It's a fine day for the Irish! In celebration the Dead Tree NY Times delivers this puzzle:
An Irish Tradition With an Only-in-America Star
Dance Champion Breaks Sterotypes
GREENVILLE, Ohio — For those feeling down about the United States and its place in the world, meet Drew Lovejoy, a 17-year-old from rural Ohio. His background could not be more American. His father is black and Baptist from Georgia and his mother is white and Jewish from Iowa. But his fame is international after winning the all-Ireland dancing championship in Dublin for a third straight year.
Drew is the first to admit that this is a lot to take in, so he sometimes hides part of his biography for the sake of convenience. As in 2010, when he became the first person of color to win the world championship for Irish dancing — the highest honor in that small and close-knit world — and a group of male dancers in their 70s, all of them Irish, offered their congratulations.
“They said, ‘We never thought it would happen, but we’re thrilled that it did,’ ” said Drew’s mother, Andee Goldberg. She added, “They don’t even know he’s Jewish. That hasn’t been broached. I think it would be too overwhelming.”
The web version omits the baffling "Dance Champion Breaks Sterotypes". What stereotype - that black people can't dance?
I want to see him dance!
Posted by: Jane (Bad says Obama sucks) | March 17, 2012 at 04:45 PM
See LUN for videos of several Irish Dance teams. Move over, NCAA basketball, these are the true Big Dance competitors.
Happy St. Paddy's Day!
Posted by: Thomas Collins | March 17, 2012 at 04:50 PM
Here is a little:
Posted by: Jane (Bad says Obama sucks) | March 17, 2012 at 04:51 PM
Yay, The wife's out of the house with the dogs, so I can safely root against her Alma Mater. Go to Hell Buckeye.s
Go Gonzaga. Number 7 seed Down by 2 to the the number 2 seed with 2 minutes to go.
Posted by: daddy | March 17, 2012 at 04:53 PM
See LUN for some Lovejoy dance footage, Jane. Too much talking heads talk and not enough Lovejoy dance, but there is enough footage to get an idea of his talent.
Posted by: Thomas Collins | March 17, 2012 at 04:53 PM
See LUN for some Lovejoy dance footage, Jane. Too much talking heads talk and not enough Lovejoy dance, but there is enough footage to get an idea of his talent.
Posted by: Thomas Collins | March 17, 2012 at 04:53 PM
Didn't mean to plagiarize your post, Jane.
Posted by: Thomas Collins | March 17, 2012 at 04:55 PM
See LUN for several competitors. Lovejoy dances at about 2:23 of the video.
Posted by: Thomas Collins | March 17, 2012 at 04:58 PM
B-Flat my Darling Irish Arse!
Posted by: daddy | March 17, 2012 at 05:00 PM
--What stereotype - that black people can't dance?--
Can't stop laughing at that.
Posted by: Ignatz | March 17, 2012 at 05:02 PM
Jane and TC, What a treat -- he is light as thistledown, and so handsome to boot!
Posted by: MaryD | March 17, 2012 at 05:02 PM
Yes, MaryD, it's as if he's floating.
They all make it look easy, but I'll bet we're seeing the results of hours and hours of practice.
Posted by: Thomas Collins | March 17, 2012 at 05:10 PM
Interesting. I'm 100% Irish, well at least all 4 of my Grandparents were born in Ireland. I can't dance, but I can drink.
Posted by: Gus | March 17, 2012 at 05:10 PM
Speaking of dance, OSU is going to survive to dance again.
Posted by: Thomas Collins | March 17, 2012 at 05:11 PM
I'm half Irish, Gus, but I like Bass Ale and Bruichladdich scotch, so I guess I'm a traitor.
But I love Irsh bread!
So what is it here. Carraway seeds in the Irish bread or not? I say carraway seeds!
Posted by: Thomas Collins | March 17, 2012 at 05:14 PM
Uh-oh. I haven't even started my St. Paddy's Day drinking!
Posted by: Thomas Collins | March 17, 2012 at 05:16 PM
what? You never heard of black Irish?
Posted by: Clarice | March 17, 2012 at 05:18 PM
I think the stereotype that was broken was that only pasty faced, so white they are almost opaque, starving, drunken, north country caucasians have any rythm.
That; and the one about,.... Gee the only way America will ever win an Irish dance competition is if we find a Asian Muslim.
