There was an article on him in the University of Tennessee alumni magazine a while back; my husband went to grad school there. Mr. Cullum seems like a very pleasant and intelligent man. He made some interesting comments, in the interview, about how his work as an actor was affected by the way people used language when he was growing up in the South ... the King James Version, and the old people’s echoes of Shakespeare, before everyone had television.
Anoreth has been in love with the movie version of John Adams since she was about 7 ... which leads me to believe she’ll never fall for a dope in real life!
Yes, I knew Mr. Cullum was a Tennessean (hope I got that right!) In real life, he speaks with a Southern acccent. He is a trained Shakespearean actor who was in Richard Burton’s famous version of “Hamlet.” Like a lot of hardworking Broadway actors (as opposed to Hollywood jerks), he’s too busy perfecting his art to go around speaking out on political subjects.
I recently saw him playing Pangloss in “Candide,” and he’s currently performing Shakespeare in the Park here in NYC. And he couldn’t be all that young anymore!!