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#194668 - Sat Sep 27 2003 06:21 AM George Plimpton R.I.P.
superferd Multiloquent Registered: Tue Apr 15 2003 Posts: 3325 Loc: Boca Raton Florida USA	Another sad day as author George Plimpton passed away yesterday as well as Robert Palmer. He was a great author and will be missed _________________________ Confidence is courage at ease - Daniel Maher
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#194669 - Sat Sep 27 2003 09:09 AM Re: George Plimpton R.I.P.
Gatsby722 Pure Diamond Registered: Fri May 18 2001 Posts: 123698 Loc: Canton Ohio USA	Plimpton was a character! Good writer, had fun with his life, etc. Best of all was that he never seemed to take his privelege or talent all that seriously. I remember seeing him in "Reds" and thought he was even a good actor (even though he was probably playing George Plimpton). But doing that well was quite enough. _________________________ "The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful." ... H. L. Mencken
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#194670 - Tue Sep 30 2003 06:40 AM Re: George Plimpton R.I.P.
tjoebigham Multiloquent Registered: Sat Dec 25 1999 Posts: 2824 Loc: Fairhaven Massachusetts USA	Did you know Plimpton had a one-line role in Howard Hawks' last movie "Rio Lobo"? He was one of a pack of villians set to fetch Jennifer O'Neill to jail on a trumped-up charge. Plimpton appears behind John Wayne and when his sheriff friend asks the chief villian for a warrant for O'Neill, Plimpton points a rifle at the back of Wayne's head and speaks up: "I got a warrant right here, sheriff!" (Of course, the villians lose!) tjoeb};> Edited by tjoebigham (Tue Sep 30 2003 06:41 AM) _________________________ Terry Bigham
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