“Little by little it stopped feeling foolish. Though he felt silly the first time, Bean said he got down on his knees in the evening and said, “if there’s anybody up there, thank you for the day.” He did that again the next morning. It was at a 12-step program where he asked someone, “what should I do?”īean said the man told him to thank God every morning and evening on his knees, and that could help him find happiness. That’s when he tried prayer, with a nudge from a stranger. “It all worked for awhile” to make him happy, Bean said, but then “it just stopped working and became nothing.” “It saved my life,” he simply said, of the movies that let him know that despite his turbulent household, “okay, it’s going to turn out okay.” He credited “the Jews who came from Russia and formed Hollywood” for loving America “and the opportunity they were presented with” in this country, which was “reflected in their movies.”īean said that patriotism “was in their DNA” and the scripts they approved.Īs he succeeded in show business from New York to Hollywood, Bean recalled having made a vow that, “I will be happy some day.” He said he had plenty of highs due to great sex, drugs, rock and roll, fame, and even some politics. But Hollywood movies back then gave him “a sense of America” and “what good guys were.” They gave him hope, and the movies he loved showed him that “right was right and wrong was wrong” and that “right prevailed.” And without God, Bean may never have found happiness even with all of his professional and personal successes.īean said he came from a “dysfunctional household” with an alcoholic father and a mother who committed suicide. He said without the Hollywood of yesterday that embraced patriotism and was never ashamed of it, he would have been forlorn and lost. Bannon about his World War II military experiences in Japan and his career in show business that saw him rub elbows with Bob Hope, Marlon Brando, Jack Paar, Johnny Carson, and many others. Bean had a conversation with Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. God, America, and a Hollywood that once embraced both saved Orson Bean’s life and helped him find meaning in it.īean, the actor who is also the late Andrew Breitbart’s father-in-law, appeared on a special Sirius XM Patriot Forum interview on the Fourth of July weekend, which aired on Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125.
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