Orson Welles also comes to mind, though I noticed he spoke in this mode more often during his early days, on and off screen. By strange coincidence, I actually became quite good friends with his (ex-)in-laws here in Manhattan. No one realized till the next day that this was the weather that created the extreme blue skies of Sept. 11a condition I since learned that pilots call severe clear. The next day, friends called and said, That was the last party. A little before my time, but Kennedy certainly didnt, even if his vernacular was more formal than Brandos. My dad could never say what he feltnot reallyand neither can any of us. Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career. Description above from the Wikipedia article George Plimpton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of . [29], With Felix Grucci, Plimpton competed in the 16th International Fireworks Festival in 1979 in Monte Carlo. Whether on the football field or on a golf course or in a poem or an essay, the notion of human talent in whatever form excited him. [45], Plimpton is the protagonist of the semi-fictional George Plimpton's Video Falconry, a 1983 ColecoVision game postulated by humorist John Hodgman and recreated by video game auteur Tom Fulp.[46]. Charles McGrath, editor of the New York Times Book Review:I dont think George had played golf in years, but he used to save up oddball tips for me and others. "[44], In 2006, the musician Jonathan Coulton wrote the song entitled "A Talk with George", a part of his 'Thing a Week' series, in tribute to Plimpton's many adventures and approach to life. That tension between what was in his heart and what his voice allowed him to express is the basic tension of language we all face, only heightened. In fact, my dads farewells seemed loquacious in comparison to his mothers. [21] The prank was so successful that many readers believed the story, and the ensuing popularity of the joke resulted in Plimpton's writing an entire book on Finch.
George Ames Plimpton (1927 - 2003) - Genealogy - geni family tree George Plimpton writer, publisher, amateur lion tamer died in 2003 after 50 years as the founding editor of The Paris Review. George Plimpton: what kind of accent? Now you know! I live in Connecticut which is both the richest and poorest state in the union - I think we still are - and we have our fair share of extremely rich folk who sit around all day in their large victorians wearing rockport loafers, no sox, khaki pants and a polo-shirt with the collar up. He was a great addition to the human race. He had been in the war, if briefly (stationed in Italy towards the end of it, hed missed action, but met the Pope, an early sign of the great good fortuneone of his favorite phrasesthat marked his life). 2) Truman v. Kaltenborn, 1949. But for now, just one more category: 3) Changing technology, changing voices. So it was that my father played himself not just in movies and on TV, but in life, too. Hear Stories By George Plimpton. But he could easily have said, Alice, I have enough trouble raising money for my magazine.. Big, tall, good-looking guy, easy-going. Read more. Plimpton played Tom Hanks's antagonistic father in Volunteers. Thats where there was that cross-section you once found in Parisof literary people, of people who were illiterate, of people down on their luck, and people of status. George . How widespread, numerically and geographically? Well, perhaps it's more accurate to say that the book provided entertaining confirmation to millions of people that they -- like the author . Was this sheer affectation? 08:37 Dinner at Elaine's. by George Plimpton. At Harvard, Plimpton was a classmate and close personal friend of Robert F. Kennedy. After her transformation, I noted that Mia sounds precisely like her mother, Maureen OSullivan, who had that patrician manner of speaking on and off screen. Starring George Plimpton as Himself, the writer James Salter said of Plimpton that "he was writing in a genre that really doesn't permit greatness. But he would do this in the most charming and agreeable way. He came from a family where such endearments were not expressed, and phone conversations were curt. With such a useful explanation, why do I gripe about the name? *Originally posted by j.c. * He was one of her original supporters and had published an article about her work in The Paris Review.
Oh, I suppose we should all just lavish praise upon Carnac the Magnificent now for bringing this to your attention, is that it? He loved the ones that made a lot of noise and racket and excitement. Even Orson Welles on occasion. Speaking of which, didnt the young Jackie Kennedy have something of this, along with a kinda dreamy, airy, Monroe-esque (though many degrees less contrived) essence to it? I think all the editors who worked at the magazine can recount a time when they ascended to his office to argue for a particular story that had been submitted, certain that George hadnt read it or hadnt read it closely enough, only to stand gape-mouthed as he reeled off, from memory, its every deficiency. Of course, my dad had tried out for the role of himself and not gotten it, though he would go on to have a steady film career playing one version or another of a striking white-haired figure with a distinguished, chivalrous voice in bit roles in some twenty or so movies, including Reds and Good Will Hunting. Fortunately, in the upcoming film Plimpton! If you are in the big league, God help us all. We all just had our own regional accentor non accent, like the flat midwest speak.