Posted by: Pops | March 17, 2012 at 05:19 PM
black Irish is a term for the Scots Irish that the English banished to the Northern Ireland counties. The English thought they would solve two problems, by shipping off the Scots and mixing them in with the cantankerous Irish. Even today that decision has consequences.
Posted by: Gmax | March 17, 2012 at 05:23 PM
I'm cross-posting this because I think it's so funny.
Barack Obama,s Presidential Facts Tweets LUN
Some really funny stuff here. Ridicule is a potent weapon.
Posted by: MaryD | March 17, 2012 at 05:24 PM
President Obama and VP Biden were anxious to see their latest government infrastructure project. They spied two union paddies working for the federal public works department. One would dig a hole and the other would follow behind him and fill the hole in. They worked up one side of the street, then down the other, then moved on to the next street, working steadily all day without rest, one man digging a hole, the other filling it in again.
President Obama was amazed at their work, but couldn't understand what they were doing. So he asked the hole digger, 'I'm impressed by the effort you two are putting in to your stimulous job, but I don't get it -- why do you dig a hole, only to have your partner follow behind and fill it up again?'
The hole digger wiped his brow and sighed, 'Well, I suppose it probably looks odd because we're normally a three-person team. But today the lad who sticks the tree in the hole called in sick.
Posted by: Pops | March 17, 2012 at 05:26 PM
Sure, only in America. No, don't mention he's part Jewish, the close-minded Irish couldn't handle it.
Somehow I'm moved to post about Rotimi Adebari, a Nigerian-born convert to Christianity - I won't say from what, but I will say he had to flee the country - who emigrated to Ireland, went through college, and got himself elected mayor of Portlaoise.
Posted by: bgates | March 17, 2012 at 05:28 PM
That's my favorite from MaryD's 5:24 PM LUN.
Posted by: Thomas Collins | March 17, 2012 at 05:28 PM
Oh, no! Those Nigerian Anglicans are still persecuting people, bgates?
Posted by: Thomas Collins | March 17, 2012 at 05:30 PM
MaryD
thanks for that link .... hahahahaha!!!!
Posted by: Chubby | March 17, 2012 at 05:32 PM
Rowan Williams persecutes my concept of what a person of the cloth should be.
Posted by: Captain Hate | March 17, 2012 at 05:32 PM
I despair that the poor lad is being robbed of his rightful cultural heritage. Why isn't he in a klezmer band?
Posted by: Frau Irisch | March 17, 2012 at 05:42 PM
Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone. Just joining in and loving the Irish dancing. Oh my, so many ethnic groups represented in just one young man! His talent must be an amalgam of that wonderful gene pool.
Posted by: centralcal | March 17, 2012 at 05:50 PM
Janet,
Was your battle against Agenda 21?
I didn't pay enough attention to your battle at the time, but now I see that we are having our own Agenda 21 Battle.
The libs on the Assembly tried to ram it thru in a bit of parliamentary chicanery last week, but it got beaten back by The Mayor and his allies.
1 good Conservative assembly guy tried to add clauses that would neuter much of it, but that effort failed so now a new group has organized against any form of Agenda 21 whatever.
Posted by: daddy | March 17, 2012 at 06:12 PM
--Here is a little:--
After watching Jane's link it's obvious why the guy is such a terpsichorean phenom and it has nothing to do with his ethnicity either paternal or maternal.
He's a southpaw so naturally he trips the light fantastic. Probably a bon vivant and all round good guy as well.
I'm convinced Bill Clinton and Barry were both forcibly converted to lefties as children.
Posted by: Ignatz | March 17, 2012 at 06:16 PM
The dames of France are fond and free,
And Flemish lips are willing,
And soft the maids of Italy
Ans Spanish eyes are thrilling;
Still, though I bask beneath their smile,
Their charms fail to bind me,
And my heart flies back to Erin's Isle,
To the girl I left behind me.
Posted by: Frau Irisch | March 17, 2012 at 06:18 PM
Heading out in just a few minutes to watch some Irish dancing with some friends. Since I'm mostly English and Swedisih I don't fit in today, but I promised my Irish-American friends not to wear orange. ;)
My kids are half Scots-Irish though! And one's a redhead to boot.
Posted by: Porchlight | March 17, 2012 at 06:25 PM
Hey, Porch! Today, we are *all* Irish.
I loved theis comment at daddy's Sean Connery link:
It's obviously not Connery singing, he doesn't say "shmile".
