has anyone here written to the man himself and got a reply?

Hi!

IMDb gives a couple of new movies with Chris`s appearence, but I dont
know anything about his acts in the theaters. Maybe someone from US
could search for more info ...

Elena
------------------------

debbie_trainer wrote:

What is Chris Plummer up to at the moment? Is he on stage or filming?

Thanks

Character
Reverend Carlyle

Other cast
Ron Silver, James Coburn, Dee Wallace, Kathleen Noone, Dennis
Christopher, David Graf, Paul Bartel, Kyle Howard, Arlene Golonka, D.
Paul Thomas, Patrick Thomas

Plot
A heart attack moves a Pulitzer winning journalist to leave NY for the
peace of a small New England town, but he soon finds himself pulled
into a case of a man accused of killing his gay lover with the blade of
a shovel. Wanting to keep the case quiet, the town turns against the
journalist and his family when he begins digging into its secrets,
until finally the accused man is found hanging in his cell and the
truth comes out about more than just the killing.

What is Chris Plummer up to at the moment? Is he on stage or filming?

Thanks

Character
Det. John Mackey

Other cast
Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judy Parfitt, David Strathairn,
Eric Bogosian, John C. Reilly, Ellen Muth, Bob Gunton

Plot
Dolores Claiborne works as a maid for a wealthy woman in remote
Maine. When she is indicted for the elderly woman's murder, Dolores'
daughter Selena returns from New York, where she has become a big-
shot reporter. In the course of working out the details of what has
happened, as well as some shady questions from the past and Selina's
troubled childhood, many difficult truths are revealed about their
family's domestic strife. This is cleverly portrayed with present
reality shot in cool blue tones blending seamlessly into flashbacks
shot in vivid color. As small town justice relentlessly grinds
forward, surprises lie in store for the viewers....

----------------------------

Chris playes John Mackey - a deputy, who has to investigate
a "murder" of a wealthy woman, where a suspect is Dolores Claiborne -
again. 18 years back John was investigating a murder or an accident
with Dolores` husbant, but she wasn`t convicted - might be because of
the lack of the evidence. And now John is determent to put Dolores
behind bars - probably to finally have a perfect career (by that time
85 murders out of 86 solved) ....

I agree. I have also spent a lot of time looking for this series...

   E

M H Eggebrecht <maryhegg@...> wrote:
           Wow!! Sounds wonderful. I have been hunting high and low for DVDs
ofCounterstrike. I hope you will be making copies. If so let me know and the
costs involved. I hope you take a bow for all your efforts.
Mary

robin1111b <robin1111b@...> wrote:
I am working on transferring this series to DVD. More details below.
However, I do wish that someone else could make an effort to help
out with this if anyone has access and the time and energy.

I just posted another note to the IMDB Counterstrike board about
this. The series is still airing daily in Canada in syndication. It
has not aired in USA in many years.

About 5 years ago, a contact in Canada sent me the complete series
recorded on VHS at ep speed. She sent me original tapes, not
copies. The reason it was done at ep speed is because there was so
much content - 66 one hour episodes, so that was the only way
practical. I then made VHS copies available to Glenn, again the
copies were done at ep speed, since that was the only thing
practical with so much content. Hence, the quality loss.

Of course, back in the VHS days, I recorded everything at SP speed
(best quality). But an exception had to me made for Counterstrike.

So, now that I still have all these original Counterstrike VHS
tapes, I am slowly transferring them to DVD (using a high quality s-
vhs deck with TBC and sending the signal over higher quality s-video
cable to the DVD recorder). I am really happy with the quality of
the DVD's using this method. It is a very time consuming project, as
I am editing out all the commercials on the DVD recorder with a hard
drive.

I am transferring 2 episodes per DVD, with the video at a 6.0 bit
rate. If you try to cram many episodes onto each DVD you will lower
the quality, so I am keeping it at 2 per dvd. With the commercials
edited out, each DVD runs about 95 minutes.

There are 3 seasons, 66 episodes in in total.

For now, I am limiting this project to transferring to DVD Season 2
only, plus 2 additional episodes: "The Beginning" from Season 1 (a
good episode, plus it sets up the whole series) + "Cherchez la
Femme" from Season 3 (Plummer played piano in that one - I think
that's the only episode where he played piano).

I will eventually try to do the rest, unless someone else can get to
it first. This is very time consuming, so I can only deal with this
one season at a time.

