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