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Lyta_Underhill · 08-05-2003, 09:43 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>And one cannot forget Christopher Lee, the greatest movie actor of all time (next to Vincent Price). <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Those two are always entertaining and SO over the top! Ever seen Theatre of Blood, wherein Vincent Price systematically slays all the critics who have given him a bad review of his acting in the manner of deaths in Shakespearean plays? Not to be missed!But yes, this is about LOTR actors, and alas, Vincent Price was not in LOTR, although he would have made a fetching Gandalf, or in younger days, perhaps Elrond! Anyway, Christopher Lee is appealing to me, simply because he was connected to the literary works he portrayed himself in; I heard he had gotten a sanction from Tolkien to play Gandalf, should a movie be made (but with the codicil that his wonderful voice would be wasted and Saruman would be much more suited to him)-don't quote me on this, but I remember it from the mists of memory. Also, he portrayed Mr. Flay in the BBC adaptation of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast, and he was a friend of Peake when Peake still lived. Chris Lee was always involved in the literary world, and that is one of the things I really like about him! I didn't particularly like the bloody eyes of Dracula, though! Aaaagh! (Where's Mr. Clear Eyes when you need him? )Cheers, Lyta

08-05-2003, 09:43 PM	#188
Lyta_Underhill Haunted Halfling Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: an uncounted length of steps--floating between air molecules Posts: 841	<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>And one cannot forget Christopher Lee, the greatest movie actor of all time (next to Vincent Price). <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Those two are always entertaining and SO over the top! Ever seen Theatre of Blood, wherein Vincent Price systematically slays all the critics who have given him a bad review of his acting in the manner of deaths in Shakespearean plays? Not to be missed!<P>But yes, this is about LOTR actors, and alas, Vincent Price was not in LOTR, although he would have made a fetching Gandalf, or in younger days, perhaps Elrond! <P>Anyway, Christopher Lee is appealing to me, simply because he was connected to the literary works he portrayed himself in; I heard he had gotten a sanction from Tolkien to play Gandalf, should a movie be made (but with the codicil that his wonderful voice would be wasted and Saruman would be much more suited to him)-don't quote me on this, but I remember it from the mists of memory. Also, he portrayed Mr. Flay in the BBC adaptation of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast, and he was a friend of Peake when Peake still lived. Chris Lee was always involved in the literary world, and that is one of the things I really like about him! I didn't particularly like the bloody eyes of Dracula, though! Aaaagh! (Where's Mr. Clear Eyes when you need him? )<P>Cheers,<BR>Lyta __________________ “…she laid herself to rest upon Cerin Amroth; and there is her green grave, until the world is changed, and all the days of her life are utterly forgotten by men that come after, and elanor and niphredil bloom no more east of the Sea.”