The Very Good Life Of George Plimpton - The Washington Post [26] He also appeared in an episode of the NBC sitcom Wings. He had it, as does/did William Buckley, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, and Julia Child. To me, it meant admission to this little exclusive club at the Paris Review. $ 4.19 - $ 17.92. The Writers won the game with a home run in extra innings, but the highlight was Plimptons hit. She would not even say goodbye. George Plimpton, who died last week at his town house, on East Seventy-second Street near the river, was a serious man of serious accomplishments who just happened to have more fun than a van. George Ames Plimpton (March 18, 1927 - September 25, 2003) was an American journalist, writer, literary editor, actor and occasional amateur sportsman. George Plimpton Dec 1, 2014 In which the venturous author, the rawest rookie pro football has ever known, recounts all the excruciating details of what happened when he called five plays as. And here for the full interview). Between 2000 and 2003, Plimpton wrote the libretto to a new opera, Animal Tales, commissioned by Family Opera Initiative, with music by Kitty Brazelton directed by Grethe Barrett Holby. He hosted Disney Channel's Mouseterpiece Theater (a Masterpiece Theatre spoof which featured Disney cartoon shorts). Peter Matthiesen, author, co-founder of the Paris Review:I was in Liberia, of all places, and George met me in Monrovia. Your transparent jealousy is very unbecoming, Carnac. expelled from the very expensive, very WASP-y Philips I have decided, he said, that I have got to jump from a plane. A graduate of Harvard University and King's College, Cambridge, Plimpton was recruited to Paris by Peter Matthiessen in 1952 and signed on to the project shortly thereafter. That was when Westbrook van Voorhis, the famous March of Time voice, did the intro narration of the pilot episode of The Twilight Zone. I just heard that George Plimpton has died. * One reader writes: I've wondered whether that "announcer English" was at least partly caused by poor loudspeakers and microphones. .
ESPN.com: GEN - George Plimpton dies Plimpton, George 1927-2003 | Encyclopedia.com To me, Mid-Atlantic English is the nom juste for a related but distinct phenomenon (which is also mentioned in Wikipedia). George Plimpton. There was love thereactually, his inability to express it sometimes made him positively brim with itbut speak the words, his voice could not. During our time in Paris, he had a famous little car, a dark blue Peugeotit was mine originally; I sold it to himand it had to be seen to be believed. Even in the UK we sometimes subtitle various Scots dialects on the news and TV and whatnot, so it makes sense that he wouldn't go full Dundee for the show. On Sept. 26, George Plimpton died in his sleep, at the age of 76.
What accent does Logan have in the show? : r/SuccessionTV H.V. Plimpton entered Harvard as a member of the Class of 1948, but did not graduate until 1950 due to intervening military service. Plimpton[2] was born in New York City on March 18, 1927, and spent his childhood there, attending St. Bernard's School and growing up in an apartment duplex on Manhattan's Upper East Side located at 1165 Fifth Avenue. And the role of Katharine Hepburn, whose Locust Valley Lockjaw accent was a cousin of announcer-speak: I was just discussing this not a week ago with a friend who has done voice work in film and television, and can adopt this accent in an instant to evoke that period, much to my amusement. One of the magazine's most notable discoveries was author and screenplay writer Terry Southern, who was living in Paris at the time and formed a lifelong friendship with Plimpton, along with writer Alexander Trocchi and future classical and jazz pioneer David Amram. Plimpton played quarterback for the Detroit Lions and triangle for the New York Philharmonic, an. (What else happened that year??? Description above from the Wikipedia article George Plimpton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of .
George Plimpton: what kind of accent? - Straight Dope Message Board Besides, third is a very respectable showing!
'Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself' TV review - SFGATE George Plimpton: Writer, Quarterback, Pitcher, Boxer, Triangle Player Cambridge. Whee!! As a result, this American version of a posh accent has all but disappeared even among the American upper classes. Robert Silvers, editor, the New York Review of Books:I met George on the Ile Saint-Louis in 1953 as I was leaving NATO headquarters. Between 1945 and 1948, Plimpton was a soldier in the United States Army. And he stood there ebullient and charming all night; he bid on many items himself. So we got together and, after some preliminaries, he popped the question that he was really there to ask. . [29], His enthusiasm for fireworks grew, and he was appointed Fireworks Commissioner of New York by Mayor John Lindsay,[29][30] an unofficial post he held until his death. The Paris Review was a testimony to his literary taste and his sense of glamour. [3] During the summers, he lived in the hamlet of West Hills, Huntington, Suffolk County on Long Island. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. Plimpton, along with former decathlete Rafer Johnson and American football star Rosey Grier, was credited with helping wrestle Sirhan Sirhan to the floor when Kennedy was assassinated following his victory in the 1968 California Democratic primary at the former Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. & FDR, George Plimpton, William F. Buckley, etc. Hed go on to move freely through so many worlds and circles, without ever not speaking in that singular accentthough it probably would have made life easier for him if hed adopted a new way of talking (after all, as a journalist in the locker rooms, where slang and cursing were art-forms, my dads stiff, formal tongue made him stick out like an egret among ducks). Talking about sports with Georgeor, even better, reading George about sportswas more fun than sports themselves. In no way do I recall Plimpton talking in a way that is typically associated with LLa style which, as I understand it, is associated with unclear pronunciation of most consonant cluster. Plimpton had a quasi-Brit patrician accent, which in no way corresponds with the official descriptions of LL that Ive read on the Net. I can understand your frustration, but celebrities die every day. [citation needed], Outside the literary world, Plimpton was famous for competing in professional sporting events and then recording the experience from the point of view of an amateur.
