The answers… revealed
March 15, 2008Before I rush off to tabulate the entries and declare the winner (although I’m pretty sure who that will be), here are the names you’ve all been waiting breathlessly for. Wait, breathe first. Okay, now read.
- Waylon Jennings, at the height of his craggy sexiness. (Hmmm. Crexiness? Not sagginess – that comes later.)
- Gabriel Byrne.
- Alan Rickman.
- Peter Falk. That’s right, damn it, Peter Falk. Stop laughing, Polly. (I never knew that ol’ Sweatypalms had auditioned for Columbo, but it made me giggle to hear it. I only spent one school year within his icky range of influence, after all.)
- Jeremy Brett, the best Sherlock Holmes ever, and also Audrey Hepburn’s smitten follower in My Fair Lady.
- Robert (quiver) Mitchum.
- Sam Elliott.
- Sean Bean, or as I like to call him, Beanie Meanie, since he always plays villains.
- Ciaran Hinds.
- JEREMY IRONS, Mom. For the love of all things craggy, Jeremy Irons.
Okay, off to count.
Well, I think I can be excused for not identifying your version of Jeremy Brett with this: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm4156464384/tt0108855
But I’m still kicking myself for missing Waylon.
So who gets the prize? Some of us geeks also want stats on how many people got each one right.
See – this is why I didn’t actually enter . . . I only knew the name of one of these craggy folks (alan rickman) and only knew peter falk as Columbo . . . scary!
Well, I suppose that answers my unspoken question: Could anyone have missed Mitchum?
Some people apparently have lives outside of obsessive old movie watching.