Christopher Plummer Climbs The Last Mountain

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This is not an entertainment blog, but a few words about Christopher Plummer are necessary.

When you see movies in kittenhood, you tend to confuse actors with their roles — and even more so when a film is as magical as The Sound of Music. Then later, you realize that the leading man in that movie had nothing but bad things to say about it. It's disappointing, because the criticism is unfair. (SOM is not saccharine, not with director Robert Wise at the helm, and certainly not with Eleanor Parker's immortal "harmonica" line.) And it's maddening because you know that Plummer's subsequent career owed everything to that movie.

Besides, he tore up that Nazi flag so well.

But since he preferred to be known for what he was — a Shakespearean actor — we'll take a moment to appreciate a very Plummeresque in-joke that he delivered in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. You can't appreciate the Bard, his character declared, until you've read him in the original Klingon. We cats PURR.