Posted by: Frau Irisch | March 17, 2012 at 06:32 PM
I think Rowan Atkinson would do a better job,
he's as fervent a believer as Williams,
Posted by: narciso | March 17, 2012 at 06:35 PM
Daddy,
We are having a joint Agenda 21 meeting with 2 tea parties on Tuesday. I expect to be severely freaked out after.
Posted by: Jane (Bad says Obama sucks) | March 17, 2012 at 06:38 PM
Beers and Burgers, have kept from focusing on much of the sillyness, that I see in the meme
stream,
Posted by: narciso | March 17, 2012 at 06:43 PM
Slainte!
Mental health alert-
For pure silliness and avoidance of reality, you might be interested in the series of books by Ian Samson. "The Case of the Missing Books" is the first in the Mobile Library mystery series. Check your library.
"Israel Armstrong is a passionate soul, lured to Ireland by the promise of an exciting new career. Alas, the job that awaits him is not quite what he had in mind. Still, Israel is not one to dwell on disappointment, as he prepares to drive a mobile library around a small, damp Irish town. After all, the scenery is lovely, the people are charming—but where are the books? The rolling library's 15,000 volumes have mysteriously gone missing, and it's up to Israel to discover who would steal them . . . and why. And perhaps, after that, he will tackle other bizarre and perplexing local mysteries—like, where does one go to find a proper cappuccino and a decent
Posted by: Frau Irisch | March 17, 2012 at 06:48 PM
Happy st patrick s day all!
Posted by: NK | March 17, 2012 at 06:48 PM
--I loved theis comment at daddy's Sean Connery link:--
Gives me an idear for the gals here, not that any of these chaps are Irish to me knowledge, but which one gets the top nod, ladies?




For the record that's;
Cary Grant,
Clark Gable,
Robert Taylor and
whoops, that last one was supposed to be Sean Connery but I somehow uploaded a shot of myself instead.
Oh well there is an uncanny resemblance; let's just pretend it's Sean.
Posted by: Ignatz | March 17, 2012 at 06:53 PM
off
Posted by: Ignatz | March 17, 2012 at 06:54 PM
Excellent contest between Murray State and Marquette.
Underdog Murray State has just gone on a mini-run and is up by I think 5. As a TarHeel I lose no sleep seeing Marquette lose.
Go Racers.
Posted by: daddy | March 17, 2012 at 06:54 PM
There are parties going on all night for ST. PATTYS DAY! To find a party in your area, go to FiestaFrog.com now. DOn't miss out. Its free! http://www.FiestaFrog.com
Posted by: Jerry | March 17, 2012 at 07:00 PM
rse - did you find the NYT article about trouble in Mayor Bloomberg's school paradise as charter schools come under fire for trying to recruit ("and hurt") from neighborhood schools?
LUN
Posted by: Frau Irisch | March 17, 2012 at 07:01 PM
Astonishing.
NCAA TV Ads were already revolting enough by constantly running the ones with Alec Baldwin.
Now I've just seen one featuring Charlie Sheen.
Seriously, what the heck do you have to do on the Left to reap the ostracism they so richly deserve.
Posted by: daddy | March 17, 2012 at 07:08 PM
Murray State's clock is about to hit midnight unfortunately.
Posted by: Captain Hate | March 17, 2012 at 07:16 PM
Back in the day ( mid to late nineties), when I was domiciled in London I had 3 large projects and opportunities in Ireland. Spent a lot of time at Heathrow Terminal 1 getting on and off Aer Lingus flights. One of my projects required that I transit by Ennis in County Clare. It was there that the first major experiment with settling African immigrants into Irish life began. Seeing blacks and asians in Dublin was nothing new because of the universities there but in a provincial outpost like Ennis - hard to get use to.
Gmax, I think the term Black Irish is more derived from the shipwreck survivors and deserters of the Spanish Armada that landed on the west coast of Ireland at County Clare. There is a funky but fun golf course at Spanish Point near Doonbeg, not far from Lahinch. Lahinch beside having my favorite golf course is also a surfers hangout. Great surfing on Liscanoor Bay. You can play 18, jump the stone wall by #2 tee box walk to O'Looneys, have a few pints, slip down a dozen oysters, watch the wave riders, then go back and play another round.
Only in Ireland, shughrah beghorah.
Posted by: Jack is Back! | March 17, 2012 at 07:28 PM
As Yogi Berra said upon being told that the Mayor of Dublin was Jewish: only in America.
