Pullman
Well, I'm here.
And I won't have internet access in my appartment until the middle of next week.
Ack.
Until then, it looks like I'll have to interact with that lovely thing called "reality" that I hear so many people ranting and raving about.
Oh, wait... I have a huge DVD collection. Nevermind.
Recently, the GF and I watched the entire Band of Brothers mini-series on HBO. If you haven't seen it yet, I highly reccomend it. Gut-wrenching and sobering... all in a very good way.
We were watching the interviews and special features, and we came across Ron Livingston's (Little Black Book, Office Space... he played Lt. Nixon in Band of Brothers) video diaries. In one of the interviews, he had to call Captain Winters to get information about his character (Nixon). What surprised me was that he was nervous about calling him. You know, in the way that a "normal person" would be about meeting a big name actor like Sean Connery or something like that. But Winters was an ordinary man who had done extra-ordinary things as the leader of Easy Company and then later on as a batallion leader in the 101st. Livingston had read about all of Winters' accomplishments in the Stephen Ambrose book about Easy Company and from other historical documents and was nervous about meeting him because he thought he was "larger than life."
Huh.
A famous actor, well known for portraying people that he isn't, nervous about meeting a real person, "starstruck" by the real things that the real person had done.
Now THAT'S the way it should be.
And I won't have internet access in my appartment until the middle of next week.
Ack.
Until then, it looks like I'll have to interact with that lovely thing called "reality" that I hear so many people ranting and raving about.
Oh, wait... I have a huge DVD collection. Nevermind.
Recently, the GF and I watched the entire Band of Brothers mini-series on HBO. If you haven't seen it yet, I highly reccomend it. Gut-wrenching and sobering... all in a very good way.
We were watching the interviews and special features, and we came across Ron Livingston's (Little Black Book, Office Space... he played Lt. Nixon in Band of Brothers) video diaries. In one of the interviews, he had to call Captain Winters to get information about his character (Nixon). What surprised me was that he was nervous about calling him. You know, in the way that a "normal person" would be about meeting a big name actor like Sean Connery or something like that. But Winters was an ordinary man who had done extra-ordinary things as the leader of Easy Company and then later on as a batallion leader in the 101st. Livingston had read about all of Winters' accomplishments in the Stephen Ambrose book about Easy Company and from other historical documents and was nervous about meeting him because he thought he was "larger than life."
Huh.
A famous actor, well known for portraying people that he isn't, nervous about meeting a real person, "starstruck" by the real things that the real person had done.
Now THAT'S the way it should be.
posted by Raoul The Destroyer at 2:33 PM
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