Posted on 05/31/2015 10:35:15 AM PDT by dennisw
Well, Keanu Reeves, the answer is simply Bill & Ted’s excellent adventure, I mean, who can’t play teenage rockers living in 1980s California?
Edwin Booth, founder of The Players, was the older brother of John Wilkes Booth. Edwin was the most successful Shakespearean actor of their generation, while John Wilkes was really good-looking and fancied he could act.
The rest is history.
They’re ready for Hillary. Just doing some meme-building.
Actually, John was a fine actor - and yes, a good-looking devil. I think his reputation was smeared because of his act. Understandable, but his fellow actors thought he was extremely talented but different in style than his brother. What a waste of youth and talent - but he was insane.
Did you know that Edwin Booth saved Lincoln's son, Robert, when he fell between the railway platform and a moving train? Robert wrote:
"The incident occurred while a group of passengers were late at night purchasing their sleeping car places from the conductor who stood on the station platform at the entrance of the car. The platform was about the height of the car floor, and there was of course a narrow space between the platform and the car body. There was some crowding, and I happened to be pressed by it against the car body while waiting my turn. In this situation the train began to move, and by the motion I was twisted off my feet, and had dropped somewhat, with feet downward, into the open space, and was personally helpless, when my coat collar was vigorously seized and I was quickly pulled up and out to a secure footing on the platform. Upon turning to thank my rescuer I saw it was Edwin Booth, whose face was of course well known to me, and I expressed my gratitude to him, and in doing so, called him by name." Link
Yes, that was mentioned in the book I read. Life is full of bizarre coincidences.
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