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A great actor and he has always appeared to me to be a great gentleman also​

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Christopher Plummer, 'Sound of Music' star and Hollywood legend, dead at 91​


Christopher Plummer, the legendary actor best known for his roles in "Sound of Music" and "All the Money in the World," has died. He was 91.

Plummer passed away peacefully at his home in Connecticut alongside his wife, Elaine Taylor, his family confirmed. His manager, Lou Pitt, also confirmed his death in a statement shared with Fox News on Friday.

"Chris was an extraordinary man who deeply loved and respected his profession with great old fashion manners, self deprecating humor and the music of words. He was a National Treasure who deeply relished his Canadian roots," Pitt said. "Through his art and humanity, he touched all of our hearts and his legendary life will endure for all generations to come. He will forever be with us."


Plummer spent over 50 years in the entertainment industry, both onstage and onscreen. His most recognized role was perhaps playing the dashing Captain John Von Trapp in Robert Wise’s "The Sound of Music" opposite Julie Andrews.

Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer in 'The Sound of Music.'

Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer in 'The Sound of Music.' (Getty)
The role saw him as an Austrian captain who must flee the country with his folk-singing family to escape service in the Nazi navy, a role he lamented was "humorless and one-dimensional." Plummer spent the rest of his life referring to the film as "The Sound of Mucus" or "S&M."

"We tried so hard to put humor into it," he told The Associated Press in 2007. "It was almost impossible. It was just agony to try to make that guy not a cardboard figure."

The role catapulted Plummer to stardom, but he never took to leading men parts, despite his silver hair, good looks and ever-so-slight English accent. He preferred character parts, considering them more meaty.


Christopher Plummer, circa 1965, preferred character parts over leading men roles.

Christopher Plummer, circa 1965, preferred character parts over leading men roles. (Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)
Plummer had a remarkable film renaissance late in life, which began with his acclaimed performance as Mike Wallace in Michael Mann’s 1999 film "The Insider," continued in films such 2001’s "A Beautiful Mind" and 2009′s "The Last Station," in which he played a deteriorating Tolstoy and was nominated for an Oscar.


His other roles ranged from "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," to the voice of the villain in 2009′s "Up" and as a canny lawyer in Broadway’s "Inherit the Wind."

Christopher Plummer in 2012, poses with his Oscar for Best Supporting Actor Award for his role in 'Beginners.'

Christopher Plummer in 2012, poses with his Oscar for Best Supporting Actor Award for his role in 'Beginners.' (Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
In 2012, Plummer won a supporting actor Oscar for his role in "Beginners" as Hal Fields, a museum director who becomes openly gay after his wife of 44 years dies. His loving, final relationship becomes an inspiration for his son, who struggles with his father’s death and how to find intimacy in a new relationship.

"Too many people in the world are unhappy with their lot. And then they retire and they become vegetables. I think retirement in any profession is death, so I’m determined to keep crackin’," he told AP in 2011.

Christopher Plummer wearing his 'Sherlock Holmes' costume as he relaxes during a break in filming 'Murder by Decree' in Clint Street, London, July 29th 1978.

Christopher Plummer wearing his 'Sherlock Holmes' costume as he relaxes during a break in filming 'Murder by Decree' in Clint Street, London, July 29th 1978. (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Plummer in 2017 replaced Kevin Spacey as J. Paul Getty in "All the Money in the World" just six weeks before the film was set to hit theaters. That choice that was officially validated in the best possible way for the film — a supporting Oscar nomination for Plummer, his third.

He was raised in Montreal. In 1954, he got his acting break in New York and went on to star on Broadway and London's West End. According to Deadline, Plummer won two Tony awards for "Cyrano" and went on to receive seven Tony nominations.

Christopher Plummer and actress Julie Andrews attend the 2015 TCM Classic Film Festival's opening night gala premiere of 50th Anniversary of 'The Sound Of Music' at TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX on March 26, 2015.

Christopher Plummer and actress Julie Andrews attend the 2015 TCM Classic Film Festival's opening night gala premiere of 50th Anniversary of 'The Sound Of Music' at TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX on March 26, 2015. (Allen Berezovsky/WireImage)
Plummer also had quite a lengthy career in television. His number of appearances touch nearly 100, the outlet notes, including "Nuremberg," "Little Moon of Alban," "The Thornbirds," and "Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight." He last starred in "Departures."


In addition to countless acting awards, the Hollywood legend was also the recipient of several honors. In 2000, he was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame, and 14 years prior to that, he was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame.

In 1968, he received an honorary knighthood as a Companion of the Order of Canada by Queen Elizabeth II. He was an honorary doctor of fine arts at Juilliard and received the Governor General’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000.
 
