our next guest is a wonderful actor who starred in a film called Prince of the City also in hair
his most recent film is entitled things to do in Denver when you're dead ladies and gentlemen
here's Treat Williams I know that man how you doing good good to see you welcome to the program
well thank you let's talk a little bit about this film things to do in Denver when you're dead now
this opened I guess in a few cities around the country and now is uh opening everywhere
everywhere in fact I think it's playing Bob's Drive-In in Oshkosh it's cool but the guy you
play in this what's the guy's name uh the critical Bill critical Bill and critical bill is Disturbed
isn't he slightly give us a little thumbnail sketch of this man well the reason he's called
critical bills because any time that uh anybody disagrees with me winds up in critical condition
uh-huh they wind up in critical that's right and uh he also has his penchant for uh beating up on
dead bodies he works in a uh funeral home mortuary so yeah yeah and that's how he gets his exercise
is that he figures nobody's gonna mine so he just works out on the corpses and then he oh come on
For Heaven's Sake it's fair very cute there's an exercise video in this somewhere I'm sure
but amen is that a powerful film though that's just really really scary and
ugly and unpleasant yeah yeah that's why so many people are going to see it
now I know that two things about you one you came from uh you have you live in Vermont is
that correct that's right you have a farm yeah we have a farm is it like a big big deal no it's
a small uh how many acres do you have up there fifteen fifteen Acres like a farmette farm that's
a little farm and I'm sort of a uh a bad gentleman farmer and I pretend to have no animals no animals
okay no but we have lots of plants and lots of stuff you know you have a garden every year
and we have a fruit orchard right uh keep you busy fun yeah how did the other Farmers or Farm
Etters in Vermont uh react to having like a movie star living in their uh Community
well I'm not I'm not important in town right yeah there's this I'm I'm in town I'm kind of when the
guy goes into the hardware store and order stuff is hey treat how are you but there is a celebrity
in town who is that he's big he's really big Dom DeLuise lives in Vermont Dom DeLuise is in myself
so he's the big guy he's in the pizza parlor he got the picture up in the pizza parlor a lot of
different stores I mean he doesn't need to live in Vermont to have his picture in a pizza parlor
no but I gotta tell you up there that's a big deal yeah sure and then in coming uh from Vermont to
New York City you you're a pilot you flew your own plane down here I do well tell us about that
what kind of plane do you have it's called a piper center it's a twin twin engine planes two
engine plane and we fly it back and forth between Vermont and New York we also live here so we split
our time about halfway yeah how long have you been flying 25 years wow how many hours is that I love
this I have about five thousand five thousand so this you could like get a commercial rating I am
a commercial pilot no you're not well mom said I always had something to fall back on really
so actually the idea of falling back in aviation isn't that a good number but so you could like fly
me to Cincinnati right after the show let's go you take care of my luggage and everything everything
yeah well I I might I might not do that I might not do your luggage any any uh close calls in
those 5 000 hours no but I mean general aviation is it's a small plane so like for instance last
night coming back we were 10 000 feet we got up to about ten thousand feet it was about 30 below
so the trim wheel froze what is the trim wheel the trim wheel takes pressure away from the Yoke which
is what you're steering with and uh when I got up to ten thousand feet the Yoke we use a trim wheel
to take pressure off so you can fly level but the trim wheel froze so I was actually having to fight
the yoke for about an hour all the way down to New York also the windshield fogged over and
the defroster didn't work so I guess yeah so now this whole time are you screaming hysterically um
yes Dave I was I said to my wife honey do we have any paper towels she said yes we
reached back we had paper towels on the windshield so wait a minute your wife
is right there in the other seat she sits next to me and my son was in the
back with the nanny and you weren't scared at all in any of this of course not Dave
no I was scared but uh you know I mean you're always uh you have to have a little degree of
fear is a healthy thing yeah you know but I knew that once I got down the trim would unfreeze so
where did you land Peterborough I landed at Teterboro but it'll be the first time I could
say I just flew in from Vermont and boy on my arms time yeah exactly well that's yeah
now in this uh in this uh late shift movie where they got the John Michael Higgins uh
and you were great enough no you were terrific is that the guy that used to be on Miami Vice
is it John Michael Higgins yeah I think so yeah uh but they got him like in red hair he's playing
me with red hair that's right and he spends all his free time throwing baseballs at a Target but
in that movie you play my former agent Michael Ovitz that's right yeah now he was when he was
an agent feared all-powerful people were worried about stepping on this guy's feet because boom
you know the next thing you know you're on a Farm in Vermont yeah wait a minute you're already on a
Farm in Vermont the hell do you care uh did you have any trepidation about taking on the role no
no I didn't I mean I I did streetcar I was the first guy to do streak after Brando did it after
doing that there was nothing you're not worried about it no I got the Farm in Vermont I could
always go up and you know make apple cider or and how how did you play uh Michael Ovitz in this did
you meet the guy very carefully with great dignity yeah we we have a clip here uh from the uh this
is the HBO movie it's from the book The Late Shift and this is Treat Williams as my former
agent Michael Lopez go ahead watch this uh ladies and gentlemen Mr Roberts can you save my career
would you like some of my chocolate bunny
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I am a master of my craft it's a fine piece of work I gained 75 pounds for that and shaved your
head and I lost six inches yeah oh I'm still trying to like my honeymoon I don't know I have
no idea what that means you know in all the time that uh we've been on the air this is the first
time you've been with us that's right yeah well do me a favor please if you can come back again
it was great I love it here nice to see you Street Williams ladies and gentlemen [Music]