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okay, holy living crap?
Okay, so, 1776. (It turns out that the flickering is, thank god, not due to the tape wearing out -- how could it be -- but to the video input cable being loose. Much easier to fix! ... not that I don't have the DVD on the ol' wishlist.) Of course John Adams is played by William Daniels, who is, you know, William Daniels; and Martha Jefferson is played by Blythe Danner, whose daughter Gwyneth looks a lot like her but not as pretty; and she gets higher billing than the unfortunately-named Virginia Vestoff as Abigail Adams, which is a much more important role, because being married to Bruce Paltrow brings a girl some clout.
And now more than half the cast is dead, which, granted, it's been thirty-five years, but still, a lot of them died young. Damn shame.
But the reason I bring it up at all is the following:
John Cullum, who was brilliant as Edward Rutledge, was also Mark Greene's recurring father on "ER". (Which, now of course I can see that it's the same face.) Ken Howard, everybody's favorite Thomas Jefferson, was Judge Peyton Cabot Harrison III (Jewish fella?) on "The West Wing". (And now, naturally, I can hear it in "I like cream as well.")
Am I the only one [likely to give a damn] who still didn't know that?
And now more than half the cast is dead, which, granted, it's been thirty-five years, but still, a lot of them died young. Damn shame.
But the reason I bring it up at all is the following:
John Cullum, who was brilliant as Edward Rutledge, was also Mark Greene's recurring father on "ER". (Which, now of course I can see that it's the same face.) Ken Howard, everybody's favorite Thomas Jefferson, was Judge Peyton Cabot Harrison III (Jewish fella?) on "The West Wing". (And now, naturally, I can hear it in "I like cream as well.")
Am I the only one [likely to give a damn] who still didn't know that?
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