Long-legged mazes and English geometry

[sovay]

Look, I have spent my evening mostly lying on a couch under a cat, occasionally sitting up at my desk with a cat on my lap, doing nothing of use to anyone, not even watching movies; I am delighted to discover that Sam Waterston in the 1970's had a modeling career.



I really did compliment him on his eyebrows. I was very dehydrated at the time. I maintain it was the right call.



It's like I put in a request at the library or something.

Comments

[niqaeli]

I have to admit his eyebrows really are magnificent. I am not sure I'd have complimented him on them, but I would have certainly admired them had I encountered them in person.

[sovay]

I am not sure I'd have complimented him on them, but I would have certainly admired them had I encountered them in person.

I try to tell people when I find them amazing-looking, unless it would come off as creepy. Also I'd been awake for a couple of days.

[gwynnega]

In general I feel that he didn't fully grow into his face until middle age, but that black-and-white photo is making me reevaluate that opinion.

[sovay]

In general I feel that he didn't fully grow into his face until middle age, but that black-and-white photo is making me reevaluate that opinion.

This is the youngest I've seen him! Previously it was Hopscotch (1980). He's got great bones and he's gorgeous and a little dorky. I'm astonished no one ever cast him as sensitive Romantic poets or doomed Edwardian youth or something.

[thisbluespirit]

It's the season for unexpected 70s male model pics?

Those are splendid eyebrows, so that seems only right and fair.

I hope that you feel much better soon, but glad that you at least have a cat in the meantime. <3

[sovay]

It's the season for unexpected 70s male model pics?

I had no idea they came in seasons! I wonder what you get at other times of year.

Those are splendid eyebrows, so that seems only right and fair.

He's gone dramatically grey in the years since, but the eyebrows are still good.

I hope that you feel much better soon, but glad that you at least have a cat in the meantime.

Thank you.

[thisbluespirit]

I had no idea they came in seasons! I wonder what you get at other times of year.

If we're talking character actors, it's probably best not to ask. It could be anything...

[sovay]

If we're talking character actors, it's probably best not to ask. It could be anything...

"Ah, I see it's time for the late spring breakdown again . . ."

[thisbluespirit]

Followed by the regular summer apocalypse?

[ashlyme]

I hadn't heard of Waterston before now, but he's pretty in a quiet way. He looks like a trickster - one of the nicer ones. He's reining in his Puck. Actually, "whip-thin, flop-haired, one scampy grin of a guy" - sounds rather like one of your characters! I guess the eyebrows got more fearsome with age.

[ashlyme]

I really need to explore some Neko Case because my gods I like that lyric. Hope the cats were good for you.

[sovay]

I really need to explore some Neko Case because my gods I like that lyric.

It's from her most recent album, Hell-On (2018), and all her songs are full of lines like that. I got it from rushthatspeaks via "Last Lion of Albion": "Drop a mercury dime down a Roman drain and summon Mars . . ."

Hope the cats were good for you.

Thank you! Drs. Hestia and Autolycus always know what the patient needs: enforced rest and plenty of attention to the cats.

[sovay]

I hadn't heard of Waterston before now, but he's pretty in a quiet way.

He's probably most famous for Law & Order, where his ADA, later DA Jack McCoy was a main character for sixteen out of its twenty seasons; it's certainly where I discovered him. And where I've seen the most of him, honestly. His best-regarded film is The Killing Fields (1984) and I haven't seen any of his stage work either unless you count his appearance at Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear in 2010. He seems to be the rare combination of high-profile working actor and decent human being—he's got a bunch of kids and some of them are actors and all of them seem to have turned out all right. I have generally positive feelings toward him and I'd never seen him so young.

He looks like a trickster - one of the nicer ones. He's reining in his Puck.

I like that description.

Actually, "whip-thin, flop-haired, one scampy grin of a guy" - sounds rather like one of your characters!

. . . I can't argue that.

[kore]

Pre L&O he was famous for I'll Fly Away in which he also played a DA, and wore regrettable suspenders, and I think the first thing I ever saw him in was the seventies Gatsby movie (he was Nick) or Mindwalk. He also played Lincoln a bunch, but yeah, he'll always be Jack McCoy.

Oh, I didn't know he was Benedick! And Oppenheimer too! Wow.

[sovay]

and I think the first thing I ever saw him in was the seventies Gatsby movie (he was Nick)

Was it any good? I am periodically curious about it; it has such a good-on-paper cast, but it's such a famously unfilmable book.

[ethelmay]

That plaid coat is totally cracking me up. It seems designed to suggest that he has an hourglass (or at least egg-timer) figure, rather than a thermometer one.

[sovay]

It seems designed to suggest that he has an hourglass (or at least egg-timer) figure, rather than a thermometer one.

I worried about him getting eaten by his lapels. But he seems to be holding his own.

[ethelmay]

Also I keep seeing what is visible of his sweater as an enormous ascot.

[pameladean]

What you were doing was of a great deal of use to the cats you were under.

THOSE PHOTOS. THAT SOULFUL GAZE. GOOD GRIEF.

p.

[sovay]

What you were doing was of a great deal of use to the cats you were under.

Thank you. That is a true and useful thing to remember.

THOSE PHOTOS. THAT SOULFUL GAZE. GOOD GRIEF.

I KNOW RIGHT.

[asakiyume]

Aww, his response line to your compliment is A++

[sovay]

Aww, his response line to your compliment is A++

Honestly it still makes me happy.

[kore]

I CAN'T TAKE THE SOULFUL GAZE AND THE GOREY-ESQUE COAT //swoons

[sovay]

I CAN'T TAKE THE SOULFUL GAZE AND THE GOREY-ESQUE COAT //swoons

OH MY GOD IT IS A GOREY-ESQUE COAT. THE CURIOUS SOFA LIVES.