Happy Birthday, David
Born today in 1933 - David McCallum (my first tv crush, as Illya Kuryakin of course!) It's good to see he's still working.
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You cannot leave. You cannot drop the armor now. Why? Because you are needed, more than ever. You are mandatory to keep the energy flowing, the karmic vibrator buzzing, to keep the progressive and lucid half of the nation breathing and healthy and awake and ever reaching out to the half that's wallowing in fear and violence and homophobia and sexual dread, hoping to find harmony instead of cacophony, common ground instead of civil war, some sort of a shared love of a country so messy and internationally disrespected and openly confused its own president can't even speak the language.
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I always liked David McCallum. It's hard to see him as an old man, but then it's hard to see myself as an old man, too. Of course he's waaa-aa-aay older than me. And it is great that he's still working. And it's great that the original David McCallum is still there, behind that mask of old age.
Getting older is vastly preferable to the alternative. And goodness knows McCallum can still deliver even the simplest line with such eloquence.
I heard Terry Gross interview him on "Fresh Air" some years ago (probably when "NCIS" was new), and seem to recall that his father was a violinist and symphony conductor, so David grew up around classical music, for whatever that's worth -- quite a lot, IMHO.
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