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DIED. BURGESS MEREDITH, 89, chameleon-like actor who performed the highbrow and lowbrow with equal enthusiasm and success; in Malibu, Calif. His Mio in Winterset (1936) simmered with earnest indignation; his Penguin in TV's Batman was gloriously over the top. He played the gentle George in Of Mice and Men, the careworn coach in Rocky and even did a gravelly voice-over for Skippy peanut butter. Meredith defended his quirky choices, saying, "I'm a man moved by the rhythms of his time, so I'll just take amusement at being a paradox...
...Burgess Meredith was an actor. It all began with his doomed hero in Winterset, a reprisal of the stage role that launched his career. Then on to 1939's Of Mice and Men, wherein Meredith, opposite the immortal Lon Chaney Jr., fields a lot of questions about rabbits. Finish with the languorous, creepy Hollywood pic The Day of the Locust (1975), with Meredith, Karen Black and Donald Sutherland as a fellow actually named Homer Simpson. It earned Meredith his first Best Supporting Actor nomination (they would stiff him twice...
Burgess Meredith, Hollywood's favorite codger, is dead at 89. Meredith appeared in almost 100 films over seven decades, from Winterset in 1936 to Grumpier Old Men. But it was after Rocky in 1976 that his image became indelible: the rasps in his throat, the twinkles in his eye are so familiar that the young, unweathered Meredith is barely recognizable...
...physical beauty of the area is made vivid for the audience through the eyes of Robert Kincaid (Eastwood), a nomadic National Geographic photographer who arrives in Winterset, Iowa with the intention of "making pictures" of the covered bridges in the area. On the way to the last bridge, he finds himself lost, and stops for directions at the Johnson family farm...
Johnson' husband and teenage children Michael and Carolyn are conveniently away for a week at the Illinois state fair and she is relaxing with a glass of iced tea after a day of chores. Unable to five Kincaid clear directions through the unmarked roads of Winterset, she accompanies him to the bridge...