1:14:03
However, the name "Evans" gets ink.
1:14:11
If you live by the sword,
know damn well you could die by it.
1:14:15
For many a decade, the sword
treated me real well. Maybe too well.
1:14:24
Popeye and Urban Cowboy
hit the screens in 1980.
1:14:28
Now, seven years later,
the only product Evans was delivering...
1:14:31
...to the mountain of Paramount
was embarrassment.
1:14:36
Ending whatever I had left
of a legacy to be...
1:14:39
...I was paid a rare visit by Richard Zimbert,
the head honcho of business affairs.
1:14:44
He walked into my office,
not a happy camper.
1:14:48
"We go back too long, Evans, and this is not
me talking. It's orders. I can't help it.
1:14:54
Do you want the truth?" Our eyes met.
I knew what he was going to say.
1:15:00
No. But I gotta hear it, Dick. Shoot.
1:15:04
"Bob, there's not one person at Paramount
that wants to do business with you."
1:15:09
Dick, the only surprise is that
it's taken you this long to tell me.
1:15:13
I suppose when it's over, it's over.
It was hard for him to say the next words.
1:15:18
"Your office, Bobby. We need a date."
1:15:22
Is 90 days okay, Dick?
1:15:24
"Yeah, sure. If you want more, take more."
1:15:27
No, 90 days will be fine.
1:15:31
Once king of the mountain,
now I was not even allowed to climb it.
1:15:54
My 20-year home had been
pulled from under me.
1:15:58
From behind the gates of Paramount,
I was now behind the gates of Woodland.