George Plimpton Net Worth See Inside George Plimpton's Upper East Side Duplex I dont give a rats ass about informing anyone about the death of Plimpton. I had made about five thousand egg and tuna sandwiches. And I felt such love for my sweet old excited dad at that moment that I thought I would do him the favor of not telling him so, of leaving it unsaid. He is also credited with saving, Learn how and when to remove this template message, Plimpton! Rose Styron, wife of William Styron and former Paris Review editor:My husband Bill was with George when he started the Paris Review. In another cartoon in The New Yorker, a patient looks up at the masked surgeon about to operate on him and asks, "Wait a minute! The fake English announcer voice lingered on sporadically until the end of the Johnson administration in newsreels, which themselves ceased production around the same time, but Rod Serlings decision sounded the death knell for that accent. They were born to Plimpton and his second wife, Sarah Dudley, 26 years younger than he, who is chairwoman of the East Harlem Tutorial Program, for which he was a trustee. When I spoke to him my voice went up an octave and took on his formal tone and became careful and unnatural; his voice became like his fathersstern, authoritative, disciplinarianwhen his father was the last person in the universe he wanted to be. Ever. While I don't normally think of Lithgow as speaking with a Mid-Atlantic accent, he does a great job affecting one for the role. **, In this case, Mid-Atlantic refers to speech in which the attributes of British English and American English meet halfway. Its a joke to say 500 of my closest friends, but that would have been true with George1,000 of his closest friends, actually. Isnt that what they call it.
My Father's Voice | The New Yorker George Plimpton | The New Yorker Think of the accent of Jane Hathaway on the Beverly Hillbillies. Impressively liberated from our opulent life-style, Sidd's deciding about yogaand his future in baseball. He did these jobs, and many others, as an amateur.. He could as easily have been my grandfather as father. The first minute is a cameo by Henry Ford II, who speaks in an utterly flat Midwest rather than Mid-Atlantic accent that no one would call elegant but that would sound perfectly natural in 2015. 1. The film used archival audio and video of Plimpton lecturing and reading to create a posthumous narration. Plimpton scowled, and said he was perfectly capable of running for himself. What fine manners he had! Exeter Academy after an incident involving a OK? Gay Talese, author:As a young man not long out of university, at 26, 27 years of age, George Plimpton went with his friends to Paris to be benighted in the tradition of Paris culture. Queen Elizabeth doesnt say car, and neither did Franklin D. Roosevelt, nor did the newsreel announcers or movie actors of his day. Mia had the perfect model! [37] His son, Taylor, described it as a mixture of "old New England, old New York, tinged with a hint of King's College King's English."[14].
The Moth | The Art and Craft of Storytelling Hes just trying it out and will come back and write a book about his experiences. George Plimpton, who has died aged 76, became a best-selling author by not only writing about sporting heroes but by participating in those sports as well. tweedy demeanor and Oxford accent. 2023 Cond Nast. He was not himself interested in poetry, but he read all of the poems every quarter, and he would tell me what he thought of them. The name George Plimpton is synonymous with a kind of all-in participatory journalism. And so when it was time to say goodbye, we did so simplyno awkwardness, no strangled expressions of affectionand this is why, even though it was the last time we ever spoke, and I would never get the chance again, I do not regret not telling him that I loved him.
