Robert Evans
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Podcast Appearances
And he does this a lot.
He writes and talks about the war years often and about his cognition of what's happening as if he was a small boy then.
And he's not.
He's a late teen, like young adult while the war is going on.
So that part's really weird to me.
I don't know what to say about it other than he does that.
And it's kind of strange that he does that to me.
In March of 1941, he and his mom have to run for cover during an air raid.
A cop near them was killed by the bomb.
And after the raid, Jimmy claims that he picked up a black glove with a hand still inside it.
In Davey's book, In Plain Sight, he writes, it is a morbid detail and one that Saville savored.
He's going to tell this story a lot with a degree of relish, like he's excited to
And you get the feeling that he's excited at the time.
Again, this is all going to be important much later on.
Yeah.
He's not well.
That's not a healthy reaction.
From age 15 to 16, he just keeps working at the Mecca and taking on odd jobs, mainly to provide his mom with money for food, both of which earn him praise, right?
The fact that he's making money and the fact that he's like an entertainer, he gets a lot of praise early on from this.
He also starts training with the Army Air Corps because he's expecting, he's gotta be like 18 when the war ends, he's expecting to be called up to the RAF in another year or two when he's like 16 or 17.