General Buck Turgidson.
Posted on 11/19/2017 9:01:47 AM PST by Rummyfan
George C Scott would have been ninety a couple of weeks back, and, distracted by Harvey Weinstein or some such, I neglected to mark the occasion. I regret that he's not around, because he would have made a great screen geezer. Instead, he barely eked out his three score and ten. I saw him on stage not long before he died, in 1995 on Broadway in Inherit the Wind, and I count myself lucky. He spent the first part of the run fighting off the flu, the second part fighting off a $3.1 million sexual harassment suit from his 26-year old assistant (If you're wondering "Why the .1?", I've no idea), and then he got an aneurysm in his leg. The producer, Tony Randall from The Odd Couple, was also the understudy and he ended up playing a lot of performances.
Inherit the Wind is a bit of old-school efficient play-making drawn from a famous 1925 court case about the teaching of evolution in Tennessee. I'd been told George C was ...variable, to put it mildly, and prone to distraction. One night, as crusading attorney Clarence Darrow, he strode up to the bench and, instead of saying, "The court rules out any expert testimony on Charles Darwin's Origin of Species or Descent of Man", he said, for some reason, "The court rules out any expert testimony on Charles Darwin's Design for Living."
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General Buck Turgidson.
A great actor...
Patton.
> A great actor... <
And a Marine (1945 to 1949).
Patton and A Christmas Carol...
Two great G. Scott movies...
Patton and the List of Adrian Messenger are my two favorites. The List was shot in black and white.
Wonder if Kevin Spacey tried to boink him.
Scott WAS George Patton in the movie. But he declined to accept the Oscar because he was in a sympathy strike for some stupid Indian “cause.” My esteem for him dropped a few hundred points after that.
Played a great part in the Hustler.
You’re thinking of Marlon Brando, Scott refused because he disliked the voting process and of the very idea of competition.
He also tried to withdraw from his Best Supporting Actor nomination for The Hustler.
Nowadays, I'd salute anyone who refused to accept an award from a legion of perverts, deviants, and self-satisfied hypocrites.
I tend to agree with George C. Scott, that the idea of seeing this person was the “Best” Actor is kind of silly. The Oscars exist merely as a marketing tool, that’s all it is.
I agree with Scott, the whole idea always seemed a bit silly to me.
I also tend to agree with Scott. Look at the awards for 1962. Gregory Peck wins best actor for To Kill a Mockingbird. That makes sense because Peck was great in the part. But how does Peter O’Toole not win for Lawrence of Arabia the same year? How is only one of them “best”?
I first watched the movie Patton with an old 3rd army vet.
During the intermission I looked over to ask him a question and was surprised to see tears running down his face.
The man who I considered to be the toughest son of a gun in the world looked at me and said “That is the son of a bitch up one side and down the other. Dear Lord I still love him.”
George C Scott was an excellent actor...and a Virginian to boot!
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That was Marlon Brando ya big dummy!
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