{"id":1353,"date":"2007-11-16T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isplotchy.com\/blog\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2013-05-04T01:45:09","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T01:45:09","slug":"happy-burgess-meredith-remembrance-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isplotchy.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/happy-burgess-meredith-remembrance-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Burgess Meredith Remembrance Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I feel terrible. A remembrance holiday I created and I almost forgot the dang thing.<\/p>\n

When I first announced this holiday<\/a>, I mentioned it was going to be Mr. Meredith’s 100th birthday.<\/p>\n

I had gotten his birthdate from his IMDB entry<\/a>, but after looking at a few more sites, I think he was born in 1908, not 1907, so this is actually his 99th birthday (I’m shocked, SHOCKED at a factual error on the IMDB).<\/p>\n

What is there to say about the man? I first saw him as the Penguin on reruns of the old Adam West Batman TV show. How many of you reading this can instantly hear his wonderful Penguin laugh? <\/p>\n

Jon Stewart has incorporated it into his frequent impressions of Dick Cheney.<\/p>\n

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Then I saw him as Mickey in the Rocky films:<\/p>\n

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A couple years later I saw a performance that really moved me — Henry Bemis in The Twilight Zone episode ,”Time Enough At Last”. In a documentary I watched about Rod Serling and The Twilight Zone, a talking head mentioned that Serling protagonists are often people with fatal character flaws, that in the end get their comeuppance. But for Henry Bemis, when he breaks his glasses and says, “It’s not fair — It’s not fair”, it really *isn’t* fair – he really didn’t deserve the fate given to him. <\/p>\n

It’s one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes.<\/p>\n

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Please join me in remembering Burgess Meredith.<\/p>\n

Happy Burgess Meredith Remembrance Day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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