I tried Googling this, but can’t find it. Anyone heard of this?
My wife is reading a book and part of the book is about the power of food and how some people are deeply affected by food-related fears. In the book it says:
The actor was terribly poor as a child and had terrible fears of not being able to eat.
Anyway, the fact that it says “carried” makes me think he is dead. However, and I have no idea why this is, the book does not say who the actor is/was.
Anyone better at finding these things than me?
I guess this might be Cafe Society stuff, but it is such a GQ, I put it here.
It’s possible that there is no answer to this, that it’s just something written down about something someone heard onece about someone who may never even have been named.
I think it’s most likely to be made up. The authors of The Connected Child may have made it up themselves or they may have heard it from someone else and not bothered to check it for accuracy. If the story was told by the actor on a TV interview program, why doesn’t it come up on a Google search (which now searches not just on everything on the Internet but also on an enormous number of books and periodicals)?
If you say “Academy Award winning actor,” you’re implying that Charlie Chaplin won the award for acting. We wouldn’t call Mel Gibson or Ben Affleck Academy Award winning actors. We wouldn’t call Woody Allen an award winning musician, just because he has won awards and is also a musician.
