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Tom Dolby and Bruce Dern in The Artist's Wife. BY GREGG SHAPIRO THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
If you should ever be so fortunate as to meet Oscar-nominated actor Bruce Dern, ask him to do his spot-on Alfred Hitchcock impression. You won’t be sorry. Dern acted in two Hitchcock movies, Marnie (1964) and Family Plot (1976), as well as in Hitchcock’s 1960s TV series, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. At 84, Dern, who grew up in the Kenilworth and Glencoe area and graduated from New Trier Township High
School (class of 1954), continues to act on a regular basis that someone half his age may find exhausting. In his latest movie, The Artist’s Wife (Strand Releasing), Dern plays Richard, a renowned painter who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. His illness not only takes a toll on him, but also his long-suffering wife Claire (Lena Olin), his estranged daughter Angela ( Juliet Rylance), his students, and ultimately his talent. Dern, who came into his own in the 1970s as part of what was known as the New Hollywood movement, via his work with Jack Nicholson and Bob Rafelson, was kind
enough to answer a few questions, in very colorful language, before the release of The Artist’s Wife.
What was it about the character of painter Richard in Tom Dolby’s The Artist’s Wife that drew you to him as an actor? I didn't know who Tom Dolby was. I had heard of his father, Ray Dolby. He invented the sound system in every theater in the world. Ray died when he was 58 of Alzheimer’s and Tom had to grow up with that. Why I met him and Continues on PG 10