An Evening With George Plimpton - 2000 - YouTube He said, You better stay here, and I did, for a while. 2) The Role of Broadway and Hollywood, and the Shift from Jimmy Cagney to Marlon Brando. In 1994, Plimpton appeared several times in the Ken Burns series Baseball, in which he shared some personal baseball experiences as well as other memorable events throughout the history of baseball.[20]. **Mid-Atlantic. At one point, there was a tremendous Wagnerian thunder and lighting storm. He knew we were just as good as he was, but in a different field. [2] His first wife, whom he married in 1968[38] and divorced in 1988, was Freddy Medora Espy, a photographer's assistant. In the offices of the Paris Review, he displayed far more discerning tastes. Plimpton also appeared in a number of feature films as an extra and in cameo appearances. [2], In 1975, in Bellport, Long Island, Plimpton, with Fireworks by Grucci attempted to break the record for the world's largest firework. NEW YORK -- George Plimpton, the self-deprecating author of "Paper Lion" and other sporting adventures and a patron to Philip Roth, Jack Kerouac and countless other writers, has died. The point of the flipped prestige markers is that generally the fewer the Rs, the fancier the person. I can understand your frustration, but celebrities die every day. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. It came from a different era, shouldnt have still existed, but nevertheless, there it wasold New England, old New York, tinged with a hint of Kings College Kings English. He has the same type of patrician upper-class New Yorker accent as Jane Wyatt. He called his computer the machine. At dinner, when offered seconds, he would often decline by saying, Thank you, no, Ive had a gracious plenty. He called my mom Puss (this was also the name of our fat, raccoon-striped cat, though he was Mr. Return of the Big Bopper. He's a pitcher, part yogi and part recluse. He never went all the way, though his authenticity and newly-downstyle speaking could probably be marked in the crisis/triumph stages of his reporting: the death of JFK; the Vietnam report; the moon landing. Havent heard that term in years.
How George Washington Spoke (Brief Thoughts) | Dialect Blog **Thats a common name for such an accent. This book is the party that was George's life-and it's a big one-attended by scores of famous people, as well as.
"Hut-Two-Three . . Ugh" A writer proves to be a Paper Lion at QB The s. After the technology improved the need to speak so histrionically went away, and so did "announcer English.".
Been there, done that | Books | The Guardian He wanted to play his own part, but they wouldnt let him. (My dads been dead nearly ten years: not that he held many in his life, but what grudges could he possibly be holding on to now?
Articles by George Plimpton - Sports Illustrated Vault | SI.com He watched the first pitch sail high for a ball, and then hit a rope into left field. rejoiced in the name of Euphemia van Renssalaer Wyatt. [23] He was also notable for his appearance in television commercials during the early 1980s, including a memorable campaign for Mattel's Intellivision. Is it in evidence among the Gen X set of Boston, or a passing phenomenon? George Plimpton was a literary man about town who did it all, from co-founding The Paris Review to boxing (and dribbling and quarterbacking) with the pros. I think the term Old Money or patrician pretty much says it. Another entertainment-related explanation for the shift, right about the time of the Eisenhower-Kennedy transition: The plumby announcer voice that hovers over the Atlantic midway between the Eastern Seaboard and England was mortally wounded in 1959. George Plimpton Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family . I believe the accent was at one time known as Larchmont Lockjaw. The Mid-Atlantic accent, or Transatlantic accent, is a . ), this isnt some kind of morbid contest to see who can be the first to inform the board of some celebritys death. Was it me?
George Plimpton - Wikipedia Interesting that the two competitors for his anchor chair were both fully vernacular speakers from the South and West: Mudd and Rather. Off screen, George Plimpton and Gore Vidal come to mind. [Then] this August he showed up, pulled the shirt over his head, and said he was ready to bat. The Wikipedia entry for it is quite detailed. What will you be mad about ten years after youre gone?). Plimpton would not boast of his feat, so we did. . George Plimpton gives an auction winner a star-studded walk through the legendary NYC eatery Elaine's. A heuristic approximation! That life couldnt contain him, hed burst its seams like it was an old coat two sizes too small. So think of Margaret Anderson or Amanda and you can place George. After several problems with transporting and preparing the fireworks, Plimpton and Grucci became the first competitors from the United States to win the event. That was how it was in New York in those days, George just dragged it out a bit longer." Dudley Plimpton suspects the excess contributed to Plimpton's death in his sleep in 2003, at the age of 76. He once said that, in writing Paper Lion, he wanted to reveal the "humor and grace" of football. 1) The linguists have a name for it: they call it Mid-Atlantic English. I dont like this name, for reasons Ill explain in a minute.
An Oral History of George Plimpton: The Man Does Everything - Observer Just listen to very early recordings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, back even before microphones, when singers had to yell directly into a large cone and over-enunciate so that their voices would be recorded into something intelligible on a spinning wax cylinder or disk. The clipped, non-rhotic English accents of George Plimpton and William F. Buckley Jr. were vestigial examples. But its clear that the diction I call Announcer Voice has been the object of close linguistic study. He would have a beer with you. Look out, Wilson! Macklem . (Why do I even bother?) George Plimpton (1927-2003) George Plimpton was the editor of The Paris Review from its founding in 1953 until his death in 2003.
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