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I’m tripping on some hippie music!
Those kid’s of the ERA 66’ - 69’ lived the dream?
Maybe that’s why my music player’s are deceased?
Bowie died at 69 and wrote so many song’s?
Music and CANNABIS go well with life on the pale blue dot we dwell in a far corner of the universe!
SPAIN in the 90’s was cool on the beach & surfing was not bad?
Food and music advance decent happing scene!
Love your taste in music!
 
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When journalists were....well, really journalists. Good bye, Roger


Roger Mudd1928–2021

Probing TV journalist and network news anchor dies at 93​


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Roger Mudd, a longtime CBS News political correspondent who reported on the Pentagon’s profligate spending, whose interview with Edward M. Kennedy ended the senator’s White House prospects and who briefly shared the anchor job at his onetime rival, NBC News, died March 9 at his home in McLean, Va. He was 93.

The cause was complications from kidney failure, said a son, Jonathan Mudd.
Mr. Mudd spent almost 20 years covering Capitol Hill, political campaigns and corruption scandals for CBS News. He did special reports on the Watergate scandal and its fallout, including the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon in 1974.
His 1979 interview of Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts was credited with crushing the senator’s presidential ambitions just as he was preparing to challenge President Jimmy Carter for the 1980 Democratic nomination.
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Kennedy awkwardly offered incomplete, rambling answers to basic questions about his family and personal life and was stopped cold when Mr. Mudd asked him directly: “Why do you want to be president?”
There was a long, awkward pause before Kennedy could say a word. When Mr. Mudd asked what distinguished him from Carter, Kennedy failed to provide substantive answers to fundamental questions, giving viewers the impression that the senator was ill-prepared for the job of commander in chief.
The interview remains one of the most devastating in political history. Kennedy — whose brother John was president and whose brother Robert was assassinated on the campaign trail — lost his bid for the nomination and never mounted a run for the presidency again.

For years, Mr. Mudd cultivated a straightforward, almost folksy manner on camera, and he was long considered the heir apparent at CBS to the venerable evening news anchor Walter Cronkite.
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Mr. Mudd sat in the anchor chair on weekends and during Cronkite’s vacations, but when CBS announced Cronkite’s retirement in 1980, Mr. Mudd’s onetime Washington bureau colleague, Dan Rather, received the nod. Mr. Mudd quit the network for NBC, where he shared the anchor desk for a year with Tom Brokaw before being pushed aside in 1983.
By his own admission, Mr. Mudd’s greatest strength was not at the anchor desk, but as a reporter covering elections and the halls of Congress. New York magazine media writer Desmond Smith pronounced him “the best Washington broadcast reporter of his generation.”

Mr. Mudd joined the CBS Washington bureau in 1961 at a time when CBS was considered the premier network for news. He became nationally known for his coverage from the Capitol during a two-month filibuster of what would become the Civil Rights Act of 1964, one of the most significant pieces of civil rights legislation in history.
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Beginning during a late-March snowstorm, Mr. Mudd reported day after day on the filibuster and on the senators, most of them Southern Democrats, who refused to yield the floor.
Mr. Mudd’s “continued presence at the scene of Washington inaction has personalized and dramatized the halting process of our Government to the average viewer in a way no amount of words or secondary reports could have,” New York Herald Tribune television critic John Horn wrote. “A viewer could identify with Mudd, stand on the steps with him and have brought home in a compelling way the Senate stall and sitdown against effective government by Southern Democrats.”

In 1968, Mr. Mudd covered the presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy and was present at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles when Kennedy was assassinated in June of that year.
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After the shooting, he saw Kennedy’s wife, Ethel, standing by herself. He put his arm around her waist and elbowed his way through the milling crowd, guiding her to her husband.
“She hugged me as if I were an oak tree — just something to cling to,” Mr. Mudd wrote in his 2008 memoir, “The Place to Be.” “I recall forcing some screaming, bellowing men to give way so that Ethel could reach the side of her dying husband.”
Mr. Mudd also became known at CBS as the host of in-depth investigations, which were once a common prime-time presence on the major networks. In 1971, he was the narrator and chief reporter of “The Selling of the Pentagon,” which raised questions about extravagant military spending and the Pentagon’s $30 million annual public-relations budget during the Vietnam War.

“On this broadcast, we have seen violence made glamorous,” Mr. Mudd said, “expensive weapons advertised as if they were automobiles, biased opinions presented as straight facts . . . This propaganda barrage is the creation of a runaway bureaucracy that frustrates attempts to control it.”
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The broadcast was criticized by the Pentagon and hawkish politicians. A House committee called for an investigation — not of unchecked military spending but of CBS. Rep. Harley O. Staggers (D-W.Va.) issued subpoenas to the network, demanding that it turn over its raw footage and other materials related to the documentary. CBS refused. Network president Frank Stanton testified before a congressional panel and was threatened with a citation for contempt.
In the end, Congress backed down. “The Selling of the Pentagon” came to be seen as a landmark achievement in TV investigative reporting. Mr. Mudd received one of his five Emmy Awards for the program, which also won the Peabody and George Polk awards for journalism.

