Goodbye Gregory Peck

I forgot to mention this, but a check of Peppermint Tina's blog reminded me.

I don't like many "modern" movies. I don't like cussing for the sake of cussing, I don't like sex scenes, I don't like most of the actors and actresses working today. Most of the movies I rent are older than I am.

I rented "To Kill a Mockingbird" about a year ago and it became one of my favorite movies. Mostly because the characters were so right - Gregory Peck was like I pictured Atticus Finch looking and acting.

I've seen bits and pieces of his other movies, like "Roman Holiday" (It seems that AMC chooses to run the good movies right as I'm eating breakfast and getting ready to go to work, and saving the b-grade monster flix and late-70s "problem" movies for when I'm home in the evening).

somehow, the old-movie actors - who are almost all dead, now- Peck, and Jimmy Stewart, and Cary Grant (yes, yes, I know but I can pretend...), and Rex Harrison...they seem much more handsome to me, and more interesting to me, than the lads who are acting now.