Gregory Peck 1916-2003
Gregory Peck in “The Gunfighter”, 1950
In his Oscar-winning performance as Atticus Finch in “To Kill A Mockingbird”, 1962
Gregory Peck was a full-fledged movie actor for his whole career, enjoying top billing in nearly every film he starred in.
He played a sexy, swaggering cowboy in 1950’s “The Gunfighter” and was sexier still in “Roman Holiday”, also starring the late, great, Audrey Hepburn. He is perhaps best known though, for his portrayal of Alabama lawyer and family man Atticus Finch in the movie based on Harper Lee’s novel “To Kill A Mockingbird”.
Few such books-made-into-movies are as successful as this one was. Not only that but the novel became a book classic, a masterpiece of American literature, heralded by young people, students and teachers alike. I remember it well as a subject of study when I was but 13.
In a candid recent interview, Peck recalls watching the film (back around the time all Oscar buzz was surrounding it) and thought he saw author Harper Lee crying as she watched also. He said to her, “Harper, what’s that glistening on your cheek?” and she cried out in joy through her tears, “Oh Gregory, my daddy’s got a little pot belly just like you have!”. Gregory laughed and replied, “Well, that’s great acting, of course!”
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Here is my South Park Chick, everyone!
You can go here to make one of your own.
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I’m in the process of importing all my Manila and Blogger entries as we speak.
You never fully realize just how much junk you have blogged about for the last 3+ years, until you perform this process.
Yikes! I’m getting rid of alot of crap.
More to come later!
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Whoopee. This is my SECOND attempt at creating a blog using MT. The first one crapped out on me after I discovered my archive was wrong and then after many rebuilds and no success, I gave up.
Such a quitter.
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