Posted by: Danube of Thought | March 17, 2012 at 07:34 PM
DoT,
Bob Briscoe was his name. Jewish Mayor of Ireland.
Now Socialist-Near Marxist Ireland is vehemently anti-Israel and pro-Paleos. De Velera turning in his grave.
Posted by: Jack is Back! | March 17, 2012 at 07:49 PM
::of Dublin:: of course. Grrrrrrrrr!
Posted by: Jack is Back! | March 17, 2012 at 07:50 PM
Not all warriors are men. Look for the descendants of Queen Mebh.
LUN
Posted by: Frau Irisch | March 17, 2012 at 08:00 PM
I thought this had been linked earlier but I couldn't find it on the last thread: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304692804577283403171721574.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop
Tom was 2 or 3 years younger than I was; he came in the same class as Len Elmore, Lefty's second recruiting class. I used to see each of them on campus; Tom always walked hunched over and Len always stood tall. My roomie's girl friend (now wife) had a class with Elmore and said he was a great guy.
Anyway I'd just gotten situated in Cleveland when the olympic final was on. When we won it the first time I was happy but couldn't figure out what was going on. When I figured out they were trying to put the fix in I started screaming at the tv to just walk of the floor and let those punks deal with us being still undefeated. But Hank Iba foolishly trusted those lowlife thieves to do the right thing. By the time the replay happened I was pacing around the room like a lunatic. Then we won it a second time and I was hoarse from screaming to just get off the floor as winners. But we consented to the inevitable screw job and I was just babbling "Somebody has to do something about this".
Then the murders happened. To hell with the IOC; which I'm sure is the permanent residence of Avery "the games must go on" Brundage.
Tom's brother Jay was also a Terp who played on the same teams as Gary Williams did. My buds and I used to go to Fort Meade to play ball on the weekend. A couple weekends Jay was there with some of his buds including one guy from Laurel we knew who was kind of stuck up. They didn't want any part of playing with us gym rats but I guarantee if they'd have played us we wouldn't have backed down; we regularly played with the brothers so their ability to intimidate us was nil.
Posted by: Captain Hate | March 17, 2012 at 08:05 PM
JIB,
What did you do for a living?
Posted by: Jane (Bad says Obama sucks) | March 17, 2012 at 08:06 PM
I vote for Cary Grant as most elegant all time.
Posted by: MarkO | March 17, 2012 at 08:13 PM
Too bad Daniel Patrick Moynihan could not take Murray's "bubble" test. (I did not know Moynihan was an "Okie" from Tulsa.) What would his score be, I wonder?
On one of my ocean voyages to Germany, our ship stopped in Cobh, Ireland. It was a beautiful bay, and one of the most unusual "harbors" I have visited.
The ship dropped anchor far enough away from land that we could not see the town through haze and fog. People were taken from the ship by boats which had let local merchants on board to ply their trades until the passengers had disembarked.
Posted by: Frau Irisch | March 17, 2012 at 08:21 PM
JiB. The spanish gene pool was my understanding of 'black irish' as well
Posted by: NK | March 17, 2012 at 08:22 PM
MarkO - I'm glad your birthday was almost perfect. Cary Grant also had a natural flair for comedy to add to the mix. "Bringing Up Baby" and "I Was a Male Warbride" come to mind.
Posted by: Frau Irisch | March 17, 2012 at 08:23 PM
Spent a day in cobh/queenstown -- haunting place given the Titanic and Lusitania connections.
Posted by: NK | March 17, 2012 at 08:26 PM
Clark Gable. He da man!
Posted by: Sara | March 17, 2012 at 08:30 PM
Has to be Archibald Leach.
Posted by: sbw | March 17, 2012 at 08:30 PM
rse, if you're still around, I have a question I posted on the last thread in response to your info. Thanks.
Posted by: rain | March 17, 2012 at 08:34 PM
Love sean connery met him in a manhattan eddie bauer store --he wasn t pleased when i told him i loved his acting. But Bristol england's archibald leach is the best actor and most elegant man of the lot.
Posted by: NK | March 17, 2012 at 08:37 PM
I find it hard to separate their screen lives from their real lives. Clark Gable a wee bit of a cad, Cary Grant and Sean Connery playboys. All good actors though.
But Robert Taylor? In addition to being a great actor, he was great Republican and patriot. That settles the question for me.
Posted by: Chubby | March 17, 2012 at 08:38 PM
Chubby-- cary was a playboy. Sean alas hit his wives and girlfriends. That s reprehensible -- but i still love the guy.
