"Zelda, Scott and Ernest"
Performance date: May 2001
From Los Angeles Times
Tuesday, May 29, 2001
The Lost Generation
We were so looking forward to seeing Warren and Annette doing Scott and
Zelda. And so was Paris Review editor George Plimpton, who asked his friends
Warren Beatty and Annette Bening to appear in his dramatic dialogue "Zelda,
Scott and Ernest," an hourlong piece adapted from the letters and literary
works of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.
Alas, Plimpton said, the power couple "had too much on their respective
plates." Instead, the sold-out reading at the Getty featured Plimpton as
Fitzgerald, actor Titus Welliver, from the canceled CBS police drama "Big
Apple," as Hemingway and actor-producer Diane Baker as the emotionally
fragile Zelda. It was a good reading, strong and noble and true.
Next month, writer Norman Mailer and his Alabama-born wife, Norris Church,
will portray Hemingway and Zelda in Vermont to raise money for author John
Irving's childhood school.
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