Playboy Interview: George C. Scott
December, 1980
When you think of George C. Scott, the images that come to mind most quickly are those of the volatile, half-cocked Patton; the impulsive, wise-ass reactionary general, Buck Turgidson, in "Dr. Strangelove"; the menacing loan shark Bert in "The Hustler." In 1977, Scott played a fictional Ernest Hemingway in "Islands in the Stream," a role not surprising for Scott, who himself is a man of Hemingwayesque proportions: a tough, outspoken, fearless, boozing, brawling, menacing, macho man with a weakness for women, a sensitivity for Shakespeare and Arthur Miller and a broad intelligence. He is a man other men tell stories about.

