'That's not the purpose of being here. It's invention.'
George Hamilton doesn't mind if you lead with his tan. As he embarks on his ninth decade — he turns 80 on Aug. 12 — the actor and avatar of ease knows that his hue is what has made him an icon. Also a durable punchline.
That said, Hamilton keeps a Make America Great Again cap in the corner of his living room, which Trump, with whom he has mutual Palm Beach pals, gifted him at a campaign rally the actor says he happened into at Trump Tower. The president, he says, "was always a performer in his own mind" — like Hamilton himself.The Godfather: Part III
While Hamilton had said it to razz Peppard, he realized he meant it. He was a fervid soldier at MGM's backlot boot camp, where he'd honed the all-purpose practical arts: fencing, riding, shooting and whatever else might be needed in everything from comedies to Westerns.
The family settled into a house along the upper residential stretch of Rodeo Drive, where by Hamilton's account they entertained the likes of Clark Gable, whose supposedly false teeth were "all I could look at," and Gloria Swanson . He soaked it up. His takeaway was Teeny's and Bill's devout commitment to glamour as a way of life: "It took the mundane out of the world.
Hamilton enjoyed the "huge pleasure" of lording over his estate, yet in time it became a burden. "A property like that brings you friends you don't want and relatives who come to stay and don't go," he says.
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