20th century.

You know what? I agree with you. Can you imagine him in the Godfather? He coulda been a contender.

It sure seems when it erupts there is no containment

Let me take a wild stab at it. Depression is when you go to bed every night and hope you don't wake up, it's when you have asked yourself "why can't I be happy for the 100th time. It's putting on a happy mask for your family, any remaining friends you still haven't purposely pushed away, and for work. It's when you have the perfect wife who you adore, your a couple that never has had an argument or raised a voice, who strangers in restaurants tell you that you make the perfect couple, good kids who you adore, a nice home, are respected by both you boss and and the people that work for you, are very good at what you do, are well off financially and yet you are terrible sad. Depression is hating yourself for being some kind of weak person for not being able to shake it. It's went you have zero hope for the future anymore, you look forward to nothing. It's when you tried changes of diet, religion, exercise, running, a counselor, meds and nothing works. When you no longer want to take part in any of your hobbies or interests because you find no enjoyment in them. Depression is when you come up with a real good suicide plan and find great comfort in the fact that you can check out of life real quick, anytime you want if it gets to bad. Depression is coming to the point where you learn to accept it and just exist, an empty shell compared to what you were many years before. Did I come close?

I like, that he accepted that his chances of being the "hot", leading man would be slim...so he became a totally consummate actor, for real!

*The Godfather

Glad you enjoyed! Many do not

*insight

*in every role *in a very synthetic world

My Lizzo costume is coming

TheEleatic he is not Jewish.

@@barflytom3273 Must have been his performance in The Pawnbroker that fooled me.

He was a meat-puppet for jew agitpropagandists

Who cares if he is, would of been interesting seeing him in that part.

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