Friday, November 11, 2016

We deal in lead


Chris: Go ahead, Lee. You don't owe anything to anybody.
Lee: Except to myself.

Rip Robert Vaughn. You were a Commie but you were a pretty good elegant actor. Sorry for the burning in Hell thingy.

4 comments:

ricpic said...

I always got the feeling that he was a banker who had wandered into acting. If that sounds like a putdown it's not. It's just that the guy was so clearly to the manor born that he couldn't be a gunslinging desperado or a desperado of any kind, not convincingly to my class conscious eyes anyway.

ricpic said...

P.S. He was a commie? I didn't even know that. If so he sure was a comfortable commie, as in "I'm comfortable," in answer to "How are you doing (financially)?"

Trooper York said...

I read his autobiography. I thought he was a conservative but he was a red diaper extreme lib.

edutcher said...

Mr Solo, Mr Waverly needs you.

"Insults swallowed - none

Enemies - None".

"No enemies"?

"Alive".

ricpic said...

I always got the feeling that he was a banker who had wandered into acting. If that sounds like a putdown it's not. It's just that the guy was so clearly to the manor born that he couldn't be a gunslinging desperado or a desperado of any kind, not convincingly to my class conscious eyes anyway.

His father was a radio actor and he just went into the family business. A lot of his TV roles were ruined Southerners, War of Northern Aggression and all, and that was his character as Lee.