Posted by: NK | March 17, 2012 at 08:40 PM
((he wasn t pleased when i told him i loved his acting))
why not? don't they live for that?
Archie is not my cup of tea. One of the big tragedies of his life was that he flipped for Sophia Loren but she rejected him.
Posted by: Chubby | March 17, 2012 at 08:40 PM
I guess Sean is more in the cad category then.
Posted by: Chubby | March 17, 2012 at 08:42 PM
On your word, Chubby, I will stand with you.
Posted by: centralcal | March 17, 2012 at 08:42 PM
--Sean alas hit his wives and girlfriends.--
I guess the resemblance is less than I thought.
That's about as low as one goes, IMO.
Posted by: Ignatz | March 17, 2012 at 08:42 PM
Chubby-- mr connery said that i 'damn near made a scene walking up and speaking to him'. Apparently he's not a people person
Posted by: NK | March 17, 2012 at 08:43 PM
Ig at least he professes remorse
Posted by: NK | March 17, 2012 at 08:45 PM
--But Robert Taylor? In addition to being a great actor, he was great Republican and patriot.--
If you ever get a chance to see Westward the Women he plays a real bastard (with a heart of gold in the end) superbly.
Also did a western with Richard Widmark that was excellent; of course just about anything with Widmark was excellent. Two underrated actors I'd say.
Posted by: Ignatz | March 17, 2012 at 08:45 PM
--Ig at least he professes remorse--
I guess that beats an uppercut.
Posted by: Ignatz | March 17, 2012 at 08:46 PM
I believe I read somwhere that Robert Taylor was a good personal friend of Ronald Reagan's.
Posted by: Chubby | March 17, 2012 at 08:50 PM
my estimation of Sean Connery has just plummeted. His treatment of women, and his treatment of his fans too, apparently.
Posted by: Chubby | March 17, 2012 at 08:51 PM
Ig-- widmark always played the hard man so i could never call him great. Plus he was a total lefty RED not just pink.
Posted by: NK | March 17, 2012 at 08:51 PM
Chubby. I can t help it. Connery is my all time favorite. Grant, o toole, wayne and caine fill out my top 5.
Posted by: NK | March 17, 2012 at 08:54 PM
--Ig-- widmark always played the hard man so i could never call him great.--
Who played one better?
Posted by: Ignatz | March 17, 2012 at 08:55 PM
My mom would actually hiss when she saw Widmark on screen. He played scoundrels so well she couldn't separate the man and the role.
Posted by: Manuel Transmission | March 17, 2012 at 08:55 PM
Who played one better?
Charles Bronson?
Speaking of typecasts, Bruce Dern and Dennis Hopper were always reliable to play psychos in westerns on tv. As soon as you saw them you knew something weirdly violent was about to occur.
Posted by: Captain Hate | March 17, 2012 at 09:01 PM
I didn't know that about Richard Widmark.
Is Sean Connery a lefty?
Posted by: Chubby | March 17, 2012 at 09:03 PM
--Chubby. I can t help it. Connery is my all time favorite. Grant, o toole, wayne and caine fill out my top 5.--
Grant, Wayne, William Powell, Brian Donlevy and a pile up up at number five; Joel McRae, Jimmy Stewart, James Garner, Mitchum, Lee Marvin, a couple of others.
Actor who never made it really big who should have; Ralph Meeker.
Posted by: Ignatz | March 17, 2012 at 09:03 PM
--Who played one better?
Charles Bronson?--
Even as a heavy Bronson always seemed to have some noble quality.
There wasn't one thing noble in Widmark when he slithered through a scene on his belly.
Posted by: Ignatz | March 17, 2012 at 09:05 PM
Ahhh, right you are, Iggy; I didn't understand the criteria.
Posted by: Captain Hate | March 17, 2012 at 09:13 PM
Democrats sabotaging the VAWA (Violence Against Women Act) - Definition of "conniving, craven cut-throats": American Congressional Democrats.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/03/16/vawa-democrats-play-politics-instead-of-protecting-women
Posted by: OldTimer | March 17, 2012 at 09:19 PM
From OldTimer's link:
Oh yeah, backdoor amnesty and giving up Constitutional rights; what could go wrong?
Posted by: Captain Hate | March 17, 2012 at 09:25 PM
Well the Solon of Scranton, came up with that original effort, that the Supreme Court, roundly slapped down, what could possibly go wrong?