Among the program’s sharpest detractors was Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, who called it “a clever propaganda attempt to discredit the Defense establishment.” Mr. Mudd went on to cover Agnew’s resignation in 1973 after the vice president pleaded no contest to income tax evasion.
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Roger Harrison Mudd, whose father was as a cartographer and engineer, was born on Feb. 9, 1928, in Washington. The family was distantly related to Samuel A. Mudd, a Southern Maryland doctor who treated John Wilkes Booth’s broken leg after Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
Mr. Mudd was a 1946 graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School in the District and a 1950 graduate of Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va. He received a master’s degree in history in 1953 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and began working at the Richmond News Leader newspaper and later at a radio station owned by the paper, WRNL.

His broadcasting career got off to an inauspicious start when he was reading a bulletin on the medical condition of Pope Pius XII.
“To my horror,” Mr. Mudd recounted in his memoir, “I heard myself saying, ‘The condition of Pipe Poeus has grown steadily worse and they have summoned to the Vatican bedside the Pipe’s doctor and two Swish spesulists.’ ”
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Mr. Mudd came to Washington in 1956 as a radio and TV reporter for WTOP, then a CBS affiliate. Five years later, he joined the network’s Washington bureau.
Mr. Mudd admitted in his memoir that he could be “a pain in the neck and elsewhere,” sometimes angering his corporate bosses at CBS. After a 1970 speech at Washington and Lee, in which he criticized TV news as a “crude” medium that devalues thoughtful coverage, he was removed as Cronkite’s backup for two years.
In 1980, when Rather was named Cronkite’s successor as anchor of the “CBS Evening News,” the move was seen as a slight to Mr. Mudd. He left the network for NBC, where his contract promised him the top job at “NBC Nightly News,” if then-anchor John Chancellor should step down.
Roger Mudd, right, in 1981 with NBC News anchors Tom Brokaw, left, and John Chancellor, center. (Dave Pickoff/AP)
But to keep rising star Tom Brokaw from jumping to another network, Mr. Mudd waived the clause in his contract that called for him to become NBC’s sole anchor. In an awkward succession, Chancellor stepped down in 1982 to do commentary for the network, while Brokaw and Mr. Mudd became joint anchors of the “Nightly News.”
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The arrangement pleased no one, least of all the viewers. The “Nightly News” was languishing in third place among the three legacy networks when Mr. Mudd was eased out of the anchor seat after a year to return to reporting.
Being an anchorman, he later wrote, was “among the most boring jobs in television news” and little more than “hood ornaments for their companies.”
In 1987, after NBC bought out Mr. Mudd’s contract for a reported $3 million, he became a correspondent for the “MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour” on PBS, then worked as a host on the History Channel from 1995 to 2004.
In 2010, Mr. Mudd donated $4 million to Washington and Lee to endow a center for ethics that bears his name.
He and his wife of 53 years, the former Emma Jeanne “E.J.” Spears, lived for decades in McLean, Va. She died in 2011. Survivors include four children, Daniel Mudd of Greenwich, Conn., Maria Mudd Ruth of Olympia, Wash., Jonathan Mudd of Washington and Matthew Mudd of McLean; 14 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Mr. Mudd’s memoir was widely praised as an unvarnished look inside TV news and politics. His 20 years in the CBS Washington bureau, he wrote, were the high point of his professional life.
“Even during the six years I spent at NBC, trying my best to beat CBS,” he wrote, “there was always a little hitch, perhaps a slight choke, in saying, ‘I’m Roger Mudd, NBC News, Washington.’
“I had never truly ceased being a CBS man.”
 
Jessica Walter

If you are not a more recent TV series watcher....like I am not....perhaps you may remember her from her break out movie role in Eastwood's directorial debut "Play Misty for Me" in which she was terrific.

Or more recently the Goldbergs and Arrested Development among many, many, many other credits.

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Jessica Walter, 'Arrested Development' and 'Archer' star, dead at 80

Award-winning actress Jessica Walter, who was known for her roles on "Arrested Development" and "Archer," has died.
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Loved the movie Play Misty For Me. Jessica Walters was really awesome in that. - she played a great crazy bitch type person. She was in a lot of TV made for movie rolls back in the 1970s. Hey, we agreed on something @Baron23


Favorite author of Children’s books passes away at 104 - Beverly Clearly, the Ramona book series. You girls remember those?

 
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Oh Carol....I bet we probably agree on many things....perhaps just not socio-political things? Yeah :cheers:
 
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“In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, to contribute something to solving overpopulation,
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Love him....he would blurt out some of the rudest and tactless things and I thought it was both hilarious and showed his regular humanity.

He had 97 years which is one hell of a run.

Cheer
 
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“In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, to contribute something to solving overpopulation,
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The sub-heading for this R.I.P. section is "Lunacy" ; the above quote certainly confirms the rightness of the title. :hmm:
 
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