Posted on 11/02/2015 10:47:15 AM PST by Rummyfan
Rest in peace, Fred Thompson. He was a great American who lived a richer life than most of either his fellow senators or fellow actors. It was always fun when you'd stumble across him grilling someone on TV in that distinctive Tennessee drawl and it took you a moment to figure out whether it was a movie or a Congressional hearing. It happened to me a couple of months back when I came across the hugely enjoyable No Way Out with Kevin Costner, Sean Young, Gene Hackman ...and there's Senator Thompson doing his shtick as director of the CIA. He would have made a very good CIA director. He succeeded at everything he did - law, acting, politics - until he decided to run for president. He would have been a very fine president, too, but he was not, in 2007, the best campaigner, which is a loss to America and to the world.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
RIP.
No Way Out was okay, but I watch it mainly for Sean Young.
Any man who didn’t have the hots for her after Bladerunner,
has a heart of stone.
Steyn ping.
Agreed.
Hot and crazy, just like I like ‘em. (In the movies, I mean. Crazy women scare the hell out of me)
What a nice article.
No gingers.
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