9.17.2006

 

On TV Tonight

The Miracle Worker was on TNT or AMC or DDT or some such tv network tonight. My six year old daughter Isadora followed it for awhile- mostly she liked imitating Helen by stumbling around the living room and making grunting noises to the cat. John Astin (Patty Duke's ex-husband and Sean "Sam Ganges" Astin's Dad) is a faculty member at Hopkins. He's completely bald and very gracious and worked with Charles Laughton in a production of Major Barbara is the 1950's. But, he gets annoyed if you ask him questions about Lord of The Rings.

How come Eric Jenkins didn't sport a goofy van dyke like the guy in the movie? He kinda looked like he was going to hypnotize Annie Sullivan.

"Look into the spinning disk. You are getting sleepy."

Comments:
Does he get mad if you ask him about being the Riddler on Batman? [Though it must be noted that Frank Groshin -- Pittsburgh native/ CMU grad -- was the better Riddler.]
 
He was Gomez Addams also?
 
Yeah- he was Gomez all right. He's okay about that- and also a part he had on Night Court for a gazillion years.

He was also nominated for an Oscar for West Side Story, but I bet Batman was more fun.
 
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