Maver Moore
Don Franks
Cec Linder,
Frank Perry,
Alfie Scott
Marty Meriden,
Linda Sorenson,
Patricia Hamilton
Gordon Thompson
John Brannock
I don't remember if I've posted this before, it's from an extremely good series of 13 "full cast productions" based closely on Nero Wolfe novels and novellas. I wouldn't be surprised if it inspired the excellent dramatizations that starred the great Maurey Chakin and Timothy Hutton and a company of really great Canadian actors whose work on the series is like an encyclopedia of really fine acting.
One of my favorite Xmas movies is "The Thin Man" because Nick and Nora, the 30's, and for no reason at all, it takes place at Xmas. The follow up, " After the Thin Man, is just as good. It's at New Year's after the Xmas of the first movie, and includes Jimmy Stewart as the murderer. And Nick and Nora!
ReplyDeleteWhile my mother was sick with her last illness, when she'd be sleepless at 2 or 3 AM you'd resort to turning on the TV. I remember once she stopped on a Christmas movie and watched about 20 minutes of it before she said, I can't stand it, turn it off! It was a Hallmark Channel Christmas movie, in which the inevitably blonde female lead was whiter than the driven snow and the inevitably darker haired male lead was too. I read an article that said this year they'd only made 22 new Hallmark Christmas movies whereas last year they made 33. It was one of the most horrific things I've read in the past two weeks.
DeleteChuck Grassley always makes me think of Jimmy Stewart, I can imagine him as the murderer. I know I've seen Thin Man movies, I can imagine individual lines but I can't remember the plots of any of them. I don't think, other than the Alastair Sim version of A Christmas Carol, they made much of an impression on me. I think if it had been in color it wouldn't have done it for me. Not big on movies, much. I can say that I liked the Due South episode, The Gift of the Wheelman. It had Tom McCamus playing the Chicago Irish bad guy. I love his acting. I have seen A Christmas Story many too many times. It has a ghost in it, too. Gordon Pinsent, he's always good.
Go fuck yourself. :-)
ReplyDeletehttps://sites.uni.edu/morgans/astro/course/TheStar.pdf
Arthur C. Clarke. You're throwing Arthur C. Clarke at me? Why not Elron Hubbard or Joseph Smith?
DeleteIt' 4 pages long. Like you've read 4 pages on a sustained basis.