THE SONG OF THE EVENING
(FRAGMENT FROM THE BOOK “THE WAY YOU WEAR YOUR HAT” BY BILL ZEHME)
“Time meant everything and nothing to him. ‘I can’t work if I’m not under pressure. If there’s too much time available, I don’t like it, there’s not enough stimulation.’ He never recorded anything before eight in the afternoon, he didn’t like arriving on a film set before eleven in the morning. ‘You know I’m a night guy,’ he said, smiling. Still, he worked eighteen hours a day, he planned. his agenda fourteen months in advance, he did things one by one, it was never late for any of them, it was always early. ‘If you told him to be there at nine, he would be there at five to nine. ‘ George Schlatter recalled. ‘But If you weren’t there at one minute past nine, he would leave. He respected your time, you had to respect his.’ His mind worked best when he was on the move, which was always. When he was rushing across world time zones on his planes, he never slept, doing crossword puzzles, walking down the halls. ‘He’s been around the world several times,’ Nancy said. He seriously asked his friends ‘What is jet lag? I really don’t understand.’ When they explained how the internal clock works, he answered definitively: ‘Mine is broken.’ On the other hand, his idea of the perfect vacation was to put his wristwatch in a drawer for three days and sit by his pool. ‘This,’ he said, ‘is what suits me best.’
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