Since I still haven't watched Sound of Music, my first exposure to Christopher Plummer was him playing General Chang in Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country, and I was less than enthralled (not due to Plummer, due to all the Shakespeare quoting the script insisted on), which was my reaction to The Undiscovered Country in general. Otoh, then I saw ( Read more... )

This seems to be my week for watching or listening to biographical stories set in the former Soviet Union. Who don't cover entirely lives but brief excerpts. On Friday, it was The Last Station, set during the last year of Tolstoy's life, starring Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer, and today, it was Murder in Samarkand, David Hare's radio play ( Read more... )