Here are some links
Imdb - Counterstrike message board
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0098773/

TV Tropolis - details about Counterstrike currently airing in Canada.
http://www.canada.com/tvtropolis/tv/counterstrike/episodes/index.html

Excellent detailed episode summaries
http://www.tv.com/counterstrike/show/5522/summary.html?
q=counterstrike&tag=search_results;title;0

More Counterstrike info. & a long article
http://www.christopher-plummer.com/counterstrike.html

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Wow!! Sounds wonderful. I have been hunting high and low for DVDs
ofCounterstrike. I hope you will be making copies. If so let me know and the
costs involved. I hope you take a  bow for all your efforts.
   Mary

robin1111b <robin1111b@...> wrote:
           I am working on transferring this series to DVD. More details below.
However, I do wish that someone else could make an effort to help
out with this if anyone has access and the time and energy.

I just posted another note to the IMDB Counterstrike board about
this. The series is still airing daily in Canada in syndication. It
has not aired in USA in many years.

About 5 years ago, a contact in Canada sent me the complete series
recorded on VHS at ep speed. She sent me original tapes, not
copies. The reason it was done at ep speed is because there was so
much content - 66 one hour episodes, so that was the only way
practical. I then made VHS copies available to Glenn, again the
copies were done at ep speed, since that was the only thing
practical with so much content. Hence, the quality loss.

Of course, back in the VHS days, I recorded everything at SP speed
(best quality). But an exception had to me made for Counterstrike.

So, now that I still have all these original Counterstrike VHS
tapes, I am slowly transferring them to DVD (using a high quality s-
vhs deck with TBC and sending the signal over higher quality s-video
cable to the DVD recorder). I am really happy with the quality of
the DVD's using this method. It is a very time consuming project, as
I am editing out all the commercials on the DVD recorder with a hard
drive.

I am transferring 2 episodes per DVD, with the video at a 6.0 bit
rate. If you try to cram many episodes onto each DVD you will lower
the quality, so I am keeping it at 2 per dvd. With the commercials
edited out, each DVD runs about 95 minutes.

There are 3 seasons, 66 episodes in in total.

For now, I am limiting this project to transferring to DVD Season 2
only, plus 2 additional episodes: "The Beginning" from Season 1 (a
good episode, plus it sets up the whole series) + "Cherchez la
Femme" from Season 3 (Plummer played piano in that one - I think
that's the only episode where he played piano).

I will eventually try to do the rest, unless someone else can get to
it first. This is very time consuming, so I can only deal with this
one season at a time.

Here are some links
Imdb - Counterstrike message board
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0098773/

TV Tropolis - details about Counterstrike currently airing in Canada.
http://www.canada.com/tvtropolis/tv/counterstrike/episodes/index.html

Excellent detailed episode summaries
http://www.tv.com/counterstrike/show/5522/summary.html?
q=counterstrike&tag=search_results;title;0

More Counterstrike info. & a long article
http://www.christopher-plummer.com/counterstrike.html






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I am working on transferring this series to DVD. More details below.
However, I do wish that someone else could make an effort to help
out with this if anyone has access and the time and energy.

I just posted another note to the IMDB Counterstrike board about
this. The series is still airing daily in Canada in syndication. It
has not aired in USA in many years.

About 5 years ago, a contact in Canada sent me the complete series
recorded on VHS at ep speed. She sent me original tapes, not
copies.  The reason it was done at ep speed is because there was so
much content - 66 one hour episodes, so that was the only way
practical. I then made VHS copies available to Glenn, again the
copies were done at ep speed, since that was the only thing
practical with so much content. Hence, the quality loss.

Of course, back in the VHS days, I recorded everything at SP speed
(best quality). But an exception had to me made for Counterstrike.

So, now that I still have all these original Counterstrike VHS
tapes, I am slowly transferring them to DVD (using a high quality s-
vhs deck with TBC and sending the signal over higher quality s-video
cable to the DVD recorder). I am really happy with the quality of
the DVD's using this method. It is a very time consuming project, as
I am editing out all the commercials on the DVD recorder with a hard
drive.

I am transferring 2 episodes per DVD, with the video at a 6.0 bit
rate. If you try to cram many episodes onto each DVD you will lower
the quality, so I am keeping it at 2 per dvd. With the commercials
edited out, each DVD runs about 95 minutes.

There are 3 seasons, 66 episodes in in total.

For now, I am limiting this project to transferring to DVD Season 2
only, plus 2 additional episodes: "The Beginning" from Season 1 (a
good episode, plus it sets up the whole series) + "Cherchez la
Femme" from Season 3 (Plummer played piano in that one - I think
that's the only episode where he played piano).

