Or, more accurately, in praise of modern technology.
Remember how you used to watch TV and see someone you recognised and ponder on it all through the film/programme, and often half the night?
Nowadays you can just pause Sky+, google the title, scroll about a bit and then go, oh my god - it's Peter Riegert.
Most film actors seem to have just a small window when they are hot property, and they'd better make some long-lasting films in that time, before a decade of straight to dvd, a hiatus in obscurity and then if they're lucky some juicy TV cameos. (I hope you're paying attention Sally Sparrow.)
It's good to see that Peter Riegert (Animal House, Local Hero, and Crossing Delancey), has managed to pass unnoticed through many of my favourite US TV shows before currently falling asleep as a fat old judge in The Good Wife, which I don't suppose was where he saw himself when he was on Arisaig beach all those years ago.
"A good sky you've got here MacIntyre. Well done."
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About Me
- Gary
- In my twenties I was a failed poet. In my thirties I wrote a book on gambling which was very nearly published. In my forties I wrote a small book about moving from London to Shropshire, which remains unpublished. Into my fifties and the quest continues...
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