27 February 2006

This is getting silly....

They say that such things come in threes.... No, I don't buy that, but I just read that Dennis Weaver died Friday! I grew up watching reruns of Gunsmoke and current episodes of McCloud. Still, the role that will, for me, be his signature performance, is that of the Night Manager in Orson Welles' 1958 masterpiece Touch of Evil. Film critics often opine that his oddball portrayal is clearly the basis for Anthony Perkins portrayal of Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). In the Great Beyond, I hope that Dennis gets a better room than Janet Leigh did in either film!

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