Monday, October 31, 2016

In Memoriam, Tripled: 3 Great Actors

So, I hadn't wanted to wait this long to do it, but things just got hectic for me in the past few months.  Only now, at the end of October, am I writing blog posts about what I wanted to write about all this time.  And among them is something for three great actors

...Then again, maybe it is fitting that I'm doing this on Halloween, of all holidays.  Does anyone think maybe they can see this from the great beyond?  Who knows...

And so, without further ado: IN MEMORIAM, TRIPLED

ANTON YELCHIN - The young actor who did Chekov in the few new Star Trek movies (starting with the 2009 reboot) was taken from us well before his time in a freak accident.  And although Terminator: Salvation got not-so-hot reviews for its time, I still liked his role in that as well.(And unlike the other two actors on this list, Mr. Yelchin wasn't among my childhood inspirations, especially seeing as he was somewhat younger than me... ****, I'M OLD!). RIP, Anton Yelchin.

GENE WILDER - As gifted and talented as anyone else, I know him not just from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, but also various other comedies, especially those by Mel Brooks: Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, The Producers, etc.  I also personally grieve for him not just because he's passed on, but because I once lived in the same general area as him and missed a good chance to meet him at a public event (a Borders bookstore, back when the chain was still in business).  RIP, Gene Wilder.

KENNY BAKER - Of course he was best known as being R2-D2 from the Star Wars movies, but he did plenty of other things too.  Only recently when I was rewatching Amadeus (great movie, BTW) on Netflix did I see his name in the end credits, and then recognize him as one of the opera performers towards the end of the movie when they're performing The Magic Flute.  I wonder what else he, or any of these actors, did which I should watch in the future?  RIP, Kenny Baker.

And now I can only hope that I did this post justice.

ADDENDUM: While writing this post, I wondered and then researched how to say something like "in memoriam, tripled" in Latin, just to make it truly cool and sophisticated.  According to my Latin dictionary, the adverb ter means "thrice" so I guess it could be something like "TER IN MEMORIAM" or "IN MEMORIAM TER" (remember, word order in Latin is much more flexible, allowing for more possibilities).

Truly, this is the end of summer (for now)... and Happy Halloween!

Funny, isn't it, how time flies.  I wanted to do an end of summer post all the way back in September (last month), and now here I am on Halloween, well into autumn, posting thoughts on summer after it ended.  I'd say that Halloween is definitely a good indicator of the end of summer (well, for those of us living in the Northern Hemisphere, of course).

So many things I want to say and have wanted to say these few months... and now I'm getting to them.

But first and foremost... HAPPY HALLOWEEN!