Film Director, John Huston
It’s Not Poker Unless Someone Gets Hurt
8 min readMay 29, 2024
J ohn Huston’s face was etched like a street map of Hollywood. His baritone voice took the long way around vowels and lingered on each consonant. His stride leaned into an imaginary headwind with his arms swung in pendulous arcs, giving him a simian gait. And despite the occasional support of a wheelchair or an intermittent whiff of oxygen (no more…