In is argued that Arkansas is really a southern state...Not quite true ... a few of them have recognizable shapes.
In is argued that Arkansas is really a southern state...Not quite true ... a few of them have recognizable shapes.
Argued? It definitely is!In is argued that Arkansas is really a southern state...
Bummer.Actor Christopher Plummer (1929 - 2021)
It's hard to replace a good Plummer these daysActor Christopher Plummer (1929 - 2021)
That was sooooo lame, Goldman,It's hard to replace a good Plummer these days
My own lame version goes "Try getting a Plummer on weekends!"That was sooooo lame, Goldman,
That’s even worse.My own lame version goes "Try getting a Plummer on weekends!"
Susannah York! The lucky bastard he was!Was also in the film,"Battle of Britain"...as Susannah York's hubby.
His final big role was not so long ago -- J. Paul Getty in All the Money in the World (2017), when Plummer replaced Kevin Spacey.Telling a few people that Christopher Plummer has died, no one seemed to know him anymore, until I added : "He played Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music!"
Other roles he played were : Emperor Commodus (The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)), Field Marshall Rommel (The Night of the Generals (1967)), King Oedipus (Oedipus the King (1967)), the Duke of Wellington (Waterloo (1970)),...
I had forgotten he played Commodus. It is one his best performances, although not historically accurate. Like a lot of other depictions - including Joaquin Phoenix - it seemed more like he was playing Caligula. Still, a great performance and he has one my favorite lines: "If you listen carefully, you will hear the gods laughing."Telling a few people that Christopher Plummer has died, no one seemed to know him anymore, until I added : "He played Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music!"
Other roles he played were : Emperor Commodus (The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)), Field Marshall Rommel (The Night of the Generals (1967)), King Oedipus (Oedipus the King (1967)), the Duke of Wellington (Waterloo (1970)),...
I'm going to have 'The Minstrel Boy' stuck in my head for the rest of the day now!I had forgotten he played Commodus. It is one his best performances, although not historically accurate. Like a lot of other depictions - including Joaquin Phoenix - it seemed more like he was playing Caligula. Still, a great performance and he has one my favorite lines: "If you listen carefully, you will hear the gods laughing."
I had also forgotten he played Kipling in one of my favorite-movies-no-one-else-remembers: "The Man Who Would Be King". He's the second star from that film to have died recently, the other being Sean Connery. At least we still have Michael Caine.
For that interracial couple: you will often find them, but I had as man another problem with Butch from Butch and Peaches than being black.....It would be wrong for this site not to note the passing, at the age of 78, of Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler and other fine magazines. A champion of free speech, Larry was prosecuted and sued numerous times, most notably by Jerry Falwell, who objected to a satirical piece in which the good Reverend was portrayed as having had sex with his mother in an outhouse. Although Larry sometimes lost in court, he generally won on appeal. He had been confined to a wheelchair since being shot in 1978 by a white supremacist offended by Hustler's showing inter-racial couples. I can't prove that CF wouldn't exist if not for Larry Flynt, but it's certainly possible.