Posted by: narciso | March 17, 2012 at 09:25 PM
rain-you have a reply on the other thread.
Thanks frau. If you believe in distributed intelligence, bunching up the able or industrious in a single school diminishes the others ability to access that knowledge or experience. Collective and public sector adult needs are paramount.
Happy St Patty's day everyone. This night is about as bad as New Years. Glad when red came home and we could bolt the doors. You know you are old when a nice rioja is more interesting than green beer.
Plus none of them were hefeweissens or even a good pale ale.
Posted by: rse | March 17, 2012 at 09:47 PM
rse, I found your link to the De-growth conference and wow that was amazing. The sad thing is most of my profs and classmates would read that bs and rave about its profundity. On page 174, some idiot believes that every citizen has a right to "unconditional" income. IOW, get paid for doing nothing. Makes me cry. Makes me laugh. The idiot finishes with this bit of wisdom. "If an adequate minimum income is paid to all, each becomes free again to define his or her working time according to their needs and the level of consumption which they wish to reach. Society would then take up again the "traditional" logic described by Max Weber, and would direct itself towards voluntary simplicity against the capitalist logic of accumulation."
LOL If this is what France is about, they're door-nail dead doomed.
Posted by: rain | March 17, 2012 at 10:04 PM
Clark Gable was a Republican.
Fantastic, possibly apocryphal story about him meeting Faulkner (then in Hollywood writing screenplays) via a mutual friend. They were picked up at separate addresses in a limo. They were introduced and neither knew who the other was - they basically both harumphed and didn't speak to each other again the entire ride. Ha.
I always preferred Grant to the other three. But I think Gable might have been the most amusing to have a drink with.
Posted by: Porchlight | March 17, 2012 at 10:09 PM
"each becomes free again to define his or her working time according to their needs and the level of consumption which they wish to reach"
Such godlike knowledge of human nature derives no doubt from absolutely accurate self awareness.
Posted by: boris | March 17, 2012 at 10:21 PM
None of the above. I've always had a crush on James Coburn. Wicked grin and twinkling blue eyes. Mmm mmmm mmmm
Best movie though was "What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?". Had Aldo Nova and Harry Morgan and Carroll O'Connor. Funny.
Posted by: Stephanie | March 17, 2012 at 10:29 PM
Archie Leach was horribly, unforgivably abusive to Dyan Cannon. Google that and read up on it.
Posted by: Danube of Thought | March 17, 2012 at 10:55 PM
Huntsman, former REPUBLICAN candidate for president, has now switched and become a democrat. Yikes!
Posted by: Sara | March 17, 2012 at 11:14 PM
If James Mason was in real life a horrible person, I don't want to know about it.
Posted by: Americana Alice (formerly known as AliceH) | March 17, 2012 at 11:15 PM
Not terribly surprising though, Sara,
Posted by: narciso | March 17, 2012 at 11:26 PM
"has now switched and become a democrat"
One wonders which of his rock-ribbed principles have also switched. What does it take to make a normal skin crawl?
Posted by: Danube of Thought | March 17, 2012 at 11:32 PM
Sara, that's probably just a "yike" without a capital or exclamation mark.
rain, don't neglect your studies, but do come back and give us a visit now and then with updates, please.
Posted by: Frau Irisch | March 17, 2012 at 11:40 PM
Widmark's Tommy Udo was one of the great bad guys in history, perhaps recently matched by the guy in No Country for Old Men.
Search YouTube or Google videos for Tommy Udo and the Wheelchair Lady.
He was a radical leftist in his later years.
Posted by: Danube of Thought | March 17, 2012 at 11:42 PM
rain, that sounds like N. Pelosi and Obamacare which would free someone from "working" to pursue his or her dreams as an artist, philosopher or *whatever*.
Posted by: Frau Irisch | March 17, 2012 at 11:46 PM
He does seem to have given Anton Chigurh a run
for his money
Posted by: narciso | March 17, 2012 at 11:49 PM
--perhaps recently matched by the guy in No Country for Old Men--
I found that dude less than compelling simply because he was seemingly omniscient and invincible, which made him a bit of a caricature.
I guess the movie was meant as a contemplation of the nature of evil which led to the caricature but it still made the character inhuman.
Tommy Udo and several other of Widmark's weasels were despicable psychos, but all too human.
Posted by: Ignatz | March 18, 2012 at 12:08 AM