The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 78, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 9, 1980 Page: 4 of 32
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Wednesday, J*nu«ry 9. 1910
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I , TORONTO — Former
I teacher1 Michael Murphy.
I doesn't ;;e -awake • mgnts
I rugged bv a guilty con-
I science- '
I Sitting in lus room in a
I charmingly old-fashioned j
I ' hotel in Toronto? he 'said
I that while .tfttmg may seem j
I invoious to iome. he fee b 11H
I no compulsion to mold the;’
I minds of the young..... !1
I Not m the classroom nor
I on the alayihg fields, 'dor j
even-.n me. theater
I ; -don't. consider myself a
■ hue model he declared.
I •= Murphy was m Toronto
I. masing' a movie called
I "Never Trust . .An Honest
I Th:ef ' a suspense-type flick
I with an.0 .Henry ending, l
I His jo-star was Orson j J
I Welles who doesn't mtimF-f .
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actually enjoyed the work
But**’ he left. ;t without a
qualm for something he en-
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■- « ■> Tt was a very, very coso-
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remembers, speaking-: of
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kids.'celebrity kids, and
there were a lot of mmonty
kids, so we had-an enormous H
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‘ - It has a long history of
theatrical people.There's no-
J.____doubt about, that," the for- ,
---jnar •nctnirtnr I'nntimiPri “1 fu;
thmk it was almost like, a.
professional school, because-
—kids, would * go and make
movies, and they'd ultimate- ■ ’
- \y graduatefrom UnrHigh.” m
■Murphy had a regular j?
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advised that, so long as he
was.-getting a fonnal educa-.
Uon ne 'should come out of
school with something prac-1
tical like a teacher's certifi-
■: cate, just in case' he needed
it to earn a living ..
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I . ;h addition to siippiementmg
I ' : my-'income.- It was good for
|v<,' my head, because, if you’re.
I- fitting around California
I .loosing for a job-, it getskmtT
I of dehumanizing?
j Unlike' many Southern?
I California teachers, Murphy
I.had no discipline problems ■
I dur.ngjiis -'lassroom tCrffire
I" ? 'He explained this by-pomt-;
I - , 'ingout:. - Hj
I ; I a young guy I was |
I only 23f-and 1 guess maybe
I beingamtale helped some."
I . Actually Murphy, took.
I teaching more seriously
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diough he didn't want to
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- “I like what I do,"- he<
said. "It’s interesting work,,
but, when people come
around and interview me,
it's not iikej'm Jonas Salk.
The thing, that interests me
- abour-actmg is I'm interest-
ed m behavibp^in how peo-_
I -pie respond, to different
---things and whpn you’re an
actor you're*a5irK Hpen-
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you play various parts.
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-—- -*9uH. don t-jee'actmg as,
- something rabte.
T could probably Jiave
• - done more with my life."" ‘
' .1 dont overtly try tS'
I...;., shapepeopie’s thoughts," he
-continued, explaining how
. -..he chooses the roles he’ll
play "fm not interested in
■ that, f think it’s a little pre- ’
tenuous to come on like j
Vo r° the shaper of peoples 1
• -livijs ; . —y——
•,. Oh the other hand,1 I've
beer, playing parts, that I
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*•' Murphy doesntt care
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hardware.! • but I'm very
* much interested; in jglaying
normal people I’m very
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 78, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 9, 1980, newspaper, January 9, 1980; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1145556/m1/4/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.