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

[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.