After listening to the Theme Time Radio Hour episode — Cars… again last night, I got to watching the film Bonnie and Clyde again. In this episode Bob Dylan receives an e-mail asking if he likes the movie Bonnie and Clyde —
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Painting by Bob Dylan. Rainy Night in Grand Forks. 2021.
https://x.com/nightly_moth/status/1893093462557245649
Drawing by Bob Dylan (~ 2016). A scene from Bonnie and Clyde.
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From the Q&A with Bill Flanagan. March 22, 2017
Exclusive to bobdylan.com —
Warren Beatty says he wanted you to play Clyde Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde. Did that offer get to you?
No, the offer was sent to my manager’s office and we weren’t speaking; we had had a falling out. I didn’t get any mail or offers that were sent there.
You could have had some love scenes with Faye Dunaway – any regrets?
Nope.
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.. The previous year — May, 2016 — Museum of the Moving Image
“Warren Beatty Jokes About Nobel Prize ‘Possibility’ In Light of Bob Dylan’s ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ Connection”
“When the Oscar winner finally took the stage at the end of the evening, he indicated that he didn’t expect his colleagues and friends to be so effusive in their praise but admitted, “I liked it.”
The actor-director-screenwriter-producer also couldn’t help himself from editing and analyzing his speech as he went along, saying that he wrote down a few things and thought about making a few jokes, which he went through, explaining his approach.
In his first, he said that he originally thought Bob Dylan was best-suited for the role of Clyde Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde and in light of the musician’s recent Nobel Prize win, and delay in acknowledging the accolade, Beatty jokingly wondered if he could take on Dylan’s latest role of Nobel prize winner.
“I knew that Bob Benton was going to talk about Bonnie and Clyde so I was going to say, ‘Do you remember many years ago, when I said to you that the person I thought was most suited to play Clyde Barrow was Bob Dylan? Do you remember that? I really felt that. And then I changed my mind.’ Then I was going to say something like this, and I don’t know if this is going to work but I’m going to try it anyway, I was going to say, ‘Bob Dylan and, now look, the Nobel Prize.’ And then I thought I would kind of stumble around and mumble a little bit and say, ‘Speaking of the Nobel Prize, do you think it would be inappropriate or maybe in poor taste to inquire about the possibility?…I’m happy to travel. I said yes and thank you right away for this.’ I was going to say, ‘I’m known for being very decisive.’ And really Stockholm is not that far away. It’s really very tempting. So that’s what I was going to do and it sort of worked,” Beatty said to rolling laughter and applause. ..”
Flatt & Scruggs – Theme From Bonnie & Clyde. Released: September, 1967.
https://www.discogs.com/release/1185971-Flatt-Scruggs-Theme-From-Bonnie-Clyde
Bob Dylan — John Wesley Harding. Released: 27th December, 1967.
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Bob Dylan — 2016 Nobel Lecture in Literature
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Today is Don Reno’s birthday. No offense to Earl but Don was more innovative. Chordal runs, tremolo picking, guitar-type strumming, jazz, swing, early rock and roll – it’s all there in his playing. Strong tenor vocalist and could write songs as well. Bill wanted him but Don went off to fight WWII. When he returned Earl had already taken the role. Happy birthday Don. — Bob Dylan. 21st February, 2025 —
https://x.com/bobdylan/status/1893090258406740169
Gotta Travel On.
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Best wishes,
nightly moth
http://www.nightlymothpaintings.space
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