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...this honorable work In Richard Brooks' 1967 movie of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. Robert Blake and Scott Wilson got the emoting headlines as the real-life Kansas killers, while Forsythe, as FBI agent Alvin Dewey, had the job of explaining their crimes to the audience. Viewers trusted him to read dialogue or, in a pinch, pronounce a sentence - as he does at the end of the movie when the killers are about to be executed. "I see the hangman's ready," a reporter says. "What's his name?" And Dewey replies, "We the People." Only Forsythe could make...
George Peppard was signed to play the superrich Blake Carrington in Spelling's Dynasty, but "creative differences" led to Forsythe's replacing him at the last minute. A nighttime soap opera about an oil family, Dynasty was indebted to the hit series Dallas, but Spelling brought his high glitz, and Forsythe his gravitas. Joan Collins played Blake's first wife Alexis and Linda Evans his second wife Krystle. The show cemented network TV's hold on serial drama, hooking millions of viewers week to week, long before HBO filched the franchise with The Sopranos...
Actually, it's a wonder that Forsythe's Blake had time to run the Denver-Carrington corporation, considering that, over the show's run, he rapes his young wife Krystle; kills his gay son's beau when he sees the two men kissing; is found guilty of murder but given a suspended sentence; gets blinded in a mob-engineered car bombing, then left unconscious after being thrown by a horse; learns that his first wife Alexis bore him a child after they divorced; divorces (and remarries) Krystle; sues for custody of his kidnapped (and returned) grandson; hears of the deaths...
...Carrington family grew larger and crazier, as Alexis purred and Krystle pouted, as Blake surged from kidnapping to murder rap, Forsythe kept his hold on the viewers' belief and rooting interest. He knew that his job was to make the impossible sound plausible, and that not every actor has to be Brando. The craft can be sedative as well as stimulant. There's a place for the traditional performer - the audience's ordinary extraordinary surrogate, the one who explains to them the awful thing that just happened...
...Crimson varsity eight returns only three rowers from last season’s line-up, including captain Blake Pucsek, junior Anthony Locke, and junior David Wakulich. The remaining seats are filled out by five sophomores—Pat Lapage, Matt Edstein, Mike DiSanto, Nick Jordan and Sam O’Connor. Senior coxswain Kelly Evans brings much-needed experience to the boat, and will steer the varsity down the 2,000-meter course at Cayuga Inlet on Saturday...