Peter Revson

October, 1970

Odds are that if any other actor had turned in the powerful performances delivered by Robert Blake in Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here and In Cold Blood, instant superstardom would have been the result. But Blake, hardly another pretty face, is a self-motivated social outcast who abhors the public part of an actor's life. "I'm no star," he says, "because I don't look like Van Johnson or Jesus Christ, I won't kiss anybody's ass and I won't even attend my own premieres. To me, being an...