I will eventually try to do the rest, unless someone else can get to
it first. This is very time consuming, so I can only deal with this
one season at a time.

Here are some links
Imdb - Counterstrike message board
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0098773/

TV Tropolis - details about Counterstrike currently airing in Canada.
http://www.canada.com/tvtropolis/tv/counterstrike/episodes/index.html

Excellent detailed episode summaries
http://www.tv.com/counterstrike/show/5522/summary.html?
q=counterstrike&tag=search_results;title;0

More Counterstrike info. & a long article
http://www.christopher-plummer.com/counterstrike.html

Welcome to the group,
      I do have most of the Counterstrike episodes on VHS tapes, but
unfortuately they were recorded on 8 hr and 10 tapes, at EP speed, so
the video quality is not good, but I do remember one or two  episodes
where he plays the piano, though I don't recall the number or name of
the episodes.


> Hi there,
>
> I am new to the group. I am a big fan of Chris and of TSOM.
>
> Also really loved Counterstrike and I am looking for an episode or two
> of this show.
>
> Did a search and there is one of CP playing the piano.
>
> Can you advise which episode that was?
>
> Thanks,
>
> E
>
>
>
>

Hi there,

I am new to the group. I am a big fan of Chris and of TSOM.

Also really loved Counterstrike and I am looking for an episode or two
of this show.

Did a search and there is one of CP playing the piano.

Can you advise which episode that was?

Thanks,

E

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In a message dated 6/6/2006 6:00:23 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
beckston13@... writes:

Hi  Paula,

I had forgotten about that scene.  I haven't watched the  Battle of
Britain for awhile.  Its not one of my favorite movies, too  long on
battle scenes and too short on characterization.  I may just  watch
it this weekend, with my remote in hand and my thumb on the fast
forward button.

Christopher Plummer is gorgeous in that  movie though, and his talent
shines through.  He plays the male  chauvinist character to a T.  I
hate it when he plays unlikeable  characters, but he is soooo good at
it.

Does anybody else have a  favorite Christopher Plummer scene?



Oh, yeah, it's a boring war movie as far as the story goes, but to  me, it's
well worth watching just to see how gorgeous he is!  I've watched  it in
fast-forward many times!  Enjoy!

Paula

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night anyway!


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--- In christopherplummerfanclub@yahoogroups.com, pauladec63@...
wrote:
>
>
>
> In a message dated 6/3/2006 2:23:45 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
> beckston13@... writes:
>
> I want  to hear from the rest of you.  What is your favorite
scene?
>
>
> Excellent review of that poolside scene from Inside Daisy Clover,
Tammy!
>
> I don't think I can pick one scene, but one that comes to mind at
the  moment
> is a certain hotel room scene with Susannah York in Battle of
Britain.  LOL!
>  Beside the obvious - we get to see Christopher  SHIRTLESS and
enjoy his
> gorgeous body - I think his excellent acting ability  comes
through loud and clear
> there, too.  In the beginning, he's relaxing  in bed with his
wife, but when
> the bombing starts outside, he quickly jumps out  of bed (more of
his amazing
> body is visible!), concerned for their safety, and  closes the
curtains.  Then
> his wife goes to him for comfort and he wraps  her in his arms
very lovingly.
>
> I'll take anything that shows us how gorgeous he is, and he WAS
hot in this
> movie - dark hair, beautiful blue eyes, muscular chest, shoulders,
and stomach
> -  but his acting talent just cannot be ignored!
>
> Paula
>
>
> Give your troubles to the Lord before you go to sleep; He will be
up all
> night anyway!
>
>
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>


Hi Paula,

I had forgotten about that scene.  I haven't watched the Battle of
Britain for awhile.  Its not one of my favorite movies, too long on
battle scenes and too short on characterization.  I may just watch
it this weekend, with my remote in hand and my thumb on the fast
forward button.

Christopher Plummer is gorgeous in that movie though, and his talent
shines through.  He plays the male chauvinist character to a T.  I
hate it when he plays unlikeable characters, but he is soooo good at
it.

Does anybody else have a favorite Christopher Plummer scene?

In a message dated 6/3/2006 2:23:45 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
beckston13@... writes:

I want  to hear from the rest of you.  What is your favorite  scene?


Excellent review of that poolside scene from Inside Daisy Clover,  Tammy!

