{"id":21073,"date":"2018-10-09T05:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=21073"},"modified":"2018-10-06T06:59:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T10:59:13","slug":"11-fascinating-facts-about-sam-elliott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=21073","title":{"rendered":"11 Fascinating Facts About Sam Elliott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2018\/z100918samelliott_trivia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jake Rossen and Mental Floss present <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/559171\/facts-about-sam-elliott\">11 Fascinating Facts About Sam Elliott<\/a>.&nbsp; I actually met Sam Elliott before he made the big time.&nbsp; He was in Daytona Beach during Spring Break to promote Lifeguard.&nbsp; Mr. Elliott was extremely down-to-Earth and easy to talk with.&nbsp; Who knew that Lifeguard would lead to the career he&#8217;s had?&nbsp; (And if you click over to the original post, you&#8217;ll learn it almost didn&#8217;t.)&nbsp; At any rate, here are three of my favorites&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>HE PLAYED EVEL KNIEVEL IN AN UNSOLD TV PILOT.<\/strong><br \/>\nAfter moving to Hollywood in the late 1960s, Elliott scored a small role in a big film: 1969\u2019s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. (He\u2019s glimpsed only fleetingly during a card game.) In 1974, he had the opportunity to be the featured star, portraying daredevil legend Evel Knievel in a CBS television pilot. The series never went into production but wound up airing as a one-off special that March. Elliott went on to guest star in several series, including Hawaii Five-0 and Gunsmoke, before landing a lead role in a feature, 1976\u2019s Lifeguard.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>HE GOT PROPOSITIONED. A LOT.<\/strong><br \/>\nGoing from audition to audition early in his career, Elliott told syndicated columnist Rex Reed in 1980 that the proverbial casting couch was real. \u201cYou cannot believe the casting couch stories I could tell you, man,\u201d he said. \u201cThe clich\u00e9s are all true. I\u2019ve had propositions from men and women, and I\u2019ve turned them all down. It\u2019s probably hurt me, but I\u2019m the one who has to live with that guilt. My conscience is clear, even though my career is still not setting the world on fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>HE DOESN\u2019T REALLY GET THE FASCINATION WITH HIS MUSTACHE.<\/strong><br \/>\nFor most of his roles, Elliott sports a soup strainer of a mustache: Thick, plush, well-weathered. When he goes without\u2014as in his turn as a villain on FX\u2019s Justified\u2014it can be a little disarming, in the same way Superman looks a little odd without his cape. But Elliott doesn\u2019t quite understand the cult of hair around his facial style choices. \u201cThe whole mustache thing is a mystery to me,\u201d he told Vanity Fair in 2017. \u201cI\u2019m working on this thing now, A Star is Born\u2014somebody showed me on their cell phone one day that there was this contest online between me and [Tom] Selleck about who had the best mustache. It\u2019s so bizarre.\u201d (For the record, Elliott won&#8217;t comment on who has the better lip warmer.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jake Rossen and Mental Floss present 11 Fascinating Facts About Sam Elliott.&nbsp; I actually met Sam Elliott before he made<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,65,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21074,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21073\/revisions\/21074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}