Bret Easton Ellis
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Podcast Appearances
And then every time I would talk to somebody about it, they'd go, what?
Salad dressing?
What?
And I'd be like, no, no, it was really in a car racing.
And like, oh, like the celebrity circuit?
And I'd be like, first off, there is no celebrity circuit.
I wouldn't be here right now.
And secondly, no, he raced professionally.
He had sponsors and he raced.
That's all.
He got out of the car when he was 83 and then he died six months later.
He raced the last 35 years of his life nonstop.
He acted for basically 50 years just nonstop, and he drove from when he was 47 to just when he died, basically.
He was in his car in his 80s driving the car.
And when he was at his biggest is when he was atβ
Road Atlanta and Lime Rock and all these different tracks all over the country just sleeping in a trailer home, like in a motor home and stuff, and walking out and getting right in the middle of everything.
It would be Paul Newman.
It was a very nice thing.
Bob Sharp, we went to his house in Connecticut and talked to him quite a bit.
He was with Newman for, I don't know, 15 years, the whole year.