09-06-2005, 07:03 PM
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#1 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
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| Gone to that desert island in the sky
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09-06-2005, 08:16 PM
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| I know!!!! I'm so upset! This is almost as bad as when Lenny Briscoe died last year.  | |
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09-06-2005, 11:05 PM
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| I knew him first as Maynard G. Krebs, and I wanted to be a beatnik because of him. I think I'll go play my bongos in his memory.
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09-06-2005, 11:14 PM
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| OMG!!
When did Gilligan get so old? Going for my bottle of Geritol now...
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09-07-2005, 12:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Capt. Slo-mo OMG!!
When did Gilligan get so old? Going for my bottle of Geritol now... | S'okay....Dawn Wells has an aging picture in her attic....
And the Professor loks a lot like the Skipper these days.
Say what you will about the character, but he left a legacy of laughs...not bad at all... | |
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09-07-2005, 06:07 PM
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Originally Posted by BrianH I knew him first as Maynard G. Krebs, and I wanted to be a beatnik because of him. I think I'll go play my bongos in his memory. | Word, Dude! I'd turn on "Doby Gillis" and ALL my family would turn and say, "What the HELL are you watching? That's just weird, (Grampa)!" 
Oh, the days of good, clean, countercultural fun. (sigh) 
All the goofy little white sailor hats of this world are going to miss him...me too.
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09-07-2005, 06:19 PM
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| Some of the obituaries and comments I've read go out of their way to point out that the late Mr. Denver was a Shakespearian-trained actor.
Not to demean him in any way, but why is having performed Shakespeare considered the ne plus ultra of the actor's craft? It is, after all, so rarely performed well (such that the audience forgets they're watching a performance and believes what they're watching) that merely having performed it cannot possibly be an assurance of a given actor's skill.
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09-07-2005, 08:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Have At You Some of the obituaries and comments I've read go out of their way to point out that the late Mr. Denver was a Shakespearian-trained actor.
Not to demean him in any way, but why is having performed Shakespeare considered the ne plus ultra of the actor's craft? It is, after all, so rarely performed well (such that the audience forgets they're watching a performance and believes what they're watching) that merely having performed it cannot possibly be an assurance of a given actor's skill. | Hum...me thinks
he 's not, the Actor's Eye!
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09-08-2005, 02:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Have At You why is having performed Shakespeare considered the ne plus ultra of the actor's craft? | Probably for the same reason that having just survived Cambridge or MIT is considered a higher mark than graduating with honors from Podunk Community College: the bar is higher. Shakespeare being what it is, even the ability to pull off a nondescript performance of it is still more difficult than doing, say, an Odor Eaters commercial.  | |
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09-08-2005, 04:05 PM
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| That has its challenges too: imagine the actor in the Odor Eaters commercial saying to the director "What's my motivation in this scene?" Whatever would Stanislavsky do? 
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09-08-2005, 05:53 PM
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Originally Posted by jeff That has its challenges too: imagine the actor in the Odor Eaters commercial saying to the director "What's my motivation in this scene?" Whatever would Stanislavsky do? | Method in an Odor Eaters spot?? Yeesh!! | |
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