Christopher Plummer is not the wild drinker he was in the bacchanals of the 1960s. ''My present wife of now 42 years, she told me when we were first going out together, way back in the past, that I wasn't as attractive or as funny as I thought I was when I was drunk,'' Mr. Plummer said. ''She said, 'Let me tell you, you're a very unpleasant, lousy...
For an orchestra that has not yet opened its season, the New York Philharmonic has been awfully busy. In the last two weeks it played two performances of ''West Side Story,'' offered Mahler's Second Symphony as a 10th anniversary commemoration of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and accompanied Andrea Bocelli in Central Park. It topped off the list...
There is all manner of love crisscrossing through ''Beginners,'' connecting mothers and fathers, parents and children, sons and lovers, men and their dogs. The love feels heartfelt but it's difficult loving other people (the dog has it easy), a hardship that's evident in the happy-tearful faces, the tentative touches and searching glances that make...
Christopher Plummer, egentlig Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer, (født 13. december 1929 i Toronto, Ontario, Canada) er en canadisk teater-, tv- og filmskuespiller.
Han har teaterbaggrund fra Montreal, og filmdebuterede i 1958. Han fik et stort gennembrud med rollen som Kaptajn von Trapp i The Sound of Music (1965). Har siden spillet Rudyard Kipling i The Man Who Would Be King (Manden der ville være konge, 1975) og Sherlock Holmes i Murder by Decree (Mord på beregning, 1979). Han havde hovedrollen i Eyewitness (Øjenvidnet, 1981) og biroller i Malcolm X (1992) og Wolf (1994). Hans datter Amanda Plummer (f. 1957) har også skabt sig et navn som skuespiller, bl.a. med rollerne i The Fisher King (1991) og Pulp Fiction (1994). Plummer vandt Oscar for bedste mandlige birolle for sin rolle i Beginners (2011). Fold ud