I don't think I can pick one scene, but one that comes to mind at the  moment
is a certain hotel room scene with Susannah York in Battle of  Britain.  LOL!
  Beside the obvious - we get to see Christopher  SHIRTLESS and enjoy his
gorgeous body - I think his excellent acting ability  comes through loud and
clear
there, too.  In the beginning, he's relaxing  in bed with his wife, but when
the bombing starts outside, he quickly jumps out  of bed (more of his amazing
body is visible!), concerned for their safety, and  closes the curtains.  Then
his wife goes to him for comfort and he wraps  her in his arms very lovingly.

I'll take anything that shows us how gorgeous he is, and he WAS hot in this
movie - dark hair, beautiful blue eyes, muscular chest, shoulders, and stomach
-  but his acting talent just cannot be ignored!

Paula


Give your troubles to the Lord before you go to sleep; He will be  up all
night anyway!


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Hi everyone,

In the interest of starting a discussion, I would like to pose a
question to you all.  Excluding The Sound of Music, what is your
favorite scene in any of Christopher Plummer's movies?

I haven't seen all of his movies, but one of my favorite scenes is
the poolside scene from Inside Daisy Clover.  Christopher Plummer's
character, Raymond Swan, has just spent the night with his suicidal
wife and he walks out by the pool and finds Natalie Wood's
character, Daisy, lying in a lounge chair.

I love this scene for many reasons.  The most obvious are the kiss
(of course) and the fact that the man  looks absolutely gorgeous in
a suit.  I also like that this scene gives some dimension to the
previously one-sided character of Raymond Swan.  We learn that
Raymond Swan loves his wife and that he feels terribly inadequate
when compared to the larger-than-life-images of the movie stars he
helps to create.

I especially like this scene because of the way it was filmed.
Raymond Swan is talking to Daisy, but the camera never cuts to her
face, even when he is reacting to her reaction to what he is
saying.  It showcases Mr. Plummer's talents.  With the camera
directed at him the entire time, it must have been a difficult scene
to shoot, but he performs it  beautifully.

And the kiss; the kiss is passionate and agonizing at the same
time.  It is not a happily-ever-after kind of kiss.  Raymond Swan
does not love Daisy and she certainly does not love him.  The kiss
is just a mutual sharing of pain.  They have both been hurt by the
same man and are taking comfort in each others pain.

I want to hear from the rest of you.  What is your favotite scene?

By the way; the Laendler dance scene is my favorite scene from the
SOM.

Tammy

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McGill to award Plummer honorary degree for work

MONTREAL (CP) — Actor Christopher Plummer, best known as the grumpy Baron Von
  Trapp in The Sound of Music, will receive an honorary degree from McGill
University on Thursday.
Plummer, a Montreal native, will pick up his degree at the Arts and Religion
graduation ceremonies.
Besides his role as the widower in The Sound of Music, he has garnered high
praise for complex, meatier roles like King Lear, Macbeth and Iago on the
Shakespearean stage.
A number of others are receiving honorary degrees from McGill during
convocation ceremonies, which began Monday and continue through June 6.
They include James Bartleman, a Canadian diplomat and the first aboriginal to
  serve as Ontario’s lieutenant governor, and Pierre Jeanniot, the former
president of Air Canada and a civil aviation expert who was instrumental in
developing the flight data recorder.


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Thanks Keiron. I'll check and try to order myself a copy.



K EARNSHAW <kearnshaw@...> wrote:
   Hi!

   Waterloo is my favourite movie and Chris is brilliant in it.  It has huge
battle scenes but don't let that put you off.
   I got a good DVD from ebay its the official Russian release so it may not have
Portugese sub titles, the R2 version is slightly cut.

   Good luck
   Keiron

Silvia Miranda <silviammiranda@...> wrote:
   Hi there!

I've been a member of this group for a while, but never got myself
into posting any messages.

I'm from Portugal and I Chris Plummer's acting skills ever since I saw
SOM or the first time.

Just want to ask a quetion. Do you know were I can get the
movie "Waterloo"? By the way, how is it?

Anyway, keep the good work

Silvia















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Hi!

   Waterloo is my favourite movie and Chris is brilliant in it.  It has huge
battle scenes but don't let that put you off.
   I got a good DVD from ebay its the official Russian release so it may not have
Portugese sub titles, the R2 version is slightly cut.

   Good luck
   Keiron

Silvia Miranda <silviammiranda@...> wrote:
   Hi there!

I've been a member of this group for a while, but never got myself
into posting any messages.

I'm from Portugal and I Chris Plummer's acting skills ever since I saw
SOM or the first time.

