The Man From U N C L E O Program
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Just got here (5 years late, but what the hell ...). MeTV reran "The Project Strigas Affair" twice in one week - once as part of a Nimoy tribute, and again today (3/5/15) as part of the regular sequence on H&I (formerly MeTOO). About Peggy Ann Garner: I may have the dates wrong, but wasn't this episode made during her marriage to Albert Salmi? Just askin', is all ...
Sheen : If I'm going in that direction. So I'm driven back from Bakersfield and I'm passing by this shopping center and Major League was playing. This was about two weeks after it opened and I'd never seen it so I thought this is an opportune time. It was so hot, and the air conditioning was on in the theater, and there were only two other people besides me. And I watched Major League which I loved. There's a moment when Charlie [Sheen, my son] comes out of the bullpen in the big game and they started playing "Wild Thing" and I started to weep and said "go get 'em kid!
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Field : Thank you! I would say most actors have difficulty watching themselves at all. Now, as I've reached an age, it's really hard to look at yourself. I really may not ever see it (don't tell anybody!), for a very selfish reason! It's 3D for God's sakes, I wasn't good with myself on a television screen!
Sheen : You know, Sally will confirm, the director Marc Webb wanted us to be simple and honest with each other and really enjoy each other's company. Forget any image of the characters that is well known. Make it alive and personal is what Webb told us. We knew those relationships would ground the whole story.
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I love Werner Klemperer beyond all reason, by the way. Moi aussi. Others have harsh words for his signature series, Hogan's Heroes , because it dared to poke fun at the Nazis but I thought Klemperer was a first-rate farceur and deserving of every Emmy they handed to him. (I also used to do a pretty good Klink impression until this damn parathyroid operation left me sounding like Joe E. Lewis.) And when Klemperer agreed to do a bit on The Simpsons ...ah...magic, mon chere...
Watching myself on television, for example, I'd always warn the family what was coming. We'd gather to watch a West Wing episode or some movie of the week that I'd done and I'd say "this is going to happen and you're gonna feel this way about it!" [ Laughs .] I can control the audience with a television program!
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Sheen : I'm drawn to characters, if I can relate to them personally all the better. For an artist, any artist, if it's not personal, it's impersonal; if it's impersonal, nobody cares. I'm challenged by playing villains, which is what I'm playing in Mass Effect I think? I've never seen it, because I don't have a computer, and I'm not very computer savvy!
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With a movie, I think I'd prefer to go to a movie that I was in after it was opened, for good or ill, and I'd sit with an audience to get an honest reaction. I remember one time, I was taking someone up to Bakersfield in the middle of a hot summer day. Their bus was late and I drove them up. I knew them!
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You know, as I said, I'm attracted to things that speak to me personally, whether it's a villain or a hero. In this case, what attracted to me about this show, frankly, is the lady next to me. Denis Leary, I'd never worked with him before and I am very fond of him. Very fond, particularly of the lady next to me, and I knew it was going to be a sweet ride. i got to play a character; I'm a father, a husband and a grandfather, so I had some familiarity with raising kids and grandkids, albeit not always successfully.
And I like Shatner's accent in 12 O'Clock High almost as much as his effort to play a German soldier in "The Promise" (Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond, 1960) I've got a fairly good smattering of One Step Beyonds here at the house but that one's not in my collection. Sounds like one I'll have to track down some time.
I loved comic books, I was a real comic book freak as a kid, but I read the ones marketed to girls. Archie, I read those. My brother read all the Spider-Man, my brother, who is a world-renowned physicist. He's so excited about this movie, finally I'm arrived! I'm familiar with the movies somewhat, but I never read [the comics], still to this day.