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26 Jan 2022 Conversations with Tyler Stewart Brand on Starting Things and Staying Curious
“James Stewart there is the guy who connects with Indians. And when I later married an Indian woman, Lois Jennings, we used to play scenes from that where she’s watching him shaving and wondering what the hell he’s doing because Indians don’t shave.”
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- 26 Jan 2022
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…Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window — how did it matter for you? Oh, God. Because of the name, James Stewart, and because he was lanky and laconic, I identified with him. My older brother Mike, I figured, was Burt Lancaster, but I was James Stewart. Two movies that Stewart made were Rear Window, where he was with Grace Kelly, and he was a photojournalist. That looked exciting, and I later became a photojournalist. Then also, he was in a movie called Broken Arrow, which was the first movie that was liberal about American Indians. It was really, really well written, well researched on Chiricahua Apache culture. James Stewart there is the guy who connects with Indians. And when I later married an Indian woman, Lois Jennings, we used to play scenes from that where she’s watching him shaving and wondering what the hell he’s doing because Indians don’t shave. We just played that stuff out. James Stewart was a handy character to identify with for me. What do you think is the major intellectual influence from Native American or Indian perspectives on your thought? Is it the idea of maintenance? Something else?…
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