Just want to ask a quetion. Do you know were I can get the
movie "Waterloo"? By the way, how is it?

Anyway, keep the good work

Silvia















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Hi there!

I've been a member of this group for a while, but never got myself
into posting any messages.

I'm from Portugal and I Chris Plummer's acting skills ever since I saw
SOM or the first time.

Just want to ask a quetion. Do you know were I can get the
movie "Waterloo"? By the way, how is it?

Anyway, keep the good work

Silvia

Hi everyone,

I am a newbie and am very excited about being a member of this
Christopher Plummer fan club.  I can't wait to hear from you all.
Like most of you, I became a CP fan after seeing TSOM.  I want to tell
you all about a terrific website that I just found.  If you don't
already know about it, check out www.artless.lilting.org.  It has
screencaps of TSOM.  I'm sure you will enjoy it as much as I do.

Here is a link to the May TV schedule for Chris's films and TV appearances:

http://www.tv-now.com/stars/crisplum.html

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Hello....
Are you referring to "TSOM ~ The Making of America's Favorite Musical"
by Julia Antopol Hirsch  ??

It is available through Amazon.Com

You should also check out "Forever Liesl" by Charmian Carr.

They're both must haves for SOM fans...

I am also awaiting Julie Andrews and Chris Plummer's bios...which I
do hope they will be "completed" in the near future...

DOES anyone have any updates on either of the above BIOS...what the
status might be???  I read somewhere that Julie is 2/3 completed...BUT
have not heard about Chris'???
I would be very interested in knowing... Thanks.
~Grace~

where can I buy that?

I think that Chris's performance in the extremely well-made Ken Burns PBS
documentary about Eugene O'Neill, is one of his finest.  He plays several scenes
as James Tyrone from "Long Day's Journey into Night", and when I played the DVD
today for a 101-year old friend, he said after viewing Chris's portion of the
documentary, that it seemed to him to be real and not acting at all.  I highly
recommend this documentary and especially the extra DVD scenes with CP.

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In a message dated 4/22/2006 11:54:02 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
m_grace1108@... writes:

Hello,
Perhaps this is NOT the best place to ask this question, and  perhaps
it is...but, does anyone know what happened to the above CP fan  site:
(billy-peterson.com/plummer, etc.??)I've been wondering....
It was  a wonderful site,  I miss searching for all those wonderful
photos,  videos, etc.

Grace




The person who ran the site simply lost interest in keeping it  up.  I agree,
I miss it, too, and I told her so.

Paula

Give your troubles to the Lord before you go to sleep; He will be  up all
night anyway!


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Hello,
Perhaps this is NOT the best place to ask this question, and perhaps
it is...but, does anyone know what happened to the above CP fan site:
(billy-peterson.com/plummer, etc.??)I've been wondering....
It was a wonderful site,  I miss searching for all those wonderful
photos, videos, etc.

Grace

In a message dated 4/4/2006 7:44:51 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
glennab@... writes:

Sorry about that- forgot to add the ending .htm, so correct URL is
http://www.open.org/glennab/tvschedcp.htm




That one worked!  Thanks, Glenn.

Paula

Give your troubles to the Lord before you go to sleep; He will be  up all
night anyway!


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Sorry about that- forgot to add the ending .htm, so correct URL is
http://www.open.org/glennab/tvschedcp.htm

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   Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 4:30 PM
   Subject: Re: [Chris Plummer Fan Club] TV schedule for April, 2006


   >
   >
   > In a message dated 4/4/2006 2:22:03 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
   > glennab@... writes:
   >
   > Here is  a link to the TV schedule for Chris's films and TV appearances
for
   > April:
   >
   > http://www.open.org/glennab/tvschedcp
   >
   >
   >
   > I get a "File not found" error message at that URL.
   >
   > Paula
   >
   > Give your troubles to the Lord before you go to sleep; He will be  up
all
   > night anyway!
   >
   >
   > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
   >
   >
   >
   >
   >
   >
   >
   >
   >
   > Yahoo! Groups Links
   >
   >
   >
   >
   >
   >
   >
   >


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In a message dated 4/4/2006 2:22:03 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
glennab@... writes:

Here is  a link to the TV schedule for Chris's films and TV appearances for
April:

http://www.open.org/glennab/tvschedcp



I get a "File not found" error message at that URL.

Paula

Give your troubles to the Lord before you go to sleep; He will be  up all
night anyway!


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Here is a link to the TV schedule for Chris's films and TV appearances for
April:

http://www.open.org/glennab/tvschedcp


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